AfterElton Snapshot: Your meter maid for the week of April 17

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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 week'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! Drop your caption ideas in the comments, and check out last week's winner after the jump!

Big Gay News o' the Week: In the blink of a Tweet, a months-old tagging issue on Amazon that categorized thousands of titles (many of them LGBT) as "adult" and stripped them of their sales rankings became an international scandal, prompting an unsatisfying response from the company, boycotts and considerable snark. Here's what the underlying "glitch" says about American pop culture.
Zac Efron got some gay foot-fetish action on SNL. I don't know if I'm turned on or nauseated.
Southland and its gay cop, John Cooper, continued to impress in their second week.
Thai Ladyboys took The Amazing Race by storm, and gay Luke showed his dark side...

As the World Turns

Gay Soaps: Our Gays of Our Lives soaps column took a stab at the soapiest Hot 100 candidates. Meanwhile, Zac tried to seduce Noah during an absinthe-fueled seance (don't ask) on As the World Turns and later kinapped him and tied him to a chair in a warehouse. What a romantic!
We interviewed Jake Nodar, the first out man on the Discovery Channel, on being Out of the Wild. We're also running his take on each episode in the weeks to come!
How "real" will the Johnny Weir reality show be?
Sordid Lives looks to be gone for good.

Adam Lambert

Cupid had a sweet gay storyline this week.
American Idol's gayest little contestant that could, Adam Lambert, cleaned up again this week, although not in the catering department.
The Flying Monkey was back to answer your questions.
Bravo's A-List Awards was the gayest awards show since ... well, since The Oscars.
Hot 100! Cheyenne Jackson shared his picks. So did John Barrowman, and his sister! And so did snicks. We also suggested ten adorkable candidates who shouldn't bee overlooked. Awwww...

Daniel Leary with Sean Maguire and Matt Lucas of Krod Mandoon

Vlogs! Mores for Gays tackled breaking bad news to good people, and then host Daniel Leary chatted up Sean Maguire and Matt Lucas of Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. Plus, Dennis Hensley of Driven to Distraction chatted up the cast of The Big Gay Sketch Show for their Hot 100 picks.
We gave HBO's Grey Gardens a positive review, and chatted with Drew Barrymore about finding Little Edie.
Stateside Skins? This is gonna take some serious Fantasy Casting ... and a miracle.
Let the homo storm get you in The Colbert Report's hilarious NOM anti-gay marriage parody.
We chatted with Mel White, the gay minister and activist whose enjoyable stint on The Amazing Race is just about the least daring thing he's done lately.
And thanks to resident gay elephant handler Dennis Ayers, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever!