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A homosexual organized crime member. This is most common in British works, perhaps because one of the [[London Gangster|Kray twins]] fits this idea. Similarly, this is especially true when a work is set around the time when the Krays lived. In America, the gayngster is often a [[Scary Black Man]] or Latino. The character can be repressed or fairly open about it, but an important idea is the contrast between his "un-masculine" (how he would see it) sexual orientation and brutal, macho behavior.

* Gauron from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' could count, though he's more towards the side of being a terrorist than a gangster. However, he does do shady dealings with smuggling in the underground world, and generally ''acts'' like one. His brutal, macho behavior is definitely a contrast to his [[Stalker with a Crush|twisted and obsessive love]] for Sousuke, making him a pretty good example of being a [[Straight Gay]].

* The second volume of ''[[100 Bullets|One Hundred Bullets]]'' features the obese, effeminate and openly gay Baby Maxwell in Detroit.

* Kirill in ''[[Eastern Promises]]''. It's highly taboo in the Russian mob, so he has someone killed just for insinuating it. that one of the Russian mobsters was gay. He's got a really big thing for his right-hand man, played by Viggo Mortensen.

* Bernie Bernbaum and Eddie Dane from ''[[Miller's Crossing]]''.

* "The Gangster" from ''Gangster No. 1'' is hinted at being a latent homosexual due to his misogyny and fixation on glamorous crime prince Freddie Mays.

* Joel Cairo, Caspar Gutman, and Wilmer Cook in Dashiell Hammett's ''[[The Maltese Falcon]].'' Hammett refers to Wilmer as a "gunsel," meaning a gay concubine, but his editors assumed the word meant a gunman, which Wilmer also is. Most contemporary readers make the same mistake.

* In ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' they discover a gayngster and Ray reacts with disbelief.

* The C4 comedy drama ''Shameless''

* ''The Book of Daniel'' had a gay character, Michael Vaporelli, who was heavily implied to be part of the mafia. He came out in one of the unaired episodes.

* The topic of a ''[[Mad TV]]'' sketch. Two gangsters are trying to drive each other out of town, but one of them is freaked out when the other makes repeated sexual advances at him during their fight. At the end it's revealed that both of them are gay. The first gangster was just concerned that the other was still involved with another guy.

* In the "Death on the Mississippi" mission of ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'', the player is tasked into infiltrating a steam-boat and killing members of a gang whose boss is a gay [[Scary Black Man]]. He likes to dress {{spoiler|like a sailor, all his crew are dressed as sailors, such as pursuers and waiters, but not the engineers or the guards of the ship. He have waiters and many rooms in his ship, because it's a drug cartel covered in a "steam-boat-disguise", and when he has free time he likes to make his cooks and waiters goes to his room and have gay sex with him. This is learnt when agent 47, if he disguises as a waiter or a cook, goes to the kitchen, and a employee will tell him to take "a present to the boss" and "to be proud about it" (the present is a birthday-cake, and the extra surprise is the routine gay sex that waiters have to deal with). More or less, this is described in the mission briefing. Also, there's a bathroom in the captain's deck that's filled with a spewed bottle of wine over the floor. Anyway, all of his sailors seems to express gay sexual preferences, and the way they talk... You'll have to [[Figure It Out Yourself]]. Or buy the damn game!}}

* Kanji in ''[[Persona 4]]''; he isn't in a gang, or part of an organized group of any kind beyond the Investigation Team, but he acts and dresses like he is in order to cover up the shame of his enthusiastic love of traditionally-feminine things.