AfterElton Briefs: Another hunk joins "Howl", Anne to play Judy (twice!) and more!

Jake Gyllenhaal and Mike White thumwrestle/fist-bump/shake it out

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

• Above, gay-fave Jake Gyllenhaal and out screenwriter/actor-turned-reality star Mike White (The Amazing Race) meeting for lunch in Los Angeles. I'm guessing they met on the set of The Good Girl, which White wrote and appeared in and which starred Jake. More pics of the guys over here.

• Mad Men's Jon Hamm has joined the cast of the Allen Ginsberg biopic Howl (which already stars James Franco as the gay beat poet, as well as Alessandro Nivola and Treat Williams), making the cast the hottest bunch of daddies in period hairstyles since Milk.

• Gay-friendly triple-threat Anne Hathaway set to play another gay-friendly triple-threat, Judy Garland, in both the stage and screen adaptations of the biography of the star, Get Happy. I think I'm okay with that.

• Meant to post this one yesterday but missed it: Above, check out Portia De Rossi's hilarious bit on Jimmy Kimmel where she apologizes to all the haters for marrying Ellen.

• Gay Congressman Barney Frank has defended his use of the word "homophobe" in referring to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, pointing out that not all people who oppose gay marriage are homophobic and that he was referring to Justice Scalia's decisions in other cases regarding gay citizens.

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