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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!

Editor's note: As the Fourth of July falls on a Saturday this year, we'll be taking Friday off to lounge around by the pool celebrate the birth of our country! We'll have the BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! tomorrow, but otherwise the site won't be updated until Monday. That is all...

• You took a big bite out of our maiden Monday Morning Everything Bagel.
• We celebrated Pride around the world.
• True Blood's Scratches kept us itching for more.
• We liveblogged As The World Turns, The Young & The Restless, and One Life To Live. Now that's gaytime drama!

One Life To Live stars Scott Evans and Brett Claywell

• Comic book X-Factor brings the gay.
• Another soap has an actor with a problem with a gay storyline.
• This week's Merlin episodes cast a spell over us.
• The Rachel Maddow Show and Keith Olbermann asked some tough questions about the current administration.
• We went Under The Covers for a second time.
• We liked the latest episodes of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and The Closer. The latest episode of Weeds? Not so much.
• Speaking of Weeds, we interviewed actor Jack Stehlin, who had some interesting things to say about his gay character.
• This week's Gay in the UK looked at British Father's Day and showering bartenders.
• Ugly Betty's Michael Urie is a member of the GLBT community but would really like his work to speak for itself.
• This is one proposal we'll politely decline.

Oscar Nunez and Sandra Bullock in The Proposal

• We think the toxic face paint has seeped into Gene Simmons' brain.
• Pedro and The Lucille Ball Specials came out on DVD.
• It's another tough fight for the Battle of he Network Gays.
• The stars came out for the Trevor Project Gala.
• This week's Gays of our Lives brought us the scoop about a gay actor returning to daytime.
• The Flying Monkey revealed gay M&M's and gay Christian musicians.
• Continuing his world domination, Neil Patrick Harris may be hosting the Emmy Awards.
• We watched as Simon Rex poked fun at himself.
• We say bon voyage to Beautiful Moments.
• Sounds Like A Hit! took on the Tony Awards and Nurse Jackie.
• We met the new gay housemate on the upcoming Big Brother.
• We don't care for the original ending of Bruno.
• We're hung up on HBO's Hung.
• We love Canada!.

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

Yesterday was Canada Day, and we feel terrible that we didn't acknowledge our neighbors to the north. After all, Canada is far ahead of the U.S. when it comes to things like marriage-equality, realistic teen shows, and actors willing to do the full monty on camera (it's true, look it up!)

A list of Canadian things we love would be endless, so we put together this partial sampling. Journey below and take off, to the Great White North. Take off ... it's a beauty way to go!

Time for another one of those time-wasting yet hopelessly addictive online jigsaw puzzles! This week it's a couple of ... friendly ... guys with colorful attire from last week's NYC Pride parade. Move the pieces around with your mouse — they will snap together when in the right place. How fast can you complete this puzzle?

Braden(L) and Kevin are two of the roommates to keep an eye on this season

The new season of CBS's Big Brother premieres on Thursday, July 9th at 8PM EDT, and we have a first look at the new housemates.

This season the show is harkening back to high school, as the housemates have been chosen to fill various cliques, i.e. the "popular kids", the "jocks", the "brainiacs" and the "offbeat". Oh jeez ...

One of the "offbeat" is the show's openly gay housemate Kevin, who hopes to use the show to reconcile with his family:

Kevin's proudest accomplishment comes from one of the most trying times in his life, growing up a Jehovah's Witness. He was eventually excommunicated at age 21. Cut off from his family and friends, he didn’t let it destroy him. Instead, he found happiness and thrived. He currently works as a graphic designer.

Of course, it wouldn't be Big Brother without the revelation that a housemate has done gay soft core, and this season the baton is passed to straight actor/model/surfer Braden.

He has two acting credits, the David Decoteau opus Brotherhood 2, and a small part on Dante's Cove. I say "small part" sarcastically, of course, because ... well, follow Reality Blurred's links and you can see for yourself. Yikes!

Well, I'm intrigued, but I think I may skip this season and just catch the highlights (the thought of reliving high school really doesn't appeal to me.) What do you think? Will you be watching this season, or just wait for the best naked clips like me?

Gavin Creel at the Trevor Project Gala in NYC (All Pics: Getty)

Out celebrities and gay allies came out for the 9th Annual Trevor Project New York Summer Gala last night in NYC, and amidst the glamour and glitz was an underlying message of hope and compassion.

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts, and operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline, for GLBT youth.

Below you can see a sampling of some of some of the stars who came out to shine. *WARNING - Cheyenne Jackson Alert!.

I love that both Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann have not let up on holding the current administration to account for dragging their feet on gay policy issues (don't forget, these are both raging liberals, so their criticism of the President comes with an added sting).

On last night's Countdown Keith interviewed Dan Savage, and the subject was the question many of us have been asking: Why can't the President use his authority to suspend military dismissals under DADT?

It's a terrific interview, with both guys bringing up all the right points. As Dan urgently reminds us, it's great that the President promises we'll love what he's done by the end of his first term, but that doesn't help the service members who are being unjustly dismissed now.

Welcome to our first ever One Life To Live liveblog! While ostensibly we're here to follow Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell) and Officer Fish (Abe Vigoda Scott Evans), I'm particularly excited about treading these waters.

I grew up watching OLTL and fondly remember the great moments, such as the emergence of Viki's alternate personality Niki (and re-emergence through the years), Tina's tumble over the Iguaza Waterfall (she survived and showed up to crash the wedding of former flame Cord and feisty archeologist Kate, played by a very young Marcia Cross), the ongoing catfights between Viki and queen bee Dorian, and of course, the greatest storyline in the history of soapdom ... the journey to the underground lost city of "Eterna".

I haven't watched the show in well over a decade, so it'll be interesting to see who's still there from the bygone days. And of course, I can't wait to see how they explore the characters of Kyle and Fish (who apparently have a past). And I'm especially anxious to catch my first glimpse of out Scott Evans.

Journey below to follow along, and refresh for breaking updates!

Gay DEA Agent Till catches up with Nancy, but it's not a happy reunion, as she has to make a life and death decision.

Will Till survive, and will I survive my first (and possibly last) episode of Showtime's Weeds?

**SPOILER ALERT*** Stop reading if you haven't watched last night's episode and plan to.

After three episodes with Kathy trying to learn from Hollywood's mature "A-Listers", she decides to take on "Young Hollywood" ... with mixed results.

Journey below to find out why this episode of My Life on the D-List earns an up arrow, despite the presence of "Young Hollywood"'s Queen Vapid Debutante.

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.