On Tuesday night, Melissa Etheridge single-handedly debunked Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claims that Iran doesn't have homosexuals like the U.S. does. The 46-year-old singer-songwriter played a concert at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square to promote her new album, The Awakening.

"I had been in the house of God sometimes when I was young and they told me that I was not welcome," Etheridge said, "so I went to Iran. That's a place to go to."

Later, in a nod to Al and Tipper Gore, who were repping the straight contingent in the front rows, the Oscar-winner proclaimed, "Al Gore is the secret president, like the 007 president." Nearby were Rolling Stone honcho Jann Wenner and his fashion designer beau Matt Nye, Rosie's partner Kelly O'Donnell, and actress Tammy Lynn Michaels.

Referring to Michaels, the mother of her one-year-old twins, Etheridge belted out a song with the lyric, "I don't want to have a threesome," adding, "In case your loved one has a dream...." Tammy Lynn had recently written on her blog, hollywood farm girl, that, while pregnant, she shouted to Etheridge, "Linda Evans of Dynasty wants to have a threesome with us!" only to realize she had been dreaming. Etheridge turned it into a song. She later told Radar more about her recent songwriting evolution. "I found myself trying to make songs to compete with belly shirts and 19-year-olds," she said. "After my diagnosis of cancer, I [realized] people want [to hear] about the experience I'm going through."

Threesome dreams and all.