AfterElton Briefs: Tennis Gets Filthy, Celebrating Harvey, Adam on Ellen, and More!

Plus more on Sweet Tea, That footie player runs his mouth again, and Marc Jacobs has a big "bang" for you.

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!

Novak

• This weekend marks the beginning of The French Open aka Roland Garros, with my FederBear the defending champion. Who will win on the clay this year? Rafael Nadal? Probably. Federbear? Possibly. Andy Murray? Not bloody likely. Or could it be birthday boy Novak Djokovic, who turns 23 this weekend? And what about the women? Serena? Or possibly un-retired Justine Henin? In any event, tennis fans rejoice!

• We've discussed the play Sweet Tea before, and now you can hear an audio interview with writer E. Patrick Johnson about bringing these stories of gay black men in the south to the stage. (t/y to GayTVluver)

• We've mentioned the sad and infuriating case of the fake "hockey kid" Mikey, and now Outsports has the definitive take, Anatomy of a Deception.

• Adam Lambert showed up on The Ellen Degeneres Show this week and admitted to liking a cockatoo. I said it because they refused.

• A turd by any other name still stinks.

• Jason Akermanis keeps putting his footy in his mouth. He's defending his comments by attacking the gay athletes who called him out on it: ""There's articles everywhere written from these guys and all of them, of course, are gay so they think they know everything and they know more."

• Tomorrow marks what would have been the 80th birthday of Harvey Milk and the first observance in California of Harvey Milk Day. USA Today has a look at how other cities will mark the occasion.

• Finally, below you can see Marc Jacobs advertising his new fragrance "Bang". Um ....

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! The winner this week is ...

"Oh, Honey. Even abs like that won't distract from a headband."

Thanks to mecdangers for this week's winning caption.