Greenland, Dave Salmoni, Miley Cyrus, Justin Carroll, Ghislaine Maxwell, Pete Buttigieg, Rashida Tlaib: HOT LINKS

Greenland, Dave Salmoni, Miley Cyrus, Justin Carroll, Ghislaine Maxwell, Pete Buttigieg, Rashida Tlaib: HOT LINKS

GREENLAND. Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. Denmark says it’s not for sale: “Talk of a Greenland purchase was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that the notion had been laughed off by some advisers as a joke but was taken more seriously by others in the White House.”

PAUL KRUGMAN. Trumpanomics is a flop: “Neither I nor anyone else is predicting a replay of the 2008 crisis. It’s not even clear whether we’re heading for recession. But the bond market is telling us that the smart money has become very gloomy about the economy’s prospects.”

BH90210. Here’s what Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth and the others are getting paid for the reboot.

IN-N-OUT. Jeffrey Epstein “recruiter” Ghislaine Maxwell spotted at L.A. burger joint.

RASHIDA TLAIB. Congresswoman cancels visit to Israel after ban easement: ‘Israel’s interior ministry announced Friday that it would allow Tlaib to enter the country as a private citizen to visit her aging grandmother, after it banned her and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from going on a political trip amid pressure from President Trump. In a statement Friday morning, Tlaib said that she “decided to not travel to Palestine and Israel at this time. Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother’s heart.”‘

IOWA. Buttigieg plays catch-up up to rivals: “The 37-year-old mayor has yet to snag a single in-state endorsement in Iowa, and while his campaign has 57 staffers on the ground, it expanded to that number only recently. It’s a sharp contrast to other top Democratic candidates, who made investments in Iowa last winter to try to identify supporters and build a foundation for 2020, knowing the results here will shape the rest of the fight for the Democratic nomination.”

TEXAS. Homophobe Allen West launches bid for GOP Chair.

NORTHERN IRELAND. Asher’s Gay cake case going before European Court of Human Rights: ‘The owners of Ashers bakery in Belfast won a Supreme Court appeal last year over a claim that they had discriminated against a customer by refusing to make a cake iced with a pro gay marriage message. Now that ruling is to be challenged, on the basis that it “failed to give appropriate weight” to the human rights of Gareth Lee, who first brought legal action.’

RUSSIA. Gay couple had to flee for caring for their adopted children: ‘The revelation that Vaganov and his partner, Evgeny Erofeyev, have been raising their adopted sons together for nearly a decade put them squarely in the crosshairs of the Russian authorities. Since then, the couple have had to flee the country with their two sons, accused of breaking Russia’s infamous “gay propaganda law” simply by letting their children know that they are married.’

GOOGLE PLAY. App store accused by Hornet of anti-gay bias: “A popular gay social network has accused Google of discrimination after its app was removed from Google’s Play store several times without warning. Hornet said Google often employed moderators in Malaysia, where same-sex relationships are illegal, to vet apps.”

ON THE RAG. This week on the gay magazines.

JAPAN. Taron Egerton is still rocketing with Elton John.

NEW YORK. Upstate candidate smeared with fake flyers: ‘Justin Carroll, 37, of Clinton, N.Y., says he learned of the flyers another candidate for office in the town of about 4,300 people had forwarded it to him. The crudely-made flyer features the word “Pride” at the top in rainbow letters, and purports to be a letter sent to Democratic voters, telling them to “join our Democratic team” of candidates for office and touting the fact that Carroll would be the first LGBTQ Town Justice if elected this November.’

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Zeroville starring James Franco.

NEW TUNE OF THE DAY. Miley Cyrus break-up track “Slide Away”.

WILD ANIMALS OF THE DAY. With Dave Salmoni.

FRIDAY FLASH. Mauro Gama.

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Congratulations from Melanie and Matt from Texas!

Congratulations from Melanie and Matt from Texas!

It’s the little memories that will last a lifetime. Melanie and Matt are having fun making sweet little memories. She writes: “Matt and I matched on Zoosk in March 2018. I had been on several first dates from online matches that amounted to nothing more than a first date. I had decided ahead of time that Matt

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Gym caught lying to members about undercover officers monitoring locker room hookups

Gym caught lying to members about undercover officers monitoring locker room hookups

Virgin Active, one of the largest chain of health clubs in the U.K., is facing criticism after it sent a threatening email directed at its gay members.

Members of the Virgin Active gym in Barbican, London received an email earlier this month warning them that “reports of incidents linked to individuals’ inappropriate behaviour, specific to the male locker room facilities” had resulted the gym employing undercover cops “to address and investigate any criminal behaviour.”

Related: Man sounds alarm on serious problem plaguing locker rooms: Male nudity

Apparently, guys were hooking up in the showers so much that the men’s locker room has been nicknamed “the wank tank.”

“Going forward please be advised that undercover police officers will be present in the male locker room and they will take any appropriate action should the need arise,” the cryptic email read.

But London Police quickly called the gym’s bluff, saying no such arrangements were ever made between the department and the gym and that Virgin Active was lying to its members.

“We have not put undercover officers into the changing rooms of this gym, or any other gym in the City,” a spokesperson told Buzzfeed.

The spokesperson added, “We became aware of this email sent out to members by Virgin and have asked them to issue a correction, which I believe they are going to do imminently.”

Related: These Locker Room Confessions Will Make You Renew That Gym Membership…Or Cancel It

“It’s disgraceful that they lied, and undermines any reassurance they have given as being supportive of the LGBT community,” member Max Pemberton tells Buzzfeedadding that the gym’s threats harken back to “1950s honey traps in men’s toilets all over again, when they targeted gays in a homophobic clampdown.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Virgin Active chalked the whole thing up to “a miscommunication between Virgin Active and the City Of London Police which has now been clarified.”

A “miscommunication.” Riiiight.

Related: This guy’s response to homophobic straight dudes in the locker room is priceless

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Backstreet, London’s Longest-Running Gay Leather Bar, Saved from Bulldozer by Letter-Writing Campaign: ‘It Saved My Life’

Backstreet, London’s Longest-Running Gay Leather Bar, Saved from Bulldozer by Letter-Writing Campaign: ‘It Saved My Life’

The Backstreet, a 34-year-old leather bar in London’s East End, has been saved after dozens of men wrote in to the Tower Hamlets Council urging them to block development of the site into a high-rise, telling the council what the bar had meant to them over the years.

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— The Backstreet (@BackstLondon) August 10, 2019

The Guardian reports: ‘Dozens of men who regularly visit the Backstreet, which boasts the “strictest fetish dress code in Europe”, wrote to the council during the six-year planning battle to explain the importance of the club to them. “When I discovered the fetish scene by going to the Backstreet as an 18-year-old, it saved my life,” one man wrote. “It gave me a community that made me feel welcome, and embraced me flaws and all. It stopped me thinking I was odd or an outsider, [it] gave me confidence in myself, and gave me some incredible friends and mentors.” Oscar Easton, who at 21 is much younger than the Backstreet’s average clientele, said he would be gutted if the club closed as it was his favourite place on earth, and he “saved like crazy for [his] leather gear”.’

Tower Hamlets Council ruled that the bar should be kept and blocked the 12-story high-rise apartment building development, saying that it would “harm the long-term provision of a nightclub that serves the LGBT+ community”.

Said Cllr Rachel Blake, the borough’s deputy mayor: “It is the last true gay fetish club, and diversity matters to us. This kind of venue really matters to us, it matters to Tower Hamlets and to the whole of London. It is very important to have safe spaces for the whole community.”

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