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

• The Pugliese Collection will be auctioning off a ridiculous number of pop culture items in Las Vegas next week. Gay-related items include the Wicked Witch's hat from The Wizard of Oz, enough Bob Mackie to choke a horse (or Cher), and much, much more.

• Thanks to the efforts of Luke and Noah fansites including vanhansis.net and lukeandnoah.com, the traditional press is really starting to cover the story including the Associated Press, the BBC, and CNN. Which isn't to say the coverage has been particularly thorough, and most Nuke fans aren't thrilled with it.

• Barry Humphries, better known as Dame Edna, is set to join John Barrowman on I'd Do Anything. That may sound like one of Fox's crap reality shows, but it's actually a British reality show that will cast a new stage version of Oliver!

• John Polly who does double duty interviewing Project Runwya's aufd contestants for us, recently interviewed the Sex and the City gals for NewNowNext. Cynthia Nixon talks about dating a woman, Kristin talks about how the shows hurt their feet, and Kim Cattrall talks about playing a gay man.

• Andy Towle of Towleroad talks with fillmaker John Krokidas, the gay man who, along with Bruce Cohen (American Beauty), created Hillary Clinton's viral ad featuring Jack Nicholson.

• Starting next week Paolo Andino and Jonny McGovern of Logo's (AfterElton.com's parent company) Big Gay Sketch Show will be bringing you a weekly vlog, but Paolo was so eager to make his AfterElton.com debut that he shanghaied his boyfriend into doing one this week!

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