THE MOB & STONEWALL: Unraveling the Mafia’s Influence in the 1969 Uprising

Photo: Vito Genovese, owner of The Stonewall Inn in 1969.

Overview:
Explore the collision of the LGBTQ community, The Mafia, and law enforcement during this pivotal moment.
Discover the unexpected ways The Mafia’s alcohol cartel influenced the riots.
Learn about Vermont’s connections to The Mafia
Engage in an eye-opening Q&A session with Alex Hortis.

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Support a Cause: While entry is complimentary, generous donations are welcome to benefit the Duxbury Historical Society, which is actively restoring and preserving its iconic buildings.

Sponsored By: Moose Meadow Lodge, The Alchemist, Revitalizing Waterbury, Old Stagecoach Inn, and other generous donors.

About Alex Hortis
Alex Hortis is a constitutional lawyer and historian of crime. He has appeared on national television as an on-screen personality for AMC’s The Making of the Mob (2015), Hortis has been interviewed on NPR stations across the country and for true crime podcasts. He has also been a featured speaker at the New York Public Library, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
Hortis’s first book, The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York (Prometheus, 2014), was praised by Jerry Capeci, the dean of mob reporters, who wrote: “If there’s a better book on the early history of Cosa Nostra in America, I haven’t seen it.”
Malcolm Gladwell quoted Hortis’s book in “The Crooked Ladder:

The criminal’s guide to upward mobility” New Yorker, Aug. 3, 2014. The New York Post also featured Hortis’s groundbreaking work on the Mafia’s control of gay bars, in “How NYC’s gay bars thrived because of the mob,” New York Post, May 3, 2014.

Hotties is a former federal law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. His writings have appeared in New York University Law

Review, New York Law School Review, and in book anthologies on crime.

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