Oprah's main gay Nate Berkus remains our favorite televised gay. The do-gooder, who's currently helming the Big O's The Big Give, recently chatted with AfterElton about whether it's "important for gay men to be seen as more than just fashion designers and makeup artists".

Says Berkus:

I think it’s important for everyone to be seen doing what they love to do, so I actually don’t draw a distinction between quote-unquote stereotypical gay professions versus other ventures that people might excel in. Looking at people and judging them based on their sexuality, or discounting someone based on their sexuality is a really, really scary, rough, unnecessary road. I have the opportunity to be on television and I’m very grateful for that, but I don’t think the importance is that I’m hosting a television show.

We'll we think it's important, but mostly so we can ogle you, Berkus.

As we reported last month, the ad wars continue between Chemistry.com and rival eHarmony. Today, AfterElton took a closer look at the Match.com-owned site's revolutionary approach the advertising:

For a company to go directly after its biggest competitor in advertising is nothing new in a media landscape scarred by cola wars and fast-food takedowns. But for a company to use another company’s intolerance of same-sex relationships as a key talking point in two mainstream campaigns is something new and very bold.

And smart as shit, too.

AfterElton's ever-adventurous Two Gay Guys - Michael Jensen and Brent Hartinger - recently took a trip to Broadway's Xanadu. Using their unknown - and unmentionable - powers of persuasion, the unambiguously gay duo nailed an interview with the show's pantheon-worthy star, Cheyenne Jackson.

During the courage of their tete-a-tete, Jackson reveals that Fridays count as the queerest night of his working week. Good to know…

We've included the video after the jump…

PS: Remember when we met Cheyenne Jackson? We're still swooning.

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The Writers Guild of America seems set for a strike starting tonight. As the doomsday clock inches toward midnight, AfterElton offers a look at a dismal, dystopian untelevised future.

Basically every fictional form of entertainment in the world will cease to exist and your precious memories will soon fade into oblivion. After that? The Anti-Christ.

Before you say goodbye to mind-numbing junk, enjoy the Logo-owned website's interview with dreamboat actor Michael Urie, who plays Ugly Betty's evil, yet lovable gay, Marc.

AfterElton editor Michael Jensen and boyfriend author Brent Hartinger cruised through the gay jungle to investigate the evil bitch gay queen. This here's the video of their harrowing journey.

And, no, we don't know if the boys were on acid when they made this. We have our suspicions.

A lot of homo-related novels tend to revolve solely around sexual identity. Not Perry Moore's Hero.

Though the story focuses on a gay superhero, Moore - who produced The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as worked as White House intern under Bill Clinton - makes sure to keep things as universal as possible. He tells AfterElton:

It’s not an “afterschool special” kind of thing like “Timmy has a problem.” I mean, he is gay, that is part of his identity, but in a lot of ways he just happens to be gay. It’s one of many things he has to deal with, one of many challenges he has to confront and overcome and integrate into his life.
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I wanted to teach people that what makes you unique is actually very special and that very thing that may make you feel alienated, if you’re willing to embrace it, can become the most empowering thing in your life.

Just reach out and grab it, squeeze it, lick it and love it. That's all it takes.

Tim Gunn knows a thing or two about fashion. In an effort to harness his sartorial powers, Bravo offered him his own show, Tim Gunn's Guide To Style. And, in an effort to publicize said show, Gunn sat down with AfterElton for a little heart-to-heart. So, what'd we learn? Gunn's not into your gun:

I think our responsibility is simply to look good. I mean, I'm a man of a certain age – but even when I was younger, I just wasn't into the whole Chelsea muscle boy scene – even though I live in Chelsea. I don't have a disregard for people who are accentuating muscles and various things – though I draw the line at emphasizing genitals.

Prude.

Via AfterElton's legitimately interesting interview with the ultra-dreamy Cheyenne Jackson, who appears in Xanadu on Broadway:

With his piercing eyes, striking features, beautiful complexion, and imposing 6'4” frame, the part-Native American Cheyenne Jackson is the gorgeous young actor of everyone's dreams — as those who saw him on Broadway in All Shook Up or on film in United 93 will attest. The fact that he happens to be gay only adds to his fascination quotient.

Is that so?

Now, consider this exchange between Jackson and homo-journo Michael Portantiere

MP: I'm guessing that, in terms of theater work, your being out has been a non-issue.

CJ: That's right. Here, your reputation is everything. People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done. Besides, it's New York theater. Everybody's gay!

We're so confused. If being gay makes you interesting - a statement with which Jono would no doubt disagree - does that mean all theater fags are interesting?

If so, why do we find most of them so fucking boring?

The internet's a dangerous place. Not only are there sexual predators, neo-nazis, scientologists and other assorted baddies, but you have to worry about sicko fuckwad shithead faggots like us.

As you can see, Blog Rater gave us and our potty mouth an NC-17 rating. Apparently they object to our use of the words "gay," the same word in the plural form "lesbian" and "zombie", which we blame on that shitting kid.
We're a little disappointed, actually - we were hoping for an XXX. Do we have to slaughter and eat a straight person, or something?

Meanwhile Blog Rater slapped our source, AfterElton, with an NC-17 rating. Surprisingly, ex-gay homophobes Exodus International received a G: all ages admitted. Ain't that sweet?

On Friday we mentioned that former CBS producer Dick Jefferson's filing a lawsuit against the network. Jefferson alleges CBS News Senior Vice President Linda Mason and CBS News Weekend executive producer Patricia Shevlin tried to muzzle him after Jefferson's anti-gay attack in St. Marteen.

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Sir Alan Bates may have been married to Victoria Ward, but a new biography reveals the British actor had a thing for men.

Otherwise Engaged: The Life Of Alan Bates by Donald Spoto offers new details suggesting the strapping sex idol - known for his roles in Women In Love, The Fixer and The Entertainer, among others - got down with the boys. And one of his male mates came in the form of Olympic figure skater, John Curry (pictured after the jump). Daily Mail paraphrases the Olympic-sized details:

While he liked to appear publicly with women, and to cuddle with them privately, his deepest romances and his most passionate sexual life occurred with men.

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James St. James' last novel, Disco Bloodbath, chronicles Michael Alig's real life descent into madness, ending with the hacked up body of the really dead drug deal, Angel Melendez.

Capturing the glitz, glam and gore of 1990's New York, Disco Bloodbath killed the competition, becoming a classic and finding new life in the 2003 flick, Party Monster, starring Seth Green as the incarcerated and single Alig, whileMacaulay Culkin appeared as St. James. Now, St. James makes a triumphant return with a less blood-curdling tale, Freak Show.

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We finally have some answers on what really killed Doug Blasdell. The openly gay Work Out trained died in January, but reports simply said the 44-year old gym bunny died unexpectedly. Now, nearly five months since Blasdell's shocking death, his best-friend and fellow Work Out star, Brian Peeler.

It seems Blasdell didn't die as unexpectedly as we believed. Peeler tells AfterElton's Matthew Weiss:

He had lymphoma cancer and he was doing chemo. They caught it in the early stages. It was the same thing that his mother and his father had died from. I think they caught [his] in stage one or stage two. So he was doing chemo to combat it.

Though doctors caught the disease early, the chemo depleted Blasdell's immune system.

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A few months back we discussed an AfterElton article exploring the so-called art of so-called slash fiction: a fan-based genre presenting television characters in new - and often sexual - settings. Like all good things, the literary subset comes to us from Captain Kirk and Spock obsessed trekkies. And, like the written word itself, that came from drawings.

We'll totally say off the bat that we think it's pretty weird. But, we recently came across a massive archive of the drawings and we couldn't look away. Seriously, it's the most fascinatingly freaky thing we've seen on the web in a long time - and we see a lot of freaky things.

In honor of the great V-Day, we've curated a pictorial guide to Kirk and Spock's eternally perplexing love. Enter at your own risk. It ain't pretty.

(Also, we tagged this as art. We're sorry if this offends anyone. We don't blame you…)

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You may have heard that today's Oprah will feature "Extraordinary Parents". In conjunction with that earth shattering news, you probably heard that two men make up one of the astounding parental units. Yeah, two men. They're named Mark and Andy Sutherland-Trevino. They're totally gay. And they're totally remarkable.

So, why are notable enough to grace her royal Oprahness' stage? According to the introduction to their interview with AfterElton, it's because they have seven children, all adopted. Sure, it's nice they adopted all those kids, but seven? That doesn't make them extraordinary. That makes them total crazies with big hearts.

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