AfterElton Briefs: Michelangelo Signorile chats with the Catholic League, catching up with Peter Paige, and more!

Birthday boy James Marsters (with John Barrowman)

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.

• Happy birthday to gay-fave Torchwood and Buffy vet James Marsters, who turns 46 today. Holy eff, did I just say "46"?! We should all be so lucky as to look this good and get paid to make out with John Barrowman at that age.

• Remember former Westlife member Brian McFadden's comments about how gays aren't real males and only gay men wear pink? Well apparently we were wrong to take any of that as an insult. Thanks for clearing that up for us, Brian!

• Here's a catch-up with Queer As Folk alum Peter Paige.

• Above, from our sibs at 365Gay: Mike Headrick reports from Salt Lake City on the LDS Church's postponement of a meeting with LGBT followers.

• And yesterday gay radio host Michelangelo Signorile invited Catholic League honcho Bill Donohue onto his show to discuss blogs that he thinks should have their creds pulled from the DRC, including Towleroad.

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

This guy!