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As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each week's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun! Drop your caption ideas in the comments, and check out last week's winner after the jump!

• Where's our Harvey Milk? People all over seem to think we need a gay rights figurehead, but others argue that we're doing just fine without one.
• Broadway Bares brought the glisteneing pecs of a thousand chorus boys out into the open once again.
• Merlin's pretty damn gay.
• True Blood keeps getting better, and Lafayette's still alive! Barely.
• We took a look at the first 12 minutes of doomed (but gay-inclusive!) sci-fi show Virtuality.
• Gay florists make an appearance in I Hate Valentine's Day.

Perez Hilton

• Gay soaps! Our Gays of Our Lives column brought enouh gay scoop to choke a horse. Meanwhile, on As the World Turns Noah's evil dad returned. We also pulled off our first Young and the Restless liveblog to commemorate the first meeting of Rafe and nuAdam. And One Life to Live added another gay actor and character!
• This week's Top Story looked at the media's coverage of Perezgate.
• We got a kick out of this week's Kathy Griffin My Life on the D-List.
• Vampire-Con got gay in one of its promo videos. Fangastic!

Young and the Restless' Yani Gellman and Michael Muhney

• America's Got Talent ... and apparently a guy who reeeeeally likes The Hoff.
• We interviewed Derek Chavez, the gay man on The Real World: Cancun.
  
• A gay exorcism in Connecticut thankfully drew serious criticism from mainstream pubs.
• Which search terms will get you the Gay Pride divider bar in Google?
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.

Rest in peace, Farrah

• Goodnight, Angel.
• VLOGS! Simon Doonan shared wedding tips on Beautiful Moments. Mores for Gays said never mind gay marriage, what about gay divorce? And we had a makeover party on this week's tracksuit-enhanced Blood Work True Blood vlog.
• The King of Pop died at age 50.
• Stephen Colbert out-gayed himself.
• Later, taters!
• And thanks to editor Michael Jensen, you had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever!

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, and check out last week's winner after the jump!

Spoiler Warning: I don't survive this post!

Yes, today's my last day here at AfterElton/Logo. My position was eliminated earlier this week as a part of a round of layoffs, but as I have been eating and breathing gay entertainment news for the past two and a half years, it took a few days to wean me off the teat. And hey, I wasn't about to get the queer blog version of "the bends" ("the bendovers"?) the week before Gay Pride.

For those of you who are casual readers or have better things to do than listen to me get misty-fingered, allow me to say thanks and goodbye, and you can stop reading here. For those of you who may miss me even just a little, feel free to join me for a round of shooters after the jump.

Every Friday we pick the gays in television who have had the best week and leave it to you, the keepers of the flame, to decide who will be crowned Gay of the Week and enjoy their own fancy button over on the left. We'll announce the winner on Monday, and that champ will reign until a new set of challengers are introduced the following Friday to try to steal his title.

Last week you voted Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black into the seat of honor, but this week three challengers will do their best to shimmy their poopers into that throne.

Check them out, and vote for your favorite!

We're huuuuuge fans of The Colbert Report, as the pseudo-pundit manages to work in digs at anti-gay personages on pretty much a nightly basis, and make them both biting and totally batshit hilarious. But last night Stephen Colbert out-gayed himself (no small feat!) when he tackled a number of gay rights topics, just in time for Pride.

No surprise, coming from the guy who played gay teacher Chuck Noblett on Strangers With Candy. But great to see Colbert keeping up the fight now that he's hit the big-time. Another vid below, where Colbert tackles the gay exorcism in Connecticut.

Our pal John Polly is back with the next installment of the Beautiful Moments vlog, in which he consults Barneys Creative Director and all-around groovy fella Simon Doonan on a variety of topics fun and fabulous.

This week Simon shares some tips on having a personal and un-tacky wedding ceremony (Bridezillas are soooo 2007), and talks about his own wedding to Jonathan Adler last fall in CA. (Unison: "Awwwwwww!") Our fave tip: "Keep it small ... But alert the media!"

Enjoy!!

You may have heard that the gay-friendly folks at Google (no sarcasm there, I got no beef with the Googs) have unrolled a special rainbow search results banner in time for Gay Pride.

Interestingly, the rainbow stripe only appears when certain gay-friendly search terms are entered. For example, you'll get the fruit stripe when you search for "gay" (above)...

... but not "marcia gay harden". Which is interesting because she was in Angels in America, HELLOOOO!

A bunch more interesting results below!

Sure, the upcoming documentary The September Issue — which pulls aside the bob and sunglasses of Vogue supereditor Anna Wintour in ways that No! One! Ever! Has! Before! — is most likely a calculated response to the somewhat ... oh, let me see ... "bitchtastic"? ... version of the woman presented in The Devil Wears Prada, and could very well be as airbrushed as a mole on a Bündchen's bare ass.

But it's also got enough gay foofery to choke Isaac Mizrahi (André! Karl! Jean-Paul!), and actually looks like it could offer some laughs as you sit in the theater not eating the calorie-laden popcorn you just spent $30 on. And isn't it impressive that they convinced Joan Collins to take the lead role? I loved you in Tales from the Crypt!!!!

Thoughts?

Taking our cue from the makeovers in this week's gloriously unhinged episode of True Blood, Andy and I run ourselves through the magical style machine ... to less-than-desirable results.

What was our Whatever, Sookie! moment of the week, and with whom do we Want to Do Bad Things? Plus: What's up with Eggs's killer bod, and — perhaps most importantly — will Terry ever hand Arlene them damn toonnngggggs?

Find out below!

Nicholas Rodriguez (Photo: Walter Retna/BroadwayWorld.com) 

Seriously, did someone set off a gay bomb at One Life to Live? Hot on the tail of out actor (and local favorite, from what I can tell) Scott Evans stepping up the role of gay character Fish opposite Kyle (Brett Claywell) we're getting casting scoop the legacy soap has just cast another gay actor to play another gay role related to the Kyle/Fish storyline.

Meet Nicholas Rodriguez, who will play Nick (starting August 14th), another gay character that will be involved in the budding gay couple's story.

For more spoilery details (and another pic), continue along below...

Warning: Some language NSFW

I know we have a lot of fans of soaps vet and Desperate Housewives gay househusband Tuc Watkins here who may enjoy this fluffy bit from FunnyOrDie that shows the actor goofing on the boom of gruesome police procedurals with kooky lead characters.

Sure, Watkins is super-cute and all, but for some reason my favorite line is "I found this clue by using my flashlight!" Then again I also think Tater Mitts are the greatest invention since the cotton gin, so thereyago.

Thanks to giovannif7 for the tip!