The FDA recently "relaxed" its outright ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, changing its policy to allow donations with the caveat that donors remain celibate for one year prior to giving blood. This PSA, created by GLAAD and Gay Men's Health Crisis and starring Alan Cumming, calls bullshit.

Alan Cumming told Conan O'Brien he forgives Shia LaBeouf for being "wasted," slapping him on the ass and getting arrested during a performance of Cabaret on Broadway this summer.

Saffron Domini Burrows, Cynthia Rowley, Alan Cumming and Monica Lewinski attend the Alan Cumming Book Launch for 'Not My Father's Son' on October 6, 2014 in New York City.

In today's Tweet Beat, Ariana Grande feels like "a big sleepwalking anus," Alan Cumming finds himself smack in the middle of being middle-aged and Ice T doles out some relationship advice.

'Tis the season for Stephen Colbert to sing Christmas carols on his show all week! (The best season of all!) Last night, Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper stopped by to help Stephen with his sign-off by joining together for a beautiful and adorably sloppy version of "Let It Snow."

In today's Tweet Beat, Roseanne Barr continues her hate of Chuck Lorre and spreads it over to Ashton Kutcher, Chelsea Clinton uses some great, child-appropriate hashtags and Alan Cumming is still so cool.

The performance video for "Picasso Baby" is out, and it doesn't disappoint. Among the people at whom Jay Z raps are Judd Apatow, Adam Driver, Jemima Kirke, Jenna Lyons, Michael K. Williams, Rosie Perez, a smirky Alan Cumming, and, most notably, the performance artist Marina Abramović.

I don't know what's wrong with me (love, maybe? I guess?), but at some point in the fairly recent past I lost the ability to have celebrity crushes. I just can't remember the point of having a crush on someone you don't know, you know? How does that even work? I'm never even going to meet that person! Why would I want…

Brad Paisley's "Accidental Racist" isn't all bad. As Stephen Colbert pointed out on last night's Colbert Report, it did indeed succeed in bringing people of different races together: "This song has united all Americans — not just Black and White, but Latino, Asian, Muslim, Pacific Islander, Inuit — all of us to join…

It was around 26° last night when the amfAR New York Gala kicked off Fall 2013 Fashion Week. For some attendees, it was important to be somewhat weather-appropriate. Other folks just went right ahead and wore sheer dresses and showed plenty of skin, hypothermia (and good taste) be damned.

Louis CK, continuing to carve out a niche for himself as Sort Of Genius/the Lethargic Husky Dream Man of men and women across the nation with dark senses of humor and minor clinical depression, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night fielding questions about his choice to cast a black woman (after valiantly Googling, it…

Perfume-haver, Fleshbot award winner, actor, James Bond comic relief, and delightfully incurable Scot Alan Cumming just Tweeted a link to this 1992 Lee jeans commercial. On his blog, Cumming explains why he thinks he was cast — the director, Paul Weiland, went to see Cumming in a play, noticed he was driving a…

Award-winning director Julie Taymor decided that the sorcerer Prospero should be the sorceress Prospera and played by Helen Mirren. The visually arresting Shakespearean adaptation also features Alfred Molina, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Djimon Hounsou, David Strathairn and more!

This fashion week, we sent photographer Nilina Mason-Campbell to document the goings-on behind-the-scenes. Herewith, models reading, designers preening, dressers dressing, and, um, Alan Cumming.

Perhaps as a testament to the ceremony's name, the stars showed up at last night's Independent Spirit Awards wearing everything from ball gowns to blue jeans.

[New York, September 17. Images via Getty.]