• A look at Vogue's first black cover model: Beverly Johnson.

• Another anti-gay Republican reverend bites the dust: D. James Kennedy dead at 76.

• Gay Blind Item Madness: which media "insider" enjoys a little ManHunt?

• Tom Ford's a party monster.

• Queer copper stands up for equality.

• Anti-gay Ugandan not about Human Rights Watch's meddling.

• Wait, straight people hustle for sex on Craigslist, too?

Always a class act, designer Tom Ford once likened his new cologne's scent to that of a man's crotch.

Now, we're not sure where Ford's fashionable nose goes, but his cologne's apparently got another prominent, perhaps illicit aroma:

…Does [Ford's] scent Tuscan Leather actually smell like cocaine? Well, according to cognoscenti of that drug, yes, a bit. “That’s what everyone says,” admits a counterboy at the Ford store on Madison, who adds that one customer even bought a bottle because he thought it smelled like coke.

Homeboy better watch out for drug dogs. And, also, ravenous coke heads looking for a fix.

Journo Geofrrey Gray points out, however, that Ford's scent's way more affordable than the white stuff: $149 for 49 grams. At current market value, 49 grams of blow would run you about $2,450.

Or so we imagine…

Move over Tom Ford, there's a new designer sex symbol on the block. A studly looking Marc Jacobs appears on Out's September issue and let's just say he's letting it all hang out.

In addition to appearing nudie on the cover, Mr. MJ opens up about…well, everything, including his much-publicized relationship with former rent boy Jason Preston.

I had a relationship with him, and it was crazy, and sometimes it was a lot of fun, and sometimes it was not a lot of fun, and the biggest frustration was that I wanted him to be something he wasn’t, and I don’t mean on a social level, and I don’t mean about his past or anything like that—I just mean that I wanted to come home and have somebody be available and have conversations and just to be there.

44-year old Jacobs, who designs two eponymous labels and acts as Louis Vuitton's creative director, recently re-kicked his heroin habit, an addiction that no doubt shot out of his physical insecurities. "I used to really hate seeing my own reflection in the mirror… I just avoided having my picture taken." Well, Marc, you're definitely looking drool worthy these days.

For those of you keeping count, Jacobs is the third cover-queer in so many months. If you include Mika, of course, which we do…

• Love him or hate him, you can't piss on Michael Lucas' new mission:

In the past few months I have run into about four acquaintances who have been brutally beaten recently in Chelsea, either during a mugging or for being gay. Interestingly, all of those attacks have occurred on the east side of 8th Avenue, around 22nd street, but I've also heard of other similar attacks in Chelsea and in Hell's Kitchen.

I am going to be writing a story about this in the New York Blade and interviewing people for it, including members of the New York Police Department, which has been almost completely unresponsive despite the fact that all four of the people I spoke to had filed reports.

If you or anyone you know has experienced such an attack in or around these areas in Manhattan please contact me directly at michael@lucasentertainment.com.

• Susan Stanton - the pre-op trannie formerly known as Largo, Florida, city manager, Steve Stanton - has lost her bid for Sarasota's city manager position.

• Andy Warhol's Interview for sale.

• Iowan Governor Chet Culver signed the state's anti-discrimination bill, thus ensuring that gays will be treated with the respect, dignity and nonchalance they deserve. Starting on July 1st, that is - until then, it's totally open season.

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Gay designer Tom Ford knows a thing or two about S-E-X. The Santa Fe-bred stunner practically reinvented copulation with his work at Italian fashion house, Gucci. It's been a few years since Ford left the brand and, as we're sure you've heard, Ford recently opened an eponymous store on Madison Avenue. And - surprise, surprise! - he's been making the press rounds.

This week's New York contains a hefty profile of the sex-crazed sartorialist, in which Ford laments our culture's rigid sex laws:

It’s part of our nature, wanting sex; you eat tonight and you think you’re full, but then tomorrow you’re hungry again. Now there’s all this cartoon sex because porn is so widespread—the girl going he he he he and the guy going uh uh uh uh—so boring. Imagine a hundred years ago, when you were just drawn to the person—imagine all the weird sex that happened! They didn’t know what to do, they just did what they liked. Think of how perverted it must’ve been…

Oh, don't worry, Tom, we have. Rest assured you had a starring role. And trust when we don't know anyone quite so pervy!

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The world's most stylish fashionistas, singers, actors and hangers-on made their way to The Metropolitan Museum of Art last night for the Costume Institute's Gala. This year the institute honored the late, great French designer Paul Poiret. Poiret's stunning designs drew on both Oriental and art deco aesthetic, but constantly revolved around his favorite flower: the rose.

Our invitation must have gotten lost in the mail, so we had to live vicariously through press images. Shame, because we would have loved to pick Tom Ford and French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld's respective brains. Oh well, there's always next year.

Take a look at some more shots, after the jump…

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• Stephen Colbert had "mega" sympathy for Ted Haggard. [Huffington Post]

• Tom Ford's spritzing his shit all over town. And when we say "his shit", we mean his new fragrance, Black Orchid. [International Herald Tribune]

• Melrose Place's just been released on DVD. While we doubt Tori Spelling will get her father's residuals, we know that Doug Savant's chatting with AfterElton about his gay role on the prime-time sudster. [AfterElton]

• Is People Magazine the coming out go to? It looks that way, yes. [Jossip]

• Let's get one thing straight: if it weren't for the gay sex, Ted Haggard's gay sex scandal would only be a scandal. And don't you forget it. [Rocky Mountain News]

• Two Canadians want to open a gay camp. Said camp not to be based on the movie, Camp. [Winnipeg Free Press]

• Yikes! Tom Cruise is crazier than we thought. [Mollygood]

• Lezzie baby mama drama: Atlanta judge rejects woman's appeal to revoke ex-lover's adoptive rights. [Sovo]

• Ads in space!!!! (Thank those geeks at MIT.) [Boston Globe]

• Tom Ford's website. 'Nuff said. [Tom Ford]

• African businesses join the fight against AIDS. Yay! [VOA News]

• Good God. The Brokeback Mountain shirts being auctioned off on Ebay went for over $100,000! [Ebay]

• News of the World's anonymous source has more info about the gay soccer player orgy story, this time with even more kinky sex. Says the source: "But they're not gay. It's normal for some of them to do this." Um, sure. [News of the World]

• Tom Ford continues to attack hot guys during photoshoots. Jake didn't seem to mind Ford's hand shoved down his pants. [Towleroad]

• The next time meth addicts log onto a gay chat sight looking to "party n' play," they may just end up up talking to a drug counselor instead. [NY Times]

• Lindsay Lohan hearts Angelina Jolie [Zap2it]

• We’re beyond wondering how she does it, but Madonna looks great in yet another video. [Made In Brazil]

• The normally butch Tom Ford gets a little queeny in this video clip from the Vanity Fair shoot. [Vanity Fair]

• Don’t forget, the Grammys are tonight. Hopefully we’ll see a Madonna/Mariah slapfest. [BBC]

• The editorial staff of the NY Press has walked out after the publishers refused to print the Danish cartoons that are causing uprising across the world. [Boozhy]

• Michael Lucas has also recently addressed the subject on his blog. Porn and politics do indeed mix. [Lucas Blog]

• We prefer Tom Ford photoshoots where the fashion guru is frolicking with barely dressed triplets and not naked starlets. [Just Jared]

• Tip to Karl Lagerfeld: stick to fashion. [NY Daily News]

• Don't expect The Gays' two favorite music divas, Madonna and Mariah, to get all friendly at tomorrow night's Grammy's. They're being kept apart. [NY Daily News]

• Apple has cut the price of the Shuffle and added a Nano that we might actually be able to afford. [Reuters via Yahoo]

• Foreign HIV/AIDS infected sporty types get the OK to travel to the Gay Games. [Chicago Tribune]

• The San Francisco Library is giving homophobes in the Bible Belt something new to protest: a traveling exhibition on gay history is coming to the Midwest and the South. [San Jose Mercury News]

Dear Queer Questions,

Signed,
Glabrous isn’t Glamorous

Dear GIG,

Well the real issue here is the fact that you are dating a blogger! By definition they are self-obsessed and controlling so you have a battle ahead of you. But do not fret. We have the answer.

There is a compromise. Perhaps you can agree on trimming, or manscaping. This will keep his hair under control while saving you from his sandpaper stubble. Shaving does not need to be to the skin. A trimmed chest looks 100 times better than a bare chest covered in razor bumps. Look to Tom Ford for inspiration. He was a huge fan of the hairy chest and made it sexy during his reign at Gucci.

You may also want to start watching 70’s porn. Get your boyfriend all hot and hard by watching all these hairy guys go at it. He obviously is not seeing enough positive images of guys with hairy chests. This could be a way to show him that hairy guys are hot too.

Hoping for Hair,
Queerty Queers