Is There A Gay Mafia?
Is There A Gay Mafia?
#1Is There A Gay Mafia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:38pm
If there isn't,we need one now more than ever!
I've heard this for years. I saw a Gay Movie where this was the theme and even saw the Will and Grace Episode where Elton John played the Gay Godfather. However.I was curious how much of this is urban legend and is there any hint of truth to this. Found this on Wikipedia:
"Gradually, velvet came to be replaced with gay. The term may have gained wider social prominence after it was used in a Spy article in 1995 and became notorious after an interview with one-time Hollywood talent agent Michael Ovitz in Vanity Fair in 2002 in which Ovitz claimed that an organized group of gay men was singling him out to ensure that he would "never [work] in [Hollywood] again."[3]
Ovitz who, according to some, had a reputation for being homophobic during the height of his career in the 1980s and 1990s, claimed that DreamWorks SKG co-founder David Geffen, former New York Times reporter Bernard Weintraub, various former employees of Ovitz at the Creative Artists Agency such as CAA co-founder and Universal Studios President Ronald Meyer, and former Disney Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, among others, were part of a powerful group that conspired to end his career."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Mafia
Curious to hear what people think about this. Besides it being a running joke,could there be some truth to any of this,especially in Hollywood?
#2Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:40pm
Watch what you post in this thread
they're watching
#2Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:45pmYeah, you'll be given accessories you can't refuse!
#3Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:49pmSo, will there be a movie remake called The Fairy Godfather?
#4Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:52pmI'd love to see that movie!
#5Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:54pm
Real Mafia - puts horse heads in beds
Gay Mafia - gives head in bed
Real Mafia - Sends muscle to collect debts
Gay Mafia - Build muscle to look het
Real Mafia - Conduct illicit business at Italian eateries
Gay Mafia - Conduct illicit business behind Italian eateries
#6Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:55pmWould those accessories be jewelry?
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Joined: 12/31/69
#7Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 1:58pm
I daydream "Gay Mafia Nicknames:"
Rosie "Big Tuna" O'Donnell
Neil "Patrick The Poofter" Harris
#8Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 2:11pm
A friend of mine gave me a refidgerator magnet that has some well dressed boys on it and says:
Gay Mafia: We'll Break the Legs of Your Coffee Table.
It's right between my Hattie McDaniel magnet and my Showgirls magnet.
#9Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 2:13pmI hope romantico doesnt have to sleep with the fish-net stockings!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#11Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 2:38pm
#13Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 2:43pmGreat thread! I expect no less from the gay sensibility!
#14Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 2:48pmI'll try to find out where my friend got it for me, Cal! It's Hattie McDaniel AS Mammy. It's kinda awesome.
#15Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 3:04pm
I have that magnet.
It's just after she says, "It aint, fittin'...it just aint fittin'! Aint fittin'!"
I wonder if having that magnet means we are marked by the gafia!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#16Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 5:59pmThere used to be. But they don't speak to each other anymore.
#17Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 7:17pm
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#18Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 7:22pm
So maybe my desire to become a mob-wife can come true 
#19Is There A Gay Maffia?
Posted: 2/17/10 at 7:28pmAre you referring to that gay mafia movie with Brent Corrigan? Are we actually counting that as a "movie"?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#20Is There A Gay Mafia?
Posted: 2/18/10 at 12:43amI'm going to create a Facebook app called Gay Mafia Wars.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#22Is There A Gay Mafia?
Posted: 2/18/10 at 11:57amdoodlenyc needs a doily, a c**kring, a 4th row ticket to see Gypsy and a lock of Brian Boitano's chest hair for "Gay Mafia Wars!"
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#23Is There A Gay Mafia?
Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:25pmWasn't there some Hollywood hack -- some actor, writer or director, I can't remember which -- who a few years ago complained he couldn't get work because of the gay mafia?
#24Is There A Gay Mafia?
Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:30pmWasn't that Michael Ovitz from CAA? Or was there someone else?
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