What I'm thankful for in gay entertainment this year, in no particular order:

Neil Patrick Harris on "How I Met Your Mother" – One of the most underrated shows on TV and also one of my favorites. NPH deserves oodles of awards for his scene-stealing role as the self-centered, womanizing (yet still totally lovable) Barney. It’s a performance that’s legen... wait for it... dary!

Alex Sanchez’s The God Box – I’ve been on a gay young adult fiction kick recently and just finished Sanchez’s latest. I'm a big fan of his Rainbow Boys series, so my expectations were high going into this one. It didn’t disappoint. I’m always impressed at how well Sanchez is able to blend education and entertainment in his novels without ever making the reader feel as though they're being beaten over the head with the nutritious stuff.

Ugly Betty- Much has been written about the show on this site, so I’ll just say that I adore it. It’s the gayest show currently on network television and the most consistently entertaining.

Enchanted – I cannot wait to see this movie. I know it’s not technically gay, but it might as well be: For once Disney is actually poking fun at itself; the adorable Amy Adams (who’s consistently fantastic in every movie she’s in – just watch her Oscar-nominated performance in Junebug and tell me she doesn’t break your heart) plays an animated princess who gets transported to real-life New York City; it’s a musical; James Marsden plays prince charming, sings, and looks damn good doing it; and Susan Sarandon looks like she's having the time of her life chewing the scenery as the evil drag queen Narissa.

Gay Film Festivals – For the past few years, I've been attending my local gay film fest. It's always tons of fun and my moviegoing year wouldn't be half as gay without it. There's something heartening about being in an audience of GLBT people and seeing our own stories played out on the big screen. True, independent gay cinema is notorious for having more than it's share of awful films, but the fun is digging up the gems of the bunch. This year, my favorites included: The Bubble, For the Bible Tells Me So, The King and the Clown, Red Without Blue, and The Curiosity of Chance.

And finally, I’m thankful for my wonderful boyfriend, Matt. Hey, he entertains me, so I say he counts.

Brent and Michael are back with a new feature: the Passing Judgment video blog. In this variation on their usual vlog, the fellas get all Olympic (in the mythological sense) on I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Ugly Betty, and new gay young adult novel The God Box. Will they crown these gay entertainments with laurels, or zap them with Thor's thunderclap?