Michael S. Ovitz, former superagent in Hollywood, who told Vanity Fair magazine that a "gay mafia" was responsible for his downfall.

The Lavender Mafia has been used as well as the gay mafia to refer to an informal network of homosexual executives in the entertainment industry.

And ALL of them have done the casting couch with the gay mafia because who do you think runs Hollywood?

Soon he had denounced the "gay mafia," "batt-ocrats," the "batt-ocracy" and, for good measure, SpongeBob SquarePants and Bart Simpson too.

Even some mainstream actors have joked that there is a gay mafia running Hollywood.

There's a gay mafia in hip-hop.

We all know the English are an odd lot, but is Mr. Rotberg really suggesting that the British Empire was built and run by a gay mafia?

Geffen's close circle of friends in show business include homosexuals and heterosexuals, but he speaks with rage at insinuations that there's a "gay mafia" in Hollywood.

But if you talk about a gay mafia involved in some kind of nefarious activity, that's ridiculous.

He said that a "gay mafia" was largely responsible for engineering his downfall.