AfterElton Briefs: NPH saves the Emmys, "Glee" gets picked up and more!

Adam Lambert steps out with boyfriend Drake LaBry (pic: JustJared)

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.

• Republican Senator Tom Coburn's Chief of Staff says "All pornography is homosexual pornography because I'm not capable of rational, critical thinking and am a babbling buffoon." Or something like that. I'm paraphrasing a bit.

• The adorkable Nate Silver says same-sex marriage is fading as a "values" issue. I guess that's what happens when God doesn't punish pro-gay states with plagues of locusts, fire raining from the sky or visits from the cast of Miami Sociall. 

• Poor Neil Patrick Harris finally got someone to interview him thanks to Time Magazine taking pity on and giving him some much needed exposure. 

• Speaking of America's favorite gay man, the Emmy's posted much improved ratings this year. Meanwhile, nearly 90% of Entertainment Weekly's readers loved the job Neil did. Speaking of Neil, check out this clip of tonight's How I Met Your Mother.

• Can gay men be identified by their Facebook friends? This study says so, but that certainly wouldn't be true of me just because I'm friends with Neil Patrick Harris, T.R. Knight, Sir Ian McKellen and Ryan Reynolds. Oh, wait, those are my Wishlist Facebook Friends. 

• Fox dropped us (and everyone else in the known universe) a press release announcing the Glee was getting a full season pick-up, making it the first show to get a full season pick up. 

• Via Rod 2.0 I found this picture from a game between the St. Louis Rams and Washington Redskins. 

• James Franco is taking a Queer Cinema Class at NYU. If there is a test question about Milk on the final, that will so not be fair!

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