AfterElton Briefs: Will Young brands himself "the worst gay", Tom Ford's Isherwood film bulks up, and more!

Out pop star Will Young

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.

• UK pop star Will Young noted recently that he's "the worst gay person ever" because he hasn't done much in the way of campaigning for gay causes. I still have a feeling we can find a few worse than you, Will. (For starters, your hair is divine!)

• In this brief interview, Anderson Cooper suggests that gonzo drag act Kiki and Herb should have their own cable news program ... proving that yes, I actually can love him more than I already do. Keep it comin', Coop!

• Out singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields) is the inspiration for a new line of footwear from French shoe company Bluedy. The line consists of four "mid-top designs" ... and I'm not gonna even touch that one.

• Above, from our news sibling 365Gay: A gay man murdered in Dallas. The suspect is a homeless man found in photos of pornographic nature in gay man's apt.

• Remember how we said that Xanadu on Broadway will be closing in October? Well, we lied. (Okay, we didn't; they just moved the close date up to this Sunday. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!)

• Marc Malkin is reporting that Tom Ford is very close to signing the leads for his directorial debut, a film adaptation of gay author Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man: Colin Firth will reportedly play the lead (a gay professor), with Jamie Bell and Julianne Moore playing his support network after his longterm lover dies.

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