Ridiculously adorable out jazz man Dave Koz plays the 11th Annual GLAAD Tidings Concert (GETTY)

Following this 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.

• Out Broadway badunk-adunk Cheyenne Jackson has revealed that he will be playing the lead in Mormon Musical, a project being workshopped next month by the creators of South Park and Avenue Q. Please tell me there's a number about sacred underpants that really gets to the crotch heart of the issue...

• Out actor David Hyde Pierce was among the 20,000 or so folks in Los Angeles who marched on Saturday for marriage equality.

• I find it hard to believe that the man who unleashed Vanity 6 on the world could get high and mighty about anything, least of all the people who kept half of his camptacular acts in business.

Candorville

• Above, the always provocative Candorville comic tackled religion, race and marriage equality this week (click the link for the full strip). Artist Darrin Bell (who is himself of mixed religious and racial backgrounds) has a long history of supporting gay causes.

• Australian site SameSame is launching a webseries called Camp Surf that takes five gay men and teaches them how to ride the waves. Cute!

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Ah, the beauty of the internet. Instant commentary that you just won't get anywhere else. Case in point, this very funny video mash-up of Republican Senator Larry Craig's "I'm not gay" press conference with the Avenue Q song "If You Were Gay". It's absolutely fantastic! Thanks to Wayman for the clip.

UPDATE: Depending on how much you really want to know about this whole sordid affair, Huffington Post just posted the audio clips of Craig trying to explain his way out of the situation with the officer who arrested him. At one point the cop says, “I guess I’m gonna say I’m disappointed in you, sir. I just really am… I mean, people vote for you.” What you're hearing is the sound of a man's life imploding.