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how fucking good do you have to be at drag to make the mob stop being homophobic (lemmy.today)

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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was, but they were far from allies. They muscled on their patrons as often as the cops did to drag more cash out of them, because they knew they had a blackmailable secret and they couldn't go to the cops.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks for explaining that context, I didn't know much about the nature of those arrangements