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.

• Two men who held hands and discussed same-sex marriage on an Irish morning show has been called "the first male couple to display their affections on the Irish airwaves." Unsurprisingly, the moment resulted in some backlash, but the station said that overall the response was favorable.

• Bollywood actor Siddharth Suryanarayan (pictured above) spoke out in defense of gays in his home country of India, noting that "it's time we started respecting them and giving them their much-deserved freedom just to be themselves."

• If you love gadgets, and we bet you do, Towleroad has their weekly round-up.

• For anyone who thinks that John Barrowman can't sing or dance worth a crap ... um, here's proof that he has.

• Gay groups say that a recent Italian television biopic of legendary painter Caravaggio was not gay enough.

• The so-called Concerned Women for America call children's penguin book And Tango Makes Three "sexually explicit, and Good As You just about lays an egg of his own (and rightfully so).

• Read up on all the rest that's fit to print in Michael's latest Best.Gay.Week.Ever. column, and have a great weekend, Oscars or no!

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