Hot on the heels of surviving New Year's Eve with Kathy Griffin, CNN newsman Anderson Cooper showed up on The Daily Show last night to moderate the first (and last) "Road to the Doghouse - Puppedential Debate".

The Obama daughters are still looking for the perfect pup, and it's up to Anderson to weed out the mutts. Will he sniff out a winner? The shocking conclusion is guaranteed to leave you wagging your tail!

Last night The Daily Show tackled the recent flurry of discussion about how race contributed to the passage of Proposition 8 by bringing Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore out to discuss whether homophobia is more rampant in the black community.

It's pretty funny, particularly Wilmore's argument that there are actually no gay black people and the idea that gays need to work harder to make straights comfortable by "easing them into" the idea of gay people, like they did with Oprah, Urkel, Sidney Poitier, and other "Starter Negroes".  

What, didn't Paul Lynde, Liberace and that gay genie from the Hanna-Barbera cartoons count? "Yabble-dabble!"

Last night charmingly hateful former Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee appeared on The Daily Show to plug his new book, and found his views on gay marriage called on the carpet by Jon Stewart, one of our strongest and smartest gay allies.

Huckabee pulls out some of the old chestnuts (marriage only exists for procreation, voters don't want it so it shouldn't exist, the Bible says it's bad, allowing gay marriage would open up the doors to polygamy, etc.) and Stewart pretty much ends the conversation by saying that in his mind religion is far more of a choice than sexuality and that what the conservatives are doing is an absolute travesty.

I would tend to agree. Yes?

As we continue to come to terms with the news that California really actually unbelievably passed Prop 8, more folks are speaking out as the ramifications of the decision continue to manifest themselves. Ellen DeGeneres issued a statement to the AP saying she was "saddened beyond belief." She then filmed one of her humorous segments where she went on a vandalism spree painting three Mormon churches bright pink before getting drunk and breaking down weeping because she has to return all of her wedding presents.

See what others are up to after the jump!

This week The Daily Show took a swipe at the McCain/Palin "two Americas" nonsense by taking a busload of Midwesterners through New York City and showing them the sights.

Things get especially hairy when they enter the gay neighborhood ... after tourguide Rob Riggle hands out breathing masks, he advises them to keep their hands inside the bus at all times lest they wind up with a handful of something unexpected...

It's a question that has caused endless speculation for philosophers and scientists for eons. Now, a new study from Tufts University claims that Gaydar is real, and they have the, um ... evidence ... to back up that claim.

"For the study, 15 undergraduate students, both male and female, were shown photos of faces of 90 men, evenly divided between gay and straight. The photos were taken from Internet personal ads and from Facebook. The study's lead author, graduate student Nicholas Rule, says men were used in this study for convenience, because they have a greater presence on the Internet than women.

The researchers found that subjects could accurately determine in 50 milliseconds — one-twentieth of a second — whether the men were gay or straight about 60 percent of the time. Rule says all the subjects were accurate 55 percent to 70 percent of the time.

When subjects were allowed to look at the photos for up to 10 seconds, they weren't much better at judging sexual orientation than in 50 milliseconds. But when subjects had only 33 milliseconds to consider each photo, their judgments were significantly less accurate."

Okay, where to begin? First, I had to check the date to make sure I hadn't entered a time warp and ended up back on April 1st. Then, I was convinced this came from The Onion or another satirical website ... but it's not.

Facebook? Internet personal ads? Fifteen undergraduate students (who were probably hungover from Beer Pong the night before)?

"Their judgments were significantly less accurate at thirty three milliseconds?" Really, Professor Obvious? You mean they couldn't tell whether a flash of a blob in a picture was gay? Well, that's ... significant, isn't it?

This bogus (but hilarious) research aside, someone actually has invented a real gaydar device, as this classic clip from The Daily Show proves. You can see it after the break, and I think I'm going to go scope out that cute cashier at Subway, and hopefully I'll have my answer in fifty milliseconds.

Good morning! No better way to start the day than with a strong cup of coffee, a toasted piece of multigrain and a clip of Focus on the Family's lead hatemonger James Dobson looking like a total asshat.

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart discussed Dobson's recent criticism of Barack Obama's quoting of dusty old Leviticus to suit his own "personal agenda". Stewart of course digs up footage of Dobson quoting the same passage, in order to use the Bible to condemn gays.

Sean Penn and his Milk men

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.

• Above, the first official publicity still released by the studio for Gus Van Sant's Milk, with Sean Penn as the slain gay civic leader. The star power and subject are getting the pic a good deal of mainstream advance press, and it's not of the gay cowboy joke variety.

• Here's a rather funny moment from the UK Friday Night Project show in which David Tennant, after being read some Doctor Who fanfiction, asks if it might not have come from castmate John Barrowman's blog. Heh.

• If you happen to be around the house tonight, you might want to tune into SyFyPortal radio to catch AfterElton.com editor Michael Jensen and Torchwood recapper Steven Frank as they discuss Torchwood!

• Time Out New York is featuring 19 NYC men who are willing to take it all off, and letting their readers vote on which fella will strip for a future issue. Thoughts?

• The troublemaking gay penguin daddies of And Tango Makes Three are public school (and library) enemy #1 for the second year in a row. I think The Daily Show's Samantha Bee pretty much summed up the ridiculousness of the whole gay penguin controversy in the above clip.

• Apparently, gay websites linked so much to the Cayman Free Press's story about the American who was arrested for kissing another man in a Cayman club that it crashed their website. Ya mess with the bull, ya get the horns, kids.

• Martin Freeman, the "Jim" of the original The Office, wonders why more gay men in show business don't come out, noting, "there are more poofs in it than you can have hot dinners thrown at you." I guess that's ... a good thing?

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In this week's episode of Angry Puppy, Marc and Lee talk about breaking television news, gay sci-fi film fests, Buffy season Eight, the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures, and much, much more.

Oh, and they speak Esperanto. Wanna know why? Check it out!

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.

• Defamer thinks they espied some homoerotic subtext in Daniel Day Lewis' There Will Be Blood. I haven't seen the flick myself (it would take more than a little homoertocism to get me in the theater for this one), but most Defamer readers think someone's glasses are tinted a little too pink.

• The SXSW Film Festival announced their line-up and a quick persual shows a few items of gay interest including Sex Positive about the life of Richard Berkowitz, a hustler turned AIDS activist back in the 80s who helped invent safe sex, but has since been forgotten. Also showing is Neil Patrick Harris' Harold & Kumar: Guantanomo Bay. Okay, he's not exactly headlining it, but still!

• Out journalist Keith Boykin launches The Daily Voice, a news blog for "Black America".

• Tim Gunn dropped by The Daily Show. Need we say more? Check it out:

• The AAA organization in Florida won't extend discounts to gay couples. They say it's because Florida state law defines marriage as between a man and a man which is also known as the Disney Defense. With any luck, they'll follow Disney's footsteps and change their discriminatory policy.

• Out director Stephen Kijak is up for a BAFTA Award Sunday for his documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.

• Can't get enough John Barrowman? Buy a poster of him here!