AfterElton Briefs: Green Day Rocks the Tony Awards, Greg Louganis Returns To Diving and John Waters Wants a USO Tour

Plus gay arrests in Pakistan, play Ask a Celebrity with Kristin Davis, and hear why the Cleveland Brown's Scott Fujita is a GLBT activist.

Give clothes a second chance.

• Above you can see a French ad for a fabric dye, where the ugly shirt you receive for Valentine's Day can be regifted to the same person who gave it to you by the application of Dylon Fabric Dye. That cancels out any goodwill to the French for the McDonald's ad.

• Greg Louganis reflects on living with HIV, Matthew Mitcham's triumph, and his return to Olympic diving - as a youth coach.

• Annie Lennox has been named a United Nations AIDS Goodwill Ambasssador. Lennox has been active for a number of years fighting the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and young girls in Africa.

• In a tour that I predict would sellout if he did it stateside, John Waters says he wants to do a USO show for the troops.

I want to do a USO tour. I want Beth Ditto to be my Marilyn Monroe, and have Iggy Pop wrestle with Bin Laden look-alikes. I want to do the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell, we’re going to hell’ tour. It would be great.

• The latest in 365 Gay's "Ask a Celebrity Expert" series has Sex and the City 2's Kristin Davis responding to a question about what to do if you're dating a gay man, and you're a straight woman. Her answer surprised me.

• Brothers & Sisters hottie Luke MacFarlane is starring in a production of Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir at the Susan Stein Shiva Theater in New York City July 1-3, and it sounds like he'll be singing.

• Anti-gay Iowa State Senator Merlin Bartz, who has railed against gay families getting the family discount for camping at state parks, writes an editorial saying that that discrimination is being discriminated against in his state. Good luck with that tactic.

• On the heels of President Obama declaring LGBT Pride Month, San Francisco Pride will have the first ever address (via video tape) by a sitting Speaker of the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi's  message will be played to crowds July 27th at the San Francisco Civic Center.

• The latest trailer for True Blood Season 3 has some tantalizing images of underutilized Pam and Lafayette sprinkled in with some other action packed hotness.

• I'm trying to be accurate here, but Dan Savage is reporting that in Pakistan a couple has been arrested for having a gay wedding. The way I read the report, a man and a transgender woman were arrested.

• NFL player Scott Fujita continues speaking up for GLBT rights, saying that his activism comes from the experiences of his parents, who spent time in the internment camps in World War II. They taught him to stand up for the rights of everyone. 

• Over the weekend, Kate Clinton and Lary Kramer each received the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award for their unique contributions to GLBT literature. There are even pictures of Larry smiling from the ceremony.

• Gay flight stewards at KLM are asking not to be forced to fly to Iran, where they have to overnight. The company has denied the request, saying they already have too many female employees who don't like to fly to Iran because they have to wear headscarves. Maybe it's me, but being sentenced to death for being gay trumps ugly headwear.

• The folks at MTV get all the swag. As part of the announcement for the new Thundercats movie, they received a poster and a piece of artwork showing a seriously stylized Lion-O. Somehow I'm expecting less humor, "Snarf, snarf, snarf."

Can't things be revived without being made so serious?

• Ain't It Cool is claiming confirmation of Captain America costume mockups, and while it's not the baggy fatigues being reported yesterday, it's not sexy spandex either. Anyone into rubber is likely to love it.

• Arizona Governor Jan Brewer sinks to a new low in that state's discussion of discrimination and victimhood. Looking at politicians in general these days, I'm reminded of what will likely become the most quoted line ever uttered by President Obama: "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."

• Green Day themselves will appear on the 2010 Tony Awards performing music from American Idiot.

• Disgraced minister Ted Haggard is opening a new church that is inclusive of "gay, straight, bi, tall, short" membership, but don't expect them to conduct your gay wedding. Much like many all-inclusive resorts and alcohol, his inclusive doesn't include gay weddings.

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