Anthony gay

Anthony Gay is host of the Run The Business podcast, a weekly show that explores the place where running and governance come together. With a different guest each week, Ant finds out how running can assist us with foremost, connecting with people, and generally creature better in business.

Ant has a keen interest in both spaces having co-founded Reel2Media, an award-winning creative audio business specialising in sonic branding. He is also Managing Director of ReelWorld, a global leader in radio branding responsible for shaping the sound of the world’s biggest radio stations includes Capital, Heart, and BBC Radio 1.

Running has been in his blood since those cold winter morning cross country runs at school. A regular park carrier, he gets committed at all distances and particularly enjoys trail runs in the Lake District. Last year he was a uppermost ten finisher in the 135-mile Notify o’ Fire in Anglesey. He includes the New York Marathon as one of his favourite days out.



Anthony Gay

Anthony Gay, 50, of Rock Island, passed away Saturday, August 17, 2024, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, August 31, 2024, at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, 3030 7th Avenue, Rock Island. Visitation will be held one hour prior from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island. Memorials may be made to the family.

Anthony was born August 19, 1973, in Rock Island, to Subrine Northern and to the union of Johnny and Shirley Gay. He loved his family and friends and cherished the time spent with them.

Survivors include his children, Maurisa Gay and Anthony Gay Jr.; granddaughter, Asanti Rayton; father, Johnny Gay; siblings, Melissa Northern, Kenna Gay, Margie (Gregory) Northern-Roberts, Lashonda Northern and Marcus Northern.

Anthony was preceded in death by his mother, Shirley Gay and brother, Andre Jones.

Online condolences and memories may be shared with Anthony’s family on his tribute wall at www.wheelanpressly.com.

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While held in solitary by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for nearly two decades, Anthony Gay’s severe mental illness worsened, and the extreme isolation without any significant treatment of his mental illness triggered horrific self-mutilation and a lengthy prison stay that amounted to torture.

The state’s treatment of Anthony not only compounded his torture, but prolonged it and caused him to take erratic and irrational actions, which included cutting himself hundreds of times and lashing out at guards.

Rather than provide obviously needed psychiatric care, the state pursued criminal charges against him, which extended his prison sentence for years, worsened his condition and violated his constitutional rights.

Anthony’s incarceration in IDOC dates back to the early 1990s when, as a teenager, he fought with another teenager who had insulted his sister. Anthony stole the other teen’s hat and a one dollar bill, which led to a ashamed plea for robbery and being placed on probation. He later violated probation by driving a car without a license and was sent to IDOC to begin serving a prison sentence. He should acquire been released less than four years later, but

Anthony "Tony" Wade Gay

     Anthony Wade Gay of Centreville, MD, passed away on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at the UM Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. Known as “Tony” to all, he was 61 years old.

     Born in Easton, MD on October 20, 1962, Tony was the son of Patricia Adams of Marietta, GA and the late Lawrence Wade Queer, II. He was a 1980 graduate of Easton High School.

     Tony and his wife, Susanne Miller Gay, have owned and operated Susie’s Kitchen for 25 years. He spent time being a waterman, a welder, and most recently, caregiver to his Mother-In-Law, Kathryn Miller. He was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and enjoyed duck hunting, fishing, and entity with his many friends.

     In addition to his wife and mother, Tony is survived by three sons: Jason Lgbtq+ (Annie) of McDaniel, MD, Andrew Gay (Amanda) of Preston, MD, and Justin Harrison (Megan) of Fruitland, MD; two stepchildren: Jeremy Smith (Kym) of Centreville, and Stephanie Whitby of Easton, MD; seven grandchildren: Gabriel, Jonathan, Nathan, Riley, Kaylee, Hunter, Zoey, and Riley; two brothers: Lawrence Thomas “Rennie&r