AfterElton Briefs: Good News For Gaymers, Scott Evans on His FUB Status, Presenting Singer/Songwriter Kevin Wong, 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!

• After meeting with GLAAD Microsoft has finally decided to allow XBOX users to "use the following words to 'express their relationship orientation' in profiles and Gamertags; 'Lesbian', 'Gay', 'Bi', 'Transgender' and 'Straight'."

• Project 1138 launched today. The site is "designed to increase public awareness of the 1,138 federal marital benefits and protections denied to same-sex couples as the result of marriage inequality."

• Adam Lambert has tweeted the news that his song "Voodoo", which has only been available In the UK and Japan, will be included on the upcoming remix of his debut album.

• Speaking ot Twitter, Scott Evans had all of us FUB fans nervous when he tweeted some cryptic statements about his status on One Life To Live. Sensing our pain, today Scott set the record straight:

• Remember that letter John McCain liked to wave around from "over 1000 servicemen" who wanted to keep DADT? below you can see Rachel Maddow demolish it.

• Want to know how your state measures up when it comes to equality? Well now there's an easy way, and it's colorful!.

• We love introducing you to out singer/songwriters you may not have heard of, and I'm very pleased to blow the horn of Canadian Kevin Wong. His music is, well, beautiful, and you can hear for yourself by heading over to his MySpace page. My personal fav of his is "Legion of the Broken".

• Finally, to get you in the mood for the Big Event on Sunday, prepare for ... 29 Oscar Speeches in Two Minutes!.

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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! We picked this one because it provides a perfect capper to the Olympics.

"Gender test this, bitches."

Thanks to mleb for this week's winning caption.