AfterElton Briefs: Jon Hamm's gay movie, Iowa's first gay marriages, and more!

London Mayor Boris Johnson launches a new West End tourism effort with castmembers from the Priscilla musical (Pic: GETTY)

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• Out Detroit TV anchor Charles Pugh is going to run for the Detroit City Council. He'll be the first out gay candidate in the city's history.


• Mad Men cutie Jon Hamm has started a production company with his actress wife, Jennifer Westfeldt, and one of their first projects is Dusty and the Big Bad World, a dramedy based on "Bustergate", the true story of a young girl who was denied the winnings of a children's show contest because her parents were two men.

• Robert Carlyle says that he always thought that Begbie, his pint-tossing bully character in Trainspotting, was gay. And here I was chasing after Sick Boy...

• Go Hawkeyes! (Part 2): Gay couples in Iowa began receiving marriage licenses today.

• Today our parent company, Logo, launched TripOutGayTravel.com, a site for gay travelers loaded with exclusive gay travel reports, a trip booker, videos and more. To do my part I zipped off to Curaçao a few months back and posted the above video ... the things I do for this job!

• The gay one-two punch of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters gave ABC the top spot in the first Sunday of May sweeps.

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