another expression used to refer to the gay mafia
The velvet mafia has had control over the Oscar votes for years now.
by OKAMA September 28, 2003
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Organization of very powerful and influential gays that hunts down and kills methodically any of the immature bigots who publish homophobic trash on this website.
Joey thought it was funny to mock gays on urbandictionary.com, until the velvet mafia sent him his severed penis in a box.
by LavenderJackson November 9, 2003
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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.
by CanisNocturnas July 18, 2021
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A term for a group of people that thinks they are funnier (and tougher) than they are.
The guy who said something somebody else thought was homophobic trash wasn't a comedian and didnt think anything he ever said was the least bit funny. He didn't think a velvet mafia had anything to do with what he said being called homophobic trash, he thought it was just a few whining people, and that most didnt really care what he said, because from experience he knew that most people didn't care what he said or did.
by Solid Mantis October 19, 2020
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