Matthew Morrison covers the standard "It Don't Mean a Thing" on his album Where It All Began (222 Records, June 4). Smooth, man.

Above, Life & Style (January 7, 2013) dubs Ryan Lochte the "best serial partier" of 2012. Below, Star (January 7, 2013) flaunts this hot shot of Josh Hopkins:

Embraceable Hugh Jackman is pictured biking by National Enquirer (January 7, 2013) and making a pit stop in In Touch (January 7, 2013):

More after the jump...

To see the full reading of Dustin Lance Black's 8 as staged in L.A. this weekend, keep reading...

Elton John's Oscar party was dripping with gay men and/or men that gay men find attractive. Above, that's Matt Morrison, Chace Crawford, JC Chasez and Colton Haynes (the latter of whom tweeted the pic). Don't know the cutie in the middle or the lovely lady.

The party also attracted Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, Ryan Kwanten, Ian Somerhalder and Chris Colfer.

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

My memory's fuzzy on the exact quote, but I think Liza Minnelli always said NO ONE could sing her mother's signature tune "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" like Judy Garland, except for Matthew Morrison and Gwyneth Paltrow. (If you're not a Judy purist, the latter is available on iTunes as we speak and then burst into song.)

Matthew Morrison chats with Out, talking about his Elton John duet and the LGBT visibility Glee is providing on TV. He also was asked about his stint at Broadway Bares, one of my favorite nights in years (my review here). About Bares, he said:

"It was exhilarating. People don’t know this, but everyone is nervous about going out there, so everyone’s backstage getting drunk—kind of easing the nerves a little bit. I didn’t think of it as a strip show. It’s a performance. And the audience is so into it. They’re all drunk, too. It’s a fun show to be a part of."

Glee hunk Matthew Morrison is releasing his debut solo Mercury Records single "Summer Rain" today at iTunes. No, it's not a Belinda Carlisle cover. It's also definitely not trying to appeal to the ankle-biters, and he's not trying to be someone he's not (no out-of-nowhere rappers, no bowties made of hair).

After the jump, behind-the-scenes video of Morrison performing the song, which is the first release from his upcoming (May 10) debut album...

Tom Brady plants one on his dad

Men are kissing other men a lot more lately. Even the kind of men who aren't just using the kiss as a necessary step toward oral sex.

I remember during the Lou Pearlman days, whenever I'd meet a new boyband, I'd have to do this weird, manly-but-friendly half-hug/half-handshake. The only boybander who ever kissed me on my cheek was straight arrow Matthew Morrison, and that was how I knew he would never stay in LMNT but was instead Broadway-bound. (Yes, this was unnecessary braggadocio.)

It's Matthew Morrison's straightest-ever interview (he's been on hetero-damage control ever since he was ambushed by an Elle journalist who assumed he is gay), but Details mitigates that with his gay-friendliest photo shoot. Meaning he's shamelessly shirtless.

Keep reading to see the entire shoot, including scans from the magazine that were not featured online...