AfterElton Briefs: No shirt Sherlock, Rupert Everett needs a hug and more!

Robert Downey Jr. in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes 

Following this 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.

• Robert Downey Jr. suggests that the gay is afoot in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, in which he shares a bed with Watson (Jude Law) and wrestles shirtless. I always knew Watson was a cuddler!

• It looks like India only likes their gays fake ala Dostana since they apparently edited anything Milk related out of their rebroadcast. 
  
  
  Dostana's fake gays!
  

• Out actor Raul Esparza (late of the late Pushing Daisies) will play a shady DA on an upcoming episode of Law & Order (which, I was amazed to learn, is still on the air).

• Out actor Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace, Sordid Lives) will be bringing his one-man show My Trip Down the Pink Carpet to Off-Broadway after a successful LA run.

Rupert Everett and Blithe Spirit co-star Angela Lansbury (Photo: GETTY)

• Rupert Everett: Still gay, still bitter.

• George Mason University (in Washington DC) picked a gay man and drag performer from the senior class to be their Homecoming Queen. Ryan Allen lauded his school's willingness to embrace diversity and vote him into the throne.

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