Stonewall and the History of Mafia Owned Gay Bars

Not so long ago, almost every gay bar in New York- and most of the US for that matter- was run by the mob. But why? Come learn with me!

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Sources:

The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser

Stonewall by David Carter

The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York by C. Alexander Hortis and James B. Jacobs

Queer Joints, Wise Guys and G-Men by Phillip Crawford Jr.

The Mafia and the Gays by Phillip Crawford Jr.

The Fierce Tribe: Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit by Mickey Weems

The FBI Files: David Petillo Did It In Drag https://web.archive.org/web/20170103183423/http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2010/12/the-fbi-files-david-petillo-did-it-in-drag.html

Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers and Sex-Morons in Chicago’s First Century By Jim Elledge

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights 1945-1990- A Oral History by Eric Marcus

Feds Tracked Mob Control of Gay Bars into the 1980s, DUNCAN OSBORNE https://www.gaycitynews.com/feds-tracked-mob-control-of-gay-bars-into-the-1980s/

Stonewall by Martin Duberman

The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz BY HUGH RYAN https://hazlitt.net/longreads/three-lives-malvina-schwartz

Photos

New York Public Library
Library of Congress
Getty Images
Randolfe Wicker
Lisa E Davis
LA Department of Water and Power Associates
Poor Little Peppina, 1916

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