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The Gay Mafia, Velvet Mafia, gay lobby, etc. are pejorative terms for the alleged disproportional behind-the-scene influence of gay rights groups and the LGBT community in politics, media, culture, and everyday life.[1]
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.[2] 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 gay issues in April 1971.
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" included Calvin Klein, Truman Capote, Halston, and Andy Warhol. The term was tongue-in-cheek, describing a powerful social clique, not some truly devious alliance ruling either an industry or politics.
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"I think there is a gay mafia. I think if you cross them, you do get whacked. I really do." -Bill Maher
originally posted by: CulturalResilience
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: CulturalResilience
originally posted by: RazorV66
Who is Snoop Dogg?
He used to stand behind a microphone and talk over an electronic drum track, so incredibly difficult to do. I think its wonderful that black performers today can say their nursery rhymes in time to a beat.
If rap is so easy why aren't you making millions of money off of it? Let me guess. You're "above that"?
Correct, I am a musician and what I do requires application. As for the money, you would cry if you saw my earnings poor person.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: CulturalResilience
Of course it's the truth, and I'm the President of Whole Foods. Nice to meet you.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: Krazysh0t
It's a big subject maybe he didnt want to torpedo the thread itself? And what because int eh first sentence of the wikipedia, a real topic judging by the page... that the first line HAS to say is a pejorative and then following that line are SEVEN paragraphs going into the history of of this Velvet Mafia...
So a dozen plus industry insiders come forward talking about it, it this thing that has a history that goes back to people observing the culture rising up as early as the 1960's, that makes its conspiracy theory nutter bs?
The term was tongue-in-cheek, describing a powerful social clique, not some truly devious alliance ruling either an industry or politics.
You didnt even read half of what I said. Let alone anything they said. To start snapping like that.
So you're done; just another liberal knee jerk... ya know yesterday I was a bit hard on ya, it's been a while since got into it with you, felt kind of bad as I dont always see you doing the typical ShillJW Goosestep Groove... but I've delt with you enough to recall you're just the same. Same old just another cookie cutter democrat clone creature. A shame, here I was thinking maybe just maybe you're a rare one capable of actual thinking, of having a hope of being a person whom can be reasoned with. But nope. The left have lost all ability to see beyond the MSM tunnel vision. Good luck with that.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: CulturalResilience
Oh I stopped taking you seriously when you honestly thought that I'd be jealous of your net income.