AfterElton Briefs: Howard Stern rules, whistling orangutans, and more!

Carson Kressley and Crayton Robey at the Tribeca Film Festival (Pic: Getty)

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.

• Out filmmaker Crayton Robey premiered a rough cut of his new documentary Making The Boys this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC. The film examines the origin and controversy of the seminal gay play and film The Boys In The Band.

• If the title is Homoerotic Zoo Encounter Thwarted by Whistling Orangutan, it must be either The Weekly World News or in this case, bestweekever.tv

• A couple of hateful items to pass along: North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx lying about Matthew Shepard, and a guest column in The Des Moines Register that's sad and infuriating.

If you are wise you will listen to ... Catherine Zeta-Jones as Susan Boyle?

• Above you can see an "artist's rendering" of what Catherine Zeta-Jones might look like if she played Susan Boyle in a movie. According to dailymail.co.uk, the actress is dying to play the Britian's Got Talent star. Personally, I think she looks more like an Oompa-Loompa MILF.

• If there was ever any doubt that shock-jock Howard Stern is a gay ally, this should prove it once and for all. It's one of the strongest marriage equality statements I've heard from a straight man.

• Finally, you can now apply online for the second season of Logo's smash series RuPaul's Drag Race.

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

This guy!

Benjamin Godfre