AfterElton Briefs: "Glee" Rules the Charts, Bye-Bye Betty (For a Bit), Politics Rule the Tube, and more

This is the Kathy Griffin hosting gig I want to see on ABC.

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.

• Kathy Griffin will be hosting ABC's new series Let's Dance starting November 23. The premise seems to be celebrities duplicating famous dance routines from movies and TV shows past competing for a $250,000 cash prize to a charity of their choice.

• Proving California's some people-are-married, some-people-can't laws created last year by Prop 8 are messier than they appear, an employee is suing SkyWest Airlines because they won't provide is husband with the same free airfares they provide opposite-sex spouses.

• Basic Rights Oregon began the drive to repeal Measure 36, which is a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in the state.

• Continuing our hard news theme this election day, during the hearings in Washington, D.C. to legalize same-sex marriage, Andy Hertzberg proposed to Andy Rollman, who accepted. This outraged some, and violated my personal gay dating rule about guys with the same name as mine. Still, watch below and see if you don't go Aww!

• Ugh. I've reached the age where I look at a Top 10 music chart and don't recognize most of the artists. But I do see that the cast recording from Glee has beaten out Michael Jackson, Carrie Underwood, and the ubiquitous Taylor Swift, whose music I've never heard but see everywhere.

This was my favorite, and it's not on the disc!

• In further Southland news, TNT tweeted that they might relax the cursing standards when they air the show, which means we might get a clue as to what Officer Cooper is actually saying instead of just "Put *beep* hands *beep* *beep*get *beep* *beep* ground *beep* *beep*!" that we got on broadcast TV.

• Another day, another homophobic athlete. Arek Onyszko was already fired by his Polish soccer (football) team for assaulting his ex-wife. Now he's been fired by the Danish team that picked him up for his hate filled autobiography, charmingly titled F**king Polak. But in case you were wondering, with that title, it's his deeply held religious views that make him hate us.

Nope - nothing homoerotic about that outfit, Arek.

• One team where homophobic comments are likely to not be tolerated is the Chicago Cubs, who have a new family owner. And one member of that family is Laura Ricketts, a proud member of *our* family. That's a first people - we're taking over professional sports next, in case you haven't gotten around to reading your copy of the updated Evil Gay Agenda we sent you.

• Justin Bourne, a former professional hockey player, wrote a really nice piece in USAToday owning up to the fact he had done nothing to prevent, and likely contributed to homophobia during his NHL time. Now if we could just get an active player to say something similar.

• The Daily Beast has an article about Mixed Martial Arts being homoerotic (Umm. Duh!) and being gay friendly. Umm, huh?

Yeah, like Falcon has never used this as an opener.

• In order to beef up their November sweeps ratings, ABC is pulling the struggling Supernanny and Ugly Betty November 20 and showing Shrek 3 instead.

• Out director Roland Emmerich continues his interviews for the disaster movie 2012. We now find out that people actually lobby him to destroy their landmarks in his movies, and while he personally loves destroying religious monuments, fear of a fatwa kept him from destroying the Kaaba in the heart of Mecca.

• On Saturday we told you about Dan DeLong, the popular Illinois teacher who was suspended for giving an optional writing assignment about an article in a science journal about the occurrence of homosexuality in animals. Above you can see that the Board of Education met for hours last night, resulting in an apology and warning for the teacher, who is finally back in the classroom.

• The Washington Post has an article about the return of The Real Housewives of Orange County on Bravo, which they close out with an odd theory that Bravo is the most moral network on television:

Yes, a moral center, and yes, that Bravo. The channel is a sort of ESPN for gay men and their simpatico BFF divas, all of it so neon-pink and deceptively shallow-seeming, with its relentless devotion to documenting the deflation of inflated-egos. It's something the network hardly talks about or analyzes (why would it? Bravo succeeds by its ability to tantalize and scandalize, not hypothesize) but season after season, it's strongly there: an ethos. People on Bravo, one way or another, always get what's coming to them.

• Gossip Smurf talks to the 90210 producers about their upcoming lesbian storyline and whether there might be any gay men in West Beverly High

If they let us vote for any gay characters on 90210, I vote Trevor Donovan and Matt Lanter

• Female illusionist Alyssa Edwards (daylight name: Justin) has been crowned Miss Gay America

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