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

Contents:

• MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE
• BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
• BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME
• GAY GANGSTER CRIMAL ASSASS BOOKS
• THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
• GUNS N' BOYS: HE IS POISON (BOOK 1) (GAY DARK ROMANCE MAFIA THRILLER)
• THE MAFIA AND THE GAYS

MAFIA / GAY / ROMANCE

Mafia / Gay / Romance (60 books),.

Mafia / Gay / Romance. artist, attorney, bisexual, bld, christmas, closet, wboys, dark, tective, disabily, doctor, dg-addict, dgs, ex-n, ex-p, ex-a-agent, fbi-agent, florist, iends-to-lovers, gay, gay-for-you, hacker, hiv, holiday, homophobic, kids, kdle-unlimed, lawyer, leído, libro-omido, lgerie, m-f, m-m, m-m-m, m-m-wh-children, menage, ary, micians, mute, ok, police, polic, prostute, ranger, rich-man, seals, sick-child, s-leer, sgle-parent, soldier, special-forc, unrground-, unlimed, widow, wrer.

Bt Gay Romance Mafia/Yakuza/Organized Crime (197 books),.

BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME

Bt Gay Romance Mafia/Yakuza/Organized Crime. There exists a List for Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme already. This will be a place for Gay, M/M Mafia (Italian, Rsian, other), Yakuza and other anized crime books.

BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME

Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme (376 books),. Bt Gay Romance wh a Crimal or Secret Organizatn Theme.

Vote/add books wh a gay romance plot/subplot which the ma male characters or their love terts are/were volved wh a crimal or a secret anizatn. crime, crime-syndite, crimal-anizatn, gay, gay-romance, m-m, m-m-crime, m-m-romance, mafia, mob, mobsters, secret-agency, secret-anizatn, secret-society, yakuza. (shelved 1 time as gay-gangster-crimal-assass).

GAY GANGSTER CRIMAL ASSASS BOOKS

Insurance vtigator Dave Brandstretter is unapologetilly gay, tough, and mascule, but also tenr. ” Published 1970, the book lnched a groundbreakg seri, the gold standard for ser gay crime fictn.

Gay and Lato, Nava’s fense attorney Henry Rs echo Brandstretter’s mixture of vulnerabily and hardboiled edgs.

She’s a dited, sensive, and skilled tective, but she remas closeted orr to navigate the homophobic LAPD.

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.

GUNS N' BOYS: HE IS POISON (BOOK 1) (GAY DARK ROMANCE MAFIA THRILLER)

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.

There is some irony to this history, as the term homosexual was first ed 1868 before the word “heterosexual” even existed.

THE MAFIA AND THE GAYS

Homosexual was set opposn to the ia of a “normalsexual, ” a word which was later disrd for “heterosexual. ” 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.