Let's hope that doesn't mean what we think it means...
(Cheyenne Jackson in Paper magazine's "Beautiful People" issue)

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual 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.

• Paper magazine has released their annual "Beautiful People" issue, and out Broadway wonderhunk Cheyenne Jackson is among those honored. Everyone cool with that? Yeah, I thought so.

• The Queerty boys chatted up gay author Scott Heim (Mysterious Skin), whose new novel, We Disappear, is a return to dark, quasi-autobiographical territory.

• Lifetime is going Project Runway crazy, with a makeover series called Project Pygmalion and another as-yet-unnamed series about the Runway models (America's Next Top Coathanger?) in the works for November.

• Decorating duo Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan (we profiled them back yonder) have gotten hitched in their native UK after 22 years of being together. Congrats, fellas! I guess our invite got lost somewhere in the Atlantic ... :(

• Gay Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Queer as Folk mastermind Russell T Davies laughed off being named the "most influential" gay person in the UK, and then called the designation "slightly demeaning". (He'd been hoping for "Best Dressed", maybe?)

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

Gay former pro rugby player, Ian Roberts!

Photo: Skeet Booth for Outrage magazine, 1995