Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker: New York City Gay Pride Parade

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This week’s Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker skips across the rainbow-colored field that is the New York City Gay Pride parade—or the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride March(LGBT), for those of you keeping tabs on stuff like that. The LGBT has always been a fantastic event to people-watch and, also, a great place to learn how to do the second incarnation of the Electric Slide—it comes in very handy at weddings and Bat Mitzvahs. It’s also a spectacular event to make some easy cash from your buddies by betting on some of the shirtless shindiggery that’ll go down at Sunday’s parade. Today’s guest oddsmaker is Will Leitch, an editor at the mighty Black Table, author, freelance writer and budding fashionista. After the jump, Mr. Leitch takes some time away from chipping away at his many writing duties to handicap some of this weekend’s faaabulous betting opportunities. Celebrate diversity and shit, you gambling baboons.

This Sunday, thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and … what’s the other one again? … oh, yeah, transgenders will flock to New York City’s Greenwich Village for the 36th annual LGBT Pride March. The parade is always one of the more memorable weekends in New York, if just because of the strange confluence of protestors, tourists and people wearing permutations of purple of which we were previously unawares. The weekend is a party all around and is perfectly formed for that great New York sport of people watching.

But why merely be a bystander? Get together with your friends and make some bets! Here are some lines to work from; these lines, like the lines in the bathroom at The Cock, are for entertainment purposes only.

ODDS:

Someone Actually Transgenders Themselves During The Parade: 4/1

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Will Address The Crowd By Telling Stories Of Dating Diana Ross: 42/1

Everyone Will Be Thinking That Anyway When He’s Talking: 1/3

Straight Boys From Jersey Will Search In Vain For Jennifer Beals And Sarah Shahi: 3:98

There Will Be More Men Dressed As Cops Than Actual Cops: 1/7

ENTERTAINMENT SPECIAL ODDS:

Rosie O’Donnell Will Show Up: 3/1

If She Does, She Will Write A Poem On Her Blog That Uses The Words “miracles,” “Iraq,” “dolphins” and “WE ARE HERE!”: 2/22,183

Float Judge “The Empress” Is Drugged And Killed By Margaret Cho: 34/1

Anderson Cooper, Covering The Parade For CNN, Suddenly Jumps Into The Street, Inspired, And Screams, “Yes! I’m A Proud Gay Man! Who Wants Some Cock??!!”: 6/1

Couple Will Show Up Dressed Like Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise: 2/1

Rosie O’Donnell Will Be One Of Those People: 8/1

FUN WITH THE OVER/UNDER

Anti-Gay Protestors: 150 (depending on whether Staten Island Ferry is running on time)

Floats With Some Joke About “Log Cabin Republicans”: 8

Log Cabin Republicans At The Parade: 3

Port-O-Potties: 4

Port-O-Potties Being Used For Intended Purposes: 1

Number Of Words That The New York Post’s Next-Day Headline Has That Rhyme With “Gay”: 6

Details Magazine Staffers Marching: 12

Radar Magazine Staffers Marching: 27.5

National Review Staffers Marching: 40

Previously: Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker: Russell Crowe’s Next Victim [Oddjack]