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AfterElton Briefs: More fallout from "The Advocate" cover, Kathy Griffin is roasting another icon, and more!

Excited yet?

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.

  • The closer we get to the Thursday, August 20th at 10PM ET premiere of Project Runway on ... Lifetime, the more I believe the switch from Bravo is a mistake. I don't know why ... just a feeling. Remember when The Hogan Family moved from NBC to CBS in its final season? Of course you do. And remember how it was never the same show after the switch?
  • Massachusetts' attorney general filed a lawsuit today seeking federal marriage benefits for about 16,000 gay and lesbian couples who have legally wed in that state.
  • The National Education Association says yes to marriage-equality! Yeah for teachers! But there's a catch.

Derek Webb's new song may not be music to many people's ears

  • Via Good As You comes the new song from Christian artist Derek Webb that is sure to cause a fuss in the evangelical world. Ha!
  • The Advocate's editor-in-chief, Jon Barrett, responds to the furor over putting whatshisface on the August cover.
  • Kathy Griffin will host the roast of Joan Rivers in L.A. on July 26th, to be aired on Comedy Central August 9th. Expect potty-mouth!
  • A British actor named John Barrowman has responded to homophobic comments made by some church guy.

"You undermined my authori-tay!"

  • Finally, for those of you jonesing for a True Blood fix, gay reporter sprite Michael Ausiello has some SPOILERS for the month of August, and all I can say is can't ... freaking ... wait!

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

This guy!

Okay, this has left me speechless, so I'm counting on you to come up with the perfect name or caption!

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  • Nanite's picture

    Obviously, what we have here.

    Is a Gaysha.
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    Ed Kennedy's picture

    Or

    Or, if the model prefers, a Guysha.
    famguyrules90's picture

    Haha

    I saw that john barrowman thing and it was on loose women, he also had his parents (who are very christian) stand up to say that theres nothing for there son to be sorry for, which i thought was quite touching.

    As for the model, how bout Sue-mo Joekerface, although i do like Gaysha haha!

    My tonuge would catch your tongue...were the world mine :-)

    keithpaterson@blueyonder.co.uk's picture

    A British actor named John Barrowman

    odd to see Snicks write the above given the amount of coverage Barrowman has had in these pages. Like a US comedian named Joan Rivers...

    Dave Doty's picture

    Barrowman (Not a Torchwood fight comment, though!)

    Given the geek flag Snicks often flies, I feel comfortable saying that was almost certainly ironic, either because of how well known he is on the site, or a reaction to the headline of the linked article referring to him as "Gay Actor John Barrowman."
    HapNStance's picture

    Christian Music

    If what you've posted lately is indicative of anything, then there is a questioning trend starting in Christian music. I remember when I was a kid, some conservative church folks would try to show me passages in the Bible that seemed to support slavery and oppression of non whites. For the longest time I've felt the same feeling when I've been confronted by "scripture based" homophobia. But if this is even a small trend, it's really encouraging.

    Nous Sommes Tous Sauvages.

    JC's picture

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    The newest fighter in the WWF.... The Cowboy Gaysha
    JC's picture

    Christian Music

    What a nice surprise that someone in the Christian community is actually taking a stand. The song is pretty decent too.!

     

    AddisonDewitt's picture

    The Advocate and Hilton

    Perez Hilton is on the cover to sell magazines. It is a business decision not a "he is a name in the news" decision. I agree he needs to be truly profiled well, but in the month where Dan Choi was kicked out of the military and the President came under heavy fire for gay issues, why are we turning to Hilton for someone to talk about? The original decision and the video vlog commentary by the editor are proving that magazines of a monthly format or even weekly format are dead media that is too slow to speak to a public hungry for up to the minute news and information.

     

    How singularly innocent I look this morning.

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    Today's briefs

    snicks wrote:

    Excited yet?

    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.

    • The closer we get to the Thursday, August 20th at 10PM ET premiere of Project Runway on ... Lifetime, the more I believe the switch from Bravo is a mistake. I don't know why ... just a feeling. Remember when The Hogan Family moved from NBC to CBS in its final season? Of course you do. And remember how it was never the same show after the switch?
    • Massachusetts' attorney general filed a lawsuit today seeking federal marriage benefits for about 16,000 gay and lesbian couples who have legally wed in that state.
    • The National Education Association says yes to marriage-equality! Yeah for teachers! But there's a catch.

    Derek Webb's new song may not be music to many people's ears

    • Via Good As You comes the new song from Christian artist Derek Webb that is sure to cause a fuss in the evangelical world. Ha!
    • The Advocate's editor-in-chief, Jon Barrett, responds to the furor over putting whatshisface on the August cover.
    • Kathy Griffin will host the roast of Joan Rivers in L.A. on July 26th, to be aired on Comedy Central August 9th. Expect potty-mouth!
    • A British actor named John Barrowman has responded to homophobic comments made by some church guy.

    "You undermined my authori-tay!"

    • Finally, for those of you jonesing for a True Blood fix, gay reporter sprite Michael Ausiello has some SPOILERS for the month of August, and all I can say is can't ... freaking ... wait!

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

    This guy!

    Okay, this has left me speechless, so I'm counting on you to come up with the perfect name or caption!

    If they just gave me a chance I could be a Sumo champion.

    polopony's picture

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    The newest Japanese sporting craze, you've heard of sum-OOO now meat SUM-WOOOW
    Jon's picture

    Hasn't Project Runway been bad for ages now?

    I think the show became worse and worse when it was clearly about showcasing malevolent forces who caused drama and beat everyone down. Santino, Jeffrey. Season 3 was especially horrible, the judges were so contradictory and did their best to grind down anyone who did not fit their quota, like Kayne. Then season 4 had that idiot who only seemed to say "Fierce!" all the time, and I lost interest.
    Chuckles's picture

    Project Run away from home...

    I think I've gone through all the necessary steps in the grieving process with PR.  The grief, rage, denial, and bargaining have subsided so now there's a sense of relief and release.  I hope the housewives of America will give the show a proper home, but I don't intend on watching it.  It will never have the magic that it had on Bravo, nuff said...

    Speaking of Christian Music... blech!  Hate the stuff.  Probably more than country, and that's a big pit of loathing to begin with.  Having said that... kudos to the guy for have the big ones to go there.

     

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    afhickman's picture

    "Any of you guys know how to Madison?"

    So much for captions.  I wanted to add that I had never heard of Perez Hilton until he began making his regular appearances on AE.  At first I though wags must be making fun of Paris.  This Hilton, however, is pretty easy to ignore--if you would just ignore him! Indeed, I have had such a surfeit of Hilton on AE that I would be very reluctant to buy any magazine that carried an advertisement for him on its cover.  There have been other Advocate covers that inspired a similar response, but I don't want to impugn a magazine that has brought me so much reading pleasure over the years.  It's a personal aesthetic.  Last week, when I was in London, I dropped into Soho to buy a copy of Attitude, which is also a reliably readable mag, but I was deterred from doing so when I saw the cover--yet another photo of Bruno, whose name is now synonymous with "gay" and whose image is inescapable.  I say, let's declare the Bruno joke officially over before the movie is released.   I hate to be a part of the Bruno marketing machine, but here, God help us, is the cover:

    OUT NOW

    "The mountain has wings."

    Sakhmet's picture

    *Swats*  Have you lost your

    *Swats*  Have you lost your mind?  A minor descriptor is enough.
    Sakhmet's picture

    In the news today....

    I see what you have here is a turd sandwich.  Between the good, you feature some rather unappealing bilge.  *Shudders*  The Advocate has gone to many places before, I just never realized the sewer would be one of them.
    Jamie's picture

    It just never ends.

    It just never ends.

     

    "Open up your mind and then open up your heart. And you will see that you and me aren't very far apart." - Blessid Union of Souls

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    "We're all out of sushi, but you can have me."
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    "We're all out of sushi, but you can have me."
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    WWE's newest member: the kabuki-nator

     

     

    Zaubear's picture

    just one semi-word on the Guysha

    eeeewwwwww!!!
    Zaubear's picture

    OK, ok, so maybe

    The Castro Clone, circa 2069
    tristanrobin's picture

    "so, what are you looking

    "so, what are you looking at?"

     

     

    "I always say a kiss on the hand may feel very very good - but a diamond tiara lasts forever."