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Griselda Blanco

Bad Gays

CHAPTER

The Myth of the Gay Gangster

I think one thing that's really interesting about her life is how much she seems to be actively co-producing in a way that which I just referred to as Hollywood bullshit. How much of the categorization is gay here is coming out of these self-aggrandizing or self-glamorizing stories? And can we believe it? Is it that she is desiring women or is it that telling people that she's holding strippers at gunpoint is a way to assert the same kind of mythic gangster power as the macho man? Right. Yeah, no. That's a super interesting question. The scripting of gangster stories is a way that he can understand himself

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