Earlier this week a news site owned by the American Family Association (can I put quotation marks around "news site" like they do "gay marriage"?) became the laughingstock of the Interwebs when their auto-replace system, which was set to replace any instance of "gay" in the syndicated newsfeed articles that it re-runs with the word "homosexual", changed the name of Olympic track and field hopeful Tyson Gay to "Tyson Homosexual".

According to PageOneQ, who first spotted the goof and brought it to the attention of both the news site and the Associated Press (whose article was mangled), this is what their version read:

"Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials," the article read, "and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday." The headline read "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic events."

So this got me thinking: What would be the best imaginable headlines, words, or phrases to reach the AFA's Magical Mystical Dehumanizor? Here are a few suggestions; drop your own ideas in the comments!

Marcia Gay Harden becomes ... "Marcia Homosexual Harden"

Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Gayheart are ... Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Homosexualheart"

The historic flight of the Enola Gay is ... "The historic flight of the Enola Homosexual"

Mount Gay Rum becomes ... "Mount Homosexual Rum"  

and Dick Van Dyke is, of course ... "Penis Van Homosexual"

Update: The folks over at Good As You have been tracking the AFA's "gay switch" for a while, and this isn't the first time that they've mistakenly homosexualized someone's surname. It also isn't the first time that they've distorted the news, but hey, that's what makes them so special.

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.

• In case you were wondering, Neil Patrick Harris is, on a scale of "awesome to awesome" ... "awesometeen". And great news: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is in the can!

• The Sunday Times film section bemoans the death of masculinity in American films, citing the Judd Apatow Schlub Factory as responsible for burying the macho idols of the past. Uh, sorry ... Katherine Hepburn could have taken Cary Grant in a fistfight any day of the week.

• If you'd like to help counteract the AFA's campaign against Luke and Noah, it's best to send emails and letters directly to Procter & Gamble, and not using the AFA's comment generator, as the recipients may not have the bandwidth to read the actual emails and may simply record the AFA-generated emails as a strike against our fellas.

• Happy birthday to short-lived Project Runway designer turned dashing television corpse ... Jack Mackenroth!

• Looks like Rodrigo Santoro's role in the upcoming Jim Carrey gay prison romance comedy I Love You Phillip Morris is just about as flamboyant as his role in 300.

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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.

• One of tonight's episodes of the PBS documentary Carrier is called "Super Secrets" and discusses life on board the USS Nimitz for gay and lesbian servicemembers. Towleroad has an interview with Brian Downey, one of those servicemembers.

• Britney Spears is coming back to How I Met Your Mother (yawn) and what's up with Barney's (Neil Patrick Harris) kiss with Robin?

• The American Family Association (aka The Winguts of America) are getting in Procter & Gamble's face because As the World Turns "has resumed using explicit, open-mouth homosexual kissing". Really? Gosh, we hadn't noticed! Naturally, this calls for another one of the AFA's "successful" boycotts and they are encouraging folks to write letters to P&G. I used the AFA's own form letter to tell P&G to ignore these loons, but you should probably drop them a note as well.

• The out Rhys Bobridge came in second in Australia's first edition of So You Think You Can Dance.

Rhys Bobridge, Jack Chambers

• Steve Rothaus is blogging the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival including an appearance by the always fabulous Jennifer Tilly.

• Greg Hernandez of Out in Hollywood ran into Marc Cherry at the GLAAD Awards in LA and Marc told him Brothers & Sisters' Kevin and Scotty aren't the only ABC gays exchanging vows.

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What do you want to bet it's only a matter of time before the likes of Peter Labarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality or the Concerned Women for America try to claim that Heath Ledger's tragic death had something to do with his having played gay in Brokeback Mountain? After all, both of those groups couldn't rush out press releases fast enough criticizing the gay community and trying to incite anti-gay panic after the AP and pretty much every other media outlet got the story wrong about the MRSA/staph infection supposedly threatening to burst out of the gay community and into the general population.

So it's not that hard for me to see them trying to claim either that Ledger's having played gay was evidence of his immorality (hence his apparently drug-induced death) or that playing gay caused Ledger to come in close contact with the gay community thereby leading him to engage in risky behaviors. That might not be exactly how they spin it, but mark my words, they'll come up with some other hateful line of thinking. There is no tragedy awful enough that these anti-gay nuts won't try to score some points off of it.

Here's some fun news: the ever-selfless folks over at the gay-hating American Family Association have spent hundreds of manhours watching and logging television shows in order to provide us, the country's gays, with a list of the top ten gay-supporting advertisers.

The kids at the AFA came at the project with a discipline that bordered on scientific (the other side bordered on "fascist", but that's another story entirely). First, they determined what were to them the most gay-promoting shows. They included:

Ugly Betty
ER
Desperate House-Wives (their spelling)
The Simpsons
The Office
Grey's Anatomy
Brothers & Sisters
The Class

Funny -- while they claimed to have nabbed the list from GLAAD, that also happens to be a list of some of the most popular and critically lauded shows currently on the air (even The Class won a People's Choice Award). Maybe they mistook "gay supporting" for "quality". They even provide this analysis in their "results":

In each program monitored, homosexuality was promoted in a positive manner as a normal and accepted lifestyle. Some scenes included homosexuals kisses and bedrooms scenes. In instances where opposition to homosexuality was portrayed, the opposing character was publicly ridiculed or condemned by the other characters on the program.

They watched these homo-heavy shows (must have been torture to expose themselves to such well-written entertainment -- er, immoral content) and counted the number of ads that major companies ran during them. They then tallied the results and determined the top gay supporting companies -- in fact, they even gave handy lists of the companies' products and contact information for each, perhaps so that appreciative gays like ourselves can contact the companies and thank them for their support. Which I suggest we do -- the full details are below (because I'll be damned if I'm linking to their hateful site -- or actually, too late for that, right?).

Thanks, AFA! You sure saved me a lot of Googling!