AfterElton Briefs: Broadway star Gavin Creel comes out, gay West Point graduates speak out, and more!

Out-and-proud Broadway star Gavin Creel (GETTY)

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• Tony-nommed Broadway star Gavin Creel (currently playing Claude in Hair) has come out as a gay man to The Advocate. (He came out as an adorable triple-threat years before.) Welcome, Gavin! Your toaster oven should be arriving soon.

• The UK Apprentice has its first out gay man in the running.

• The I'm from Driftwood blog asks its gay readers to submit their own stories of where they came from to make kids all across the country feel less alone. I'm from Dubuque!

• Above, from our sibs at 365Gay: Gay graduates of West Point are the highest profile military members to come out against Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Lt. Dan Choi did a combat tour in Iraq before he decided to be honest about who he is and who he loves. His revealing interview coincides with fresh fronts opening up in Washington against the policy, including the book Friendly Fire in which author Nathaniel Frank describes the flawed method used to create it.

• Kathy Griffin pulls a Norma Gae.

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