This week, Marc and Lee talk about their visit to Comic Con in New York (which had more attendees than there are survivors on Batttlestar Galactica!), news for gay metalheads, domestic partner benefits for super heroes, Manazon, their final uncensored thoughts on Torchwood's second season and a whole lot more! Watch now!

Anthony and Tim, now with less of the girl in the middle

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual 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.

• Utterly adorable Australian actor Tim Campbell has confirmed that he and utterly adorable Australian Idol Anthony Callea are indeed an item. Utterly adorable joint kitten adoption/civil ceremony/tandem memoir to follow.

• Out Judas Priest frontman Rob Halpert is encouraging his gay metal-head fans to come out, rock harder.

• Send your own gay Ugly Betty valentine! Because nothing says "I'll Love You Forever" than calling someone "sweet cheeks".

• This underwhelming Valentine's-related gallery of kissing celebrities features a ton of straight couples smooching but not a single man-man romantic kiss, unless you count noted heterosexual kissing straight-as-nails Billy Crystal. Sigh.

• Rent, the Broadway juggernaut slated to close this summer, opened 16 years ago today.

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Metalheads gay and straight got the chance to bow down before the Metal God in Toronto last weekend at the North by Northeast Music and Film Festival, and my friend, photographer/videographer Clint Gilders from Club Kingsnake, was there and shared his impressions and some great photos and video clips with us.

The Metal God is, of course, out gay heavy metal legend Rob Halford, lead singer of iconic metal band Judas Priest. Halford's homosexuality was an open secret in the music world for years, but in 1998 he made if official, coming out in an interview on MTV.

For those who don't follow the metal scene -- and that would include me, I'm more of an alternative/indie kind of gal -- Halford is credited as being the first artist to really bring metal out of the underground and into the mainstream. He was also the first leather-garbed, Harley-straddling metal star, and his image has gone on to be adopted by a generation of metal-god-wannabes.