How the Mafia Muscled in and Controlled the Stonewall Inn

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastAfter the first night of the Stonewall Riots, graffiti scrawled next to the boarded-up bar summarized the forces aligned against gay bar patrons in New York in 1969:PROHIBITIONCORUPT$ COPS$FEED$ MAFIAA pamphlet soon appeared urging gay New Yorkers to “get the Mafia and the cops out of gay bars.”  Its author was Craig Rodwell, owner of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in Greenwich Village, and an early proponent of the need