Stuff you should know about Bryan Fuller: He hates Queer as Folk. He has “a huge lesbian agenda”. His beautifully written, eye-popping pilot for ABC’s Pushing Daisies was named one of the 10 best television broadcasts of 2007 by The Washington Post.

And – boys – he’s totally adorable. Like clean puppies and chocolate birthday cake adorable. Noon on your favorite beach in June with a fistful of nostalgia-laden boardwalk cuisine adorable. Freshly cut Christmas tree, decorated in candy canes and red ribbons with a cute miniature train running through a cute miniature town underneath adorable.

And did we mention – he’s crazy talented. Fuller spoke to us for part two of our special investigative report: "Gays in Primetime", but there just wasn’t enough room for all the wonderfulness that is ... Bryan. So here are more tidbits from our interview. Topics include the gay Star Trek script that never got made, the de-gayed gay dad on Dead Like Me, the big gay character-driven show Fuller dreams of doing, and - *EXCLUSIVE* - his big reveal on the identity of Pushing Daisies’ gay character.

Click on through the jump for the gay spoiler and lots more Fuller!

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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• Either the pic at top is of Kylie Minogue's performance at the Brit Awards, or the ghost of Marilyn Monroe is mounting a stage production of Earth Girls Are Easy.

• The Bay Area Reporter has a great interview with Dustin Lance Black, the screenwriter of the in-production Harvey Milk biopic being helmed by Gus van Sant. (via Towleroad)

• Poor Jimmy Kimmel ... his girlfriend is "F*cking Matt Damon", and he has to settle for Ben Affleck? That's like aiming for Hall and getting Oats... (chances are the clip will air on Kimmel's post-Oscar show this Sunday)

• ABC announced the return schedules for most of our favorite shows (considering that they air almost everything that's actually watchable these days) including Betty, Daisies, Housewives. Grey's, and Brothers & Sisters. All but Daisies return by late April with new eps.

• The Rocky Horror Show recently revived itself in Sydney, and Rocky creator Richard O'Brien was there to give it his blessing.

• Speaking of Australian monsters, radio host Sonia Kruger has come under fire for calling Alan Jones, a competitor whose sexuality is a topic of much speculation, a "queen". Considering that Kruger played Tina Sparkle in Strictly Ballroom, it's safe to say that her next step will be to challenge Jones to a paso doble-off.

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We've mentioned the new Logo dating show Transamerican Love Story a few times, mostly for host gay comedian Alec Mapa, who has been turning up in everything from Ugly Betty to Dirty Laundry lately. But the show itself is actually pretty interesting, and bachelorette Calpernia Addams is very sweet in a kind of Drew Barrymore-esque way.

Here's another interesting tidbit for you trivia lovers: Addams, a longtime transgender activist, became known to many when her tragic love affair with Barry Winchell, a young soldier in the airborne infantry, was made into the movie Soldier's Girl. Winchell was murdered by his colleagues for dating a transgender woman, and the film (which earned three Golden Globe nominations) is an incredibly moving love story.

Many people remember the film but may not realize that the actor who played Addams in Soldier's Girl was none other than Lee Pace, better known these days as the doe-eyed piemaker from recent Gay People's Choice winner Pushing Daisies. Pace garnered a Golden Globe nod himself for his fearless performance.

Check out the trailer to see Pace as Addams.

Out former baseballer Billy Bean

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.

• Michael Ausiello is reporting that the Grey's Anatomy cast is being called back to the set following positive strike negotiations, and that other ABC gay-faves like Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters will likely follow suit. First-seasoners like Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money will likely not resume filming until summer.

• I know that when I watch this PSA from gay former pro baseball player Billy Bean I'm supposed to be paying attention to the message that "ex-gay" ministries are a load of crap, but I can't help being distracted by how adorable he is. Does that make me a bad person?

• People picked out actor Cheyenne Jackson to be their highlighted hottie of the week (much in the way they picked out author Perry Moore as their hot guy of the week a few months back). There's no mention of Jackson's sexuality in the blurb, but let's face it: the guy's hot six ways to Sunday, regardless of his sexuality.

• Project Runway's most recent lovable gift from a galaxy far, far away - Elisa Jimenez - recently showed at New York Fashion week. Unsurprisingly, she brought the crazy with her.

• A man is alleging that gay UK radio presenter Nigel Wrench drugged and raped him at a New Year's Eve party last year, and told the courts as much. Wrench denies the accusations.

With Sweeney Todd's taking home a Golden Globe and the commercial success of Hairspray, Dreamgirls and High School Musical we're certainly past the days when the movie musical is considered box office poison.

But as much as I enjoy popping Chicago in the DVD player, I really like it when episodic television takes a musical turn, and lately we've seen some great additions to the genre (along with a few disasters ... yes, we mean you, Viva Laughlin). A good musical number can make an episode especially memorable, as in the following examples ...

30 Rock: "Midnight Train to Georgia"

Last week's 30 Rock (the season finale, unless the writers' strike is resolved soon), ended with a performance of Gladys Knight and the Pips' "Midnight Train to Georgia" inspired by Kenneth Parcell's (Jack McBrayer) deciding to leave New York to return his home in Georgia. The Motown classic is used to express the friendship between Kenneth and Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), Jenna (Jane Krakowski)'s need to be in the spotlight and the divide splitting Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) and his liberal congresswoman girlfriend C.C. (Edie Falco) apart. The highlight of the number arrives when Tina Fey changes the meaning of "I've got to go" into a cry of "TMI!" Coming from the 30 Rock characters, the meaning of "Midnight Train to Georgia" changes hilariously.
(Thanks to scribegrrrl for finding the video.)

Pushing Daisies: "Hopelessly Devoted to You"

Pushing Daisies' Kristin Chenoweth is well known as a Broadway performer and when her character, Olive Snook, broke into a performance of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" it was an apt marriage of Daisies' fanciful tone and Chenoweth's talents. The original version, from Grease, comes when Sandy realizes how strong her feelings are for Danny, no matter how angry he may make her. On Daisies, however, Olive is fighting her love for Ned, a feeling she hasn't felt free to express honestly.

More recently, Daisies gave us Ellen Greene (who played Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors) singing "Morning Has Broken" as her character breaks out of depression. As with 30 Rock, these moments offer more than a catchy tune: they're a way of expressing where these characters are emotionally in a way that dialogue can't.

X-Play: The Musical

A program consisting of video game reviews shouldn't have much of a shelf life. I mean, who needs to know if The Movies is any good at this point? However, X-Play's snarky, irreverent tone and pop culture references make reruns watchable months and even years afterwards. One of X-Play's more unusual episodes treated viewers to a musical where the devil corrupts hosts Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb with the promise of an X-Play video game (you can watch it here). Spoofing everything from current games to X-Play's own game rating system ("One out of five, it's the only game I know that lowers your sex drive."), the musical has all the smarts and sass you'd expect to hear in an X-Play review.

A Japanese company has announced that they will be selling a Game of Life customized to your specifications. Along with the option to add pictures of yourself and your loved ones to the box and gameboard, this version will also allow you to dictate what 56 of the 99 spaces on the game board will say. The price tag on a personalized game is a bit high ($350), so it's for dedicated fans only.

That got me thinking, though, about the kind of spaces you might come up with if you wanted to create a gay version of Life. Here are some thoughts of what might fill a gay Game of Life:

• Win a reality show where you fool a woman into thinking you're straight. Collect $10,000 in winnings, but give each player $1,000 to buy your dignity back.

• Adopt a cynical, gay, teen runaway. Collect $1,000 in gifts from each player, but lose a turn spent trying to convince your adopted son you won't abandon him like his birth parents and many foster parents did.

• You and your partner get in a fight while playing The Game of Life when he grabs a pink peg instead of a blue one upon landing on the "get married" space. Lose a turn.

• An anonymous delivery of pear and Gruyere pie precede a sudden burst of energy. Take another turn after breaking out into a chorus of "Morning Has Broken".

• You take your partner to meet your Gay Men-zuh group. His lack of brainpower is mistaken as a dry sense of humor an invited to join the group. Pay $100 to the bank to cover his membership dues.

• Get left behind on a deadly television satellite by your time traveling companions and overshoot your return trip. Start over.

• The neighborhood revolts over the ugly fountain on your front yard. Pay $500 to the bank for Neighborhood Association fees.

• Bust out your Tammy Wynette-obsessed cousin from the mental hospital. Collect $250 when you rent out the spare bedroom to him.

• Settle a potential harassment lawsuit after your boss outs you so that he can demonstrate his gay-friendliness. Collect $25,000.

How would you make a gay-customized Life game board? Let us know in the comments!

We spend so much time talking about gay-related entertainment here that sometimes even we forget that we like other stuff too. So in addition to our coverage of all that was gay in television, movies, and the like, here's some of my favorite stuff of the year. Anyone agree, or not? Share your own faves in the comments ... come on, it's not like you're actually doing any work today, right?!

Favorite Movies of 2007 (granted, Sweeney Todd will likely replace all the below once I see it)

• Zodiac
• The Savages
• No Country for Old Men
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• For the Bible Tells Me So
• Juno
• The Host
• The Nines
• Knocked Up
• Eastern Promises 

Favorite Television of 2007

• Top Chef
• Pushing Daisies
• Ugly Betty
• X-Play's Musical Episode
• The Soup
• America's Most Smartest Model
• The Colbert Report
• The Sarah Silverman Program

Favorite Internet Stuffs of 2007

• Cute With Chris, harder and more often
• The WoW Report
• The Dramatic Prairie Dog
• "Always a Bad Girl"