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Contents:
- THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MOB
- THAT GAY MOBSTER TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO COME OUT
- MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS
THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MOB
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Nearly 50 years ago, on June 28, 1969, LGBT people – led by drag queens – rebelled agast a raid by the New York Police Department on the Stonewall Inn gay nightclub.
THAT GAY MOBSTER TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO COME OUT
For two nights, gay men and women fought back agast the police until they whdrew. Matthew “Matty the Horse” Ianniello, po wh the Genove crime fay, ntrolled a large number of gay clubs New York Cy the 1960s and ’70s.
The Stonewall was secretly owned by Matthew “Matty the Horse” Ianiello, a high-level poregime (pta) the Genove crime fay who held hidn terts a seri of gay bars and porn stor the Greenwich Village and Tim Square neighborhoods. Mob-n gay bars were notor for chargg high-pric for loy, watered-down drks om bootlegged liquor (“Mafia hoe beer, ” one patron dubbed . ” Someone wrote this graffi on the Stonewall’s board-up wdows: “GAY PROHIBITION CORUPT$ COP$ FEED$ MAFIA.
MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS
The Mob’s role gay bars ntued well to the 1970s and beyond some plac. A new generatn of hont gay bar owners had to venture to this uncerta terrory wary not only of ntug discrimatn by society, but of lgerg mobsters the bs. Jo Thursday, June 27 for Mm program Stonewall and the Mob: The 50th Anniversary of the Gay Rights Movement.
For s, mastream Mob histori omted the Mafia’s volvement wh gay bars. The Mob, of urse, did not like to talk about any of s rackets, but pecially those nnected to the gay bar scene.
The Mafia should also never be mistaken for a gay rights anizatn; was for the money. Some gay activists later tend to shy away om this ugly past, too. Historian David Carter was the first to extensively tail the Genove fay’s volvement the 1960s his groundbreakg book Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn.