The History of Pride Month & Ties to Italian Mafia - Stonewall

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

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What if I told you that Pride Month owes its origin to the Italian Mafia?In this wild deep dive, we uncover how New York’s Genovese crime family ran the infamous Stonewall Inn — an illegal, filthy, mafia-run gay club — and how a 1969 police raid sparked the riots that would later evolve into today’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month.From mafia blackmail operations to bribed cops, to a cultural movement that now spans 125 days a year — this is the side of history you won’t hear on mainstream news.Watch until the end for the insane connections between the mob, U.S. presidents, modern culture wars, and the dramatic collapse in U.S. family demographics.

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0:00.0	Do you know the Italian Mafia gets credit indirectly for the gay pride month?
0:04.0	Did you know this?
0:05.0	Did you know in New York City the mob ran by Fat Tony Loria, not Salerno, the boss.
0:10.0	Fat Tony Loria, who was connected to the Genovese family.
0:13.0	They owned the only gay club in town.
0:17.0	And it was dirty, it was nasty, no water, toilet.
0:20.0	The place smelled horrible.
0:22.2	They overcharged for drinks.
0:23.6	They made money.
0:24.8	It was a form of having blackmail of people that would go to this underground gay club
0:29.0	because at that time, you couldn't go to a gay club.
0:32.2	If they found out you had any kind of things, you could get a fine, you could have a lot
0:35.8	of different things that can happen.
0:37.1	There was this one club that Italian Mafia decided to open up called
0:40.2	Stonewall that led to the current Pride Month that we're celebrating today so thank you to
0:47.9	the Italian Mafia for starting the Pride Month we're going to talk about that today. If you get value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
1:06.0	So by the way, I want to show you this article written by the New York Daily News on July 6th of 69. Tell me if they can
1:12.4	write anything like this today. You ready? Homo nest rated. Queen bees are stinging mad.
1:20.6	Imagine if New York Times wrote that today. Okay, imagine if they, I don't even know if Babylon
1:25.1	can write that today. However, in the 50s and 60s, you got to know the climate.
1:29.5	At that time, if you were gay and you went to a bar, they couldn't serve your alcohol. If they did,
1:35.3	they can revoke that bar's license. You just couldn't do it, period, at this time. In 1952, just to kind of
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