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'You Wanna Play Rough?': The Italian Mafia and Butch Lesbian Partnership in Greenwich Village, 1945-1968
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In our final episode of season one, FHSU graduate student in history, Alison Helget, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss her master's thesis "'You Wanna Play Rough?': The Italian Mafia and Butch Lesbian Partnership in Greenwich Village, 1945-1968." We visit about the role of Anna Genovese, wife of mob boss Vito Genovese, in gay nightlife and the surprising partnership between the mafia and lesbians in postwar New York.
Image: Buddy Kent (left) and Anna Genovese (right)
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