AfterElton Briefs: Sir Elton John Hates Television, Nate Berkus' Ten Essentials, and Italian Haute Couture Boxing Trunks

Milano Thunder, the official Italian Boxing team

• Milano Thunder, the abtastic Italian boxing team, is dressed head to toe in Dolce & Gabanna. It makes sense, right?

• Goodbye, Mr. C. Happy Days' Tom Bosley passed away today after battling numerous health problems. He was 83.

• CBS premiered The Talk yesterday, and fast overnight ratings have it up 24% from As the World Turns 's ratings last October.

• You still have time to go shopping for something purple to wear on Spirit Day, which is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 20 and is intended to remember all the teens we've lost to suicide. GLAAD has a simple way you can purple-spirit your Twitter and Facebook avatars for the event.

• Our friends at BroadwayWorld.com have great photo coverage of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in Toronto. The set and and costumes look amazing.

Rainbow explosions! / Photo credit: Kelly Cameron for BroadwayWorld.com

• This music video from comic Bo Burnham is too racy for us, and should be considered NSFW to play. But what he does with the normal misogyny and homophobia in rap lyrics is slightly brilliant.

• Last night during The A List Logo had a live blog going on, and the dish online was as juicy as the dish onscreen. John Polly has a roundup of the hottest catfights.

• We've written about college wrestler (now coach) Hudson Taylor's gay rights activism before. He and his beautiful fiance Alexandra Mandaglio recently did a photoshoot with NOH8, and Outsports.com has the full set of photos.

There's something about a singlet.

• Sir Elton John says he wasn't interested in judging American Idol because television "It's become boring, arse-paralysingly brain crippling."

• Sir Elton also wants the gay joke removed from The Dilemma. The same man who said it was important to have a dialog with Rush Limbaugh says "Enough already!" I guess he doesn't think joking about our differences is as important as being a wedding singer.

• The principal at North High School intends to make an announcement about the homophobic chanting at the football game. There are too many students to suspend (I wasn't aware there was a limit). So the principal is going to make announcements on the PA. That sounds effective! Maybe she can fit it in before she tells them if the cafeteria has tater tots today.

• Neil Patrick Harris is confused by the stories about him and his children on Popeater, and wants you to know that they're just making things up. He likely does want the twins to have a "normal" life, version of normal to be defined after the fact. But that's just a guess on my part.

• Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendent that had us all briefly dreaming of quitting our jobs in a dramatic fashion has pled guilty to attempted criminal mischief, made restituion to the airline for the slide, and entered counseling as part of the terms for his probation.

• The staff that makes all of Logo possible wants you to know that it does indeed get better, and not just for famous people.

• The Pentagon has issued guidance to military recruiters that they must accept openly gay recruits, but should tell them the policy is subject to change without warning. Dan Choi is headed to the recruiting center in Times Square this afternoon to enlist in the Marines, the media in tow. Meanwhile, a new website is keeping track of the Enormous Consquences to the judge's ruling.

• Glee's Cory Monteith, Lea Michele, and Dianna Agron did a photospread for GQ in November. The pictures of the girls are racy to say the least (while Monteith remains clothed). Still, the actresses are not high schoolers, so I don't see a problem.

• Daytime's Nate Berkus shares a list of the Ten Essentials in his life, from a library in the home to Charvet knit ties to In-N-Out Burger. At least I can afford the burger.

• I blame snicks for sending me the unedited performance of Kim Zolciak of the Real Housewives of Atlanta performing "Tardy for the Party" at the White Party. There's just so much going on in this video that's so awful it's great. From her voice to the pointy crotches on the "dancers" undies, it's a campy delight. But I have done more than one circuit party in Palm Springs, and back in my day, this would not have been welcomed.

• Alan Cumming and friends will be performing a benefit for Fight Back New York October 24th at Joes Pub. Tickets are $50.

• Out Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford says that it's important, bullied or not, that we show love and support for everyone. He has a point, the big softy. But he also thinks we need to put in place better programs to prevent bullying when it occurs.

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