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This week Kevin and Scotty from Brothers & Sisters take top honors in the Battle of the Network Gays contest. The Pasadena power couple haven't been major players in our weekly poll for some time, but last week's B&S episode was a return to form both for them and the show. Welcome back guys!

Congrats also to runners up Nicholas Rodriguez and Cameron from Modern Family.

Join us Friday when we present four new contenders for the throne!

If you can't turn away from Toddlers and Tiaras, then you'll love Pretty, a new web series from out writer/director Steve Silverman. The project is set in the sick, sparkly world of kiddie beauty pageants. Our own Dennis Hensley attended the show's L.A. premiere and learned that comedy may not be pretty, but Pretty sure is funny.

Dennis talks with Silverman and his cast, including actor Sam Pancake, who you might remember from the brilliant but all too brief Lifetime series Lovespring International.

Check it out after the break!

New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita celebrates winning the Super Bowl

The New Orleans Saints, which boasts gay-supportive linebacker Scott Fujita (and a very fetching Fleur-de-lis logo to boot!), scored an impressive 31 to 17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV. This was the Saints' first appearance at a Super Bowl, and at the outset they seemed to be heavily outmatched. The end of the first quarter had the Colts with a 10-0 lead.

After making up some ground in the second quarter but still trailing, momentum seemed to turn decisively in the Saints' favor at the beginning of the second half, when they made a ballsy onside kick to steal possession away from the receiving Colts. 

As far as Super Bowls go, this was certainly one of the more exciting. In fact, the game itself proved far more interesting than the commercials, The Who performance during the halftime show, or Carrie Underwood's a capella rendition of the national anthem. (Adequate, but that last note seemed to be way off.)

Every week we pick the gays who we think have made the biggest splash in television (or pop culture in general) and leave it to you, the keepers of the flame, to decide who will be crowned Gay of the Week.

This week's contest features a moon landing, a former Kish blocker, drag royalty, and some pantry petting in Pasadena. Check them out after the break and vote for your favorite.

Saints linebacker Scott Fujita

What is it about the Super Bowl and the gays? Two years ago it was okay for two guys to kiss passionately (and then bash each other) in order to sell a candy bar. But this year two guys can't kiss to promote a gay dating site.

If that's too "controversial", then why the hell is CBS letting Focus on the Family put on an a pro-life ad? Is it because the Focus on the Family spot features college football star Tim ("Hey look at me,  I've got bible quotes on my face!") Tebow? Grrr! 

It's enough to make me swear off the Super Bowl altogether. But no matter how frustrating the whole event often is for gay viewers, I feel an obligation to tune in this Sunday so I can root for the New Orleans Saints. More specifically, Saints linebacker Scott Fujita.

In honor of GLBT history month, Gay in the UK's Tim and Ryan take a mad romp through queer history with socks on their hands.

Puppets "Queerby" and "Gayby" (and a few friends) explain it all, including how gay history begins some 6,000 years ago, how black swans are the gayest animal in the whole wide world, the case that "homosexuality" didn't exist until recently, and much much more!

David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones

If you needed any proof that FOX entertainment and FOX News are entirely separate entities, all you had to do was catch last week's Bones. The FOX series featured an episode involving the murder of a gay football playing dentist and actually got called out by that hotbed of right wing paranoia known as NewsBusters.org for pushing "liberal group think" and injecting "standard talking points about the inequity of gays being unable to marry and the threat of physical violence from straight men."

That sort of thing is right up our alley around here, so of course I had to watch the episode! Damn them for making me sit through yet more TV this week.

You know what? NewsBusters.org may have a point, albeit a minor one. And hey, even a broken clock (with a date display) is right once a month. But I will give it to NewsBusters that the show sounded a wee bit preachy when it came to gay issues.

It was so preachy in fact, that it almost seemed like the show was having fun with it. They knew it was over the top, but they were making a game out of the rat-a-tat-tat of pro-gay bullet points. Honestly, it might have been a record.

Check out this clip and you'll see what I mean...

"Forget it, Bugsy. You'll never get your hands on Ojai Foods!"

When I heard Brothers & Sisters planned a two-part flashback where we would see Kevin, Kitty, and the rest of the Walker siblings as young teens, I immediately thought of that seventies film Bugsy Malone, which had Scott Baio as a singing, dancing mobster and Jody Foster as his flapper gun moll.

Weird, right? But that's the association I made. I guess I'd be more interested in watching child actors pretend to be the adult Walker siblings (possibly with singing and dancing!) than I am in a serious dramatic flashback to the Walker clan's Pasadena childhood.

Yes, there are gays on Pandora! In his newly renamed video blog Tell Dennis Everything, Dennis Hensley talks with Avatar actor Woody Schultz about his thriving career as a motion capture performer, working with James Cameron, Daniel Craig's flawlessness, and his latest gig acting out the transcripts of the Marriage Equality trial.

Check it out after the break!

Cassidy Haley is a real renaissance man: Fashion designer, musician, circus stiltwalker (yep that's right – stiltwalker). He's also pals with Adam Lambert, and Cassidy's debut album Little Boys and Dinosaurs got a huge boost when Lambert tweeted about the first video off the cd, "Whiskey in Churches." That twitter plug sent Cassidy shooting up iTunes' top 25 electronic albums this past summer.

We're not sure if we have quite as big a pull around here as Adam Lambert, but we are thrilled that Cassidy shared his latest music video with AfterElton.com. We're happy to put in a plug for him!

The haunting video for "Daylight Breaks" has Cassidy portraying a dark Pygmalion, and his male statue is... uh... putty in his hands. Beautiful song and arresting video. Check it out after the break.