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Contents:

• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND
• ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL
• IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI
• WHAT IS THE REAL NAME OF THE GAY STAR BILLY (OM MCLE MATT MCLE MAFIA)?
• THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MOB
• MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE
• GAS & PAS: BLACK GAY BODYBUILRS & THE COMPLEX DYNAMIC BETWEEN MCL & QUEER DIRE
• ITALIAN MOB OPEN TO GAY MEMBERS, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T ‘PARA PUBLIC’
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
• NICK JONAS STRIPS OFF AT NEW YORK GAY CLUB AS HE REVEALS MORE THAN JT HIS NEW SGLE

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. The ia of a “gay mafia” may seem like a bad oxymoron.

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.

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

The ver of Gregory Woods’ Homtern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Morn World. 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.

ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL

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.

IS THE BODYBUILDG INDTRY GAY FOR PAY? BODYBUILDG TROLL VCE GOODM TAK SHOTS AT NICK TRIGILI

” 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.

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.

WHAT IS THE REAL NAME OF THE GAY STAR BILLY (OM MCLE MATT MCLE MAFIA)?

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.

Many crics were wary of the reprentatns of Amerin life offered by the “homosexual men. ” 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.

THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MOB

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.

MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE

This kd of paranoia only extend to gay men. 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. Thanks to the unparalleled regnn gay men enjoyed the gay liberatn movement of the 1970s, the homtern fad to myth.

GAS & PAS: BLACK GAY BODYBUILRS & THE COMPLEX DYNAMIC BETWEEN MCL & QUEER DIRE

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. The son looks equally proud to be wh his happit ncln you uld draw om this image is that Gerlarmo knew his son’s sexual orientatn and accepted as an tegral part of a magnificent young even if Gerlarmo was not yet aware that his son was gay, he is now.

ITALIAN MOB OPEN TO GAY MEMBERS, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T ‘PARA PUBLIC’

Willie the Rat operated out of a bar he named the El Reno Tavern after his favore prison, but the Kansas Cy mob also ran most of the cy’s gay bars back the benighted time when beg gay was nsired a same was te of the mob New York and Chigo and a dozen other ci.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

The mob was able to pay off the ps to keep gay bars om beg raid.

The patrons repaid the mob by buyg cheap liquor at premium pric, along wh bootleg cigarett and sometim the 1970s, Willie the Rat sought to tablish some new gay bars, along wh strip clubs and peep shows, an area lled River Quay that a rival mob associate hoped to velop to a place of legimate rtrants and dispute was settled wh so many bombs and bullets that both plans were scuttled. The ad clud David Bonadonna, whose son had cled to help Willie the Rat secure liquor licens for his new gay bars and strip jots. And stagg the raid, the ps seem to have been at least as tent on punishg the mob as they were on hasslg the gay mob self remaed rolutely ristant to the gay rights movement.

TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

“Nobody’s gog to rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, ” the triggerman, Anthony Capo, later 2009, former Gambo fay hman Robert Mormando me out to a Brooklyn feral judge through his lawyer, makg clear the danger of beg gay the Mafia.

“He has been openly gay sce he left the mob. 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.

NICK JONAS STRIPS OFF AT NEW YORK GAY CLUB AS HE REVEALS MORE THAN JT HIS NEW SGLE

“If you n’t work wh gay people, you’re gonna have a difficult time Hollywood, ” he said the Q&A. 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.