Newest Apple store will be massive cube descending underground.

P6 not so blind item: "WHICH swishy pop star who won't admit he's gay is dating a well-known interior designer? The decorator is recovering from his previous boyfriend's tragic death, while the pop star is equally despondent about his ailing career..." Nate Berkus and...?

Wisconsin's Fred Phelps littering towns with anti-gay pamphlets.

Alaska Supreme Court rules that it's unconstitutional to deny benefits to the same-sex partners of public employees. Alaska was one of the first states to ban gay marriage.

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Halloween Blind Item Unmasked

Who are these masked men? One is the mind behind an irreverent gay blog, the other a former high school athlete who broke down closet doors while on the gridiron. As seen on Saturday night. Photo by Matty. Answers here later this morning...

UPDATE: Time to reveal these Halloweenies. If you guessed him and him (also editor here) you are correct! What a cute couple.

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Key West After Wilma

Towleroad correspondent Alan L. sends us these photos he received of Duval Street, Key West's main drag, knee-deep in water after Hurricane Wilma.

The city is in the process of "getting the party restarted" according to the L.A. Times, with a convention of Jimmy Buffet "parrotheads" due to arrive any day, and the return of cruise ships imminent.

Fantasy Fest, the late October party which extremist religious groups were quick to name as the reason God created the destructive hurricane, has been rescheduled for December 7-10, and been given a new theme: Wilma's Freaks, Geeks and Goddesses.

Over the weekend, screen captures surfaced revealing a mysterious "2" inside Wilma's eye. It's the second time this year that unusual objects have been discerned within weather charts. It's only a matter of time before some zealot discovers religious iconography within the storm swirl as "proof" of God's wrath against so-called sinners.

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W. King Mott, a gay Associate Dean at Seton Hall University, has been demoted after publishing a letter that criticized the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality.

Lesbian minister Beth Stroud defrocked by the Methodist Church.

Gay cell phone service launched in Denmark.

How did Madonna realize her brother Christopher was gay? "It wasn't something that I knew consciously, it was subtle. I just went hmmm. I saw a connection between my [ballet] teacher and my brother. A few years later it all came rushing back to me that that was what it was."

The late C.A. Tripp, who claimed that Lincoln was gay in a recently published controversial tome The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, has left a million-dollar bequest to the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency to assist in building a massive archive of Lincoln's papers.

Charlotte Church hopes to take Boy George up the charts again with her Xmas single "Even God".

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Brazilian TV Gets its First Gay Kiss from Bruno Gagliasso

Brazilian soap stud Bruno Gagliasso, whom I've mentioned here before, is set to shock Brazilian TV with its first beijo gay. Gagliasso stars in the soap América, and will plant a big one on one of his co-stars in one of the show's final episodes, according to scriptwriter Gloria Perez.

Although the Brazilian network airing the kiss has received some complaints, Perez notes that the amount of complaints is less than predicted: "Obviously I thought there would be some polemic and I expected a torrent of protests against the kiss. But this hasn't happened, which proves that our country is changing."

Who could resist a beijo from this hunk?
More shots of Gagliasso after the jump:

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Bush Nominates "Scalito" to Supreme Court

Dubbed "Scalito" because his extreme conservatism mirrors that of Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Samuel Alito has been nominated by President Bush to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

Democratic Senate leaders immediately lashed out at the judge, whose past decisions have supported placing restrictions on abortion that included parental and spousal notification.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said: "The Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people."

Senator Edward Kennedy slammed the choice: "Rather than selecting a nominee for the good of the nation and the court, President Bush has picked a nominee whom he hopes will stop the massive hemorrhaging of support on his right wing. This is a nomination based on weakness, not on strength."

Planned Parenthood called for the Senate's rejection of Alito.

An expoitative photo op was quickly planned: "Wasting no time, the White House arranged for Alito to go to the Capitol after the announcement.The schedule called for Senate Majority Leader Bill First to greet him and accompany the nominee to the Capitol Rotunda to go to the coffin of the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks."

Parks is probably turning in her grave, as Alito's past decisions show that he would protect racist employers, among other things.

Harry Reid: President rejected opportunity to find "consensus" nominee.

GW University Law Professor Jonathan Turley: "There will be no one to the right of Sam Alito on this Court."

Prepare for battle, folks. This one's gonna get ugly.

Nomination Likely to Please G.O.P., but Not Some Democrats [nyt]
Anti-gay group with gay CFO OK's Bush choosing Samuel Alito for Supreme Court [pageone q]

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