AfterElton Briefs: Beauty Pageant Smackdown, Gays Protesting Gays, and More!

Tom Ford and Neil Patrick Harris attend the GQ "Men of the Year" awards last night in Hollywood.

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.

• Via Towleroad comes this horrifying report about a gay high school student chased and beaten by a gang of classmates. The kicker? He told the school principal and bus driver it was going to happen ... and they did nothing to stop it.

And a partridge in a pear tree

• I know people are getting up-in-arms about Mariah Carey's list of demands to turn on some Christmas lights, and it's too bad they didn't ask me. All I would have required would be a case of Yoo-Hoo, a Baja Beef Chalupa from Taco Bell, and maybe a lap dance from one of those Twilight guys.

• Chaz Bono appeared on Good Morning America this morning to discuss his transition. He says it's the best decision he's ever made.

• Above you can see Ava Simoes, the winner of Miss Brazil Gay 2009, as she celebrates her crowning. Unfortunately the runner-up was ... none too pleased. I hope this was staged, but I fear it's not. Seriously, who does she think she is ... a female soccer player?

• Can't we all just get along? Now what do you say we join hands and sing a chorus of Abraham, Martn and John?

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