AfterElton Briefs: Fashion Statements from Scott Evans, NPH, David Burtka and Jo Weil. Plus Lady Gaga vs. PETA

Plus we meet The Gossip Queens, John Amaechi refused entry, and Cody Daigle's A Home Across the Ocean prepares to open.

Scott Evans attends something wearing a highly questionable outfit.

• If you haven't gotten around to watching the True Blood finale (like me), it's still safe to read this interview with the out Denis O'Hare. Most telling is that he doesn't see his character as a villain:

In my mind, he’s not the villain. He’s the hero. I play him like a hero. He has his agenda, and his agenda is correct. He has people he loves and he has desires and needs. If you look at it from his point of view — if Eric, Sookie, and Bill are the villains — they do terrible things to him. They double-cross him, they lie to him, they use him. They kill his lover of 700 years. They take from him, then spurn his offerings. We always play the scenes straight-up. He’s desperate to believe he can have a friend in Bill. He truly decided that Eric was someone who thought like him and felt like him. He thought he’d found an ally. It’s incredibly hurtful.

• This Thursday, September 16th, AfterElton.com reader Cody Daigle's play, A Home Across the Ocean opens at the Off Broadway's Theater Row. He writes movingly about his own journey to define family and how it led to this story. If the play is as good as the essay, you should go see it.

• Neil Patrick Harris says he would never out another celebrity, which doesn't surprise me. However, the fact that he met hottie partner David Burtka on the street does surprise me. I'm not picturing it happening at a sidewalk sale after last call at a gay bar, but it's probably more mundane than that.

Neil and David at the Tommy Hilfiger show, with lots of patterns.

• That Florida Governor Charlie Crist is an opportunist should surprise no one. That his current act of opportunism is that he's coming out with a comprehensive gay rights agenda for his Senate campaign that includes everything but marriage might surprise some folks. If I was still a Miami resident, I might have voted for him since the Democratic candidate has no hope of being elected.

• Coronation Street plans to have their lesbian couple labeled as "sinful" by an evangelical preacher, which seems to be a provocative storyline. Color me intrigued.

• Lady Gaga carried her Don't Ask Don't Tell message on to her appearance on The Ellen Show. Ellen, who is a vegan, nonetheless had a gift for the meat-attired singer. Which seems a more productive approach than the ridiculous cry for attention that PETA put out. Did anyone think Gaga was actually wearing real cuts of meat?

• As long as we're still talking about Lady Gaga, she's signed a deal for her own fragrance with Coty. I find it unlikely that it will smell like rotting meat.

• Jezebel spoke with Savannah Dooley, the writer of the ABC Family show Huge, and asked her what her dream project would be. I guess we'd all be fighting over who on the staff got to cover this:

But my dream project? I was reading a message board one time, which I should never do, because people write some really stupid things, but someone was like, "I don't like the title Huge, I think it's offensive. That's like having a show with a bunch of gay kids and calling it Queer." And I'm like, I WOULD WRITE THAT SHOW! That literally is the show that I would write, and that would be my dream project. I'm not kidding. Not kidding even a little.

It's certainly underrepresented. It's weird that there's nothing you can watch that's like that, that's got a sense of humor, that's direct. In a good way. Where gay is the focus instead of the sidekick. Queer, about a gay camp. Maybe it's across the lake. Like a spin-off.

• Next Monday, Logo is going to premiere their new daily chat show called The Gossip Queens, starring Gaysian sweetheart Alec Mapa. It better not get preempted locally like Oprah's premiere did today (curse you, Rafael Nadal!), or they're going to have one ticked off homo in the hills.

• Modern Family has cast the part of Cam's mother Barb, and it's no one that we had guessed. Only snicks jumped up and down when the name Celia Weston was announced, but he squealed loud enough for everyone.

• CBS has signed a contract to keep airing the Tony Awards through at least 2013. Thanks to back-to-back ratings successes with Neil Patrick Harris and Sean Hayes as hosts mean it's apparently profitable enough to honor shows 99.9% of the population will never see.

• 25 years ago today, Super Mario Bros was released in Japan. Since I remember a time before the little plumbers were so popular you had to stand in line to play, I must be really, really old.

I assume Mario is straight with his Princess Peach obsession, but I've always had suspicions about Luigi.

• Our friends at Bilerico alert us to Stan Solomon, campaign manager for Indiana's 7th Congressional district candidate Dr. Marvin Scott. The homophobic tweets coming from this man, who vaguely resembles Santa Claus, would make the Westboro Baptist Church blush. The least scary thing he said was "Gay stands for Got AIDS Yet." This man has to resign.

• Say what you will about the MTV Video Music Awards, but the Lady Gaga-heavy show last night attracted 11.4 million viewers, making it the most watched show (suck on it, Jersey Shore!) on the network since 2002.

• Out NBA legend John Amaechi says the door staff of a local Manchester gay bar Crunch refused his party entrance because he was "too big, too black and trouble." The club later claimed that he had been flagged by other bars on the radio service NiteNet as a problem, but representatives from the only bars Amaechi had been to that night said they don't participate in the service. He's filed a racial discrimination complaint with Equality and Human Rights Commission.

• The Washington Post shines a light on the growing movement to exclude same-sex couples from the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. The reason? To get evangelical and Catholic lobbies to support the measure. Those groups would rather scrap immigration reform entirely than allow same-sex couples to stay together. How ... Christian of them.

• It's a fashion overload today (especially for those of us that work from home in our pajamas), as Forbidden Love's Jo Weil and Katrin Hess strutted their stuff for Minx Fashion Menue 2010 in Germany. Even better, Jo later strutted his stuff on the runway.

Why can't he do a swimwear fashion show instead?

• The upcoming Rocky Horror Picture Show episode of Glee will have original castmembers Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors) and Meat Loaf (Eddie, Ex Delivery Boy) appear in cameos. Susan Sarandon (Janet Weiss) says she's love to do the show, but no one has asked her

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