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INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. * gay mafia *

The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. 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.

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

Havg e unr fire for anti-gay ments the past, the edian claims you n't get ahead Hollywood "if you have issu wh gay people. * gay mafia *

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. ” 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. 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.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

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. * gay mafia *

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. 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. ” 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.

ADAM CAROLLA: THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL

The edian is gettg ndid about her group of gay iends. * gay mafia *

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. 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.

But between New York’s LGBT muny the 1960s beg forced to live on the outskirts of society and the Mafia’s disregard for the law, the two ma a profable, if uneasy, the gay muny blossomed New York Cy the 1960s, members had few plac to gather publicly.

MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'

Informal groupg of rich, powerful gays & lbians Hollywood who all seem to know each other" name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * gay mafia *

Unr the guise of New York State’s liquor laws that barred “disorrly” premis, the State Liquor Authory and the New York Police Department regularly raid bars that tered to gay the law saw viance, however, the Mafia saw a goln bs opportuny. It was the only place where gay people uld openly dance close together, and for relatively ltle money, drag queens (who received a bter receptn at other bars), naways, homels LGBT youths and others uld be off the streets as long as the bar was open. “Fat Tony, ” for one, paid New York’s 6th Precct approximately $1, 200 a week, exchange for the police agreeg to turn a bld eye to the “cent nduct” occurrg behd closed Photo<em>An NYPD officer grabs someone by their hair as another officer clubs a young man durg a nontatn Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march New York, 1970.

ADAM CAROLLA ON GAY MAFIA: IT RUNS HOLLYWOOD AND MAK COMEDIANS’ LIV SUCK

The former Vatin ambassador to the U.S. said a gay mafia the Church is blockg attempts to serly addrs cleril sex abe. * gay mafia *

David Carter explas his book Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn, that durg a typil raid, bar owners would change the lights om blue to whe, warng ctomers to stop dancg and drkg. Sometim the ps even went to the extreme measure of sendg female officers to the bathroom to verify people’s get around laws that prohibed servg alhol to LGBT patrons, many gay bars—cludg the Stonewall—operated ostensibly as “bottle bars, ” private clubs where members would brg their own alhol. Apparently, too many high-powered dividuals—cludg Mafia members, police officers and big Hollywood nam—were implited as Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.

Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them.

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

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

MOB HIT MAN Robert Mormando stunned a veteran Brooklyn judge yterday when he renounced his membership La Cosa Nostra and - for good measure - acknowledged he was gay.EXCLUSIVE * gay mafia *

”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. 1 / 14: RxSome scholars have argued the famo Stonewall rts that sparked the natnwi LGBT movement were as much a ristance agast the mob’s exploatn of the gay muny as they were a stggle agast police harassment and discrimatory laws.

” Two of the ma gay-rights anizatns that me out of the rts, the Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberatn Front, actively champned gettg anized crime out of gay Mafia’s stranglehold on New York Cy’s nightlife bs took a huge h wh a seri of high-profile prosecutns the 1980s. 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.

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.

KATHY GRIFF: "THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL. I’M A PRODUCT OF IT"THE EDIAN IS GETTG NDID ABOUT HER GROUP OF GAY IENDS. {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY ADAM SALANDRAAPRIL 10, 2017/4:02 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}RICK KERN/WIREIMAGEBY ADAM SALANDRAAPRIL 10, 2017 / 4:02 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"KATHY GRIFF: \"THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL. I’M A PRODUCT OF IT\"","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-04-10T20:02:56.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-04-10T20:02:56.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATHY GRIFF HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN OUTSPOKEN ALLY OF THE LGBT MUNY AND SHE'S NOW G THE SKILLS SHE'S VELOPED THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS TO CHAMPN FOR EQUALY ON A LARGER SLE UNR THE TMP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE EDIAN SPOKE TO PRI SOURCE ABOUT HOW HER MSAGE HAS CHANGED SCE LAST YEAR'S ELECTN, AND EMPHASIZED THAT WHEN TO MANDG EQUAL RIGHTS, WE'RE ALL THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE LGBT MUNY KEEP STANDG STRONG," SHE SAID. "AND WHAT WE'RE GONNA HEAR A LOT OF IS, 'WELL, YOU GUYS ARE SGLE-AGENDA.' NO, WE'RE EQUALY. EQUALY IS FOR ALL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT SPE HER ACTIVISM, GRIFF STILL FDS TIME TO UNWD. AND WHEN THE SUBJECT OF LOGO'S NEW REALY SHOW FIRE ISLAND UP, THE EDIAN MAK CLEAR WHOM SHE'LL BE WATCHG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"FIRST OF ALL, THE GAY MAFIA IS REAL. I'M A PRODUCT OF AND EXISTS," SHE TOLD PRI SOURCE. "SO, ACTUALLY, ON THE TWTER, I JT GOT A TWEET OM JAI RODRIGUEZ, THE ORIGAL QUEER EYE, SAYG 'OVERDUE FOR A KATHY GRIFF MAFIA NIGHT AT HER HOE.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"SO 'LL BE JAI RODRIGUEZ, CHRIS COLFER OM GLEE, LANCE BASS AND THEIR PL-ON," SHE ADD. "THEY'LL ALL E OVER TO MY NEW HOE AND WE'LL S MY FABULO SCREENG ROOM. AND THEN WE'LL WATCH FD. BUT THAT'S JT A TYPIL NIGHT FOR ME."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Spects the murr of a gay member of the 'Ndrangheta crime syndite will be the dock at one of the biggt mafia trials history.  * gay mafia *

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. 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.

GAY MAFIA

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.

VATIN WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS ‘GAY MAFIA’ IS BLOCKG NEED REFORMS

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. 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. 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.

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. The pot of this exercise was to monise normal heterosexual behavur, and to make the ordary ruals of attractn and relatnships seem aberrant, so that gays uld advance their own e by claimg 'straights' led liv that were much worse than theirs.

Ball says he did not even know he was homosexual until he went to universy, but claims to have suffered enough persecutn at the hands of heterosexualy to believe is herently evil. If you're wonrg why homosexuals have skyrocketed recent years to jo blacks and femists at the top of liberalism's hallowed list of "mory groups" entled to special rights and privileg, look no further than Hollywood --- Tseltown is ntrolled the days by the "Gay Mafia. Geffen ma sure the movie "Interview Wh a Vampire, " directed by the homosexual Neil Jordan (who also directed the perverted movie "The Cryg Game") had s homoerotic unrton removed.

MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS

The csant need to not only advance their fellow homosexuals but to zealoly protect each other om public scty is bee the "need to mata Ameri's wholome image of them is somethg that nnects Hollywood gays at all levels --- whether one is a stgglg (or a mega- star) actor, wrer, agent, or producer, " Ebner wr. Homosexual ants mand that their "liftyle" be treated as equal to the tradnal fay, yet most still scpuloly hi their inty, preferrg to do their subversive unrmg of Amerin culture as "closeted" revolutnari. 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.

"Nobody's gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, " an rmer told the urt on "Johnny Boy" D'Amato, head of the DeCavalnte fay, the biggt the state of New Jersey, was shot ad 1992 after was moured that he was havg relatnships wh other a DeCavalnte soldier, Anthony Capo, heard the tale om D'Amato's girliend he was credibly angry. “My feelg about the gay muny — first off, you n’t live Hollywood and get along this bs and be theater pani and improv pani and have issu wh gay people, ” Carolla asserted.

ABOUT THAT GAY MAFIA...

Carolla, who the past has raised eyebrows by assertg that women have ferr sens of humor and tegorizg the Occupy movement as “self-entled monsters, ” went on to offer his thoughts about gay marriage. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.

“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.

BEWARE THE GAY MAFIA

Kathy Griff has always been an outspoken ally of the LGBT muny and she's now g the skills she's veloped the fight for gay rights to champn for equaly on a larger sle unr the Tmp edian spoke to Pri Source about how her msage has changed sce last year's electn, and emphasized that when to mandg equal rights, we're all this together. Group of socially powerful gay men (mostly) and women who dictate fascistic fns of gayns cludg clothg, mannerisms, haircuts, polil views, hot clubs and which blon anorexic is the twk du jour.

A New York Tim art cric will always trash heterosexual artists and love stori pecially if is about a mans's love for a woman and even more so the guy mak love to her (they hate that) even if the work is wonrful and always praise gay theater and artists even if horrible. It is mored Black GayMafia have ti wh one of New York's 5Mob Fai, Yakuza, The very first known Transsexual Mobster Ketty Gabriele of the Camorra Crime Fay Italy and others.

In an extensive terview, snippets of which were published Monday, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said that the sexual abe crisis would be “far ls severe” if the “problem of homosexualy the prithood were hontly acknowledged and properly addrsed.

THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MOB

“Given the overwhelmg evince, is md-bogglg that the word ‘homosexualy’ has not appeared once, any of the recent official documents of the Holy See” alg wh cleril sexual abe, Viganò told the Post. Late last Augt, Archbishop Viganò released a shockg 11-page report clarg that 2013 he had personally rmed Pope Francis of the serial homosexual abe of then-Cardal Theodore McCarrick, but that the pope had ignored the rmatn, elevatg McCarrick to a posn of fluence the Vatin. “The homosexual works, which are now wispread many dc, semari, relig orrs, etc., act unr the ncealment of secrecy and li, ” he said, “and strangle nocent victims and pritly votns, and are stranglg the entire Church.

Members of the Mafia do not accept a gay liftyle wh s ranks although there is no specific le that ducte mt accept, like the prohibn om havg an affair wh another gangster's DeCavalnte crime boss John D'Amato was whacked 1992 for beg gay. Both the New York Post and Daily Variety quoted Hollywood tan Barry Diller, one of those whom Ovz clus the gay mafia, who told Vany Fair terviewer Bryan Burrough, "I'm stunned.

FREE-THKG LGBT ACTIVISTS SAY THE 'GAY MAFIA' IS 'HARMG GAY PEOPLE'

We uld have done wh ls of the tillatn, profsed horror and hand-wrgg om journalists and their terview subjects, and wh more acknowledgement of the fact that there most certaly is a band of powerful gay men Hollywood, as well as ank discsn about what they reprent? It's not only ak to every nspiracy theory we've heard to date about Jews Hollywood and beyond; more signifintly, Hollywood's gay moguls, often to the chagr of gay activists, have always had ltle allegiance to their own kd.

MAFIA ALLOWS GAY MEN TO JO AFTER EMERG MOB CHIEF'S SON IS LIVG AS DRAG QUEEN

The fact that some are open about their sexual orientatn today and are ntributg to the of gay rights or AIDS rearch is often the product of years of cricism and public protts by AIDS activists and gay activists. Ovz th was implicly ascribg an unlikely nspiracy to Hollywood's gay powerbrokers, attemptg to flect om his own failgs, dredgg up every last b of that homophobia for which he's long been known.

Another reason that shouldn't surprise anyone that Ovz is blamg gays is the same reason that Falwell and the Vatin have blamed gays: In tim of high anxiety, when a lot of straight men feel their masculy (read: power) threatened, homosexuals bee a favore target.

" The only thg washed up, however, is the zany, sperate McCarthy-era smear tactics agast gays, whether g om the Catholic Church, Hollywood or a New York tabloid, while more and more of the public seems cled to dismiss them.

THE GAY MAFIA?

One of the more cur mem to emerge (or, really, re-emerge) the wake of Brendan Eich’s rignatn om Mozilla last week is the notn of a “gay mafia, ” a shadowy group of power-queers that will, I don’t know, sk you off the Christopher Street Pier a bundle of stume jewelry if you n afoul of the movement. Conservativ like Glenn Beck and Newt Ggrich have warned the fahful of the thlsns of LGBTQ activists, cryg “terrorist anizatns” and a “new fascism, ” rpectively, and everyone on the panel of last week’s Real Time Wh Bill Maher chuckled nervoly when Maher lled out the gay mafia directly. But jokg asi, the Mozilla episo seems to have nvced a lot of people across the polil spectm that gay people (or at least LGBTQ activists) exercise an ordate and perhaps ighteng amount of power and that you’d better be reful around lt you risk social or profsnal, if not physil, termatn.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MAFIA

Vatin Whistleblower Says ‘Gay Mafia’ Is Blockg Reforms .

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