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!

• Speculation about gay contestants on American Idol gets bigger and bigger as Danny Noriega gets cut.
• Project Runway's finale posted Bravo's best ratings 18-48. We not only spoke with winner Christian Siriano, but Chris March who came in fourth.
• Brent sacrificed himself to take a "revealing" look at the history or men's undies in the movies. Way to take one for the team, Brent! Then we both sacrificed ourselves by vlogging in our undies.
• The AfterElton Flying Monkey looked at bromances, gay subtext in cartoons and much more!
• Alec Baldwin discusses his younger, less talented, and and less good-looking younger brother's views on gay marriage.
• Of course, we recapped Torchwood even though there was no Janto action.)
• Max Mutchnick talked about Will & Grace, most notably not making straight people think about gay sex. Well, my!
• It turns out that Insightout Book Club isn't going out of business. Break out the bubbly!
• As the World Turns: Brian wonders if the show has jumped the shark and then ATWT proves him right by having Noah marry Ameera to keep her from being deported. If the Feds get wind of this, Noah might be joining his dad, Captain Pervy, in prison. Good times!
• Gay Ronnie is once again on the chopping block over on Make Me a Supermodel, but we'd bet anything he isn't going home. Prison Ben made up for last week's homophobic behavior by suggesting a little nuzzle with Ronnie. Now we forgive him.
• Cyndi Lauper's True Colors tour is back for a second go around this summer.
• The U.K.'s AXM magazine asked the gays who they find hot. Personally, I think our readers have much better taste!
• And don't forget our cornucopia of vlogs including That's Antertainment!, Angry Puppy, and Idol Chat
  
• And as usual, with the help of Nate Berkus, As the World Turns' scoop and guessing who is gay on Pushing Daisies, ee had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever!

Finally, last we asked you to caption this photo and promised we would pick the best answer to post today. And the winner is...

"You'll never guess what's in the Secret Sauce"

Congratulations to Moviedearest! Be sure to drop your caption ideas for this week's picture in the comments, and have a great weekend!

• The Toronto Star likes Tom Cavanagh's gay hockey player movie Breakfast with Scot.

• T.R. Knight talks turkey ... or rather, his lack thereof: "We believe that the Pilgrims and Indians had this nice meal together, but it's a lie. People were slaughtered."

• Scott Caan has already apologized for calling a paparazzo a "faggot". Crisis averted, guys. Now we can go back to forgetting that he still existed.

• On last night's Access Hollywood, Billy Bush told a newly-slim Liza that she was "hot and sexy" and she responded by freaking him in the lobby of the Carlyle. It's so good to see her back to normal!

• Dirty Sexy Henry: Eric Bana's King Himbo VIII (who is fought over by Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman) is reason enough to go see The Other Boleyn Girl, from what I can tell! Check out the AfterElton.com Hot 100 vet in the trailer below.

• Have you checked out Michael's weekly column or the first installment of our recappage of the gayest season yet of Project Runway? Well get to it, and have a great weekend!

• Need further proof that ABC's passing on Footballer's Wives is the greatest popular culture travesty so far this year? How about the above photo of Eddie Cibrian on Dirty Sexy Money. We could've seen him like that every single week. Not to mention the fact it would've also starred Lucy Lawless.
• Think "manorexia" is just a funny sounding word? Check out this post on Queerty and you'll think differently.
  
• Bad news gay TV fans: The Writers Guild of America is walking out on Monday. What do we want? Gay TV! When do we want it? Now! This is bad news for your favorite shows.
  

• Details writes something gay that isn't cliche? Who knew!
  
• Hellbent creator Paul Etheredge is the sick mind behind Buried Alive, a new, interactive daily webseries about six unfortunate people buried alive. I hear there's a lesbian lead and the first ep features a humpy fratboy in nothing but cargo shorts ... I could get into this.
  
• Montel Williams, whose gay visibility track record in recent years has been quite solid, is moving into movie production and taking his openness to gay storylines and characters with him: That's Amore is about "a gay Italian man who inadvertently finds himself engaged to a Jewish girl next door."
• AfterElton.com reader and frequent commenter David Ehrenstein wrote a piece about Barack Obama's recent anti-gay problems for The Los Angeles Times.
• I'm less-than-surprised that this German combination of Tchaikovsky, Brokeback Mountain, and opera was less-than-watchable.
• As I reported in this week's BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! Eric Winter is returning to Brothers & Sisters. Out in Hollywood's Greg Hernandez recently chatted with Eric about the demise of Viva Laughlin.
• That's it for us ... now dig into that leftover Halloween candy, be sure to read Michael's column, and have yourself the Best.Gay.Weekend.Ever!

• It's practically Mormon-palooza! First we've got the openly gay Todd Herzog on Survivor: China (debuting Thursday) and now we've got "Mormons Exposed" a calendar designed to help get rid of misconceptions about Mormons. I don't know if that'll happen, but at least I'll have a nice ice-break the next time they come knocking on my door.
• GLAAD tells Ja Rule they are so not down with his homophobic interview in Complex Magazine.
• No fair-minded person can look at JaRule’s interview with Complex Magazine and believe for one second that his children could be more harmed by what they might see on television than by the vulgarity and prejudice that comes out of their father’s mouth.
  

• Don't forget this week's BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! where I talk about Sunday night's Emmy awards and the DVD release of the first season of Brothers & Sisters which has Matthew Rhys shirtless! And that alone is worth the price as you can see.




• And after the jump, you'll find a promo for this week's episode of Torchwood!
  

These 3 guys will be the support team for our Gay Male Athlete in the final event of the Stereotype Olympics (shot in front of the audience), cheering him on to win the "Gay" event. MUST BE WILLING TO WEAR SOME VERSION OF A SKIMPY CHEERLEADING OUTFIT.

• Another poll (this one by CBS/Time) notes that young people are more pro-gay than older people. In related news: younger people more likely to listen to "that rock-it-to-me-sock-it-to-me music" and drive "horseless carriages".
  
• Isaiah Washington says there's no such thing as homophobe rehab. Unfortunately for him, there's also no such thing as complete career self-annihilation rehab. Unless you count Scientology.
• Ted-Haggard-toppling Mike Jones (and yes, there is an "l" in toppling, thank you) released a tell-all called I Had to Say Something. And here's an interview, in which he ... well ... says something.
• Andy over at Towleroad caught a screening of Hairspray (spoiler alert: he liked it!). Between his take and our own Christie Keith's rough-cut epiphany from a few months back, this is looking promising.
• A big AfterElton hug to our pal Greg Hernandez over at OutinHollywood, on the occasion of its first birthday. Is there an emoticon for "big decorated cookie"?
• And ... that's it, folks! Michael's out this week, so we're doing things East-Coast style and closing on my time. But if you haven't read it yet, first guest stint on the BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! column (complete with melodramatic rodent punctuation) should get you through the closing bell. Have a great weekend!

In this week's BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! column, I look at the recent spate of "gay" episodes on a variety of sitcoms. It seems like you can't turn on the TV without seeing something gay on The Office, The Knights of Prosperity, The Winner, George Lopez, and last week's Two and a Half Men. And they're not just gay (which is nice), but they avoid the "gay-panic" syndrome and even manage to acknowledge gay sexuality. (That sound was the Reverend Jerry Falwell ripping his Bible in two. Bwa ha ha!)

I also discuss Rebecca Romijn's thoughts on Jimmy Kimmel's sense of humor and talk about what's on TV this week, especially Tuesday's episode of Work Out where Jackie and the trainers learn just how dire Doug Blasdell's condition has become. But most importantly, I reveal a long held secret about myself--my alter ego is the superhero beloved around the world as AFTERELTON MAN! As everyone knows, AfterElton Man is devoted to eradicating homophobic stereotypes from television and film, spreading the news about positive gay movies, books, TV, and, of course, stalking John Barrowman and Cheyenne Jackson.

Like all superheros I have an "origination" story. One day as I busily worked on an article about Elton John and was watching a clip of him on YouTube, Brian, my trustworthy (if clumsy) associate editor, fetched me my daily iced grande soy mocha no whip. As Brian handed it to me, he made the mistake of reading what I'd written on the computer screen and it was so witty and hilarious that he couldn't help but laugh hysterically. That was when it happened.

He dropped the iced grand soy mocha no whip on the keyboard as I typed, thereby causing an electrical current to form between myself and the YouTube clip of Elton John in concert. Thus came about a melding of myself and Sir Elton (as clearly evidenced by my tasteful costume although, thankfully, I kept my own svelte physique!). Now whenever I encounter a straight actor whining about having to kiss another guy, a movie that erases gays from history, creepy gossip columnists, or plots to destroy the world, I instantly transform into AfterElton Man. Brandishing my yellow stick of "tolerance", I help them to see the light and mend their homophobic ways. (Universal Pictures has already signed me to a three picture deal!)

And you all thought I was just a mousy little editor! HA!

If you want to find out which superhero you are, check out Hero Machine, create your own superhero, then come back here and post it!

Thus endeth another week and the AfterElton crack team of Flying Monkeys is almost as relieved as Don Imus must be. I hope you've got nice weather headed your way, but Brian tells me so much rain is expected in New York that the animals are pairing off and looking for anyone named Noah. Might be a good weekend to stay in and watch Entourage which I explain in this week's BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! column is centered around Ari's (Jeremy Piven) out personal assistant Lloyd (Rex Lee). Check back on Monday for our short interview with Rex about what went down--or nearly so--on Sunday night's episode.

Sunday night you also get to meet Kevin's (Matthew Rhys) next love interest on Brothers & Sisters. He's played by Eric Winter and is Senator McCallister's younger brother. No same-sex kisses this episode, but there are fireworks. Oh, and Kevin continues to botch things up romantically. Sigh.