How to Cope When Your Spoe Is Gay

Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?
• WHICH RACEURSE WAS THE SCENE OF THE ‘GAY FUTURE AFFAIR’?
• GAY FUTURE
• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
• IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny. That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history.

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?

It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years. My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy.

That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist. Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them. You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light.

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band.

WHICH RACEURSE WAS THE SCENE OF THE ‘GAY FUTURE AFFAIR’?

Most recently, the ter explod wh behd-the-scen photos of Harry Styl om the shoot of new film My Policeman, an adaptatn of Bethan Roberts's 2012 novel starrg the pop superstar as a closeted gay man the 1950s.

However, as a way of explag the mystery surroundg why Harry left behd everythg he knew, Gale imaged a suatn which he was forced to leave as a rult of a gay affair beg exposed.

GAY FUTURE

Crystal Jeans's latt novel is The Inverts, which tells the story of two bt iends – one a lbian, the other a gay man – who enter to a fake marriage the 1920s.

This was another reason I wrote The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle; I wanted to tell the story of one ordary young gay man tryg to exprs his love for another at a time when this would not have been accepted.

But I also wanted to ntrast this disturbg, sometim horrifyg picture wh what life n be like for a gay man wh today’s much more acceptg society the UK – and celebrate how much progrs we’ve ma. My spiratn was a seri of terviews I nducted wh olr gay men whilst I was Edor--Chief of Attu magaze, as part of our celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the start of crimalisatn.

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY

In the play, Hornby has ferred that the men were what we'd now ll gay. And then, ccially, I've ma a homonormative assumptn and told my story om that posn. Pop star Harry Styl is starrg new film My Policeman as a closeted gay officer the 1950s (Cred: Getty Imag)"What we see all through history is that people are nied their past as part of a way to ntrol them, " says Hornby.

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.

IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

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. 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.

Meanwhile at Cartmel everythg was done to put punters off backg Gay the race soapflak were bbed on to the horse's body to make look as if he was sweatg up. "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.

I'd like to share some of the rpons I received:♦♦♦I’m 44 and I lead a very domtic gay life: a same-sex legal marriage, wh a child.