AfterElton Briefs: Is "True Blood" a conservative's worst gay nightmare? Plus an "ATWT" preview and more!

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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.

• Is Alan Ball's True Blood a rightwinger's nightmarish vision of gay life or is a vampire sometimes just a vampire? 

• Are Big Brother's rating slipping toward cancellation territoy? And they say Christmas doesn't come in July!

• Speaking of ratings, are Oprah's slipping? Aiieee! It's the end of the world as we know it! Protect yourself! Save the children!

• We've written before about the upcoming foreign film The Vinter's Luck starring Gaspard Ulliel and Jeremie Renier, but haven't heard much about it in a while. Movieline has the film's trailer which completely eliminates any mention of the film's gay aspects. And I thought only Hollywood did that. 

• Former Miss California Carrie Prejean just inked a book deal. I hear it's not a sequel to How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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