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Allan Hyde and his friend Hadleyk

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.

• Because we all previously enjoyed seeing Allan Hyde (Godric in True Blood) in his wolf T-shirts, above we have a still from a short film he did with his buddy Hadleyk called Smile. Hadleyk seems to film a lot of silliness and post it on his website. While Smile is safe for work, some of the videos he tweets definitely are not. And I'm not paying your therapy bills if you watch them.

• The abs in the teaser photo belong to Taylor Lautner, the 17-year-old werewolf from Twilight. He's had a weird week. His movie made another $66 million, setting another record. And he was on the cover of Rolling Stone, but the interviewer kept asking him if he was gay. And apparently, lycanthropy is now a metaphor for homosexuality. Vampirisim = Gay is so last month. 

The graphic artists who did the cover were more polite than the interviewer.

• Speaking of Taylor Lautner, he and James Franco were both announced as hosts for Saturday Night Live in December. Unless that little werewolf pup runs around shirtless the whole show, count me as on Team Franco.

• Despite being a writer covering GLBT issues, I totally missed the transphobia in last week's The Cleveland Show until it was point out to me. If I can be that oblivious, I'm starting to see how homophobic slurs fly all over the place and are never noticed by straight people.

• Sir Ian McKellen becomes the latest gay man to come out in opposition to campy portrayals of gay men on television. If he'd done that five years ago, I'd concur, but at this point, can't we agree a little diversity in our gays is acceptable and stop tearing down our own community?

• The mothership, MTV, has teased the cast of The Real World: DC, which looks to include bisexual-Christian-jock Mike. For that trifecta, a casting director must have sold his soul. The teaser video below has Mike with Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO).

• With the cancellation of his ABC show Hank, it was announced today that Kelsey Grammer would be making his Broadway musical debut in La Cage aux Folles when it opens April 6, 2010 playing Georges opposite Douglas Hodge's Albin/Zaza.

• Planet Gallifrey, the Dr. Who blog, has an interview John Barrowman gave to GMTV where he says what we already knew; namely that Captain Jack would be appearing in the final episodes of David Tennant's Dr. Who over the holidays.

• In Adam Lambert news, since our last article a couple hours ago, we found this satire piece purporting that Lloyd's of London has insured his crotch for $1 million. And we also have this video from his interview on Sirius OutQ

Mark Salling from last week's Diversity Awards.

• With all the ongoing Adam news, it felt like we'd forgotten about our other darling Glee! Fear not, we have the Chris Colfer Q&A with fan questions, plus a link over to People where the straight male cast (plus some other stars) get asked about their "man crushes" with some surprising answers. And below, you can see a picture of a young Cory Monteith dressed up as Harry Potter. Update: I've been contacted and told that while this is a young Cory Monteith, the lightening bolt/Harry Potter scar was added in Photoshop. Still, young Cory Monteith!

I don't know the context, no. It's part of a set of three.

• The Bulgarian man who was with Stephen Gately and Andrew Cowles the night Stephen died has sold his story while also condemning Jan Moir's article for being cruel. Pot, meet kettle.

• The New York Times has a great and balanced article about the difficulties schools are having balancing gender expression versus disruptive dress in modern schools.

• In today's Monday Morning Everything Bagel, we mentioned A Very Mary Holiday benefit tonight for The Ali Forney Center for homeless GLBT youth. If you're not in NYC and want to help, they've made an appeal for internet votes in Liquidnet's Local Impact Challenge, which could net them $10,000-$35,000 in unrestricted grants if they win.

• Last night in New York City, the first True Colors Cabaret kicked off with Van Hansis hosting, and newly out Jonathan Groff performing. The good news, they raised some money for a good cause. The bad news? The pictures show Van has cut his hair which was getting such good reviews lately.

• For reasons I don't yet understand, the folks at Watch with Kristin on E! Online posted a gallery of A Brief Cultural History of Gays On Television. They didn't support it with an article, or celebrate an event, they just put a lot of pictures of gay characters up.

• The Flying Monkey seemed busy, so watch me crowd source this research. There's a movie coming out in July called Beastly, based on a book by the same title written by Alex Flinn. It stars the dreamy Alex Pettyfer as the Beast, Vanessa Hudgens as the beauty, Mary-Kate Olsen as the witch, and Neil Patrick Harris as a blind ... something? Yeah, no idea on the NPH role. Anyone read the book? Trailer is above.

Alex Pettyfer (Alex Rider: Stormbreaker) is cast as the hideous Beast.

• Activist Michael Petrelis wants to know why we've backed away from using the word "gay" after fighting so hard for so many years to reclaim it.

• On a sad note, we need to mark a pair of deaths. Mike Penner, veteran sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times who had gender reassignment surgery to become Christine Daniels, only to later go back to Mike Penner, has committed suicide. And in Turkey, a gay man was killed by his own father in what is being described as an "honor killing."

• That loud news you heard earlier was Mike Huckabee's 2012 presidential run imploding as it come to notice that Maurice Clemmons, whose 95 year sentence he commuted as governor, is wanted by police in an ambush that left four police officers dead.

• Via Towelroad, we discover that opera is getting a sexy, ab-tastic makeover with Barihunks.

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