AfterElton Briefs: Barrowman's big birthday gig, Franco and Penn's "uncomfortable" kiss, and more!

Ok, yeah, maybe they're not Nobel Prize winners, but they do bring a certain amount of joy to my life; I'm curious to know who some of the others are who will be profiled: I like Jason Ridge, Johnny Hazzard and Nick Piston, but I'm hoping they'll go back and find some of my all-time faves, like Alex LeMonde, Thom Barron, and Justin Dragon.

...I am dying to see that kiss.  As well as any other kisses in Milk.  I mean, look at the caliber of hotness of the actors in it...Sean Penn (which is debatable to some), James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna...The majority of them playing gay men.  

This movie looks quite promising to me. XDDDDD

but only if they can include Dean Phoenix and Teg Colunga, just to name a couple must haves. Not that I've ever seen any of their work.....

Side-note: How young does the Boss look? And can that actually be Nancy Allen on the cover? So totally 80's yet much more "girlie" than I ever remember her from my favorite Brian De Palma technical treats.

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The media needs to stop asking these stupid questions as even the most amazing person can come across as looking bad unless they say that they say that they loved samed sex kissing even more than the more ANY conventional kissing they've done prior to doing a gay role. Of course then they'll say that he's gay.... Yawn.

I like how you tweaked the real answer based on all that you've heard from Franco before. I can't wait to see this movie.

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My buddy is a huge fan of his and now I can see why.  Not that I would ever know what to do with him.  Is drooling considered proper etiquette?

That is why she left Brian DiPalma.  He eventually married someone else. The last I saw of him was still looking fairly good though he is in some really bad low-budget films these days. I think his last big film was HOPE FLOATS with Sandra Bullock.

So I've never heard of him before but the picture of Jason Ridge in the green shirt is total hotness and then his "briefs" photo just turns me off completely. I find it hard to believe that that's what's beneath that adorable man's outfit.

Funny how that happens.

Regarding the adding of a marriage solidarity message to straight wedding vows, I think it's a terrific thing.  I agree with the pastor who said, "I thought it was really, really beautiful and very healing."  The woman who compared such a thing to a white person who joins a whites only club and then says something about how blacks should be able to join is making a silly comparison.  A white person can avoid the whites only club and still get all the benefits of club membership by joining an inclusive club.  A straight person has two choices:  get married or don't get married.  The woman in the article suggested that the latter was the better choice.  That just makes no sense at all.

I like the straight Quaker couple who had a wedding ceremony in Michigan for family, but flew to Boston, where gay marriage is legal, to be legally married. That rocks. But I don't think that straights need to boycott their own happiness for gay rights. And making a statement at your wedding for the rights of gay folks does help to get the message out there. It's hard to say how many of those statements are empty comments, and how many times it comes from the heart.

Here's two things I might suggest to a straight couple.

1. Put HRC, the Southern Poverty Law Center or The Matthew Shepard Foundation on their registry.
2. Hire only gay owned businesses (caterers, florists), or businesses with gay inclusive benefits for thier wedding. That might require a couple to ask a hotel about their insurance and retirement policies which could do alot for gay rights if the couple refuse to book there and spread the word as to why: that they are unfair to LGBT. It would also reward those companies that do extend benifits.

I would like to see a national boycott of weddings in June. Don't attend a wedding in June and don't have one in June.

Lastly, I have a straight friend who jokes that a lot of liberal dudes are going to be pissed when gays finally get the right to marry. He's been telling his girlfriend for years that he isn't going to get married till we have the right. She knows he's kidding, of course. But now it's becoming a crusade of his, in a way, because he brings the argument to conversations where people wouldn't normally discuss it.