AfterElton Briefs: Happy Birthday Adam, Gareth's Coming Out Party, Gay Singers Join Forces, and More!

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious. each Friday Briefs will also feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. We'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun! Drop your caption ideas in the comments, and check out last week's winner at the bottom of the page!

• If you happen to be in Washington D.C. Saturday you can witness drag queen history being made as local drag artist Shi-Queeta Lee and friends will be filming a flash-mob video. I can't wait to see it online.

• A very Happy Birthday to Adam Lambert! The out pop superstar turns 28 today.

• GLAAD took out an ad in Variety in the form of an open letter to Grammy officials to use Sunday's "award celebration to denounce songs and artists that promote bias-motivated violence",and now mainstream news outlets are finally reporting on the Buju Banton story.

• In gossip "news", The sequel to Sex & the City won't be in theaters for three more months,but rumor is that producers want to start filming the next sequel immediately. Why? Because the stars are aging.

• More Birthday wishes! Happy 50th to out Olympian Greg Louganis, and happy 25th to out Survivor Season 15 winner Todd Herzog.

• Out rugby God Gareth Thomas held a coming-out party to thank all of his friends and supporters. The guest list included Sir Ian McKellen, Will Young and Graham Norton.

• Out singer/songwriters Matt Alber and Tom Goss will be joining forces to play several D.C. are shows next week.

Matt Alber/Tom Goss

• Speaking of forces uniting, Ugly Betty stars Michael Urie and Becki Newton will be appearing on stage together next month, and tickets are now available.

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

Drop your caption ideas in the comments (And please remember to keep the captions PG-13!), and check out last week's winner below!

Thanks to everyone for participating! More great entries, but the winner is ...

"...99...100! Coming, ready or- Oh for the love of kibble, for the seventeenth time, you are NOT invisible!"

Thanks to Only_Tony for this week's winning caption.