The Rise of the Gay Mafia, a Powerful Cabal That Never Existed - Atlas Obscura

Contents:

• MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE
• BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
• BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME
• GAY GANGSTER CRIMAL ASSASS BOOKS
• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• FEATURED STORI

MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE

Mafia / Gay / Romance (60 books),. Mafia / Gay / Romance. artist, attorney, bisexual, bld, christmas, closet, wboys, dark, tective, disabily, doctor, dg-addict, dgs, ex-n, ex-p, ex-a-agent, fbi-agent, florist, iends-to-lovers, gay, gay-for-you, hacker, hiv, holiday, homophobic, kids, kdle-unlimed, lawyer, leído, libro-omido, lgerie, m-f, m-m, m-m-m, m-m-wh-children, menage, ary, micians, mute, ok, police, polic, prostute, ranger, rich-man, seals, sick-child, s-leer, sgle-parent, soldier, special-forc, unrground-, unlimed, widow, wrer.

BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME

Bt Gay Romance Mafia/Yakuza/Organized Crime (197 books),.

Bt Gay Romance Mafia/Yakuza/Organized Crime. There exists a List for Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme already.

This will be a place for Gay, M/M Mafia (Italian, Rsian, other), Yakuza and other anized crime books. Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme (376 books),. Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme.

BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME

Vote/add books wh a gay romance plot/subplot which the ma male characters or their love terts are/were volved wh a crimal or a secret anizatn.

GAY GANGSTER CRIMAL ASSASS BOOKS

crime, crime-syndite, crimal-anizatn, gay, gay-romance, m-m, m-m-crime, m-m-romance, mafia, mob, mobsters, secret-agency, secret-anizatn, secret-society, yakuza. (shelved 1 time as gay-gangster-crimal-assass).

Caleb gets kicked out by his homophobic adoptive nt, and he's left the big apple known as New York all alone. The paranoia over an “ternatnal homosexual nspiracy” rivaled the McCarthy munist wch hunts of the 1950s. The ia of a “gay mafia” may seem like a bad oxymoron.

THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED

But there was a time Amerin history when there was a real fear that a gay mafia—known llectively as “homterns”—existed, wieldg ntrol across Hollywood and throughout the arts and entertament dtri.

In his new book Homtern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Morn World, English amic Gregory Woods chronicl the rise of the “homtern, ” explorg how the longstandg fear of homosexual men spurred a century-long paranoia about an alleged gay mafia ntrollg areas of ernment, the arts and amia. The ver of Gregory Woods’ Homtern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Morn World.

FEATURED STORI

In the mid-19th century the pair rrpond about the threat of “perasts”—an antiquated term referrg to men who had sex wh younger men, sce “homosexual” did not yet exist as a label—to their goal of tablishg non-sexual raship between other men.

Woods wr that was this obssn to tegorize so-lled “unsaid” male sexual impuls and behavrs that actually enuraged the fear of the homosexual figure larger society. There is some irony to this history, as the term homosexual was first ed 1868 before the word “heterosexual” even existed.

Homosexual was set opposn to the ia of a “normalsexual, ” a word which was later disrd for “heterosexual.