GOVERNORS<\/strong>. Republican governors call for delay on Kavanaugh vote<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n NOT MADONNA<\/strong>. Cher tells Ellen who she\u2019d like to do a duet with<\/a>.<\/p>\n #METOO<\/strong>. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers support<\/a>: \u2018During a question-and-answer period after an address to first-year law students at Georgetown University in Washington, Ginsburg was asked if there was anything she was excited or disappointed about regarding the current women<\/a>\u2019s movement.\u00a0After discussing the problem of \u201cunconscious bias\u201d that leads to gender discrimination, she said she was \u201ccheered on\u201d by the #MeToo movement, a national reckoning with sexual assault and harassment that has brought down dozens of rich and powerful men<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n DEBORAH RAMIREZ<\/strong>. Emails reveal GOP efforts to stymie her claims against Kavanaugh<\/a>: \u201cOn Wednesday, several conservative-media outlets\u00a0published leaks<\/a>\u00a0of some of the e-mail correspondence between Ramirez\u2019s team and Republican committee staffers, which appeared to back up Grassley\u2019s characterization. But a fuller copy of the e-mail correspondence between Ramirez\u2019s legal team and Republican and Democratic Senate staffers shows that a Republican aide declined to proceed with telephone calls<\/a> and instead repeatedly demanded that Ramirez produce additional evidence in written form. Only then could any conversation about her testimony proceed. The exchange culminated in a breakdown of communication between the two sides, as Republican and Democratic staffers traded accusations of stonewalling.\u201d<\/p>\n BEIJING<\/strong>. Gay kindergarten teacher sues school in potential landmark case<\/a>: \u201cThe teacher was dismissed in August from a school in the coastal city of Qingdao after he posted some comment on social media about an LGBT event he had attended, he told Reuters. The teacher, who declined to be identified, said he was told by the school principal that parents may not want a gay<\/a> man<\/a> teaching their children.\u201d<\/p>\n MOONING OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Christopher Meloni bares his butt<\/a>.<\/p>\n FACEBOOK<\/strong>. Major security breach gave hackers access to 50 million accounts<\/a>: \u2018Almost 50 million accounts had their access tokens taken, and Facebook has reset those access tokens. The company also reset an additional 40 million accounts who used the \u201cView As\u201d feature in the last year as a precautionary measure, for a total of 90 million accounts or about 4 percent of total users given the 2.23 billion monthly active users as of June 30.<\/p>\n RUSSIA<\/strong>. Major Trump donor made overture to top Russian official<\/a>: \u2018A Russian-born American businessman who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Donald Trump\u2019s run for president in 2016 offered to brief a high-ranking Russian official during the final months of the campaign, according to a series of emails reviewed by NBC News.<\/p>\n \u2018KIDNAPPING\u2019 OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Gay penguins at Odense Zoo in Denmark<\/a>. \u2018The zookeeper, Sandie Hedgegard Munck, said the gay<\/a> penguins wanted to be parents and likely thought the chick\u2019s mom and dad were being neglectful, according to\u00a0Denmark broadcaster DR<\/a>. \u201cThe parents disappeared, and the kid was simply kidnapped,\u201d Munck said, noting she thinks the negligence was on the part of the father in the straight penguin couple<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n TRAILER OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Alyssa Edwards \u201cDancing Queen\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n NEW TUNE OF THE DAY<\/strong>. \u201cShallow\u201d from A Star is Born<\/em><\/a>. \u2018The song is produced by\u00a0Gaga\u00a0and\u00a0Benjamin Rice, and written by Gaga\u00a0with\u00a0Andrew Wyatt,\u00a0Anthony Rossomandoand\u00a0Mark Ronson. \u201cI did work on\u00a0Joanne<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0Mark Ronson and I worked on \u201cShallow\u201d with\u00a0Mark Ronson\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Wyatt\u00a0and\u00a0Anthony Rossomando. And we made this song for Ally and Jack and it\u2019s such a special song, you know. It\u2019s two people talking to each other and talking about the need and the drive to dive in to the deep end and stay away from the shallow area. The singing that you\u2019ll hear on the soundtrack, as well as what\u2019s in the movie, is all live<\/a>. I mean we sang everything live<\/a> every time. There\u2019s no lip-syncing in this film\u2026it was a great experience,\u201d Gaga said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n FRIDAY FLASH<\/strong>. Johan Akan and friend.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alyssa Edwards, Not Madonna, Beijing, Facebook Breach, Gay Penguins, Christopher Meloni: HOT LINKS<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n