Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears is telling Tales

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.

• It looks like that rumored Tales of the City musical we mentioned a few months back has become a beautiful reality. The "large-scale" show, based on the first of Armistead Maupin's classic books, will hit the Great White Way in the 2009 season courtesy of Avenue Q bookwriter Jeff Whitty and Scissor Sisters' Jason Sellards (better known as Jake Shears) and John Garden.

• GLAAD has teamed with the gayest non-gay net out there, Bravo, to air the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards later this year. This marks the first time the awards will be broadcast on a fully distributed national cable channel.

• The gays like John Krasisnski, and he likes them right back.

• The Lambda Literary Foundation announced the nominees for its awards recognizing excellence in gay books, and our own Brent Hartinger is among the nominees for his young adult double-novella, Split Screen (in the Bisexual category). Congrats, Brent!

• Hey, Pushing Daisies fans! Our own Dan is out at the Paley Fest and has lots of fun updates on the show (including pics of out creator Bryan Fuller and the delightful cast) over on his site, The Pie Maker.

• The Advertising Standards Authority rejected the 54 complaints filed against the UK "Some people are gay. Get over it!" anti-bullying campaign. Good for them. Because they really do need to get over it.

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For those of you who haven't yet caught the broadcast of the recent GLAAD Awards, here's a treat: everyone's favorite (or at least second-favorite) gay cowboy Jake Gyllenhaal taking the stage to present the Vanguard Award to Jennifer Aniston.

We've been a bit GLAAD-glad lately -- at least, when it comes to pics and interviews from the recent GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles. First, one of our operatives was able to nab interviews with Marc Cherry (the creator of Desperate Housewives), Shawn Pyfrom (Andrew from Desperate Housewives), Jesse Brune (Work Out), and J.P. Calderon (Survivor, my daydreams) -- check out our main-page article for some interesting dish.

But that's not all, folks. Ohnonononono. We've also tracked down some red carpet video to share with you with some of these very same people...

Here's Marc Cherry and Shawn Pyfrom (who is straight but plays a gay teen) -- is it just me, or does Pyfrom look as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo?

And here's some of the cast of Ugly Betty, including the fabulous Mark Indelicato