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The Mafia and the Gays meticuloly documents how the mob ntrolled gay bars for s New York and Chigo due to their once illic stat, and reli upon an extensive llectn of primary sourc cludg FBI fil many of which were not publicly available until acquired by thor Philli… * mafia gay podcast *
What listeners say about Mafia Gay. The Mafia and the Gays meticuloly documents how the mob ntrolled gay bars for s New York and Chigo due to their once illic stat, and reli upon an extensive llectn of primary sourc cludg FBI fil many of which were not publicly available until acquired by thor Phillip Crawford Jr. Through the Freedom of Informatn Crawford illtrat how the gay bars historilly were tegrated to the Mafia rackets.
Jebox kg Aled Miaci fund dozens of gay bars and other jots ntrolled by the Mafia the 1950s and 1960s cludg the Peppermt Lounge. Gay bars sometim served as dg drops.
The Mafia had ti to some of the most inic gay tablishments cludg the Contental Baths the Hotel Ansonia om 1969 to 1976 on the Upper Wt Si which received protectn om the Colombo fay exchange for stallg s vendg mach.
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Contental owner Steve Ostrow – a classilly-traed opera sger – veloped such close ti wh Joe Colombo that he was performg "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the June 29, 1970 Italian-Amerin Uny Day rally Columb Circle when the mob boss was LGBT muny once was married to the mob out of forced necsy but after gay bars beme legal the relatnship often ntued many tablishments out of mutual nvenience.
Gay bars no longer were bted simply for homosexual assembly but they still risked raids if servg as sex clubs or dg drops. Ined, the Mafia hijacked gay liberatn for polil ver and ed so-lled Auntie Gays as ontmen for their bars to eva spicn.
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The wiseguys allegedly even filtrated the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee and Christopher Street Ftival Commtee which ran New York Cy's gay pri para and some related events for much of the 1970s and the s there has been a fair number of gay guys the mob's ranks cludg cross-drsg Genove soldier David Petillo who once was a boy prostute, hman Vo Arena om Roy DeMeo's Gambo crew and DeCavalnte boss John D'Amato.
There is no shortage of bad gays The Mafia and the Gays, and most disturbg are the allegatns of the mob's role nng unrage boy prostutn show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are terted advertisg on this podst, ntact at. (Luis S / Los Angel Tim) It was while rearchg gay nightlife of the 1950s that Bendiger and Seligman first stumbled onto the story of Anna Genove. Insi were trigger-happy wise guys, a heretofore unexvated piece of gay history and a lady who took charge of her own sty while livg a world n by vlent, retributn-crazed men.
Seligman, meanwhile, wants to e “Mob Queens” as a chance to clarify parts of gay history. ”At one pot Episo 5, Bendger and Seligman discs how mobsters and the employe at gay bars Greenwich Village fed an alliance a way that reveals how personal this story has bee to the two of them.