AfterElton Snapshot: Your best man for the week of May 16

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on May 16, 2008

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

Steven Frank recapped the big gay season finale of Brothers & Sisters.
And in honor of the big gay wedding on B&S, we looked at the history of gay weddings in movies and television.
We brought you the week's Gay Geek. Comics, genre TV, games, and more!
We looked at five of the funniest television coming-out scenes.
In gay soaps news ... Over on As the World Turns Luke caught Ameera dialing for dollars, and confronted her on it. Meanwhile, the lovable Germans of Forbidden Love nearly went public with their relationship ... but things got complicated. And over on Hollyoaks, John-Paul and Kieron nearly blew their cover.
We interviewed fabulous, out Dancing with the Stars judge Bruno Tonioni.
We unearthed the gay contestant on the coming season of The Mole.
We brought you Grand Theft Auto IV's two gay storylines.
Did How I Met Your Mother make a gay gaffe?
We also introduced the two out designers on the upcoming season of HGTV's Design Star.
The 2008 Tony nominations were announced, and we rounded up the gay nods.
Swing Vote goes for the gay humor in their new teaser.
Out Degrassi actor Adamo Ruggiero will be hosting a kids' talent competition show.
RuPaul's Drag Race will search for the next drag superstar.
We covered the red carpet of the San Fran GLAAD Media Awards.
Over on Greek, Calvin met his new love interest, played by Max Greenfield.
Step It Up & Dance actually gained a gay contestant, and let its dancers dance, for once.
The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
Spain's Operacion Triunfo singing competition has a front-and-center gay contestant, who shared a romantic kiss with his husband on-air.
Vlogs!: The Angry Puppy fellas chatted about their Hot Geek 10, Jim and Penny discussed the final four on Idol Chat, and Alex sat down (in bathrobes) with Naked Highway on Homophonic. Japhy played "Fierce or Hot Mess?" on Flaming Politics, The Gay Agenda advised Hillary to hang it up, and the Suck It Up & Dance boys did the Mashed Potato with a dancer from Broadway's Hairspray.
Associate Editor Dennis covered this week's Best.Gay.Week.Ever. column as Michael has been out following an unexpected family loss. Our thoughts are with him and his family, and we look forward to having him back next week.