AfterElton Briefs: Good news for Antony Cotton, the thing about gay animals, and more!

Rodrigo Santoro and his Leonera co-star Martina Gusman

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.

• Rodrigo Santoro (300) will be playing not one, but two queer roles this year. In addition to his part in I Love You, Phillip Morris, he also plays a bisexual in the Argentine women-with-babies-in-prison film Leonera, which screened at Cannes last week.

• The scamps at 23/6 created a handy guide to planning your gay wedding. Favorite line: "Find a venue for the ceremony. Churches are probably out."

• At the Drama League Awards, actor Daniel Evans (Sunday in the Park with George) jokingly proposed to actor Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu), who jokingly accepted. I jokingly smell a cross-over episode ... Seurat on skates!!

• There's nothing really new in this brief article about same-sex coupling in the animal kingdom, but they do make an interesting point ... though gay relationships are common in dozens of more socially developed species, you know what's not? Homophobia. We've cornered the market on that, baby!

• Gay Coronation Street star Antony Cotton has been signed for two more years on the soap as gay barman Sean Tully, as well as another as-yet-undetermined solo project on British TV.

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

NYC's "fireman gone wild", Michael Baserta!