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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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

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

  • Ed Kennedy's blog
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  • AnotherGayRyan's picture

    Betty what?

    Did I miss something?  Where's the Bye Bye Betty item?

     

     

    UPDATE: Ignore that... it was so small I overlooked it.

    Alessar's picture

    It's good it's just a 1-off

    It's good it's just a 1-off pre-empt for a movie. It's not like, say, Dollhouse which is gone for a month.
    Kitty's picture

    Evil Gay Agenda

    Man, I was wondering when my copy was being sent to me, but thanks for letting us know that it might just still be in the mail.

    On a different topic altogether though, what's with putting the brief's guy on a completely separate page?......Nice optical illusion by the way.

    Kitty

    My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like it's better than yours. ~Kelis

    Michael Jensen's picture

    We wanted to make it possible for folks who wanted

    to peruse more Brief's guys to be able to do so quickly without wading through old news, but the only way to do that is to "host" the pic on a page separate from the rest of the news.
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    Sparky's picture

    That makes sense...

    but for my part I probably won't go to the extra effort of clicking the link, which means I'd never see the briefs guy.  :(  Is there a way to have the photo appear here also?
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    Kitty's picture

    OMG

    And I thought I was lazy!

    BTW, I like it this way b/c it adds mystery and intrigue to figuring out who the brief's guy is.

    Kitty

    My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like it's better than yours. ~Kelis

    Cathy.In.Canada's picture

    I agree Kitty ...

    I also like a little mystery!
    VioletFemme's picture

    Won't go the extra effort to click?

    But yet you took the extra effort to write a comment...

     :) 

     

     

     If By Gay You Mean Totally Freaking Awesome, Then Yeah, I Guess It's Pretty Gay

    --Des Ark

     

     

    Alessar's picture

    On the up side, it also

    On the up side, it also means people who'd rather not even have the briefs guy on screen at work can browse without fear since they can just opt to not click that final link.
    jakob's picture

    Let's Dance was on the BBC

    Let's Dance was on the BBC earlier this year, for the charity Comic Relief...and gave us this performance by comedian Robert Webb

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l41Jf7L3tc

    netogeno's picture

    Not Huffintong Post

    Ist actually The Daily Beast that has the article on MMA and it doesnt really offer anything, its just a way to say "gay guys like this sport" in more than 200 words intead of 5 and being surprised about it. 

    Thanks for the Frank Rich pic, more than makes up for the lack of a briefs guy. Oh wait...I see it now.

    And I vote for Matt Lander. Yum.

     

    Ed Kennedy's picture

    Fixed

    You are correct. And I really couldn't find a pic I liked of Matt Lander that makes him look at good as he does on the show.
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    Chrys's picture

    About the chart...

    You shouldn't feel bad at all. I don't recognize half of the chart and I've only listened to three of those artists (one of them completely against my will). And I'm 23 ;)
    Madeleine's picture

    Justin Bourne

    So I followed the link and read the article LOVED IT!! So I went to his blog, read some more stuff that I liked and subscribed. Then I sent him an email thanking him, and telling him about a project I did on the same topic. We need more people like him to speak up.

    As for Taylor Swift...her music is fantastic! But maybe that's just because I'm a 19 year old girl dealing with 19 boys (just like her) and I'm a country music fanatic :)

    You too can be saved by the blog! www.savedbytheblog14.blogspot.com 

    I may be straight, but I'm not narrow.

    Bountiful's picture

    Glad he said yes!

    I always feel a tremor of fear through my body, any time I see a public proposal, even if I'm not there in person. But I'm glad that he said yes, and I wish the happy couple all the best.
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    David N's picture

    If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times

    Just a quick comment on the SkyWest fiasco. I have to say I'm so glad to work for American Airlines. Except for federal tax issues that arise from listing your domestic partner, or your pre-Prop8 spouse on your insurance and other benefits, we're treated just like every other married couple.
    mastertv's picture

    90210 ?

    I am glad that 90210 may add gay character because it upset me a lot that every shows that have gay character have to add lesbian character later but when lesbian shows don't do the same(South of nowhere, The L World).If this still happen when do straight guys stop hating gay.Don't worry about lesbian because straight men love them(they've learnt from porns).Every kids have to see gay characters on movies and tv to get rid of homophobia.Just like gay and lesbian kids, they surrounded by straight movie and tv and that doesn't change them to become straight person but only thing that they 've learn is that they can accept straight people.

    Sorry about my English!

    My religion does not say gay is a sin,but always teach people to be good and tolerant(no hate)

     

    karin1492's picture

    Not looking good in Maine

    With about 70% of the vote tallied, the "People's Veto" of the gay marriage law passed by the state legislature is passing 52% to 48%, with a vote difference of about 15,000.  The margin is getting bigger and bigger, too.  It looks like gay marriage is going to go down in Maine. 
    karin1492's picture

    Unfortunately, it's over :(

    Gay marriage was defeated in Maine.  With 85% of the vote, the anti-gay marriage vote is up by 6%.