FLORIDA<\/strong>. Andrew Gillum blasts racist Ron DeSantis in gubernatorial debate<\/a>: : \u201cAs my grandmother used to say \u2014 a hit dog will holler.\u201d<\/p>\n NATALIE PORTMAN<\/strong>. Channeling Lady Gaga<\/a>?<\/p>\n OMAROSA<\/strong>. Trump lying about not using iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n Clearly #45 memory is fading fast\u2026 He ALWAYS used his personal iPhone in WH for calls<\/a> even after being told over and over again about the security risk. He disliked his secure gov issued cell- he said it was slow and \u201cbuggy\u201d pic.twitter.com\/k3ZruFWGzS<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 OMAROSA (@OMAROSA) October 25, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n KHASHOGGI<\/strong>. Saudis admit killing of journalist was premeditated<\/a>: \u2018The latest change is likely to cast further doubt on the kingdom\u2019s explanation of what happened to Mr. Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia\u2019s narrative has already been met with widespread skepticism, not least by President Trump, who called it \u201cone of the worst in the history of cover-ups.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n MIGRANT CARAVAN<\/strong>. Homeland Security puts in official call for Troops at border<\/a>.<\/p>\n SWEETENER<\/strong>. Ariana Grande announces worldtour<\/a>.<\/p>\n FRANK BRUNI<\/strong>. Donald Trump\u2019s gay amnesia<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cAs your president,\u201d Trump thundered, \u201cI will do everything in my power to protect our L.G.B.T.Q. citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.\u201d He enunciated that consonant cluster with extra crispness, as if especially proud of himself.\u00a0You can listen here<\/a>. The audience applauded, prompting him to add: \u201cI have to say, as a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said.\u201d<\/p>\n NYC<\/strong>. Police seek man who used gay slurs, threw liquid on man in Chelsea<\/a>: \u2018The homophobe approached a 19-year-old man<\/a> in an Eighth Avenue Duane Reade near W. 17th Street on July 18 at 7:15 p.m. and called him a \u201cfaggot,\u201d a police spokesman said. When the victim fled the store the man<\/a> followed him and continued to yell gay<\/a> slurs at the teen<\/a>. The rattled victim turned and peppered sprayed the man<\/a>, who splashed the teenager\u2019s face with an unknown before running east on W. 17th Street, authorities said.\u2019<\/p>\n DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR<\/strong>. Judge rejects conservative request to halt the Houston event<\/a>: \u2018Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal put it simply in her four sentence order, issued just days\u00a0after the lawsuit \u2014 blasting gay marriage and transgender public events\u2014 was filed against Mayor Sylvester Turner and Rhea Lawson<\/a>, the head of the city\u2019s library system. The judge explained the four litigants applied for injunction to halt the story hour on the grounds that it violated the freedom or religion clause in the Constitution and said, \u201cThere is no basis to support the requested relief. The application is denied.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n TO BACHELORETTE PARTIES WHO CHOOSE GAY BARS<\/strong>. An open letter<\/a>: \u2018Put down your vodka crans, take off those penis<\/a> hats and listen up. I have a simple request for you: \u201cCan you please leave?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n JARED POLIS<\/strong>. Will he be the first openly gay person elected governor in the U.S.?<\/a> \u201cThe Colorado Democrat is consistently\u00a07points ahead<\/a>\u00a0in the polls and has thus far spent more than $20 million of his own fortune to boost his campaign. The Republican nominee, State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, has spent just $13 million in total. And of course, Polis has plenty more to spend \u2014 he\u2019s the third-richest member of Congress,\u00a0according to Forbes<\/a>, and his fortune clocks in at over $300 million.\u201d<\/p>\n RUPERT EVERETT<\/strong>. On playing Oscar Wilde<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cOscar Wilde, for me is a kind of patron saint figure, almost actually a Christ of the gay<\/a> liberation movement,\u201d Everett said in an appearance on \u201cPopcorn with Peter Travers.\u201d \u201cAnd since I\u2019m a part of that, and it\u2019s been a part of my career and I\u2019ve been a gay<\/a> man<\/a> negotiating a career in a largely heterosexual boys<\/a> club, he\u2019s been for me a kind of Christ figure. And I felt that\u2019s what I could really put everything in myself into when I made a film, this kind of passion of Oscar Wilde really, which is what my film is.\u201d<\/p>\n PHILADELPHIA<\/strong>. Gay immigrant freed after ICE arrest<\/a>: \u2018Jose \u201cIvan\u201d Noe Nu\u00f1ez Martinez, a gay<\/a> Mexican man<\/a> taken into custody in January as he met with federal immigration authorities in West Philadelphia to try to resolve his status, was poised to walk out of a detention center on Wednesday after winning the opportunity to post bail. The $10,000 bail was in the process of being paid, and\u00a0Nu\u00f1ez Martinez would probably be leaving the York center Wednesday night or Thursday morning, according to his lawyer, Audrey Allen.\u2019<\/p>\n LIFE THREATENING RESCUE OF THE DAY<\/strong>. A man<\/a> tries to cut ropes off a whale while his friend yells.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n TRAILER OF THE DAY<\/strong>. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n GHOSTLY APPARITION OF THE DEEP<\/strong>. \u201cThis rarely-seen Grimpoteuthis sp., commonly known as an umbrella octopus, was approximately 60cm (almost two feet) long!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n THIRSTY THURSDAY<\/strong>. Albert Belmonte.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post Andrew Gillum, Mrs. Maisel, Whale Rescue, Omarosa, Frank Bruni, Bachelorette Parties, Rupert Everett: HOT LINKS<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n