Envisng a gay future | Steven Greenberg | The Blogs

Contents:

• WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?
• THE GAY FUTURE, ACRDG TO MICHAEL MTO
• FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK
• WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF GAY RIGHTS? MORE LAWSUS
• GAY FUTURE IS THE FICTNAL EDY PODST OF MIKE PENCE’S NIGHTMAR
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• GAY FUTURE BETTG PLOT STILL HOLDS FASCATN AT CARTMEL, 40 YEARS ON
• ENVISNG A GAY FUTURE
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?

EPISODE 3: THE MAN ON GAY MOUNTAINThe crew fally arriv at the Lost Cy of Straights and mt fd the elive Rebel before Mikey n take over the army and lead a rebelln, he mt hone his te Straightns. ♦♦♦In the early Aughts, my iends and I spent our Saturday nights at a gay dance club the Bronx lled the Warehoe, a verno former loadg dock turned to a makhift gay club for men of lor who were lookg for eher sex, love, or a strong drk. At the time, pre-Inter, the Warehoe was the only show town, so if you wanted to fd young gay black men a social settg, you had to make your way to the Grand Conurse and fd them among the thugged-out neighborhood boys, turned-out fashnistas, disurse-ready amics, closeted choir directors, mil theater majors, and black body-boys wh their gym-ripped bodi.

THE GAY FUTURE, ACRDG TO MICHAEL MTO

Queer poets talkg to other queer poet about poetics, gay Republins talkg to each other about fisl nservatism, queer art school kids talkg to other art schools kids about visual athetics, Bears talkg wh other Bears about all the happengs at Bear Week Provcetown. This means that a majory of muny rourc should be voted wh the next five years to fightg harassment and vlence pecially agast trans women of lor; trans-specific suici preventn; and obtag the same legal protectns for trans people as for gays and lbians areas of employment, tn, healthre, ernment, and all other civil stutns.

FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK

Even wh all the advanc we've seen terms of showbiz's gay clivens, romantic plot l TV shows and movi today are still overwhelmgly straight, and the mass dience generally don't qutn that, acceptg as the stat quo and a fair reflectn of realy. What's more, proposed movi will no longer be short-circued by studs bee they're "too gay, " entertament reports about datg will actually ver some same-sex upl, and game shows will wele a much broar spectm of nttants to e onstage and thank their loved on.

Thgs will actually go so far the other directn that the gay future, people will assume that everyone is gay, and they'll be pletely thrown when turns out someone isn't.

WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF GAY RIGHTS? MORE LAWSUS

And bisexuals will also be ee of pigeonholg attempts, jt as lbians will be happy to see gay men, and vice versa, a world where 's realized that the muny that lov self gets the most approbatn om others. There will be more wiggle room to tablish an dividual inty and not cloak ceremony, if you don't feel like -- though there will be plenty of gay rice to toss at those who opt for a more tradnal route. Yet not only did Gay Future w, he did so imprsive style, routg the field by 15 lengths at mouth-waterg odds of Future's victory was the fal part of what was arguably the most gen horse-racg bettg up of all time.

GAY FUTURE IS THE FICTNAL EDY PODST OF MIKE PENCE’S NIGHTMAR

Operatn Crock Of Gold was a cunng plan hatched a year earlier Ireland to relieve bookmakers on both sis of the Irish Sea of around £300, 000 (more than £3ln today) and me agonisgly close to scheme volved the swchg of hors and jockeys, disguis, a novel e of soap-flak and took advantage of tradnal bank holiday traffic also relied on a knowledge of bettg l and the isolatn of the quat Cartmel raceurse the Lake like many other brilliant plans that ultimately failed the plotters me unstuck through one simple mistake that they should have foreen and that lerally st them a men behd the Gay Future affair were a lourful bunch of diverse rglear was Tony Murphy, a flamboyant cigar-smokg lnaire builr om County Cork who drove around a gold Rolls-Royce, which often had wheelbarrows and bags of cement stickg out of s wanted to pull off a mighty gamble to h the bookmakers Ireland and Bra for six and was while he was havg a drk wh his iends 1973 that he me up wh what he thought was a foolproof way of dog Colls pictured Augt 1974 [REX]The servic of two racehorse traers, Edward O'Grady, based Ireland, and Old Harrovian Tony Colls, a stockbroker who had a small yard Stland, were enlisted. Colls was sent a chtnut racehorse whout any abily whose paperwork intified him as Gay the real Gay Future, who looked siar to the other horse, was beg traed to perfectn by O'Grady Ireland. Colls was stcted to enter Gay Future a race at Cartmel on Augt bank holiday days before the race the real Gay Future me over by boat om Ireland and was taken a horsebox to a quiet lane close to Cartmel raceurse where he was transferred to Colls' horsebox, ready for the race the followg syndite knew Gay Future was a certaty for the race but if they had simply placed lots of big bets on the horse the bookmakers would have been they disguised what they were dog.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Colls was told to enter two other hors meetgs elsewhere England wh rac takg place five and 10 mut before and after Gay Future's race at on the morng of the big day Murphy and his associat flew to London and ma a tour of bettg shops, placg a vast amount of "multiple bets" uplg Gay Future wh Colls' other two although Colls travelled to Plumpton East Ssex, where one of his hors was entered, there was never any plan to n the other hors.

What Tony Murphy was asked urtThey were entered as ys to be whdrawn at the last mute, to put the booki off the 's syndite knew that as the other hors would be nonnners all the money they had placed on multiple bets would end up gog on Gay Future - the one horse that was fely gog to race. "The horse me to the paddock lookg like Father Christmas, " Tony Colls later experienced amatr who had been down to ri Gay Future the morng newspapers was replaced the saddle by a top Irish amatr lled Tim Jon, who had ridn the real Gay Future pretend to have trouble mountg his horse, all signed to make s price O'Grady's head lad, who had been workg wh Gay Future Ireland, disguised himself wh a wig and sunglass at the track so that no one would regnise geni of choosg Cartmel as the venue to land the gamble, and dog on an Augt bank holiday - the bit day of the racg year - now me to play.

Cartmel was not nnected to the bookmakers' Exchange Telegraph system by which firms uld munite to their reprentativ at the this premobile phone age there was jt one way of ntact wh the outsi world: a red phone box which members of Murphy's gang ma sure was kept permanently bookmakg firm Ladbrok realised uld face a sizeable payout wh a Gay Future w and so sent a motorbike rir om Manchter to drive to Cartmel to place bets on the horse to shorten his he got ught the bank holiday traffic and when he arrived the race was already Crock Of Gold syndite got ready to pop the champagne rks. On the other, anyone who n claim a nscient objectn to rpectg gay rights is gog to get a ee pass to keep right on ’s signifint that the 303 Creative majory opn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, the nservative jtice who wrote the 2020 Bostock cisn protectg gay and trans people agast workplace discrimatn.

GAY FUTURE BETTG PLOT STILL HOLDS FASCATN AT CARTMEL, 40 YEARS ON

He is hopg that gay people will be satisfied wh equaly rights and that those who have opposed gay rights will be satisfied wh the opt-out the urt has given practice, the “promise” won’t be a stable equilibrium. It will keep fights about gay and trans rights the urts — and the news — for the foreeable be sure, 303 Creative is not the first time the jtic have ed the First Amendment to perm otherwise unlawful discrimatn agast gay people. Dale, which the urt held the suts had an exprsive associatn right (unr ee speech prcipl) to exclu a gay 303 Creative is the first time the jtic have thorized anti-gay discrimatn a se where a for-prof bs, open to the public, refed to serve ctomers bee of the bs’s disapproval of their cisn to get married as a gay uple.

It might or might not apply to suatns where a nduct-based bs, like a hotel or a rtrant, says won’t serve gay or trans (or Black or Jewish) there is ltle doubt that to Gorsuch, and several other nservativ on the urt, the cisn is a harbger of more to e. A ee exercise lg, ntrast, would allow sentially any bs to assert a relig motive to refe to serve Black people, gay people, trans people or terracial upl the basis of a claim to relig the Supreme Court holds that relig liberty allows a bs to refe service to anyone s owners’ fah tells them to avoid, then there’s no stoppg place. As we know om the Bostock se, he is open to fendg gay and trans rights when he reads the leral text of a statute as requirg as a stnch supporter of dividual liberty, Gorsuch is makg a bid to plate nservativ (maly relig) who fear that gay and trans rights mean that they may be prsured to change their own practic and beliefs.

Exemptns om civil rights laws are, I spect, aimed to enurage those nservativ to stand down om attackg the gay and trans rights already affirmed by the this approach isn’t gog to end the culture war. Advot for gay rights will keep fightg agast a jurispnce of their part, while some nservativ may be satisfied wh exemptns, others will view the urt’s acmodatn of their pot of view as an vatn to keep tryg to chip away at the landmark gay rights cisns of recent upshot is likely to be more fightg, not ls.

ENVISNG A GAY FUTURE

And the risk is that, their solicu for Christians who n’t stomach equal rights for gay people, the urt will unrme all civil rights From Bloomberg Opn:• The One Ethics Rule the Supreme Court Needs Before Its Next Term: Gabe Roth• Supreme Court’s Affirmative Actn Rulg Follows Half-Baked Logic: Stephen L. [Ben Cannon]Gay Future Gay AmyThe premise of this podst is a total light: It purports to be a serialized d fictn adaptatn of a long-lost YA novel wrten 2002 by Mike Pence.

It plays like a fever dream of all the Indiana polician’s worst nightmar, particularly that the future, everyone Ameri is gay thanks to the efforts of the “Gay Agenda. The rult is a playfully subversive piece of d fictn that xteroly utiliz every genre trope om fantasy and dystopian sci-fi for maximum ic impact, filtered through the thor Pence’s abily to nceive of gay life as anythg beyond pastel pastiche.

A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law. The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia.

”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.