In 2004, Hawking announced that he was conceding the bet
Hawking loses $100 bet on Higgs discovery
He does seem to be a sick pervert though:
Professor Hawking dropped in at the Freedom Acres club in Devore, where he is said to have arrived with an entourage of nurses and assistants before paying for young, naked dancers to perform privately for him.
Obviously, the authorities on “sick perverts” are a lot more intelligent. So what immortal wisdom or innovation did *you* contribute? Something on black a-holes?
Now, what a person does with his private parts is his private business, as long as he/she/it doesn’t make it mine. “Gay” marriage is a matter of social costs, and should have nothing to do with the legal framework at all.