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Mob Queens

Chapter 5: Cheers, Queers!

Mob Queens

Jessica Bendinger & Michael Seligman

Business, News, Psychology, 047524, Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Gay prohibition. Sexual segregation. A time when being gay was not okay. But leave it to the mob and Anna Genovese to cash in on these forbidden fruits.

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0:00.0

So really in essence the family has made the gay bar illegal?

0:05.0

No, no, the law made the gay bar illegal, the family made it operable.

0:16.0

This is mob queens. As far as women in the mob go,

0:22.0

I don't think they're going to let go or Lalo easily.

0:25.0

You know, let's get real, most of the mob malls were just there to like, be housewise, be pretty.

0:30.0

But she was very much involved in the business and took pride in being involved in the business.

0:34.9

The men who are investigating other men in organized crime don't ever seem to bother looking into the women.

0:45.0

I'm Michael Seligman.

0:46.4

And I'm Jessica Vendinger.

0:47.8

This is the show that asks,

0:50.4

who says working for the mob takes balls?

0:52.8

That was a good one.

0:54.8

We're in the Queens part of mob queens today.

0:57.3

Thank God.

0:58.4

Chapter 5.

1:00.1

Cheers. The decisive vote of the 36 state against prohibition is happy news for the grain

1:18.1

raises of the United States and for many others throughout the land.

1:22.3

With an eye on December 5th.

1:23.2

The world that Anna Genovese lives in shifts yet again in the mid 1930s.

1:28.0

Prohibition's done with mainly because it encouraged sort of a lawlessness among otherwise law-abiding citizens.

1:35.6

Right, so drinking alcohol in public is no longer illegal.

1:39.6

Starting in 1933 in 1933 bars are back in business in a big way and this song becomes a kind of anthem for the new era.

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