AfterElton Briefs: Bryan Safi Plays Wingman, Barbra Clarifies, Kathy Griffin on the Red Carpet, and More!

Pauley Perrette and Neil Patrick Harris backstage at The Grammy Awards.

• Here's a sad and eye-opening article about a Shanghai fake-marriage market in which gay men and lesbians choose opposite sex partners to marry in order to placate their families.

• Barbra Streisand wants to, um, clarify her remarks about not wanting to appear on Glee: "When asked if I would ever appear on Glee, I should have said, ‘You never know.’ It was wrong to say, ‘Not if I can help it.’ What I meant was that I’ve been overwhelmed preparing for my performance on MusiCares, the Grammys, recording a new album, and starting a new movie. So I couldn’t take on any more work, and besides that, I wasn’t asked.”

• Below you can see Bryan Safi play wingman for his Infomania co-hort Ben Hoffman. Ben thinks the best way to pick up straight chicks is to hang out at a gay bar, and he needs Bryan's assistance.

• Johnny Weir has a gorgeous New York moment with Lady Gaga.

• In what will hopefully be the last time I mention GOProud at CPAC, below you can see ReasonTV's Michael Moynihan speak to Dan Choi, Sophie B. Hawkins, and others about how we're all just one big family, and we should judge people by their souls. Sophie, there's a fine line between eccentric free-spirit, and clueless airhead.

• Oh, one last item about GOProud. The board of directors of the governing organization of CPAC has (apparently) voted to exclude GOProud (and any other "homosexual advocacy" group) from next year's convention. Kumbaya, indeed.

• Couldn't find the right Valentine's Day card for your special someone? Next time you might want to try A Little To The Left, which specializes in same-sex greeting cards. I like this one, because nothing says, "I Love You" like the smell of roasted flesh.

• Below you can see cutie Chris Booker interview Kathy Griffin on the Grammy red carpet. She touches on the "Schmammys," being nominated for Best Comedy Album (which she lost), and her one-woman show coming to Broadway.

• Ordinarily, I'd rather shove hot pokers in my ears than listen to remakes of classic 80's songs (i.e. the big pile of wrong on this page), but out singer/songwriter/hot slab of beef Matt Zarley has reworked Pat Benatar's "We Belong," with proceeds going to The Trevor Project, so I'll let it pass, especially when Matt is so hearfelt about it: "I assume that the song (when Pat Benatar recorded it) was a love song. I hear the song as an anthem of unity. I think that regardless of your orientation or viewpoint, we are all of the same earth... and we are all the same. We truly all belong together. While recording the song, thinking about LGBT teens figuring themselves out, I was particularly affected by the lyric 'whatever we deny or embrace, for worse or for better, we belong together.'"

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