The boss of the mafia fay on which the Sopranos seri is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers bee he was gay and they feared that if news got out the fay would be ridiculed by the rt of the unrworld, a Manhattan urt has been told.
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- ITALIANS PLAY GAY TO AVOID ARMY SERVICE
- MAFIA KILLED BOSS FOR BEG GAY
- MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
ITALIANS PLAY GAY TO AVOID ARMY SERVICE
Explog a provisn which bars gays om ary service, more than 150 men are thought to have paid two doctors for certifit diagnosg them as sufferg om "sexual anxieti" and beg "patible" wh the strs of livg together dormori and g munal bathrooms. Doctors at Padua ary hospal mbled the sm when they noticed the unual number of gay men g om a small area northern Italy the Alto Adige regn, near the Atrian borr.
Invtigators fear that may be one of many sms ed by men who, spe ep prejudice agast gays, are pretendg to e out rather than spend the obligatory 10 months the army, the rabieri or the civil police. Genue gays appear to have more punctn about g the provisn, seeg as discrimatory.
MAFIA KILLED BOSS FOR BEG GAY
Arcigay, the ma gay rights movement Italy, said that only about 200 gays ed each year, while 15, 000 got through their ary service keepg their sexual orientatn a secret.
MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
Arcigay timat that up to 10% of the men and 20% of the women servg the armed forc and police are gay.
An rmer, ttifyg at the trial of three alleged mob boss New York, scribed the secret gay life of mob boss John D'Amato, a lleague of the late John Gotti.
Prosecutors on Thursday played a 1991 viotape of Gotti kissg D'Amato while Anthony Capo ttified that D'Amato was killed at the hands of his Mafia peers bee he was gay. Havg a gay boss was "vastatg to our brigada, " said Capo, g an Italian word for a mob fay.