AfterElton Briefs: "The Daily Show" Salutes Pride, Sir Ian Is Friends With His Ex, and Will Phillips Speaks at Pride

Plus George Takei's life story, Tuc Watkins looks forward to Desperate Housewives, and Chris Colfer is a Teen Choice Scene Stealer.

Lt. Dan Choi, Constance McMillen and GLAAD at NYC Pride

• Tonight at 7:00 EDT on Howard 101 on Sirius-XM they'll be playing George Takei's America: A Howard 100 News Documentary. The show takes a look back at his young life, and his family's time in the Japanese detainment camps during World War II.

• Tomorrow at noon EDT, Johnny Weir will be making a Bluefly Closet Confession and answering your questions.

• The Daily Show celebrates gay Pride with a collection of their favorite Gay Pride moments throughout the years, including their Tinky Winky sendup.

• Sirius-XM partnered with The Paley Center for their ambitious piece I Want My Gay TV: The LGBT History of Television. From a cross-dressing Milton Berle to Ellen DeGeneres to Soap to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy they interviewed the people who were there.

• Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps' son Nate Phelps opens up about his loss of faith, estrangement from his father, and how, despite his personal beliefs that homosexuality is part of nature and people don't choose to be gay, homophobia is "hard-wired" into his brain thanks to his father's prejudices. For the record, American Family Association, this is what brainwashing and child abuse looks like.

• Over the weekend, Will Phillips attended Northwest Arkansas Pride as Grand Marshal as planned. Not only did he ride in the parade, he spoke to the crowd afterward. Seeing an articulate, funny young man stand up for our community gives me hope for the future and brings a tear to my eye. Many thanks to Nolyn H. who was kind enough to give us access to the video she shot. Note: The audio is a bit weak, but worth the effort the kid is funny.

• Sir Ian McKellen fell for a young artist named Nick Cuthell while in New Zealand filming Lord of the Rings he even took him to the Oscars. Now, years later, he's touring New Zealand with a production of Waiting for Godot, and portraits of the nine principle cast painted by Cuthell travel with the show.

• Richard Socarides, who worked in the Clinton White House says that President Obama has to support gay marriage before 2012.

• Montana's Republican Party has released their new platform, and they included homosexuality as one of their issues under the heading of "Crime" and demanded legislation "that keeps homosexual acts illegal."

• The Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by the Vatican that it has immunity over the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States.

• If I read one more article by some exasperated New York City queen talking about how "over" Pride they are when huge swaths of the country don't even have job protections, much less Pride, I'm going to rent a bus and stuff it with armed rednecks from the Bible belt and drop them off in Chelsea. Get over yourselves, and look to young Will Phillips for inspiration.

• If you want to know why I feel that way, it's because in a lot of places, the cops are still beating the crap out of gays and telling fag jokes while they do it.

• Rapper TI tells MTV News that Lady Gaga transcends all genres with her talent.

• Tuc Watkins, elevated to series regular on Desperate Housewives, says he hopes this means Bob and Lee get a real storyline this year. And while he hasn't seen a script, he can't imagine their cliffhanger breakup lasts. Says Watkins, "Bob without Lee is like eggs without bacon, like Ernie without Bert.”

• Among the nine additional nominations for the Glee cast at the Teen Choice Awards, Chris Colfer picked up a nomination for the Male Scene Stealer, which is a great description of Kurt. Fans 13-19 can vote for the categories.

• Novak Djokovic attempts his best Incredible Hulk impersonation at Wimbledon and fails miserably. Lucky for us he didn't get discouraged when he couldn't rip his shirt off.

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