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

Contents:

• ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL
• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• GAY MAFIA HMAN MURRED BY OWN BEE CRIME FAY ‘DISGRACED’ BY HIS SEXUALY
• GUNS N' BOYS: HE IS ME (BOOK 2) (GAY DARK ROMANCE MAFIA THRILLER) KDLE EDN
• A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL

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

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.

Hollywood's "gay mafia" or "velvet mafia" or "lavenr mob" has long been the subject of gossip, wh ocsnal blips to the mastream prs.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

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.

GAY MAFIA HMAN MURRED BY OWN BEE CRIME FAY ‘DISGRACED’ BY HIS SEXUALY

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.

GUNS N' BOYS: HE IS ME (BOOK 2) (GAY DARK ROMANCE MAFIA THRILLER) KDLE EDN

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.

" 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. "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.

A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND

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.

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

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

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.