As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• Steven Frank recapped the big gay season finale of Brothers & Sisters.
• And in honor of the big gay wedding on B&S, we looked at the history of gay weddings in movies and television.
• We brought you the week's Gay Geek. Comics, genre TV, games, and more!
• We looked at five of the funniest television coming-out scenes.
• In gay soaps news ... Over on As the World Turns Luke caught Ameera dialing for dollars, and confronted her on it. Meanwhile, the lovable Germans of Forbidden Love nearly went public with their relationship ... but things got complicated. And over on Hollyoaks, John-Paul and Kieron nearly blew their cover.
• We interviewed fabulous, out Dancing with the Stars judge Bruno Tonioni.
• We unearthed the gay contestant on the coming season of The Mole.
• We brought you Grand Theft Auto IV's two gay storylines.
• Did How I Met Your Mother make a gay gaffe?
• We also introduced the two out designers on the upcoming season of HGTV's Design Star.
• The 2008 Tony nominations were announced, and we rounded up the gay nods.
  
• Swing Vote goes for the gay humor in their new teaser.
• Out Degrassi actor Adamo Ruggiero will be hosting a kids' talent competition show.
• RuPaul's Drag Race will search for the next drag superstar.
• We covered the red carpet of the San Fran GLAAD Media Awards.
• Over on Greek, Calvin met his new love interest, played by Max Greenfield.
• Step It Up & Dance actually gained a gay contestant, and let its dancers dance, for once.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
• Spain's Operacion Triunfo singing competition has a front-and-center gay contestant, who shared a romantic kiss with his husband on-air.
• Vlogs!: The Angry Puppy fellas chatted about their Hot Geek 10, Jim and Penny discussed the final four on Idol Chat, and Alex sat down (in bathrobes) with Naked Highway on Homophonic. Japhy played "Fierce or Hot Mess?" on Flaming Politics, The Gay Agenda advised Hillary to hang it up, and the Suck It Up & Dance boys did the Mashed Potato with a dancer from Broadway's Hairspray.
• Associate Editor Dennis covered this week's Best.Gay.Week.Ever. column as Michael has been out following an unexpected family loss. Our thoughts are with him and his family, and we look forward to having him back next week.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• As usual, we recapped the latest Brothers & Sisters. (courtesy of snicks!)
• Men in Trees got the axe. (Get it? Trees? Axe? Thanks, I'm here all week...)
• Our Week in Gay Geek blog feature is now a weekly front-page article, The Gay Geek. Check out the premiere issue!
• The Future Housewives of New York City Gossip Girl has a gay! Two, even!
• In gay soaps news ... Over on As the World Turns we had the long-awaited return of Noah's homophobic, murderous father (come on, ANYTHING to make this story interesting is an improvement!). But in the InTurn online reality show, the straight boys balked at their gay kiss challenge, and one of them went home as a result! Meanwhile, the lovable Germans of Forbidden Love dropped by but didn't have much to do until Olivia got drunk and wound up in bed with them. And over on Hollyoaks, things are heating up between John-Paul and Kieron.
• We kicked off the NewNowNext Awards with a special category, Best Gay TV Kiss.
• Oh, by the way? We still love us some Betty.
• We interviewed irrereverent, hilarious, and quite gay television comic Graham Norton.
• Just when you thought musicals couldn't get any gayer: Were the World Mine.
• John Waters, Parker Posey, gay dads, and fruitcake? Sign us up!
• We reviewed Robert Gant's gay spy thriller, Kiss Me Deadly.
• In honor of the gay Grey's episode, we presented a list of 10 gay TV military men.
• And in case you missed that Grey's Anatomy episode, here's our recap and clips of the gay scenes.
• We chatted up Brothers & Sisters (and thirtysomething) masterminds Ken Olin and David Marshall Grant.
• The hot gay cops of French drama Les Bleus dealt with the tragic blow dealt to them in the last clips, but they saved even more twists for the season finale.
• Step It Up & Dance is losing gay contestants faster than Bush is losing approval points!
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
• We got exclusive word that Calvin and Michael will mark Greek's first gay kiss in just a few weeks.
• Hey, Ma! In honor of Mother's Day, some of our favorite gay moms (real and imagined).
• Vlogs!: We were thrilled to launch our new gay musicians vlog, Homophonic. Japhy answered viewer questions on Flaming Politics, The Gay Agenda talked about gay marriage and Reverend Wright, and the Suck It Up & Dance boys featured a visit from Mr. Broadway.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• As usual, we recapped the latest Brothers & Sisters.
• The LA edition of the GLAAD Media Awards was just as star-spangled as ever.
• We interviewed gay folk singer/songwriter Gregory Douglass.
• We discussed the recent NYT piece on young gay marrieds.
• In gay soaps news ... Over in Oakdale, As the World Turns' Luke finally grew the 'nards to stand up to his boyfriend's sham marriage. Meanwhile, the lovable Germans of Forbidden Love dropped by a few times, and we got a peek at the beginning of their storyline. And over on Hollyoaks, John-Paul and Kieron made a long-awaited return.
• 20/20's gay PDA "What Would You Do?" segment exposed some interesting truths about attitudes towards gay people in various cities.
• We covered the second annual Mr. Broadway beauty pageant.
• Our pal John Polly interviewed Augusten Burroughs about his new book, A Wolf at the Table, and we reviewed the book (along with a few others) in our monthly book column.
• We got our first look at the hotly anticipated American version of Little Britain.
• Openly bisexual James won the audience prize, making this season's Big Brother slightly less than a total loss for gay visiibility. (But can we please get a queer reality show contestant who doesn't have a porn past?!)
• Van Hansis, who plays gay teen Luke on As the World Turns, scored a Daytime Emmy nomination. Like we were expecting otherwise!
• We giddily announced the opening of the polls for the second annual AfterElton.com Hot 100, a completely reader-driven survey of whom gay and bi men find the hottest.
• Queer as Folk alum Gale Harold will be arriving on Wisteria Lane in the Desperate Housewives finale. Gentlemen (and fangirls), start your slashfic.
• We chatted with out musician Evan Cowden.
• The hot gay cops of French drama Les Bleus were friskier than ever in this week's first set of clips, but then tragedy struck.
• Sir Elton John ramped up for the opening of Billy Elliot on Broadway and introduced the three talented young leads.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions about Brothers & Sisters, Sex and the City, and more.
• One of the gay boys stepped off Step It Up & Dance.
• Vlogs!: Japhy tackled religion on Flaming Politics, Jim and Penny brought more Idol Chat, the Suck It Up & Dance boys interviewed the show's hoofers ... in zombie makeup, and the Angry Puppy boys talked Speed Racer, sci-fi television, and much more.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• The brilliant Steven Frank recapped the also not-so-shabby finale of Torchwood.
• We interviewed Christian television host Azariah Southworth, who came out publicly as gay last week.
• VH1's Viva Hollywood! had one of the most gay-panicky episodes in the history of reality television, courtesy of resident homophobe Vinci.
• British mesmerist/television host Derren Brown came out as gay to the big UK tabs.
• Brothers & Sisters recappage made its long-awaited return, courtesy of Dennis.
• In gay soaps news ... Over in Oakdale, As the World Turns' Luke and Noah actually kissed, after over 200 days of drymouth. Meanwhile, the lovable Germans of Forbidden Love appeared today, and we'll post the clips when they're live. .
• The Angry Puppy boys checked out NY Comic Con, and weren't too thrilled with the gay offerings.
• Snicks recapped this week's Law & Order: SVU episode about a gay football player, and Lyle updated us on the Gossip Girl gay. Meanwhile, Supernatural got into the gay action with an episode involving a gay ghost hunter and the power of gay love "to save the day".
• We interviewed Gay Greg from Beauty and the Geek. We miss you, Greggy-pooh!
• The gay-filled Hamlet 2 trailer rocked us, rocked us, rocked us, sexy Jesus.
• The gay contestants on Step It Up & Dance had to find their inner garbage-can-banger. Did they make it to the next round?
• We took a look at the most notorious gay urban legends, where they came from, and what they say about society's view of gay men.
• Out star Neil Patrick Harris took the media by storm to promote his new movie, and in the process opened up to Howard Stern about his love life.
• We posted some great preview pics from the upcoming Brothers & Sisters gay wedding season finale.
• The gross-out competition show Kenny vs. Spenny will be airing an episode that challenges them to get a gay guy to like them most, to pretty awesome results.
• Ang Lee is back to gay movie territory with Taking Woodstock, with GLAAD-award-winning producing and writing partner James Schamus at his side.
• Today was the 12th annual National Day of Silence to protest anti-gay bullying, and celebs from T.R. Knight to Lance Bass to Larry King came forward to support the cause.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
• We brought some more got gay French cop action with two more sets of clips from Les Bleus (here and here).
• Vlogs!: Japhy talked Pennsylvania on Flaming Politics, the Suck It Up & Dance! boys found their inner "street" and got a dance lesson from a Broadway hottie, Two Gay Guys were (Indiana) Jonesing for gay heroes, Jim and Penny's Idol Chat dished on the lucky seven, and the Angry Puppy boys talked Torchwood, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Jenna Jameson.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• As usual, we recapped the latest Torchwood. Be sure to check back Monday for the recap of the season finale!
• We spotted some gay goings-on in the As the World Turns InTurn web reality series.
• In light of the "mango" on Dancing With the Stars, we looked at our recent interview with the folks behind the show, who have said they're open to a same-sex dancing pair.
• In gay soaps news, the lovable Germans of Forbidden Love kissed once and kissed twice, and kissed once again. Over in Oakdale, As the World Turns' Luke and Noah fought about Ameera, but we thought the Henry/Brad bromance was far more satisfying.
• Brothers & Sisters actor Luke MacFarlane came out publicly as gay, and we couldn't be happier for him.
• The new season of Work Out premiered, and we interviewed new gay massage therapist JD, along with gay trainer Jesse Brune.
• We took a look at Logo's gay rugby documentary series, Go Dragons!
• Out actor Denis O'Hare landed a lead in a promising drama pilot, and Firefly's Alan Tudyk landed the gay role in the untitled Mutchnick/Johan sitcom project.
• We took an in-depth look at South Park's considerable contributions to gay visibility.
• Local fave Cheyenne Jackson joined the cast of upcoming gay indie Shifting the Canvas.
• We looked at the ups and downs of Saturday Night Live's gay track record.
• Our gays were safe from elimination on Step It Up & Dance.
• We were totally bummed to see Gay Greg eliminated from Beauty and the Geek, but at least he made friends and didn't screw anything up.
• We weren't throwing any rice for Kiss the Bride.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
• We launched coverage of French cop drama Les Bleus, with handy-dandy subtitled clippage of the relationship between hot gay cops Kevin and Yann. (check back Monday for more!)
• Vlogs!: Japhy talked rural America on Flaming Politics, the Suck It Up & Dance! boys had a surprise visit from Mario Lopez, Two Gay Guys asked why late night comics find gays so darn funny, and The Gay Agenda talked gay marriage and taxes, and the Angry Puppy boys brought the geek talk.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• We recapped the latest Torchwood. (And I hear tomorrow night's is a doozy!)
• Charlton Heston: Dead.
• In a special two-part investigative report, we went to the sources to find out what's going on with gay visibility on television: the network heads, and the creators and showrunners.
• In gay soaps news, we went gaga over German soap Verbotene Liebe, and Luke and Noah got shirtless and jumped on the bed like four-year-olds on a sugar bender. Meanwhile, LOGO's Sordid Lives: The Series released a premiere date and an insane trailer, and camp legend Julie Brown joined the cast of Paradise Falls.
• Project Runway jumped gay ship for Lifetime. Can they make it work?
• We took a look at how distribution is changing for gay films, and what it means for audiences.
• We asked what the eff The Advocate was thinking with their cover story on the Lawrence King murder.
• Hillary Clinton pledged to end inequalities for gays at the federal level when she visited Ellen DeGeneres, the aptly-christened Most Powerful Gay-Type Person in America.
• We listed ten of the best straight songs about gay men.
• Greek had an extra-gay episode this week, with Calvin and Dale battling it out over gay aversion therapy (and an added dose of hot beefcake).
• Is the "Rickroll" homophobic trickle-down?
• In gay reality: Gay Greggie went from Geek to chic, and one of the gay fellas on Step It Up and Dance sashayed right out the door.
• The Flying Monkey hunted down the answers to some reader questions.
• Gay producer (and cutie-patootie) Bryan Fuller revealed to us just who the gay recurring character on Pushing Daisies is. Did you guess right?
• Vlogs!: Our new vlog, Suck It Up & Dance, hit the ground running, pirouetting, and doing that funny Nomi Malone hand-flicking thing. Japhy got personal on Flaming Politics, Jim and Penny dished on the top nine on Idol Chat, and The Gay Agenda interviewed the journalist who interviewed Obama for The Advocate.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• As usual, we recapped the latest Torchwood.
• We interviewed the man behind the As the World Turns "kiss ban" media blitz.
• We asked, Which Supermodel are You? And then, for good measure, we asked, Which Torchwood Character are You?
• We interviewed Men In Trees star and comic Mario Cantone.
• Uberhumpy Cheyenne Jackson landed an Advocate cover and revealed his thing for men who like spinach.
• Has Animal Planet jumped the Schnauzer with the Jai Rodriguez-hosted Groomer Has It?
• We snagged some great new pics of Kevin and Scotty in their finest toggery from the upcoming Brothers & Sisters finale.
• We gave a preview of what's gay in the returning spring television season.
• Jay Leno apologized for his "gayest look" interview with Ryan Phillippe, but we're still waiting for a mea culpa from David Letterman.
• We took a look at the people on Gayborhood.tv.
• Gay Ronnie didn't win Make Me a Supermodel, but he still did real good by us.
• We ran an April Fool's story about T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl splitting up. Nyuk nyuk.
• If a gay Big Brother contestant is evicted and nobody is there to hear it, does it mean we don't have to talk about him anymore?
• We interviewed Ben and Ronnie from Supermodel about their much-lauded bromance, the other models, and much much more.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
• We interviewed Broadway choreographer Jerry Mitchell about his new reality competition, Step It Up and Dance!, which we also recapped in all its campy, Nomi Malone-soaked glory.
• Vlogs!: Japhy got all up in Hills' grill on Flaming Politics, Jim and Penny brought more Idol Chat, and The Gay Agenda talked gay marriage and taxes, and the Angry Puppy boys got their geek on.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

• As usual, we recapped the latest Torchwood.
• We learned that Gossip Girl is getting gayer, but no one knows which character. Gossip, girls!
• We interviewed Patrick Sean Smith, the creator of Greek, about the new season.
• We found a hot clip from an upcoming Torchwood.
• Gay guinea pigs! Or, rather, a children's book about them and the ensuing controversy.
• We found a French cop show with a gay lead that actually gets to, like, date and stuff!
• The criminally fabulous Simon Doonan's Britcom is on its way.
• More homophobic taunts in the hip-hop community. Will it ever end?
• We uncovered a "gay episode" of a cop show from 1990, which is available for your viewing pleasure online.
• MTV's Human Giant sketch show got gay ... and porny!
• Meanwhile, Gay Ronnie over on Make Me a Supermodel survived elimination again and made it to the final challenge, which was the nakedest yet.
• Reaper introduced the cutest gay demon couple in television history.
• We profiled six gay geeks who have changed the pop culture landscape.
• We interviewed gay theatre legend Harvey Fierstien about his new gay-inclusive Broadway show.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions.
• We really liked Shelter, the new "gay surfer movie."
• George Michael made an impressive guest appearance on Eli Stone that involved more than lip-synching and making fun of himself.
• Vlogs!: ANT went cruising (in a good way) on That's ANTertainment!, Jim and Penny brought more Idol Chat, and The Gay Agenda talked gay marriage and taxes.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

• As usual, we recapped the latest Torchwood.
• We won a GLAAD Media Award! So did a bunch of other folks.
• Jonah Hill got gay on SNL.
• Neil Patrick Harris and Buffy creator Joss Whedon suit up for an online musical.
• We celebrated the hunk o' the Irish (ten of them, actually!) for St. Patty's Day.
• A new gay movie, For Better or for Worse, was announced.
• We asked if Jimmy Kimmel's gay jokes are problematic.
• We dug into T.R. Knight's dark, carbonated soda commercial past.
• We celebrated some of our favorite television superheroines.
• Will Kevin and Scotty get domestic partnered for not necessarily the rightest of reasons? Do we mind, as long as it means Luke MacFarlane will be back next season?
• Meanwhile, Gay Ronnie over on Make Me a Supermodel survived elimination again and made it to the final challenge, which was the nakedest yet.
• We reviewed a variety of new gay books.
• As the World Turns still has gays on it, but the attention the show got at the GLAAD Awards was far more dramatic than anything that happened on this week's sole Nuke episode.
• Steven Frank wrote a hilarious piece on the Evolution of Gay Television Characters and the latest species, Homo Sloppian.
• The Flying Monkey was back to answer reader questions, and The Week in Gay Geek recapped all that was ... well, geeky.
• Lost confirmed that a returning character is defs gay.
• Vlogs!: Jim and Penny got their Idol Chat on, Flaming Politics took on hate and answered reader comments, and The Gay Agenda sang the praises of Barack Obama's recent "race speech".
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!

• Celebrities like T.R. Knight, Portia deRossi and more joined with GLSEN to create this PSA about anti-gay violence in the wake of the murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King.
• We interviewed Project Runway runner-up/drapemaster Rami Kashou.
• Former Baywatch hunk Jaason Simmons comes out as gay, a husband, and an adoptive dad.
• We reviewed the new Broadway revival of gay playwright Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Terrence Howard as Brick.
• Liza turned 62. Not that it matters to us, of course.
• We answered some of your questions in the Ask the Monkey feature, and of course recapped the latest episode of Torchwood.
• The first gay contestant on Beauty and the Geek did pretty well for himself, unintended hot tub session notwithstanding.
• Meanwhile, Gay Ronnie over on Make Me a Supermodel found himself in the bottom once again.
• We interviewed Nate Berkus, the out host of Oprah's Big Give.
• As the World Turns had a gay wedding ... with only one gay participant.
• Gay Robot somehow found its way to television screens at an 11-minute animated "comedy".
• We ran a review and a look back at the 2003 drag comedy Girls Will Be Girls.
• Ellen DeGeneres had her gayest show yet.
• Vlogs!: The Heidi Chronicles wrapped on a fierce note, That's ANTertainment! got sporty (and spicy), Paolo and Jonny launched The Big Gay Vlog, Two Gay Guys talked about aging, Flaming Politics focused on gay marriage, the Angry Puppy boys focused on bad casting, and The Gay Agenda asked what the hell we did to make Sally Kern so angry at us.
• And as usual, we had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever.

Drop your caption ideas in the comments, check out last week's winner after the jump, and have a great weekend!