AfterElton Briefs: "True Blood"'s Lafayette Gets a Boyfriend, Boy George Gets Denied, and Matthew Morrison Comes Out As Straight

Welcome to the White House, baby!

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.

• Previously, we had told you the out Simon Doonan was decorating the People's House this year, so I don't know what anyone expected, but: above you can see Hedda Lettuce, who features on a Christmas ornament hung on a tree in the White House. Wing nuts are going crazy, but Hedda seems to be keeping her, well, head:

I may never get equal rights, I may never be blond and pencil thin, I may never see Lady Gaga in concert this winter at Madison Square Garden (I could not get a ticket) but one of my balls is hanging in the White House with my name for all to see.

• From the teaser, Glee's Matthew Morrison comes out as straight in a new interview with Elle. Personally, I think all celebrity interviews should start like this, just to get a few things, uh, straight. Or not.

It's the holidays, and I was feeling the spirit.

• While not really gay, or about entertainment, trips to visit the family for the holidays can be especially stressful on us gays. So may I suggest ripping off this "rider" at McSweeney's that Kate Kershner wrote for her 2006 Holiday Visit. Hey, if Van Halen can require all brown M&Ms removed from their dressing room, your family can do this.

• Megan Mullally of Will & Grace, and recently, margarine commercials, is returning to Broadway in out writer Terrance McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, which sounds more like a technique for, well, you figure it out. 

• Conan O'Brien last night had a really unfunny skit about Albus Dumbledore going Hollywood with the success of the Harry Potter films. Which is impressive, since Dumbledore is dead. In this skit, he's evidently bisexual instead of gay. Watch. I won't expect too much by asking you to laugh.

• Boy George has been denied special privileges on his probation that would have allowed him to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. I, for one, am disappointed. A bondage aficionado like Boy George could have made the rest of the house more bearable.

• The Spurf™ over at Entertainment Weekly had a bunch of gay television scoops this week. For example, Lafayette on True Blood is getting a boyfriend, and the show is currently shopping for a sexy Latino actor to fill those briefs. Suggestions on casting in the comments!

My recommendation. He can't stay between Oliver and Kyle forever. Plus he strips readily.

• Also buried in that big article of scoop was the detail that Bones is trying to work the scheduling to allow out actor Eric Millegan to appear as Zack in the 100th episode. I was never happy with how Zack was handled.

• And he mentions that Jane Lynch will be singing something from Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly when Glee finally returns.

• Britain's tops PR advisor Max Clifford says it's fine if rugby players like Gareth Thomas want to come out, but he has, and is, advising top footballers (soccer players) to stay in the closet. Not because of the locker room, but because the football fans are such bigots.

• Yet another reason to love Lady GaGa - the Westboro Baptist Church hates her! Well, we always kind of figured they did, but today they put out a press release to the effect, which Popeater covered extensively. Bonus points for a 21st century use of the word "hussy."

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