Theater titans Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs joined forces today to announce The American Theatre Wing's 61st annual Tony Awards' Nominations, thus ushering in the gayest time of the year.

What's so gay about it? Well, the Duncan Sheik scored, sexually-charged, morally-loose Spring Awakening raked in the most nominations. The musical walked away with eleven, including best musical male lead for Jonathan Groff and featured male lead for John Gallagher, Jr..

Mr. Sheik and lyricist Steven Slater were also nominated for best original score. Michael Korie and Scott Frankel, the music men behind gay favorite, Grey Gardens, were nominated in the same category. But, wait, it gets even more gay - if you can believe that...

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We've loved Taye Diggs for years. Ever since New York Undercover, he's been one of our main men, garnering even more of our love in films such as, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Brown Sugar, and Chicago. So, we thought it'd be a good start to your week. He may not show a lot of skin, but that's alright, his pretty face and cheesed up smile are enough for us. Diggs can dig into us anytime. (Yeah, we went there.)
Enjoy more of our Brown Sugar after the jump.

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• Taye Diggs goes gay. We're jealous of Will. [Rod 2.0]

• Dave Chapelle is doing the tell-all interview on Oprah as to why he bailed on his show. Oprah asks Chapelle whether he was on drugs. Let the photo of him on her site do the talking. [Oprah]

• A lesbian couple, both of whom are in the army, married in England. We’re waiting for two men to do the same: imagine two men kissing in uniform. Hot. [Gay.com]

• A bill to ban gay marriage in Maryland was killed after Democrats amended the bill to allow civil unions with full marriage rights between gay couples. [Fox News]

• The amount of Brokeback art has grown since our post from yesterday. And it’s still really bad. [eBay]

Taye Diggs talks about his comfortability with running around in the buff in this month's Genre. Let's hope he's comfortable enough to bare all in this month's Rent.

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