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AfterElton Briefs: President Obama makes it official, "Trauma" is saved by the gay, and more!

President Obama signs the Department of Defense Authorization Bill, which contains the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hates Crimes Prevention Bill, into law.

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.

  • Gay reporter sprite Michael Ausiello has news about an upheaval behind the scenes of Brothers & Sisters. Stay tuned!
  • Yesterday in the Briefs Alan Ball teased about the upcoming season of True Blood, but our favorite sprite has the down and dirty spoilers for next year. Here's a hint — lots of eye candy.
  • Today President Obama signed the Hate Crimes Bill into law, but as you can see from the heartbreaking video below, it probably wouldn't have helped Jimmy Wheeler.

  • NBC's Trauma was on the precipice of cancellation until this week's Halloween coming-out episode earned it a slight uptick in ratings, thus guaranteeing it at least three more weeks on air.

It's all their fault!

  • We knew that The Golden Girls was a television classic, but according to Christwire.org, it "Turned A Generation Of American Boys Into Homosexuals". Hmm ... and here I thought it was American Gladiators. *BTW, there is much debate about this, but I think it's fairly obvious that Christwire is a satirical website, ala TheOnion or LandoverBaptist).
  • The winners of the GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising were announced today, and taking the top prize for Mainstream Ad was the Orbitz "Golfers" commercial.

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

This guy!

British karate star Simon Howard. Hi-Ya!

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  • Joseph's picture

    This Guy!!

    First one I've liked in quite awhile! Thank you!
    Reality_Check's picture

    Woof!!!!

    Really nice man-fur.  Let it grow-less grooming....

    Reality_Check's picture

    Woof!!!!

    sorry - another unintentional dupe post...

    Ed Kennedy's picture

    Oh, my!

    You really are declaring a Hot Briefs Guy War, aren't you? I need to step away from my themes and step up the heat. I hope Michael's heart can take it.
    woodroad34's picture

    English guys sure are

    English guys sure are getting sexier and sexier!

     BTW, I tried to link to Christwire.com at work but I was blocked from it.  The reason given was that it was "tasteless"!

    Liz T's picture

    tsk, is that judy.....

    tsk, is that judy shephard behind those two men on the right? gosh, that woman should be up front and damn center, besides Obama.

    anyway, good for Obama. :-)

    netogeno's picture

    Amazing briefs guy!

    Pure hotness. Thank you! I needed that today.
    beero's picture

    That pose

    Is so Jarvis Cocker circa 1997.
    Oracle's picture

    Hairy like Animal!

    Nice. Mr. Howard's chest hair pattern is enthralling. It's like one of those hidden picture thingies.

    Actually, I'm pretty sure Thundercats cartoons made me gay as a boy. The Golden Girls just give me six hours worth of reruns to watch every single day as an adult gay male. ;Þ

    Madeleine's picture

    Can someone explain?

    Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't really get why the "Golfers" commercial won.

    As for Obama...FINALLY!

    And I generally don't like hairy guys but that briefs guy is HOT!

    You too can be saved by the blog! www.savedbytheblog14.blogspot.com 

    I may be straight, but I'm not narrow.

    monica_ca's picture

    Not sure how accurate this is

    But I read somewhere that seemed to indicate that the reason the winning commercial won was simply because it had the HRC logo in the ad. Which made no real sense to me...so I feel like I must have misread or misunderstood it (but for the life of me, I can't remember where I read it to go back and reread it).
    triryche3's picture

    IIrc

    It has the HRC logo, the guys golf bag is a rainbow, & maybe something else (can't remember). Also the fact it was there, but not there, just was. Not in your face I mean.
    Madeleine's picture

    Hmmm

    yeah I saw the rainbow, and I figured these guys were gay, but seemed WAY too subtle for me. There's a difference between "not in your face" and "not there at all"

    You too can be saved by the blog! www.savedbytheblog14.blogspot.com 

    I may be straight, but I'm not narrow.

    Mia's picture

    B&S and Trauma

    First of all I just wanna say that any change in Brothers & Sisters, especially when it comes to the writers, is good. It can't get much worse than it is right now.

    I am glad President Obama is finally signing the hate crimes bill. It should have been done a long time ago..

    Trauma is actually a pretty decent show IMO. Much better than most of the other crap they show on tv these days. I'm glad it got renewed, even if it's just for a few episodes for now. Maybe it will pick up the ratings in the upcoming weeks, you never know. And btw, that coming out episode was one of the best ones I've seen. Should be interesting to see where Tyler goes from here.

     

     

    Harvey Milk: You gotta give 'em hope.

    kuhnsy's picture

    Christwire.org

    Whether it's satirical or  not, christwire.org is blocked by my office's filter.  Wonder what that means?
    Matt 's picture

    Simon Howard

    Snicks - SNAPS on the Simon Howard, WOOF! is about right... That would be nice to snuggle up with on a cold winters night! 

     

    "LIVE! LIVE! LIVE!  Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Mame Dennis Burnside - Auntie Mame 1958 

    Matt 's picture

    Simon Howard

    And there are a lot of cold winter nights here in Northeastern Ohio!!!!

    "LIVE! LIVE! LIVE!  Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Mame Dennis Burnside - Auntie Mame 1958 

    belinda's picture

    wow....

     

    Hairy guy again for today briefs guy.(British men always sexier (* _ *).)