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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
A prit who has seen the culture om si the Catholic church for several s says there is a gay lavenr mafia nng the church. * catholic gay mafia *
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 DC CATHOLIC GAY MAFIA
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. 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.
GAY LAVENR MAFIA THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
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.
IS THE ‘GAY MAFIA’ BEHD THE SYNOD ON THE FAY?
” 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.
” 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.
HOW CATHOLIC CLERGY LED ALONGSI THE 'GAY MAFIA', SPOTS, AND RENT BOYS LAT AMERI
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. 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.
CATHOLIC CLERIL “GAY MAFIA” FALLY BEG EXPOSED MEDIA?
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.