Is There A Gay Mafia?- Page 2

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:30pm

Mike Ovitz, the homophobe.

[Calvin]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 2:52pm

Ah yes, that's who I was thinking of.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 5:53pm

not only is there a gay mafia, but some of the posters here are the head guys.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 5:56pm

I was never in the gay mafia but I was once a gay mobster's moll.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 6:17pm

LOL Papa. I was just thinking if there IS a gay mafia I bet Phyllis is running it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 8:56pm

Here's a 2002 article by Michelangelo Signorile on Mike Ovitz and the Gay Mafia:

http://www.msignorile.com/articles_mafia.htm

And a viswiki article on the Velvet 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.[1] Spectorsky declined, although he admitted that "culture hounds were paying homage to faggotismo as they have never done before." Playboy would run a panel on homosexual issues in April 1971.

The term "Velvet Mafia" was first used by author Steven Gaines in an article in the entertainment section of the Sunday New York Daily News in the 1970s to describe the executives at a British film and record company. Gaines later used the phrase 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" included Calvin Klein, David Geffen, Barry Diller, Truman Capote, Halston, Andy Warhol, Sandy Gallen, and Jann Wenner. The term was tongue-in-cheek, describing a "powerful social clique, not some truly devious alliance ruling either an industry or our politics

http://www.viswiki.com/en/Gay_Mafia

[romantico]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 9:39pm

So, whats Michael Ovitz doing nowadays? Is he still an agent? Is he working?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 9:48pm

(Can I say that here?)

Updated On: 10/5/10 at 09:48 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/18/10 at 10:12pm

"but some of the posters here are the head guys."

yes

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 3:26am

Papa you watch out-- I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse!

[tazber]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 7:07am

We need to decide who here is the Gayfather.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 2/19/10 at 9:46am

Who has head in their bed?

Oh... that wont narrow it down.

[romantico]

Posted: 10/5/10 at 11:57am

I wish we had a gay mafia. We need it now more than ever for protection.

[romantico]

Posted: 11/10/11 at 3:03pm

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/11/fatjoe.html

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/10/11 at 7:38pm

I think Arthur Laurents had something to do with it.