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Briefs: Trevor Donovan's Just Desserts, "True Blood" Sets The Date, and Richard Simmons Returns to "General Hospital"

Posted by snicks on March 29, 2013

• Introducing our new feature - The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay celebs who deserve more recognition. This week we give a ShoutOUT to ... Luke Macfarlane. Wrapping up our week with Luke, yesterday I said we'd save the best for last, and here it is, and because nothing can top that, here's one of my favorite Luke pics.

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Briefs: "Gay Marriage Already Won," Kathy and Anderson Wear Bibs, and "The Big Wedding" Wastes A Big Name Cast

Posted by snicks on March 28, 2013

• Introducing our new feature - The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay celebs who deserve more recognition. This week we give a ShoutOUT to ... Luke Macfarlane. Luke has scored guest shots recently on Beauty & The Beast and Person Of Interest, and starred on stage in The Normal Heart. Below you can see him with Brant Daugherty, attending the Barbara Tag in Munich in December. Tomorrow - We've saved the best for last!

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Briefs: Channing Tatum Would Sleep With George Clooney, and "The New Normal" Throws a Ratings Curve Ball

Posted by snicks on March 27, 2013

• Introducing our new feature - The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay celebs who deserve more recognition. This week we give a ShoutOUT to ... Luke Macfarlane. Luke spent the down time from Brothers & Sisters starring in the mini-series Iron Road (Below. Sadly, it was revealed that his nude scenes used a body double), and starring on stage as F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Jazz Age Tomorrow - Luke shows us the normal heart

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Briefs: Looking Back at "Cruising," "Hot Guys With Guns," and a SCOTUS Analysis

Posted by snicks on March 26, 2013

• Introducing our new feature - The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay celebs who deserve more recognition. This week we give a ShoutOUT to ... Luke Macfarlane. Luke's biggest role to date is Scotty Wandell on Brothers & Sisters, chef and perfect husband to some poodle-haired cold fish. Yes, Scotty cheated, ... but he was driven to it. Bastard didn't appreciate him. To see the entire Kevin/Scotty relationship in photos, check out Every Picture Tells A Story: The History of Kevin Walker in 42 Pages. Tomorrow - Luke travels the iron road.

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Briefs: Cloning Kirk Cameron, How We Got To The Supreme Court, and Teasing "The Wolverine"

Posted by snicks on March 25, 2013

• Introducing our new feature - The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay celebs who deserve more recognition. This week we give a ShoutOUT to ... Luke Macfarlane. Luke is the perfect man. What else is there to say? The 33 year-old Canadian made his debut in Kinsey, and then starred in the short-lived series Over There (you can see him from the series premiere in 2005 below). Tomorrow - That poodle-haired tight-ass didn't deserve Scotty.

AfterElton - Erection is coming soon

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Watch! Luke Macfarlane's "Erection" Is Coming Soon
Posted by snicks on March 29, 2013

Below you can see the NSFW-ish trailer and a couple of hot pics from the short film Erection, which was completed last year and is slowly making the festival circuit. Starring out perfect man Luke Macfarlane, here's the plot summary from IMDB:

Can Dean get an erection in time to save his relationship with his girlfriend? In bed, the day before he leaves town, the couple struggle with his flaccid penis.

This may be the greatest film of all time.

Matthew Rhys On New Role: "This Couldn't Get Any Different From Dear Old Kevin"

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Matthew Rhys On New Role: "This Couldn't Get Any Different From Dear Old Kevin"

Posted by Jim Halterman, Entertainment Reporter on January 16, 2013

Matthew Rhys in FX's The Americans

We watched him for years on Brothers & Sisters, but actor Matthew Rhys has a new role that is worlds apart from his long-running role as gay brother Kevin Walker. In FX’s new spy thriller The Americans, the Welsh actor plays Phillip Jennings, husband to Felicity alum Keri Russell’s Elizabeth and living in 1981 suburbia with their two kids.

What we find out in the pilot episode (airing January 30th), however, is that Phillip and Elizabeth are Soviet KGB agents who have spent the last fifteen years pretending to be Americans.

To find out more about the new series and, of course, glean some of his thoughts on his B&S past, AfterElton grabbed a few minutes with the uber-friendly (and dreamier-than-ever) Rhys at Fox’s recent Television Critics Association All-Star party.

AfterElton: Obviously this is very different from your last TV gig. Was this role a big adjustment for you, or did you just jump right in?
Matthew Rhys: That was an enormous draw. It’s an actor’s dream, really, to play a wide variety of parts and this couldn’t get any different from dear old Kevin.

AE: We miss Kevin, but this is such a good role, too!
MR: Yes! It was perhaps a dream to step into something so wildly varied.

AE: You and Keri have a great chemistry but it’s complicated how your characters were thrown together for their mission. Is there love between the two of them?
MR: I think what makes it interesting in the beginning with the pilot is you’ve clearly been watching this forced marriage evolve over fifteen years. At the point we meet them you see that there are real emotions coming into play which I think sets off for an interesting journey.

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are married KGB agents on The Americans

AE: Is it safe to say it was those layers to the characters that drew you in more than the action elements?
MR: It was exactly that. I think it’s wonderful that this concept at its heart is a spy thriller but, as you said, I think it’s far deeper and more complex than that because of the relationship element to it.

Rhys (here with B&S co-star Luke MacFarlane) never saw playing a gay role as a negative.

AE: How are you with the guns you get to use on the show? Was that tough to get used to?
MR: All that I find is like being twelve years old running around in your garden again. You fit straight back into it! You’ve drilled those things a million times in your head through your boyhood, and all of a sudden you’re acting it out!

AE: What do you hope audiences take from watching The Americans?
MR: I think it’s a type of show that a boyfriend and girlfriend can watch together and they’ll both be rewarded.

AE: You were playing a gay character for a long time and obviously it hasn’t hurt your career. Looking back, that was a very mainstream show and audiences loved it and Kevin.
MR: I’m incredibly, incredibly proud of that and most specifically what Jon Robbie Baitz set out to do. He was incredibly strong about this. [Kevin] is not to be defined by his sexuality and no coming out story. He’s the lawyer brother who happens to be gay. The other thing, and I’ve been asked so many times, were you scared to be pigeonholed, which I find mildly offensive in some way because I don’t really even know what that means. But the fact that this project came along, I hope disproves that slightly odd theory, which I always find strange.


The Americans premieres on FX on January 30th ET at 10pm.

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Morning Meme: Chris Colfer Is a NY Times Bestselling Author, Lance Bass Is Prince Charming, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson Hoofs It In "The Producers"

Posted by Ed Kennedy on July 26, 2012

Luke Macfarlane will guest star on The CW's Beauty and the Beast as the artistic director of a ballet company whose prima ballerina is murdered.

AfterElton Hot 100 - Luke #29

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Announcing the 2012 AfterElton Hot 100!

Posted by AfterElton.com Staff on June 26, 2012

IMAGE 23 of 51

29. Luke Macfarlane

Here's how we like our gay men: out, gorgeous, and costarring in a family drama with Sally Field. Perfection.

Vote for Luke!

Let's vote for Luke and other 9 hotties.

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Vote Now for the 2012 AfterElton.com Hot 100!

Posted by AfterElton.com Staff on May 14, 2012

Has it really been six years? It has! For six years now, AfterElton.com has been asking our readers who they think are the world’s hottest men, which we then compile into a list called The AfterElton Hot 100.

And people take notice! Every year, our results are picked up by print, Internet, and TV outlets all over the world – and we’ve also heard the reactions from some of the top-placers, including Neil Patrick Harris, John Barrowman, and Anderson Cooper.

Why do we keep doing the Hot 100? Because, when it comes to hot guys who knows more about that particular topic than AfterElton readers?? And in so many ways, you guys are often way ahead of the pop culture curve. Just as with fashion and music, the beautiful male faces (and bodies) we focus on often eventually end up attracting the attention of the unwashed masses. But so often we notice who is trending and "hot" first. We're "first responders" if you will, and now it's time to see our readers are responding to this year.

You can vote for up to 10 nominees per day via the form below. One request: Please nominate each person by their full name (e.g. "John Smith, not "John" or "John S.") and try to spell it correctly.

For those of you having trouble remembering all the possible guys to vote for, you might find some ideas in the gents who made last year's Hot 100. 

Who will return from last year’s list? What fresh new faces will be joining them? The polls will be open until midnight Friday May 25th, and we'll publish the results in early June.

You can vote once per day using the form below. But note, duplicate names on the same form submission will be discarded and they will only count as one vote. Also, keep in mind we'd love to see more diversity than we have in previous years. Obviously, all kinds of men are hot, not just white guys under the age of thirty. It would be great to see the list you guys create with your voting reflect that!

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AfterElton Briefs: Luke Macfarlane Goes On Tour, "Glee" Rebounds, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Yeast Infection

Posted by snicks on April 25, 2012

• Woo-Hoo! Patrick Breen, Luke Macfarlane, and Christopher Hanke will lead the national tour of The Normal Heart. Wait a minute! WAIT JUST A KEVIN/SCOTTY MOMENT! Christopher Hanke? Didn't he play the slutty waiter who tried to come between our favorite TV couple? Interloper!

AfterElton's Top 50 Favorite TV Characters

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AfterElton's Top 50 Favorite TV Characters
Posted by AfterElton.com Staff on February 27, 2012

16. Kevin Walker, Brothers & Sisters (Matthew Rhys)

[On Air: 2006-2011] We'll be forever thankful to creator Jon Robin Baitz for giving us the first fully formed and realistic gay male character on broadcast television. There had been gay characters prior to Kevin, sure, but on broadcast TV at least they were either sanitized one-note characters, surreal comic creations or sad and noble victims struggling with their sexual orientation. Kevin Walker on the other hand was nobody's victim, and for the most part his orientation was a non-issue.

He had a few memorable relationships, including a closeted soap actor and a smoldering preacher, but his relationship with Scotty remains the most complete and satisfying gay relationship in TV drama history, and will probably never be matched.


20. Scotty Wandell, Brothers & Sisters (Luke Macfarlane)

[On Air: 2006-2011] The other half of TV's greatest gay relationship, Scotty started out as a flaky and irresponsible cater-waiter with a penchant for bad hair and living in his car. His initial hook-up with Kevin led to a friendship that turned to love. Their relationship has survived Kevin's family, infidelity, Kevin's family, adoption drama, Kevin's family, surrogacy problems. Kevin's family. But through it all, Scotty remained good-hearted and sensitive, and was able to balance out his type A partner's rigidity, creating the greatest gay relationship in TV history.

The 2011 AfterElton Hot 100!

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6. Luke Macfarlane

Rank last year: 4

Sadly Brothers & Sisters has been canceled, so that means we won't be seeing any more of the adorable Scotty Wandell. But you can bet this won't be the last you see of handsome, out Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane. Five years on Brothers & Sisters showed us his talents as an actor, a singer (did you see the episode where he sang that touching Irish funeral song?), and even a potential underwear model-- at least based upon what we saw in a few brief briefs scenes. Hubba hubba.

Okay, he's probably too serious an actor to pursue underwear modeling, but keep your options open, Luke. And come back to television soon, we're going to miss you!

Further reading...

• Every Picture Tells A Story: The History of Kevin Walker in 42 Pages
• "Brothers & Sisters" Pic Post! What's Scotty's Life-Changing Discovery?
• Our Interview with Luke Macfarlane and Matthew Rhys

52. Matthew Rhys

Rank last year: 34

Further reading...

• Every Picture Tells A Story: The History of Kevin Walker in 42 Pages
• AfterElton's Interview with Luke Macfarlane and Matthew Rhys
• Interview with Brothers & Sisters' Matthew Rhys

1. Darren Criss 2. Adam Lambert 3. Chris Colfer 4. Neil Patrick Harris 5. John Barrowman 6. Luke MacFarlane 7. Jonathan Groff 8. Jensen Ackles 9. Anderson Cooper 10. Ricky Martin 11. Jake Gyllenhaal 12. Cheyenne Jackson 13. Ryan Reynolds 14. Chris Evans 15. Matt Bomer 16. Jared Padalecki 17. James Franco 18. Chord Overstreet 19. Russell Tovey 20. Mark Salling 21. Alexander Skarsgård 22. Gale Harold 23. Cory Monteith 24. Ian Somerhalder 25. Matthew Mitcham 26. Trevor Donovan 27. Nathan Fillion 28. Eric Sheffer Stevens 29. Joe Manganiello 30. Jared Leto 31. Johnny Depp 32. Joseph Gordon-Levitt 33. Zachary Quinto 34. Adam Levine 35. Jo Weil 36. Ryan Kwanten 37. Scott Evans 38. Bradley Cooper 39. Matt Smith 40. Misha Collins 41. Kevin Alejandro 42. Ben Cohen 43. Hugh Jackman 44. Gareth Thomas 45. Chris Pine 46. Jesse Tyler Ferguson 47. Zac Efron 48. Matthew Morrison 49. Thore Schölermann 50. Alex O'Loughlin

51. Harry Shum Jr. 52. Matthew Rhys 53. Chris Hemsworth 54. Van Hansis 55. Nate Berkus 56. Daniel Radcliffe 57. Taylor Lautner 58. Derek Hough 59. Chad Allen 60. James Marsden 61. Channing Tatum 62. Ewan McGregor 63. Tom Welling 64. Max Adler 65. Jake Silbermann 66. Jake Shears 67. Prince Harry 68. Mark Ballas 69. Taye Diggs 70. Ryan Gosling 71. Tom Ford 72. Nick Adams 73. Andrew Garfield 74. Brad Pitt 75. Robert Pattinson 76. Tom Hardy 77. David Beckham 78. Scott Caan 79. Chace Crawford 80. James Duke Mason 81. Tim Kang 82. Kellan Lutz 83. Cassidy Haley 84. Karl Urban 85. Dan Savage 86. Lee Pace 87. Wilson Cruz 88. Gavin Creel 89. Thomas Roberts 90. Kevin McHale 91. Daniel Craig 92. Darryl Stephens 93. Kris Allen 94. Emmet J. Scanlan 95. Paul Wesley 96. Henry Cavill 97. Nick Youngquest 98. Jon Hamm 99. Alex Pettyfer 100. Christopher Gorham

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ABC Cancels "Brothers & Sisters"
Posted by Michael Jensen, Editor on May 13, 2011

When it comes to the television shows that had the biggest impact on AfterElton.com readers in this site's early days, there are two series that truly stand out in terms of GLBT visibility.

The first is Torchwood. The second is Brothers & Sisters, which makes it just that much sadder to announce that according to TVLine.com B&S has just been canceled. While the show was never a ratings juggernaut, it had done well enough this season that there was much speculation that the show would be given an abbreviated sixth and final season.

Kevin and Scotty

But that's not to be. It's hard to overstate what an impact the show first made on many gay viewers when it debuted back in 2006. Created by Jon Robin Baitz, an out gay man, the show included Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys) an out and proud gay character who would go on to date, have a love life, and eventually a family with his husband Scotty Wandell (Luke Macfarlane).

To my mind, the show really marked the start of what has been a pretty strong resurgence in the development of fully fleshed out, complicated GLBT characters and it deserves credit for making same-sex affection and relationships normal for millions of viewers who might otherwise never see gay people falling in love, getting married and having kids.

No, the show wasn't perfect by a longshot, but I'll certainly miss seeing Kevin and Scotty cuddling on their couch.

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AE >> No, the show wasn't perfect by a longshot, but I'll certainly miss seeing Kevin and Scotty cuddling on their couch.

I totally agree with Michael Jensen. For the moment, I don't know where I can see Luke again except a theatre where I can't go. I hope he will appear soon on some TV shows.

The Week in Gay TV: Lady Gaga Brings the Monster Ball to HBO, and a Walker Wedding Concludes The "Brothers & Sisters" Season
Posted by Lyle Masaki on May 6, 2011

It's time for another Walker family celebration Sunday when Sarah and Luc get married on Brothers & Sisters' season finale. The long-running drama has been on the bubble for most of the season, so this week's finale looks like it'll try to end the season on a satisfying note if it is the last we see of the Walker clan.

Pics from S5E19 via AfterElton

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Take a look and make your best guess! But be warned, these are SPOILERS!

Here's the synopsis for the April 17th episode "Wouldn't it be Nice." (oh, and in case you don't recall, Michelle is the surrogate that Kevin and Scotty once tried and failed to conceive with.)

"Nora finally gives in to her feelings for Brody which leads to a spontaneous romantic getaway. Meanwhile Sarah and Luc closely consider growing their family, and a chance encounter with Michelle raises Scotty's suspicions about her whereabouts for the past several months."

"Oh, here comes Michelle the surrogate. If things had worked out with her, we wouldn't have needed you,
and you'd be in the orphanage right now fighting that singing red-haired girl for a piece of moldy bread."

"I'm not nervous ... why do you think I look nervous? You've got nerve saying I look nervous.
Who are you, the frickin' nervous police!"

"What's wrong? All I asked is if you wanted to take some of my frozen yogurt for later."

 

The April 24th episode "Father Unknown" pretty much confirms what we suspected.

"Parenthood is questionable for more than one member of the Walker family, as Justin keeps a closely guarded secret about the true paternal identity of one of his siblings and Scotty makes a shocking discovery that will bring a new life into the Walker family fold."

So what do you think the big discovery is? Have at it, but PLEASE don't put your spoiler ideas in your comment title!

"I'll bet Kevin would love to see my shadow puppet"

"Well, I have always wanted to visit Florida."

 

"Stupid Earthling! The invasion of the Katy Perry's has begun, and soon we will dominate!"

"I'm sorry, you lost me after 'turkey baster.' "

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The AfterElton.com Gay List

Posted by AfterElton.com Staff on March 14, 2011

One of our favorite mantras around the AfterElton offices is “because visibility matters.” Indeed, the idea that gay and bisexual men need to be visible, both to ourselves and to the wider culture, is one of the principle reasons AfterElton.com even exists. After all, it is only by being visible to family, friends and the world that we’ve been able to overcome the stereotypes and bigotry used to justify discrimination against the GLBT community.

That quest for visibility explains why we have done so many polls including the AfterElton Hot 100, the Fifty Greatest Gay Movies, the Top 50 Gay TV Characters, and the 50 Best Gay Books. After all, it’s not as if Entertainment Weekly is going to ask gay and bisexual men which guys we think are the hottest, which movies mean the most to us or, in the case of our latest poll, which celebrities we most admire.

But guess what? When we do so, much of the rest of the world tends to notice. The results of our Hot 100 poll are always reported in dozens of countries, and winners of other AE polls are often mentioned in all sorts of articles.

But why a poll about out celebrities? For better or worse, celebrities are some of the most influential people on the planet, and their fame allows them to either make the world a better place (Oprah Winfrey, anyone?) or act like total jackasses in front of the entire planet. (Way to go, Charlie Sheen!)

By highlighting which out gay and bisexual men our readers most admire, we celebrate not just those men, but how far the entire gay community has come. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that finding 50 out gay and bisexual men for a list like this would have been pretty hard to do.

It certainly isn’t any more. Thousands of AfterElton readers voted in our poll, nominating over 300 different gay/bi men they admired. That’s a lot of visible gay and bisexual men.

And note: we're not even including all the out women there are. (We left that poll to our sisters over at AfterEllen.com, and if you're interested you can find their results here.)

The men who made the top fifty in our poll were diverse in many ways, including not just the obvious actors and musicians who rule pop culture, but also includes two politicians, three athletes, a soldier, two writers, a sex advice columnist and a gay rights activist.

Actually, almost everyone on the list could be called a gay rights activist, and not just because they have all made the decision to be out. Rather, almost every man in the top fifty is someone who has done something to further the cause for gay equality, whether it be fighting Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, speaking up for marriage equality, or speaking out on the issue of gay teens who are bullied.

Some, like Sir Ian McKellen, have been doing it for decades, while others are brand new to the fight, but no less important or visible for that.

Alas, the results weren’t terribly racial diverse, which highlights an ongoing problem: limited GLBT visibility in minority communities. But our list did have some men of color including two Hispanic men, three Asians and two African American celebrities.

Enough pontificating about why this list matters. We’re pretty sure you already get it. It’s on to the results, starting at number 50 and working our way to number 1!

14. Luke Macfarlane

Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980 - age 31). He is best known for his role as Scotty Wandell on ABC's Brothers & Sisters. Macfarlane came out publicly in 2008.
Further Reading...

• A Pictorial Tribute to Birthday Boy Luke Macfarlane
• Interview: Matthew Rhys and Luke Macfarlane Aren't Just "Hollywood Actors"

Really? the 14th place?
By the way, it is the list of top 50 gay as follows. What do you think?

The 2011 AfterElton.com Gay List....

1. Chris Colfer
2. Adam Lambert
3. Neil Patrick Harris
4. Ricky Martin
5. John Barrowman
6. Sir Ian McKellen
7. Jonathan Groff
8. Elton John
9. Jesse Tyler Ferguson
10. Cheyenne Jackson
11. Dan Savage
12. Stephen Fry
13. Gareth Thomas
14. Luke Macfarlane
15. Russell Tovey
16. Jake Shears
17. Matthew Mitcham
18. George Takei
19. Ryan Murphy
20. Tim Gunn
21. Barney Frank
22. Dan Choi
23. Dustin Lance Black
24. Rufus Wainwright
25. Johnny Weir
26. Nate Berkus
27. Tom Ford
28. Darryl Stephens
29. Scott Evans
30. RuPaul
31. Lance Bass
32. David Burtka
33. B. D. Wong
34. Alan Cumming
35. Clay Aiken
36. Chad Allen
37. David Sedaris
38. Randy Harrison
39. Sean Hayes
40. Wilson Cruz
41. Chris Salvatore
42. Matt Doyle
43. Robert Gant
44. Alan Ball
45. Gavin Creel
46. James Duke Mason
47. Joel Burns
48. Mika
49. T.R. Knight
50. Nathan Lane

The AfterElton.com 2010 Visibility Awards

http://www.afterelton.com/poll/2010/visibility-awards-voting

Luke, Matthew and Brothers & Sisters are nominated.

*Favorite TV Drama (Brothers & Sisters)
*Favorite TV Actor (Luke Macfarlane, Matthew Rhys)
*Favorite TV Couple (Kevin & Scotty)

FIY: Other than that, they have
@ Favorite TV Comedy
@ Favorite Reality TV Series
@ Favorite Reality TV Contestant
@ Best Movie
@ Worst Movie
@ Favorite Movie Actor
@ Best Gay Moment of the Year
@ Worst Gay Moment of the Year
@ Gay/Bi Man of the Year
@ Favorite (Real Life) Gay Couple
@ Best "Coming Out" Story This Year
@ Favorite Gay Ally
@ Biggest Homophobe
@ Best Book
@ Favorite Gay Musician
@ Favorite Music Video

Check it and vote!

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Meet Your Asshat and Your Gay of the Week for the Week of November 05, 2010
Posted byEd Kennedy on November 8, 2010

I have to admit, the winner of this one surprised me quite a bit. Last week's voting split up Kevin (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty (Luke Macfarlane), because one was cheated on, and one was a cheater, and each had separate journeys to make as a result. I fully expected the wronged Kevin to run away with the vote, but it was Scotty you sided with.

There was something humanizing about revealing that Scotty wasn't just be perfect kitchen utensil for the Walker family, and you guys responded by giving him an astonishing 52.77% of the vote. His television husband was a distant second at 19.77%

Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) only managed 14.48% of the vote for negotiating the power structures of their relationship, and perky Zac Young brought up the rear at 12.97%.

With Scotty reigning over all the Gays for the week, we're sure that appetizers will be served, and wine glasses will never be empty. Which is as it should be.

The 2010 AfterElton Hot 100!

A customary event, the result of AfterElton Hot 100! has come out. Luke got the fourth place.

4. Luke Macfarlane

Rank last year: 3

He sings too! Did you catch that on the most recent episode of Brothers & Sisters where Luke Macfarlane sang that touching Irish funeral song? Granted, he was singing about Ojai Foods, which is hard to get too worked up about, but who knew he had such a beautiful voice?

As Scotty Wandell, Kevin’s love interest on ABC’s primetime soap, Luke caught our attention early on. Some have wondered what Scotty sees in the famously neurotic Kevin, but no one has ever wondered what Kevin sees in Scotty: not only is he the calm at the center of the Walker family storm, he’s got classically handsome good looks. And now that we’ve seen Scotty in both his swimming trunks and his underwear, we also know he’s got a body to die for.

Basically, Scotty is damn nice to come home to. And ever since the actor himself bravely came out in 2008, we can make a pretty good guess that Luke would be wonderful to come home to too.

And of course Matthew Rhys is also on the list.

34. Mathew Rhys

Rank last year: 34

If I remember correctly whom I voted for, one of my vote didn't come onto the list.

AfterElton makes us fun

A great April Fool article from AfterElton

Kevin and Scotty Moving From “Brothers & Sisters” to African-American Spin-off

by Brent Hartinger April 1, 2010

Think Kevin’s partner Scotty has put up with a lot of family drama on ABC’s Sunday night show Brothers & Sisters?

This fall, Kevin will be the one putting up with Scotty’s family drama in Brothas & Sistahs, a spin-off version of the show that will include Kevin and Scotty as part of the ensemble cast.

But Scotty’s family won’t be the conservative, anti-gay couple previously featured on the show. Instead, they’ll be black.

The pilot episode of Brothas & Sistahs reveals that Scotty was adopted and his biological parents are African-American, making Scotty a very light-skinned black. The first episode involves Scotty discovering and actively embracing his heritage while fussy Kevin is something of a fish-out-of-water in a family very different from his own.

“We’re currently fitting Luke MacFarlane [who plays Scotty] with a Kente cloth robe,” said Nina Hensley, formerly an executive producer on Brothers & Sisters and now the showrunner on Brothas & Sistahs. “He looks great – articulate and bright and clean and even lighter-skinned than Obama!”

“The producers pitched us a spin-off version of the show centering on a second family of Los Angeles brothers and sisters,” said Veronica Miles, President of Prime Time Programming at ABC. “But we’d been wanting to do a family drama with a predominantly African-American cast. When we suggested combining the two shows, the producers were thrilled.”

“In retrospect, having Scotty turn out to be black made perfect sense,” Hensley agreed. “Two years ago, we even did an episode where Scotty cooks collard greens!”

Scotty’s newfound black relatives on the show include a couple who have built a successful dry-cleaning franchise and are moving on up into a deluxe condo in Beverly Hills.

They’ll be played by Vivica Fox and, in his much-anticipated return to television, Martin Lawrence, who, in a dual role, will also play their sassy black maid.

Another of Scotty’s black brothers, played by Isaiah Washington, operates a junkyard in Watts with his son, although Hensley points out that Washington has contractually insisted that his character only deal with any gay characters via cellphone, so he and his TV brother Scotty will never actually be seen on screen together.

The son has not yet been cast, but Miles promises, “He’ll be cute. Really, really cute.”

As with the original Brothers & Sisters, two of the show’s primary features will be multi-person cell phone conversations and contentious dinner parties.

“I know all about black dinners,” Hensley said. “One of the girls at my sorority was black, and once I had Thanksgiving at her house. They had a turkey and everything!”

Rather than drink wine, Scotty’s family will drink wine coolers.

“I quit,” said Alfonzo Cooper, editor of AfterCosby.com, a site that analyzes people of color in popular entertainment. “No, seriously. I’m shutting my website down. You hear that clicking sound? That’s the sound of me deleting the entire website. There. It’s gone. Bye-bye!”

James Earl Jones will play Brothas & Sistahs family patriarch, a Republican senator who is also a staunch defender of the environment and gay rights.

He will also live inside Cinderella’s Castle at Disneyland’s Fantasyland and sometimes fly around on a sparkly pink unicorn.

Anticipating some criticism over the fact that a white actor will be playing a major black role, the network insists that the show will be “authentically black.”

While it’s true that most of the show’s current writers are white, the producers have recently added one African-American writer to the staff.

“We’re also thinking of maybe letting Paris Barclay direct an episode,” Miles said.

Future plot-lines include an episode where the brothers and sisters – or “brothas” and “sistahs” – fight about how to spend a $10,000 life insurance check. In the end, they decide to invest it in an all-white revival of the play Raisin in the Sun, which proves to be a massive success.

Another episode has Kevin, the only white character in the cast, organizing the entire California African-American community into an effort to thwart an attempt by the U.S. military to mine a vein of unobtanium located directly under the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP.

“Seriously?” said Justin Montgomery, a professor in media arts at the African-American Studies program at UCLA. “This is an April Fool’s Day joke, right?”

Editor’s note: Please don’t give away the joke in the subject line of your comments.

An article from AfterElton.com

AfterElton.com's Top 50 Gay Characters of All Time!

by AfterElton.com Staff
March 15, 2010

5. Scotty (Brothers & Sisters)
Previous rank: 19

Played by actor Luke Macfarlane (2006 - present)

Let's face it: playing the spouse to one of the Walker's screwed-up family members on Brothers & Sisters is a thankless role. You get a couple of scenes per episode, at most. So what is it about Luke Macfarlane's portrayal of Scotty Wandell that has caught the attention of so many AfterElton.com readers? There's something about Scotty's quiet grace that is both infectious and truly touching ? especially in the face of Kevin's non-stop neurosis. It probably doesn't hurt Macfarlane is drop-dead gorgeous.

6. Kevin (Brothers & Sisters)
Previous rank: 4

Played by actor Matthew Rhys (2006 - present)

Like Brian Kinney, Kevin Walker on Brothers & Sisters proves you don't always have to be “likable” to be interesting. And in the hands of an actor less talented than Matt Rhys, we suspect that viewers would've rejected this frequently whiny, selfish windbag years ago. But there's something about Rhys' portrayal of Kevin ? the way he hides the character's insecurity, even as he makes it screamingly obvious ? that makes you feel protective of the poor guy. Sure, he's fussy, needy, and gives new meaning to the expression “high maintenance.” But let's face it: we all know that guy ? and in some cases, we are that guy!

Original Article: http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2010/02/top-fifty-gay-tv-characters