Moms of Queer Kids: Coming Out

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Ex ‘People’ Writer Talked Tail With Trump, Tells Hillary How To Double Down

TOWLEROAD EXCLUSIVE: So he thought about it. Donald Trump almost commented on Bill Clinton’s infidelities in his first debate against Hillary Clinton, but said he refrained from doing so because Chelsea was in the audience. “Everything I wanted to say I got out, except for the transgressions of Bill,” Trump offered after the debate. “I’m very happy that I was able to hold back on the indiscretions with respect to Bill Clinton because I have a lot of respect for Chelsea Clinton, and I just didn’t want to say what I was going to say.”

But while Trump was being so gracious toward Chelsea, you’ll notice, he was also scrupulously making sure he wouldn’t hold up an unflattering mirror to his own orange-tinted skin. And, boy, does he have some blemishes to hide – especially for a belle who can’t get to the ball without the good favor of the conservative set, with their famous displays of moral rectitude. Listen up, Hillary! Here are some slings and arrows you should be launching at your jowly rival every chance you get!

I got to hear, first hand, his gloating … reveries about the bevies of women who were routinely calling his office to ask him out.

As Trump increasingly basks in the embrace of the religious right, where is their outrage over the period when The Donald was married to Ivana, with whom he has three children – and was having an affair with Marla Maples? As the People magazine reporter who taped Trump posing as his own publicist, the so-called “John Miller,” I got to hear, first hand, his gloating – I think we can even say braggadocious – reveries about the bevies of women who were routinely calling his office to ask him out.

He named names too. Carla Bruni was one of them, he (or Miller) told me. “Carla is a very beautiful girl,” he allowed. “I saw her once quickly and she’s beautiful and all, but I think that he’s got a whole open field really. A lot of the people that you write about, and you people do a great job, by the way, but a lot of the people that you write about really are — I mean, they call. They just call. Actresses, people that you write about just call to see if they can go out with him and things.” He went on to say that Kim Basinger and Madonna had phoned him, just beggin’ for a date with the hunky (in his estimate, I assume, not mine) real estate “mogul” (his term not mine).

This was at a time when he was freshly divorced from Ivana, but supposedly in a committed relationship with Marla Maples. Although that too – like everything in his Trumpocentric universe – was apparently open to negotiation. Trump had recently given Marla a rock, and she confirmed to me that it was an engagement ring – but when I asked Trump (er, Miller) if it was really OK to be playing “the whole open field” when he’d just gotten engaged, I was treated to the weirdly rubbery nature of ‘facts’ in Trumpland. “It was never an engagement ring,” he assured me. “This was a way of giving Tiffany some business, in addition to getting Ivan— getting Marla something that would be nice.”

the thrice-wed lothario he seems to measure marital success by quantity not quality, and seems to think that mistresses count for extra credit,

I bet Ivana, or Marla, or whatever her name is, would have thought a little bit of truth would be nice. I hope the American people will wake up and decide that, for them too, a little bit of truth might be nice. Or better than nice; after all, this is the election we’re talking about. This is four years as the president of the United States, we’re talking about; four years as commander in chief of an army and an arsenal just a smidge too big to be at the disposal of a thin-skinned, easily flustered playground bully.

That should matter to all of us. But for “values voters,” for Evangelicals, for Christian conservatives, for the soi-disant Moral Majority, who fervently profess that their lives and their political choices are guided by faith and conservative values, Trumps rubbery relationship with the truth should be especially crucial. And his utter contempt for marriage should matter.

“He believes strongly in the marriage concept,” Trump/Miller told me. If that was the only thing Trump ever said – or did – it should indeed fan the hopes of the newly-infatuated religious right. But since the thrice-wed lothario he seems to measure marital success by quantity not quality, and seems to think that mistresses count for extra credit, it is painfully clear that Trump doesn’t have quite the same “marriage concept” in mind as Christian voters do.

That’s why it’s time for Hillary to grab hold of the sensitive topic of marital infidelities, turn it right around, and shine the spotlight on him. On the night of October 9, voters who profess to care about marriage need to see Trump in the full, glaring light of what he has really said and really done. Even if Ivanka is in the room.

Sue Carswell is an author and on staff at Vanity Fair. The opinions expressed are not meant to represent the opinions of any other entity.

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47 Pics of the Point Foundation's Glamorous Gala

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Revolutionary LGBT History: The Black Panthers Supported Gay Rights

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Puppy Play, Kim Kardashian, RBG, Julian Assange, LeBron James, Kyle Dean Massey: HOT LINKS

ATTACKING VETERANS. Trump says veterans with PTSD saying aren’t “strong” enough and that they just “can’t handle it”: “When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat — and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it.”

PUPPY PLAY. New photo series on display in Brooklyn, “Alpha, Beta, Omega”, explores the pup play community: “Puppy Play, while born out of the Old Guard leather scene, has become its own community in recent years. It is focused around a primal headspace, often referred to as “Pup space,” that many find extremely comforting. This is the highly sought after mindset where you eschew your human condition and assume the simplified headspace of a dog or young puppy.”

PARIS. Kim Kardashian West says she feared being raped when robbers broke into her apartment and stole $10 million in jewelry.

WIKILEAKS. Julian Assange moves cancelled announcement to Berlin: “Some believe the video announcement by the WikiLeaks founder could be an “October surprise” geared towards the U.S. presidential election. Supporters of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump have said they believe the announcement will be damaging to the candidacy of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.”

PNP. Looking at the dangerous connection between Grindr and meth abuse in West Hollywood.

MALE MODEL MONDAY. Oliver Stummvoll. 

RBG. SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shares life advice: ‘In every good marriage,’ she counseled, ‘it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.’ I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”

OH-ME-O, OH-MY-O, OH, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Hillary Clinton picks up the endorsement of Ohio’s very own King James. 

HITCHED. Broadway stars Kyle Dean Massey and Taylor Frey have said ‘I do’: “The longtime couple tied the knot on Saturday night (October 1) in Palm Springs, Calif. Taylor documented the intimate event on his Instagram Stories and Snapchat pages.”

ROYALS BEHAVING BADLY. Prince George doesn’t seem as keen as the rest of the Kensington Palace clan on waving to his fans.

MONDAY MAN. Titus Unlimited.

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Mariah on ‘Empire,’ Sarah Jessica Parker Gets A ‘Divorce’ and More TV This Week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

The last time Lee Daniels got his paws on Mariah Carey, he slapped a mustache on her and she almost won an Oscar. This time, her turn on Daniels’ TV guilty pleasure, Empire, will put Mimi in a role that she’s a bit more familiar with. It’s much less of a stretch for Ms. Carey to play a diva on Wednesday’s episode, 9 p.m. Eastern on Fox.

Pawnee’s own April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) joins the judging table this week on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2, 8 p.m. Eastern Thursday on Logo. If April had her way, while the queens deliberate, the judges could occupy their time by calling the corners, making Voodoo dolls or painting Orin’s fingernails black.

Find out what all the fuss is about when Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda hosts Saturday Night Live 11:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC. Check out Miranda’s comedic timing from his appearance on Difficult People.

Say buh-bye to Carrie Bradshaw as Sarah Jessica Parker leaves her bubbly, romantic TV persona behind for a story of love gone sour in HBO’s Divorce, premiering Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern on HBO. Co-starring Thomas Haden Church as Parker’s husband, the story chronicles the suburban sadness that leaves their relationship in ruins.

One of this season’s freshest, funniest new series, Insecure, debuts Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on HBO. From creator Issa Rae, the brains behind the book and brilliant web series The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, the new series is a whipsmart tale about one clever (but at times still clueless) young woman’s experience growing up black in contemporary South Los Angeles.

What are you watching this week on TV?

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Do We Really Need A “Dynasty” Reboot?

File under Things You’ll Absolutely Never Need: A Dynasty reboot.

Nevertheless, a Dynasty reboot you shall receive: The CW will be taking on the soapy Carringtons and scandalous Colbys in a new series scheduled for 2017.

Related: Celebrate The 35th Anniversary Of ‘Dynasty’ With The Greatest Fight Sequence Ever Filmed

As Deadline reports, it’ll be penned by Revenge‘s writer-producer Sallie Patrick, alongside the original husband-and-wife duo Esther and Richard Shapiro. And the whole project hails from Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.

So expect lots of catlike machinations and everything just really, really bitchy.

Meanwhile, the CW is also working on an adaptation of The Lost Boys that’s “envisioned for a seven-season, anthology-style run.”

So maybe this guy will be coming back into our lives. Hit it:

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