Homosexual Mafia
An early use of the term was when the English critic Kenneth Tynan proposed an article to Playboy editor A.C. Spectorsky in late 1967 on the "Homosexual Mafia" in the arts.[11] Spectorsky declined, although he admitted that "culture hounds were paying homage to faggotismo as they have never done before". Tynan allegedly enjoyed cross-dressing himself.[12] Playboy would subsequently run a panel on gay issues in April 1971.
Velvet Mafia[edit]
The term "Velvet Mafia" was first used in an article in the "Top of the Pop" column in the entertainment section of the Sunday New York Daily News in the 1970s by journalist Steven Gaines to describe the executives at the Robert Stigwood Organization, a British film and record company. The phrase was later used by the same writer in a roman à clef about Studio 54 called The Club in reference to the influential gay crowd that became the club's habitués. This "mafia" was said to include homosexual men such as Calvin Klein, Truman Capote, Halston, and Andy Warhol. The term was supposedly tongue-in-cheek.
Gay Mafia[edit]
"Gay Mafia" was widely used in the media in the 1980s and 1990s, and could be seen in the pages of the American daily, the New York Post. The term was also used by the British tabloid The Sun in 1998 in response to what it claimed was sinister dominance by gay men in the Labour Party Cabinet.[13][14][15][16]
The term "gay mafia" may also have gained wider popular prominence after it was used in both a 1995 Spy article and subsequently a 2002 Vanity Fair article, wherein Michael Ovitz, in an interview,[17] stated that a "gay mafia" was largely responsible for his company's failures.[18]
In January 1999, Ovitz sold his company AMG for an estimated $12 million.[19] But he blamed the downfall of AMG upon a Hollywood cabal supposedly led by Dreamworks cofounder David Geffen (despite the fact that most of its purported members were not actually gay). He later apologized for his comments.[20]
The TV host Bill Maher also claimed in 2014 that a gay mafia existed. He added his view that "if you cross them, you do get whacked. I really do."[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Mafia
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