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…

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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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• Remember Dr. Katz? What a fucking great show! Remember Dave Chappelle? What a great fucking comedian. Remember when Dave Chappelle appeared on Dr. Katz and talked about super-heroes? Ah, memories...

• Eighty percent of Finnish citizens support allowing the surviving same-sex partner to keep the deceased partner's surviving child. (Phew!)

• Anderson Cooper likes seamen.

• Hey, did you hear Tom Ford's opening a new store? No? Everyone else in the entire fucking planet did. What the hell's the matter with you? What? You're deaf? Oh, shit...sorry. Read all about it (or at least get a round-up) here!

• Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling are getting married. Typically we'd be jealous of McAdams, but who could hate on such a cute couple?

• Sappho-journo Kerry Eleveld's telling HX Media and The New York Blade to shove it up their loose asses: she's headed on over to The Advocate. It may only be across the street, but it's a big step for this little lady. Read her latest - and almost last - Blade column on lobbying your lawmakers, or face the consequences.

• Not-so-sappho-journo Charlene Cothran thinks Clay Cane is the most evil person in the whole wide world. That may explain why she spells his name Cain.

• Connecticut's anti-gayers sure can talk. And boy are they craaazy!

• Speaking of crazy (and offensive) people, here's a great archive of Don Imus' bigoted, homophobic, racist and otherwise distasteful rants.

GLAAD - the "inclusive" gay media watchdog group - held their 18th annual media awards last night at New York City's Marriott Marquis. We weren't there, but GLAAD president Neil Guiliano sure as hell was. He's in almost every shot.

As for the actual winners, Patti LaBelle won for Excellence in Media Award, while Tom Ford took home the Vito Russo Award. Marc Jacobs' "bear" ad campaign won the advertising honor and, for some reason, GLAAD granted the "straight" men's magazine, Details, the Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage. Because, you know, their "Gay or X" column really helps the cause.

Find some pictures after the jump for your - um - enjoyment...

And, to read all about Jennifer Hudson and Patti LaBelle's duet, click here.

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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