A conglomerate
homosexual men with diversification that's inclusive all walks of life, socioeconomics, occupations, ethnicities or races, and act as a
single entity in achieving it ends. Often the members of the mafia occupy positions that beneficial to the whole or a purpose, such as gays of color distributing narcotics to communities White gays can not do so safely. The higher echelons of the Velvet Mafia are predominately if not all White gay men.
Historically, the Velvet Mafia begun alongside the Italian Mafia, which utilized the
gay clubs for laundering
money and funds for start ups of other more lucrative endeavors. After the near collapse of the Italian Mafia, the gay community having learned of more elusive criminal activity, infiltrated avenues of business once denied them. Disguising themselves as "heterosexual" even taking wives or arranging
fake marriages to bought women or even posing as women themselves.
One of the leading industries occupied and dominated by the Velvet mafia is the Entertainment industries, with growing activity in gentrification. Criminality that fund the Velvet Mafia are
drug distribution and production, and human trafficking. Other avenues in the gray would include
politics, such as the Log Cabin
Republicans, wealthy group of White gay men whom who were the Trump presidency's financial backing.