New Jersey mob boss John “Johnny Boy” D’Amato was killed in 1992 after his girlfriend told another member of the crime family that he was bisexual.The duo - Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana - said they were opposed to the idea of gay families in an interview given to an Italian magazine.īUT EARLIER TOO THEY SAID THEY OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGES. “It undermines their image of themselves as tough, virile guys,” he said. The mob and the LGBTQI community have had a tense history, with mere rumours of homosexuality being enough to get a mob member murdered in the past. Other members of the ‘Ndrangheta family also operate in northern Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the rest of Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. In 2005 he overheard a boss and his son-in-law casually chatting about plans to murder him, and in 2017 police uncovered a plot to blow him up with 36lb of plastic explosives. However, Gratteri still has a giant target on his back. Now, Gratteri claims that he has reportedly read “passionate” love letters between a crime boss and a young lieutenant, eavesdropped on foot soldiers admitting their love of drag bars, and learned about the son of a mob chief who works as a drag performer named ‘Lady Godiva’.Īfter revealing this information, Gratteri was shocked to receive emails accusing him of being “insensitive” for declaring the Mafia’s had gone soft, which still beats the usual death threats. This has prevented him from going to a movie theatre, beach, restaurant or even any of his children’s school plays over the last two decades.

Gratteri has lived under police protection for the last 30 years to defend him from various mafia assassination attempts. The young today can’t take the stress of prison in the way their parents did. They were impassive in the face of long prison sentences.

“I’ve brought to trial the grandfathers and fathers of today’s bosses. Gratteri also hinted to the apparent ‘softening’ of contemporary mob culture, as even organised crime begins to progress socially.

“Gays can be accepted now, even as foot soldiers, so long as they don’t parade it in public.” “The mafia have evolved along with society,” he said.

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