AfterElton Briefs: Bruno's football penalty, DADT gets personal, "Runway" now hetero safe.

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.

• A Los Angeles school principal is in hot water for allowing a GQ photo shoot which had Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno playing a bit of homo-suggestive touch football with the school's varsity team. Never mind that the students had permission slips. [Hat tip Gawker]

• Movieline.com takes a wry look at Lifetime's extensive publicity campaign for their new prize jewel (after stealing it away from Bravo), Project Runway. Judging by the latest ad, which other than Tim Gunn, seems noticeably devoid of gay men, you'd think that only heteros watch Runway. As if!

• Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to make Don't Ask Don't Tell "more humane" until Congress eventually repeals it. For example, Gates said the military might be more selective and not have to expel a gay servicemember whose sexual orientation was revealed by a third party out of vindictiveness or suspect motives. That would include, Gates said, someone who was "jilted" by the gay service member. Oh dear. One can only imagine the military tribunal Gates plans to set up to determine precisely which servicemembers were jilters — and which were jiltees. Frankly, the concept is ludicrous. Just suspend DADT already!

"So soldier, you say you meant to call, but lost his phone number?"

Photo credit: Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images

• Well, I would not have thought it possible, but somehow Hardee's has managed to upstage both Quizno's and Burger King in the sexually suggestive advertising department. Check out the new "Hardee's Holes" ad and prepare to be disturbed...

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