VERY few of the racegoers who watched a horse lled Gay Future walkg around the para rg before the 4.20 race at Cartmel raceurse exactly 40 years ago today, on Augt bank holiday Monday 1974, would have fancied his chanc.
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?
Future's Gay Lyric On 'Comg Out Strong' Ded By Kodak Black * gay future *
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THE GAY FUTURE, ACRDG TO MICHAEL MTO
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♦♦♦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.
FUTURE’S GAY LYRIC ON ‘COMG OUT STRONG’ DED BY KODAK BLACK
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * gay future *
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.
WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF GAY RIGHTS? MORE LAWSUS
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.
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GAY FUTURE IS THE FICTNAL EDY PODST OF MIKE PENCE’S NIGHTMAR
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.
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.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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. 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. 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.
GAY FUTURE BETTG PLOT STILL HOLDS FASCATN AT CARTMEL, 40 YEARS ON
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.
ENVISNG A GAY FUTURE
"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.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
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.
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.