AfterElton Briefs: Happy Birthday Halford! Plus, the Ovahtion Ball, "Savage Love" and more!

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.

• Happy Birthday heavy metal rock god Rob Halford!

• According to the less than reputable U.K. paper The Sun, a thinner Matt Lucas is looking for love. 

• Movieline has a little bit of scoop on Gus Van Sant's next project titled Tea. I kid! It's called Restless but doesn't have much gay in it.

• Summer night be over, but thanks to Miley Cyrus and these gay guys, it's not too late for this year's "Walking on Sunshine." This is what summer should be about!

• Looks like Melrose Place's executive producer Todd Slavkin not only didn't heed my advice that yet another female "try-sexual" character was tired and offensive, but now he's also deemed MP as being part of a new sexual revolution that is "Kind of post-AIDS—where the boundaries are off." I guess we won't be looking to MP for any sort of redeeming social value. Bwa-ha-ha!

• Is Dr. Phil denigrating GLBT people?

• James St. James checked out the 2009 Ovahness Ball and filed this report.
  

• The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Dan Savage's Savage Love column might be coming to HBO. Woo hoo! Dan's first letter is reportedly from a gay short order cook in Louisiana who writes that he is finding himself attracted to a vampire who is hung up on someone else's girlfriend, but is still giving off signs he's interested in him as well. Dear, dear, dear... 

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

This guy! Who happens to be Baz Luhrmann! And, no, those aren't briefs, but a swimsuit, but let's not be so rigid!