AfterElton Briefs: Proposition 8 news, is Remy the rat gay, and more!

A crop-circled Jeremy Kost with Daniel Vosovic (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 Project Runway Season Two runner-up Daniel Vosovic has been keeping busy since being robbed of that crown. A few months ago he released his first book, Fashion Inside Out (with foreword by none other than Tim Gunn). Tuesday night he made an appearance at the "After The Party" exhibition opening in NYC for out Jeremy Kost (who's become famous with his Polaroid pics of celebrities).

• Thequietus.com has an interview with gay-adjacent Vince Clark, who helped provide the soundtrack to many gay boy's lives in the 80's with his work with Depeche Mode, Yaz, and Erasure. He's announced that the next Erasure album (with out Andy Bell) will have a "much darker nature".

• Was the animated kid's movie Ratatouille a a coming out picture? That's the subject of a lecture being given today at UCLA with the title Queering Ratatouille: A Rat Reclaiming French Cuisine.

• Above you can see today's opening pitch in the Prop 8 hearings as Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights begins the oral arguments before the California Supreme Court. Minter spars with the questioning justices over whether Prop 8 is a valid way to change the state constitution, and what Prop 8 says about the rights of a group of citizens to be protected from a vote put to the majority. Unfortunately, the general consensus is that the hearings did not go well for us. The court has ninety days to rule.

• Finally, here are a couple of new websites that may spark your political interest. The newly launched Tell-Three asks visitors to "tell three people what it's like for you or your loved ones to be LGBT. Because we used to think coming out would win us our rights. Now we know it takes more than that." And the Human Rights Campaign has started End The Lies, which aims to "combat anti-LGBT lies spread by the right-wing".

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