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

Contents:

• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• THE DC CATHOLIC GAY MAFIA
• GAY LAVENR MAFIA THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
• IS THE ‘GAY MAFIA’ BEHD THE SYNOD ON THE FAY?
• HOW CATHOLIC CLERGY LED ALONGSI THE 'GAY MAFIA', SPOTS, AND RENT BOYS LAT AMERI
• CATHOLIC CLERIL “GAY MAFIA” FALLY BEG EXPOSED MEDIA?

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. 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. ” 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.

THE DC CATHOLIC GAY MAFIA

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.

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. 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.

GAY LAVENR MAFIA THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?

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. ” 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.

IS THE ‘GAY MAFIA’ BEHD THE SYNOD ON THE FAY?

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. 21 article the Amerin Spectator, Nmayr reports the rult of his vtigatn to the gay nnectns wh the Natnal Basili of the Immaculate Conceptn Washgton, D.

HOW CATHOLIC CLERGY LED ALONGSI THE 'GAY MAFIA', SPOTS, AND RENT BOYS LAT AMERI

A New Jersey Catholic bishop — one of Theodore McCarrick’s creatns — is protectg and promotg homosexual predator clergy and sourc tell Church Milant he is lovers wh one of those prits he is protectg — all part of what Abp. Arthur Serratelli, a man whose entire reer has been dogged by allegatns of homosexual misnduct and who protects and promot alleged homosexual predators. As we've prevly reported, Serratelli was a key figure facilatg the gay semarian pipele om South Ameri to the Uned Stat — and there's evince he's still dog that now.

As a rep: Homosexuals would be reced om Colombia and farmed out to East Coast semari, then sent on to a number of parish and dc around the untry. Father Arias is longtime pastor of Sat Margaret of Stland Church Morristown, spe of the fact that he's been found guilty of homosexual misnduct more than once. Both Bradtke and Gonzalez had a notor homosexual reputatn before their ordatn, wh a number of dividuals voicg ncerns to the bishop — but Serratelli ignored them and ma sure two active homosexuals were ordaed to the prithood his dce.

Incredibly, this letter was wrten after Arias had been removed by Serratelli as votn director five years earlier — after he'd gotten a semarian dnk durg a trip to Israel and engaged homosexual misnduct. " The evince agast Serratelli is damng, exposg him as part of the homosexual mafia exemplified by his mentor Theodore McCarrick, ntug his work of recg and protectg homopredator prits, ignorg victims and ceivg Catholics. ”Update: New NY Law Helps Sex Abe VictimsIn pot of fact, Father Edw Palka says the church has even manipulated or found ways to sentially blackmail prits who have attempted to blow the whistle on the church’s homosexual / pedophile problems.

CATHOLIC CLERIL “GAY MAFIA” FALLY BEG EXPOSED MEDIA?

That sad ncln has been reluctantly reached by several honorable prits who have been blackmailed to silence by honorable edicts of the Catholic nfsnal (more on that later) Homosexual Bishops Father Palka wrote earlier this month the bullet of The Epiphany of our Lord Catholic Church that “evil” homosexual bishops set out to “punish, huiate and blackmail” cent, God-fearg prits who threaten to blow the whistle on the gay “mafia” wh the Roman Catholic church.

Gay Lavenr Mafia wh Catholic ChurchFather Palka blows the whistle on the horrendo damage done by what he lls the gay “Lavenr Mafia” wh the church. Parish, Father Palka wrote: “Many people still don’t (I believe most prits still don’t) unrstand jt how evil the active homosexual or homosexual activist… prits and bishops are.

”Related: McCarrick tip of the Iceberg, Polish Prit warnsHe ntued: “Not unrstandg the extent of their pravy and wrongly thkg that they are simply ‘normal’ men who jt stggle wh their sexual sir and sometim might fail to rema chaste but are really, tly repentant when happens and strive to ‘nfs my ss, do penance and amend my life, amen’, they nnot possibly grasp the hellish pths to which… [homosexual activist]… clergy will go to persecute, lambaste, punish, huiate and blackmail anyone who stands their way or threatens their way of life. Related: Archbishop fends x-rated mural as evangelizg toolPerhaps nothg so clearly shows church elrs’ disda for their own parishners and all thgs holy as Archbishop Paglia’s homoerotic mural.