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Q: Both the men on The New Adventures of Old Christine ping my gaydar (and are really cute, but that’s a different issue). Is either gay? – Randy, Lakewood, Co

Clark Gregg (left) and Hamish Linklater with Julia Louis-Dreyfuss

A: Neither Clark Gregg nor Hamish Linklater are gay. Both are married to women — Dirty Dancing’s Jennifer Grey in the case of Gregg.

Linklater did play a gay man in 2006 opposite Brothers & Sisters’ Luke Macfarlane (also playing gay) in The Busy World Is Hushed, a play at New York’s Playwrights Horizons. Gregg, meanwhile, played a gay guy on a 2003 episode of Will & Grace.

Q: Mickey Rourke????? Puh-leeeeeze! – Tommy, New Haven, Ct

Mickey Rourke wins a 2008 best actor Golden Globe for The Wrestler

Photo credit Jason Merritt/Getty Images

A: You make an extremely trenchant point, Tommy. All the Monkey...

NEW YORK -- At NewFest, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, which concluded Sunday, two coming-out comedies emerged as winners. Pete Jones' Outing Riley won best U.S. narrative feature, and Regis Musset's French comic drama Times Have Been Better won best foreign narrative feature at the 19th annual fest.

At the awards ceremony, NewFest artistic director Basil Tsiokos and administrative director Kerry Weldon also unveiled plans for a new screenplay competition, a staged screenplay reading series and a youth filmmakers initiative during the upcoming year.

The unofficial launch of a screenplay reading series took Tuesday evening with a performance of the Todd Stephens' sequel "Another Gay Movie 2: Gays Gone Wild." Several stars from the original film and drag entertainers RuPaul and The Lady Bunny were set to read the new script at New York's Zipper Theater.

Other NewFest award recipients included Saving Marriage, Mike Roth and John Henning's chronicle of the Massachusetts fight over gay marriage, which won best documentary.