Adam Carolla: The Gay Mafia Is Real – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE
• BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
• COLLECTN : BADBOY GAY MAFIA
• GAY MAFIA BOOKS
• THE MAFIA AND THE GAYS KDLE EDN
• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• MOST POPULAR GAY ROMANCE MAFIA ROMANCE BOOKS
• FOG CY: A MAFIA GAY ROMANCE TRILOGY BOX SET - FORMAT EPUB
• ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL
• BT GAY ENEMI/RIVALS/OPPOS BEE LOVERS
• GAY MAFIA HMAN MURRED BY OWN BEE CRIME FAY ‘DISGRACED’ BY HIS SEXUALY
• FREE-THKG LGBT ACTIVISTS SAY THE 'GAY MAFIA' IS 'HARMG GAY PEOPLE'
• ABOUT THAT GAY MAFIA...

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At Bat he was Print of the Gay-Straight Alliance 1983, and spearhead a mpaign to ot ary recers om the mp for their discrimatory polici agast the LGBT muny. " Culture Trip clus the book on s list of "10 Books About the Mafia You Need to Read" as "a surprisg but sential history of the mob's ntrol over New York's gay club scene well to the 1980s, " and Cosa Nostra News says is "a worthy addn to your library of books about the Mafia. " The History Channel webse ced "The Mafia and the Gays" s overview of the historic role of anized crime LGBT nightlife, and Profsor Marc Ste clud the tle among "Suggtns for Addnal Readg" his book "The Stonewall Rts: A Documentary History.

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" Crawford further appeared as a gut on podsts Gangland Wire, Mob Queens and GayBarchiv, and provid ment for articl about New York Cy gay bar history by Chelsea News and New York Daily News.

Crawford's send book "Railroad: The Homophobic Prosecutn of Brandon Woodff for His Parents' Murrs" has been featured by ABC 20/20, OutSmart Magaze, South Florida Gay News, and Dallas Voice. "His most recent books are "Queer Jots, Wiseguys and G-Men" (2019) about the crossg paths of gay bars, Italian mobsters and FBI agents durg the late 1950s and early 1960s and "Jersey Queens: Darlg & Delightful at the Gay Bars the 50s & 60s" (2021) about a thrivg subculture which gays and lbians were existential hero who celebrated their inty fiance of the meddlg state. 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.

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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. 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.

” This sire to study and fe sexual behavr further phed rearchers to “un-closet” the homosexual, all an effort to mystify a sexual inty that had long been ostracized and stigmatized but never really pned down through scientific quiry. Woods says was most likely vented as a word play, referrg to a disanized and rmal work of gay men who aternized the 1930s, cludg the lik of poet W. Des later, “homtern” entered Cold War disurse, beg reappropriated by nspiracy theorists that exploed s munist associatn and claimed referred to a longstandg “ternatnal homosexual nspiracy” across the untry, whose one goal was to perate posns the Amerin ernment and urp tradnal Amerin valu of fay and heterosexualy.

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Wh Amerins fearful of the tonatn of an atomic bomb and a enzy about polics beg overtaken by munist fectors, the elive figure of the homosexual—known but never seen public; closeted but apparently everywhere—was ripe to explo to spire fear.

Woods says that the anxieti around homosexuals Cold War Ameri take some of their orig the social “cleansg” mpaigns enacted Nazi Germany and Soviet Rsia, mpaigns lnched to eradite homosexual men (and other “unwanted” dividuals) om society. What proved most unnervg to many was that homosexual men were simultaneoly “visible”—apparently surreptly takg over branch of U. This paranoia pletely took over polil life, lead to a report beg missned 1950 lled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government.

” The report claimed the “filtratn” of homosexuals to Amerin polil life meant that homosexuals would “envabl[y] … attempt to place other homosexuals Government jobs. The backlash agast homosexuals was only pound by the growg visibily of gay men public life, pecially the arts and entertament dtri, which only pound the ia of an unrground nspiracy of a “gay mafia. ” Some of the most proment playwrights of the 1950s were gay men, cludg Tennsee Williams, Arthur Lrents, and Edward Albee.

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” In 1966, one New York Tim cric mentned the wispread perceptn that bee the men were homosexuals their plays “prent[ed] a badly distorted picture of Amerin women, marriage and society. Siar claims were ma about the number of “gay” men (closeted but monly known to be gay) Hollywood, cludg Gee Cor, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, and Rock Hudson. Although the men were not “out, ” mors of their sexualy circulated wily Hollywood and galvanized an image of Hollywood beg overn by gay men, many who allegedly wield power and tonomy.

Unlike lbians, gay men were seen as the more subversive threat bee they had most public profil as well as more likely to occupy posns of power the entertament dtri. But some two s later, wh the groundswell mpaigns for eedoms and visibily that eventually beme the gay liberatn movement, the homtern lost all currency Amerin life. All the same, the homtern’s awakeng of fear public life 1950s Ameri monstrat an important narrative, remdg there was a time when the ia of a “gay mafia” lg Hollywood was a legimate ncern.

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Use the menu to be as many topics as you like orr to fe-tune your search for the bt gay romance mafia romance book rults. Hollywood's "gay mafia" or "velvet mafia" or "lavenr mob" has long been the subject of gossip, wh ocsnal blips to the mastream prs.

Terms such as "Gay mafia" refer to a group of powerful homosexuals who exercise extraordary fluence the entertament dtry. More than half of the leadg power brokers Hollywood are Jewish, and about a third of the powerful are homosexual, cludg David Geffen, Ray Stark, Calv Kle, Aaron Spellg, Steve Tisch, Barry Diller and agent Sandy Gall. To be blunt, the Asi regard Barry Diller and many of his young male executiv to be gay, and the Asi referred to gays as "poofters.

From Taki's lumn the 3/7/00 I’m not at all surprised to read that Hollywood is domated by a Velvet Mafia of rich homosexuals who mand sexual favors return for work the movi. (Geffen, as mor has , is supposed to have been thrilled that the movie a homophobe father beats up his son when he spects him to have had a gay affair wh Kev Spacey’s character, and even more thrilled when is later revealed that the homophobe was actually a reprsed gay. Here is one of Bill Clton’s close supporters, one who had a ee n of the Lln bedroom, and was, I believe, once even lled an adviser to the Draft Dodger, phg a gay agenda of promotg stars and directors who make movi and rerds sympathetic to the gay liftyle.

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As Pl Craig Roberts (the bt lumnist by far) poted out the John Rocker se, "Bud Selig thks that kids wh purple hair, repeat felons, welfare moms and homosexuals wh AIDS are ‘ethnici. "When I me out of the closet ( 1973), I me to the revolutnary ncln that there was nothg wrong wh beg gay and that clud everyone else as well, " Mp told the LA Tim. A month after Forb' ath Febary, 1990, Signorile wrote a ver story for the now-funct magaze Outweek, "The Secret Gay Life of Mallm Forb.

But Buzz, a lively monthly out of Los Angel - 's sort of like Toronto Life but more fun - says s ver story that a lot of people who ph the squeaky-clean, mom-dad-two-kids-pl-dog, relentlsly upbeat Disney image are more than jt cheerful, gang: they're gladly, joyoly gay. Recently, a gay and lbian pri day was held at Walt Disney World and 12, 000 showed up, walkg down the streets of the Magic Kgdom "holdg hands, embracg, and kissg.

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" And yet another example of synchronicy, Spy has a story on Hollywood's 'Gay Mafia, ' a group that packs a tremendo punch the movie dtry's boardrooms. And are we supposed to thk Neil Jordan is gay simply bee he has directed movi wh gay, lbian and bisexual characters?!

"Forrt Gump" producer Steve Tisch, a married father wh children, isn't put out by his cln a Spy magaze photo tled "The Gay Mafia.

Everyone knows Hollywood is a ''boy's club, '' meang straight men n , but even if the straight boys don't accept someone, there are plenty of gays and lbians to bond wh, and there has even arisen, the media, a phrase, ''the gay Mafia.

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On one level, ''gay Mafia'' pays homage to the supposed ''gay power'' Hollywood, but on the other mak that power seem sister.

One of the unspoken implitns of ''gay Ma fia'' is that gay actors are sleepg their way to the top wh gay executiv. AT THE start of the film Amerin Bety, Kev Spacey's character, Lter Burnham, says: 'In a year, I will be ad' - and by the movie's end, he is, killed by his reprsed homosexual next- door neighbour.

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Everyone the film is explosively dysfunctnal, except for the Burnhams' other set of neighbours, an affluent gay uple who float through the mayhem wh disarmg sereny. Its sweep of the Amy Awards' top tegori thrilled Hollywood's gay muny, who have been tryg to prove for a long time that heterosexualy is a sad form of sexual dysfunctn.

This held that heterosexualy was a curse to be nigrated and mocked wherever possible, and that gays uld never w the power they craved society whout unrmg heterosexuals whenever possible.

At the same time, gays who held this view began agatg for homosexualy to be accepted as a form of behavur on a par wh heterosexual activy. On the posive ont, the radil gays argued that homosexuals should be entled to get married the same way as heterosexual upl, and that schools should teach about gay sex as if were no more normal or abnormal than male-female terurse.

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Amics began wrg papers argug for gay parentg, g statistics to suggt that children of gay upl had no more emotnal problems that the average child of a 'straight' fay.

On the negative end, gays began unterg unsirable imag of homosexualy - such as the spread of Aids - wh a bleak picture of what they risively lled 'straight sex'. The pot of this exercise was to monise normal heterosexual behavur, and to make the ordary ruals of attractn and relatnships seem aberrant, so that gays uld advance their own e by claimg 'straights' led liv that were much worse than theirs. Ball says he did not even know he was homosexual until he went to universy, but claims to have suffered enough persecutn at the hands of heterosexualy to believe is herently evil.

He relled recently that was a time when homosexualy was so taboo he uld not even acknowledge to himself that he was gay. Last year, he wrote and produced a TV seri lled Oh, Grow Up, which featured two straight men sharg a hoe wh a gay man, who, predictably, has much the better life.

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Were Ball the only prosletysg gay character this off- screen drama, the se agast Amerin Bety uld not be ma, but that is far om the tth. The two men got to know each other 1995 when Cohen ved Jks to be on the steerg mtee of Out There, an activist group of gay entertament executiv that he had -found.

Sourc say that one of Out There's key objectiv is to promote the gay liftyle wh films and members talk openly among themselv about how bt to mock heterosexualy.

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TV seri Will And Grace, whose two leadg gay men always seem to get the bt l, ually at the expense of a hapls heterosexual. As, The Operator, a new bgraphy of Geffen mak clear, Geffen is a predatory homosexual who has voted nsirable energy to projects that target heterosexualy.

He is allegedly the ma force the Velvet Mafia, a loose associatn of powerful gay men who e their fluence Hollywood to advance gay issu. Sourc say Geffen has equently changed scripts if they seem to be too sympathetic towards heterosexual love or if they show any ht of antipathy towards gays. In 20 years of filmmakg, Geffen has bee famo for makg or breakg reers based on whether the people volved are gay and willg to be part of his extremely active sex life.