Bonus Briefs: Gay Pumpkins, Adam Lambert, Matthew Morrison, Gay Oscars, and More

Some of our favorite gay TV icons in pumpkin form.

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.

• Proving it's true John Barrowman and Neil Patrick Harris will show up for anything, above you can see Captain Jack Harkness and Dr. Horrible making an appearance as a Jack-o-Lantern. There's a template for the Dr. Horrible one.

• Tonight around 7:47p.m. EDT, the cast of Glee will sing the national anthem live on Fox. Once they're done, I understand some guys are having a baseball game.

• Speaking of daylight time, ours is over tonight in the U.S., so the clocks fall back an hour. Downside? We don't have a hunk doing PSAs for it here in the U.S. like the Brits did. Upside? Because of when it happens, many bars get to serve for an extra hour before last call tonight for their Halloween bashes.

• I am really disappointed in our Canadian readers for not pointing out Chris and John's Halloween Superstar, which has been airing on OutTV in Canada. They've evidently been trying to find Halloween's biggest fan, and it looks camptastic! Above you can see the preview for the finale, which aired last night. But the prizes are the audition videos. Anybody know who won?

• Broadway hunks Nick Adams and B.D. Wong will be joining Logo's own Jeffery Self and Cole Escola of Jeffery & Cole's Casserole and other Broadway stars for a Broadway Speaks Out benefit for the Ali Forney Center for GLBT youth November 30th.

• MTV is seeking athletes 15-28 who want to come out to their teammates for an upcoming episode of True Life.

• There's a better-than-average chance that any Halloween gathering of gay men tonight will be playing Britney Spears' "3" which we've included the video for above so you can learn the dance routine.

• Remember our Asshat nominee, Kansas City Chief's Larry Johnson? His manager spoke to TMZ about the incident, and frankly, if this is who's guiding Larry, maybe it wasn't his fault. Says agent Peter Schafer:

We know the N-word is unacceptable, that's not disputable -- but f*g? I'm learning that there's a segment of our society that finds it offensive and that it should not be used. I didn't realize that, but I do know now..

• indieWIRE takes a look at the best bets for gay Oscar gold this year, and comes up with Tom Ford's A Single Man, Rob Marshall's Nine, and Lee Daniels' Precious. Most interesting? Lee Daniels as an openly gay African-American.

• Remember that Chicago teacher who got merely "warned" for his slur about "your tax dollars going to pay a black f*g to take pictures of another black f*g" that he used in front of multiple classes? Well, at another school, a teacher has been suspended for giving an optional assignment to report from a science magazine about the occurrence of homosexuality in animals.

• Above Pat Robertson goes bats**t crazy about passage of the Matthew Shepard/James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act. For the record, Pat, we are not a Christian nation, and this alone does not put President Obama back into gays good graces.

• But that plus signing the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act and ending the HIV travel ban is a decent start.

• Adam Lambert dropped by Ryan Seacrest's radio show to premiere his first single,"For Your Entertainment" (pictured above). You can listen to a stream of the disco-glam-rock-Adam number at his official website.

• Glee's Matthew Morrison has announced plans to record a solo album that's Justin Timberlake crossed with Michael Buble. I'm excited for the music video possibilities.

• In a moment of cold comfort, the Washington Post takes a big step forward in deciding to call the gay hatred of Virginia Attorney General candidate Kenneth Cuccinelli by the right name: bigotry.

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

Kody Corduan, who may have had too much fun at a Halloween party!