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Getting Tattooed with Gay (and Mafia) History
Author Phillip Crawford Jr gets tattoos of vintage ads for alleged Mafia-controlled gay bars which he wrote about in his groundbreaking book The Mafia and the Gays.
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"Phillip Crawford Jr.'s "The Mafia and the Gays" is a groundbreaking and riveting exploration of a little-known facet of history. With meticulous research and a captivating narrative, Crawford delves into the complex and often surprising interactions "
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A Brilliant Book About A Fascinating Man Jim Foshee told his biographer Robert Steele "I had adventures to live and places to explore," and from the opening chapter when a 15-y-o openly gay Foshee hitchikes his way from a small Idaho town to Los Angel ...more |
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| An absolutely brilliant book about a badass queer dude, and I've never read a book that gave me such insight into what it was like being queer in the 1950s and 1960s. Samuel Steward a/k/a Phil Sparrow a/k/a Phil Andros had balls, and was an existenti ...more | |
“The Mafia’s involvement with gay bars is ironic on so many levels. Macho guys ruled gangland but supported a subculture for nelly queens. Most mobsters were evil sociopaths motivated only by financial self-interest but nevertheless were doing a good thing in providing social spaces for the gay community. The mob was on the wrong side of the liquor laws by serving gay folk but on the right side of the 14th Amendment in arguing for equal protection. The Mafia exploited an oppressed community but advanced the gay cause.”
― The Mafia and the Gays
― The Mafia and the Gays
“After the Stonewall riots the gay activists had their idealistic hearts in the right place but it turned out they had underestimated the realpolitik of organized crime. Indeed, as gay liberation blossomed in the wild 1970s the bars and bathhouses became increasingly lucrative enterprises, and the Mafia had no intention of abandoning a racket it had controlled for decades. The Mafia families maintained their control by exercising the proverbial carrot and stick. The wise guys seemingly embraced the gay rights movement and cut more so-called Auntie Gays into the action as their fronts, and resorted to violent threats and sometimes murder against others who refused to play ball with the crime families. There were few legitimate businessmen in gay nightlife of the 1970s.”
― The Mafia and the Gays
― The Mafia and the Gays
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“All fairy night clubs and gathering places are illegal, and operate only through pay-offs to the authorities. They are organized into a national circuit, controlled by the Mafia which also finds unique opportunity to sell dope in such dives. Many gangsters like it that way, too, after indoctrination in prison.”
― U.S.A. Confidential
― U.S.A. Confidential
