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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!

• We were blown away by the new music video from Lady GaGa.
• Ask The Flying Monkey took a look at some of our aging gay icons.
• We loved the sixth episode of the season of Ugly Betty.
• Gays of Our Lives took us around the world for more soap opera news.
• We wondered what the hell Newsweek reporter Ramin Setoodeh was thinking when he wrote his infamous article.
• We recapped the seventh episode of the season of Brothers and Sisters.
• We recapped the mysteriously pixelated seventh episode of the season of The Amazing Race.

• This week's Mores for Gays looked at gay terminology.
• We went Under The Covers for some more snarky titles.
• New Music Monday had info on new tunes from Lady GaGa and Adam Lambert.
• We gave you a purely informative pictorial look at the week in sports.
• We gave you a look forward to a future Brothers & Sisters.
• Your Asshat of the Week was the Rhode Island Governor.
• We reviewed the Greatest Hits CD by out British singer Will Young.
• Out on DVD this week is Bruno and Star Trek.
• We liveblogged As The World Turns for the latest Nuke action.

• We continued our weekly TwitterWatch with Neil Patrick Harris, and more!
• We questioned the timing behind the editor of Out lambasting Adam Lambert.
• But it seems that Adam can speak for himself.
• We continued the new daily feature The Morning Meme.
• We celebrated the union of Beyonce and Lady GaGa.
• We recapped this week's terrific episode of Glee.
• We were intrigued that People Magazine chose Johnny Depp as the Sexiest Man Alive.
• Gay in the UK took a look at the Stonewall Awards.
• We gave you four new contenders in the Battle of the Network Gays.

• And you picked your winner.
• We interviewed the fabulous gay ally Joy Behar.
• We loved the new gay documentary Fatherhood Dreams.
• This week's Puzzler was a mystery.
• We presented the results of our poll on women and gay men.
• We reviewed the long-awaited debut album of Adam Lambert.
• We gave a rave review to Precious, as did the guys from Sounds Like A Hit.
• We gave you a sneak peek at some upcoming action on One Life To Live.
• We asked nine questions of comedian .
• We asked Ugly Betty creator what we can expect in the Justin and Marc storylines.
• And thanks to editor Michael Jensen, you had The.Best.Gay.Week.Ever!

Drop your caption ideas in the comments (And please remember to keep the captions PG-13!), and check out last week's winner after the jump!

Time for another one of those time-wasting yet hopelessly addictive online jigsaw puzzles! We're not going to give you any hints, but if you want to see the finished product then click here.

Move the pieces around with your mouse — they will snap together when in the right place. How fast can you complete this puzzle?

It wasn't even a contest this week as 10-year-old Will Phillips and his parents Jay and Laura demolished the competition. The family from Arkansas won 68% of the vote for young Will's refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school until gays and lesbians have equal rights to marry.

In a distant second with 15% is Glee's Kurt, for his scenes with his crush Finn.

Even with their hot shirtless mud volleyball game, The Amazing Race's Sam and Dan could only manage 10% this week. That's what happens when you pixilate the good stuff!

In last place is Noah from As The World Turns, who suffered horrible burns on his face from a fireworks accident. Oh, and he went blind. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to give him more than 7% of the vote.

Thanks for your votes, and come back next Thursday as four more contenders vie for the crown.

Tom Ford and Neil Patrick Harris attend the GQ "Men of the Year" awards last night in Hollywood.

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.

• Via Towleroad comes this horrifying report about a gay high school student chased and beaten by a gang of classmates. The kicker? He told the school principal and bus driver it was going to happen ... and they did nothing to stop it.

And a partridge in a pear tree

• I know people are getting up-in-arms about Mariah Carey's list of demands to turn on some Christmas lights, and it's too bad they didn't ask me. All I would have required would be a case of Yoo-Hoo, a Baja Beef Chalupa from Taco Bell, and maybe a lap dance from one of those Twilight guys.

In the "never say die" category comes word that NBC's struggling Trauma, which had been canceled by the network, may be seeing faint signs of life.

Please, don't let this feeling end, it's everything I am, everything I wannnnna be.

It's bad news today as Noah has his bandages removed, and can't see. Can Luke's love help Noah through this heartbreak? Will Noah ever ice skate direct films again?

Join us for the fun and refresh for updates!

Because he's just so damn adorable, here's one more of True Blood star Allan Hyde

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.

• Veteran sitcom producer Jay Tarses is teaming up with his comedy writer son Matt and TV producer daughter Jamie to write and produce a new sitcom called Assisted Loving, which centers around a "gay man who helps his father find love after the family matriarch dies." We'll keep you informed about the show's progress.

• He's no Bryan Safi but above you can see Mediaweek's Alan Frutkin in the third episode of Gay TV Now. This edition looks at the gay storyline on Mad Men.

Sure, working here in the AfterElton.com Blungeon™ (Blog + dungeon) is a never-ending parade of cute puppies and lollipops, but sometimes things get a bit hectic, and we need help from our faithful readers.

We received a moldy cardboard box from upstairs full of obscure or forgotten gay-themed films, with orders to alphabetize them. Unfortunately, the titles on all the covers have been blacked out! This is where you come in.

Every week we'll present the cover art for a gay-themed film and ask you to create a new title based just on the cover art. We'll pick our favorite, and announce the winner the next week (along with the real title of the film).

Take a look at the cover art above and take your best shot. And below you can see the real title of last week's entry, as well as our favorite faux title. And if you happen to know the movie's real title, we ask that you don't post it!

Okay, so Noah's not actually going to be a Grimaldi, but it would be fun to see him attempt the machinations of his new "poppa".

First Col. Mayer, now Damian. Noah can't catch a break when it comes to fatherly role models, can he?

Join us for the fun, and refresh for updates!

Luke keeps a bedside vigil as Noah is rushed to the hospital for being a dumbass after a fireworks accident. But what will happen if he needs family consent for surgery?

Join us for the fun, and refresh for updates!