AfterElton Briefs: Another gay celebrity break-up, Tom Cruise is dissed by Balki, and more!

Neil Patrick Harris performing at the 5th Annual Project Angel Food Dinner in Hollywood, California

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.

• Remember that brouhaha with the Muslim and gay soccer teams? Here's an accounting of the media firestorm that erupted.

• Above, you can see the ever delightful Pat Robertson informing his legion of leeches that gays don't really want to get married ... they just want to destroy marriage, and America! Damn, he's found us out!

• Now this is juicy! Actor Bronson Pinchot chats with theavclub.com about his 80's roles, and he dishes the dirt on his former co-stars, including a then twenty-year-old Tom Cruise, who Bronson says would wander the set of Risky Business spouting homophobic non-sequiturs.

• Above, you can see Rachel Maddow chatting with Jesse Connolly, the campaign manager for Maine's "No on 1" drive.

• The late Stephen Gately's record label has officially added a complaint to the tens of thousands already lodged against Jan Moir's horrific column.

• Gay reporter sprite Michael Ausiello is reporting that one of the characters being offed during the Desperate Housewives November sweeps "neighborhood plane crash" may be one of the gay guys. Or ... may not be.

• Sadly, It looks as though the reports of the breakup of Rosie O'Donnell's marriage may be true.

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