AfterElton Briefs: Lady Gaga Dominates VMAs, Stephen Colbert Might Be Gay, and What's In Damon Wayan, Jr.'s Sketch Book?

Plus does age make Tom Hardy's quotes less true, The Good Wife casts its gay, and Chris Colfer remains adorable.

I wonder if he'll come out the pool to eat his cupcake?

• snicks started the day off right with a Facebook album of birthday boy Ryan Lochte's more impressive photos. He's 26-years-old today, and it took him 25 of those years to grow out his trademark mop of hair.

• Lady Gaga topped the nomination for MTV's Video Music Awards with 13, a record, plus she became the first artist to ever have two videos up in the Video of the Year category, "Telephone" and "Bad Romance&quot.; She later released a statement about the nominations:

A long time ago the world told me and my little monsters we would never be heard, together we changed the rules. God put me on Earth for 3 reasons: To make loud music, gay videos, and cause a damn raucous. Thank You MTV!

• A reminder to our American readers, the Torchwood #1 comic, penned by John and Carole Barrowman releases in the United States tomorrow. The UK has had it for months.

• On Glee news that makes you smile, mostly because everything Chris Colfer says makes me smile, he talks about fame, his Emmy nod, and the Kurt-Finn issues.

• A new 500+ page report released today says it wasn't churches goers, and it wasn't the African-American community who changed their votes to pass Prop 8 and repeal same-sex marriage in California. It was parents with young children who responded to the fearmongering television ads in the last day.

• For no gay reason at all, check out hottie Paul Rudd back when he was supporting himself DJ'ing parties. His mop of hair rivals Ryan Lochte.

• Indiana Republican Jon Fussle didn't understand what all the fuss was about when he tweeted "Barebacking again in Northern Indiana... Oh my goodness I'm gonna be sore tomorrow!" His clarification was almost as funny.

• Last night Stephen Colbert took on GLAAD's failing grade for CBS in their Network Responsibility Index. It was good, but not quite a classic, until camerahunk Julian made his shirtless cameo.

• In between cuddles at Vancouver Pride out speed skater Blake Skjellerup talked about coming out, ending his first major gay relationship, and his training schedule. The he gave a very tall drag queen a cuddle.

• You can vote for the I'm From Driftwood gang once/day to win a $25,000 grant from Pepsi to help finance their 50 state fall tour. Plus, every time Pepsi does anything gay friendly, a fundie's head explode.

• Homo conservative Jessica Lee has an Op-Ed in today's Washington Blade that has to be experienced to be believed. The crux of it is that gays shouldn't have hate crime or employment protections because that means we don't have equality. In a just world, we'd make sure she never got laid again - the free market at work.

• Rachel Maddow takes on the Family Research Council's opposition to AmTrak doing any gay-specific travel advertising. I won't spoil any of her jokes, but she's totally my girl crush.

• I'm really at a loss to the windmill that Ted Casablanca is tilting at with his obsession with the Tom Hardy man-sex quotes. After readers here tracked them from Daily Mail to Now, Ted has tracked them to an Attitude interview for Hardy's RocknRolla promotional tour in 2008, in which he played a gay gangster. While the quotes are old, I still don't see them as being about the role. Does the age of the quotes make them any less relevant? Is anyone guilty of anything here, except the Daily Mail of bad journalism, which is nothing new?

• It's the 20th anniversary of "Queers Read This," the pamphlet that launched many of the radical queer organizations including Queer Nation.

• MoveOn.org has joined the movement to demand Target revise their political giving and promise to quit trying to buy elections. They'll hand deliver the petition when they get 150,000 signatures.

• The Good Wife has cast Alicia's gay brother and the winner is Dallas Roberts.

• And because it won't wait until tomorrow's Meme, the Northern Lights tonight are likely to be visible well south of the Arctic, even into the lower 48 states as a giant solar eruption hits the earth's atmosphere.

• Vulture got a fairly disturbing quote from Damon Wayans, Jr. at the premiere of The Other Guys about the off-camera pastimes on the movie.

[The cast] did exclusive drawings of each other doing, you know, homosexual acts and bestiality, stuff like that. And in the background would be whatever we’d be watching on TV while we were doing the acts. I drew Mark [Wahlberg] and Will [Ferrell] doing stand-up 69, and True Blood was playing in the background. But it was all in fun, you know.

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