Gay Mafia In Hollywood

Contents:

• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
• ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL
• VATIN WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS ‘GAY MAFIA’ IS BLOCKG NEED REFORMS
• MOST POPULAR GAY ROMANCE MAFIA ROMANCE BOOKS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
• GAY MAFIA
• FEATURED STORI

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

The paranoia over an “ternatnal homosexual nspiracy” rivaled the McCarthy munist wch hunts of the 1950s.

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.

BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME

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.

” 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.

ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL

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.

VATIN WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS ‘GAY MAFIA’ IS BLOCKG NEED REFORMS

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.

” 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.

MOST POPULAR GAY ROMANCE MAFIA ROMANCE BOOKS

Thanks to the unparalleled regnn gay men enjoyed the gay liberatn movement of the 1970s, the homtern fad to myth. Today the homtern seems to be emblematic of another epoch om the 20th century’s closeted gay history. 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.

This will be a place for Gay, M/M Mafia (Italian, Rsian, other), Yakuza and other anized crime books. After makg ments 2011 that some said were anti-gay, Adam Carolla me unr fire om a number of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) media watchdog groups.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Now the edian has ntued his diatribe about gays and polil rrectns an terview wh Salon, where he claimed that the gay mafia is a realy. The source of the origal outcry was an Augt 2011 rant that clud mentary on gay marriage stemmg om Same Street‘s Bert and Ernie gay ntroversy, which Carolla said gay people should “get married and shut up. When asked by Salon if he is anti-gay, Carolla replied: “You n’t live Hollywood and get along this bs and be theater pani and improv pani and have issu wh gay people.

My last movie I did was a boxg movie lled The Hammer, and the director [Charl Herman-Wurmfeld] was gay. ” Carolla add that the topic of gay marriage is addrsed his new book, Print Me: The Ameri That’s My Head. “In the book, what I say about the gay muny is that someone sent me ‘the top 10 reasons gays should marry.

MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'

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.

GAY MAFIA

(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.

FEATURED STORI

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. 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. " But the outg pneer is San Francis Chronicle homosexual lumnist Armistead Mp who "outed" actor Rock Hudson.

"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.