AfterElton Briefs: George Clooney gets a proposition he can refuse, Judy Shephard is still fighting and more!

President Obama welcoming America's children to the Workers Socialist Paradise of Obamaland --
or at least you might think so if you're a deranged wingut.

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.

• Matthew Shephard's mom is still fighting the good fight.

• Outsports.com posted part two of their interview with ice skater Johnny Weir who still won't answer the question. 

• Gay people are more optimistic than straight people about the direction of the country. 

• George Clooney was his usual unflappable self when a supposed gay man stripped and asked for a kiss at the Venic Film Festival.

• Have gay scientists isolated the gene that makes someone Christian? 

• The Washington Post is shocked that gay folks were upset by their recent whitewashing of the National Organization of Marriage's Brian Brown. Does it matter that the reporter who wrote the article is a bisexual woman? 

• John Barrowman discusses playing Albin in La Cage Aux Folles. Shockingly, John doesn't normally wear false eyelashes.

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