AfterElton.com's very own Rob Smith was on the scene in New York City recently at the Gay Men's Health Crisis Fashion Forward charity fashion show, an annual fundraiser supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Rob chatted up fashion faves Project Runway's Jack Mackenroth and Kevin Christiana, A Four Letter Word's Jesse Archer, former America's Next Top Model finalist Nic, and fashion icon Beverly Johnson about the cause, the party and more.

Check out all the celebrity interviews, fashions from designers Michael Bastian, John Varvatos, and Betsey Johnson, and some of the hot guys that rocked the runway after the break!

You might remember that we have already expressed our love of Bjorn Borg's sassy knickers. Now the fashion house is winning our gay hearts even more with a new dating site that is being promoted with an adorable ad set at the wedding of two male priests.

The story plays out to the tune Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" and ends with the the tagline "Love for all."

Check the ad out after the break!

Fall officially arrives on this episode of Alexi & Eric's Closet as the two discuss their likes and dislikes about the descending temperatures and talk about how New York is at its best this time of year. Alexi shows off her elaborate coat collection, and interviews the biggest fashion influence in her life: Her mom! And Eric discusses his questionable sleeping arrangements.

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FIn this week's episode, Alexi and Eric tell you how to look great on a first date! Whether it be flirty and cute, or sexy and chic, the two of them each pick what would look the best for both guys and girls. They also discuss how to show off your best qualities in what you're wearing.

Click on through the jump to watch it all unfold!

For their second episode, fashionistas Alexi and Eric show you the many different ways you can dress for nightlife — from the club/party scene, to the dinner/theater set, to staying at home and playing with your cats.

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For the premiere episode of our new weekly fashion vlog Alexi & Eric's Closet, fashionistas Alexi and Eric turn something plain and simple — the classic black tank top and jeans — into something chic and fabulous.

The friends use accessories to show how both men and women can create several different looks built around the blank tank top and jeans, and then model them for you on the imaginary runway in Alexi's apartment. Alexi and Eric also end each episode by revealing their secret celebrity crush of the week.

Click on through the jump to watch it all unfold! (Get it? "Unfold"? Eh...)

John Barrowman performs at Sir Andrew's birthday bash

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• On Sunday, out Torchwood and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon star John Barrowman hosted a concert for 400,000 people honoring the birthday of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, who is best known for unleashing Cats and Phantom of the Opera on an unsuspecting theatregoing public. Idina Menzel, Jonathan Ansell, Joss Stone, Jason Donovan, Denise Van Outen and more also performed.

• Speaking of Captain Jack, how awesome would it be to have an openly gay actor playing Doctor Who? And how much awesomer would it be if that actor were rascally History Boy Russell Tovey?

• Get back! Sir Paul McCartney is poo-poohing claims in a recent book that John Lennon was secretly gay and in love with him.

• Above, from 365Gay: Take a look behind-the-scenes of Christian Siriano's amazing first solo show at Bryant Park's Fashion Week.

• Lance Bass talks about dancing with men, marriage, kids, and why he's hoofing for the title on Dancing With the Stars (Hint: It involves a little of his grandma and a lot of ridicule from his old bandmates).

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Yours, truly and Viva Hollywood's Jainmy Martinez

Considering that my two-episode stint on a VH1 reality show (I Want to Work for Diddy) leaves me at least ten huge notches from reaching the Z-list, I was pretty shocked when I was approached about modeling in the AM/NY Reality Runway fashion show here in New York City. 

I mean, seriously?  Me, a model?  Being the pessimist that I am, my mind could only think of the potential disasters at hand.  What if nobody knows who I am?  What if I fall?  Also, and most importantly:  what if the clothes are ugly? 

Confused about what answer to give, I approached one of my closest friends for advice.  When I saw that she could barely contain her laughter, my mission was clear:  I was going to rock the runway, and just maybe I'd be plucked directly off of the runway by a powerful modeling agent and this would be just the break I needed to jumpstart my career in international high-fashion modeling.

Or maybe not. 

Real World: Key West castmember Paula "Walnuts" Meronek gets a fitting backstage

As the day approached, I was nervous, excited, and a little dumbfounded that I qualified as a celebrity.  To me, celebrities have always been at least people who have done something besides submit themselves to the judgment of others on national TV, but then again we live in a world where tons of people are famous for absolutely nothing, so far be it for me to exclude myself from addition to that list.

America's Next Top Model vet Shandi Sullivan rocks the DJ Booth

The event was held at a trendy club on the trendy Lower East Side of New York, an area I generally avoid like the zombie-like hipsters that frequent it avoid smiling. After taking my decidedly z-list transportation of the M103 New York City bus to the location, I began what would end up being about two hours of waiting for my fitting. 

I started to panic.  What if I fell?  What if I froze?  What if, dear God, the clothes are ugly?  (Yes, again.) As all of these different scenarios ran through my mind, I tried frantically to recall every piece of modeling info that I've learned from cycles 1-238 of America's Next Top Model:  Smile with your eyes!  Back straight!  Don't stomp!  OK, so this wasn't exactly the Dior show at Bryant Park, but if I was going to have a chance of getting discovered by a major agent and starting my new life as an international high-fashion model, I needed all the help I could get...

Just a quick note to let you Project Runway fans know that, like last season, I have somehow gained access to the final runway show for Season 5 this coming Friday morning, and will be Twittering my entire saucer-eyed, utterly uneducated fashion experience right here on this very blog.

All you have to do is tune in here at 9:00AM EDT Friday morning and I'll handle the rest. But before we get to all that, let's do a quick status check, shall we?

Going into tonight's episode, we have three functioning (relative term) members of Team Gay left: Jerell, Suede, and Blayne. This is out of 8 total designers (Terri, Korto, Leanne, Kenley, and Joe are also hanging on). It's rumored that tonight's ep features a double-elimination, which would leave six designers showing this Friday ... and could leave us with a seriously atrophied Team Gay showing at Fashion Week (particularly after last year, when Chris March, Christian, and Rami all showed).

If there's not a double-elimination tonight, there will be seven designers showing, meaning my buns will be asleep by halftime.

So what do people think? Who's gonna make it through? My money's on Jerell but I don't know if Suede and Blayne will make the cut. Lordy, it's like a whip-stitched Sophie's Choice up in here...

Share your thoughts in the comments, and check back in the morning to discuss the elimination in our recap! 

T.R. Knight shnugs with boyfriend Mark Cornelsen yesterday in Los Angeles

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• The weekend wedding of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi will be the cover exclusive of this week's People Magazine. Keep 'em comin'!

• But WTF is up with CNN International's coverage of Ellen's getting 'married'? Fearquotes are soooo 2007 ... and isn't it poor etiquette to misspell the name of one of the brides in the headline? 

• On the other hand, here's a cute clip of T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl, and others wishing Ellen and Portia well on their weekend wedding.

• Above, from our sibs at 365Gay: A look at how how dark clouds over Wall Street are dressing down fashions for next season.

• Comeback of the year Robert Downey Jr. notes in the new Rolling Stone that his rumored bisexuality in the 80's was manufactured. Like everything else in the 80's!

• When is an apology about making offensive comments about an upcoming transgender contestant on America's Next Top Model not an apology? When it's coming from FOX News. ("Because their lips are moving!" ... Wait, did I mess up the joke again? Darn it all!)

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