François / Frankie G · “from Boston” & Durante / Dante C · “from the Vatican”
La Famiglia · Since Stonewall, 1969
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La Famiglia
An old family. Older than the precinct that raided us, older than the church that buried us, older than the word they invented to make us afraid. We did not ask for our rights. We took what was owed, with interest, and we never forget a face.
You will not find the top of this list; the names that matter were never written down. You will not find your own name on it, and you would be unwise to take that for mercy. What you will find is that the people who move against us tend to have a very quiet year.
“Sooner or later everyone wants to be a friend of Dorothy’s. I decide who is. And I decide when they stop.”
DOROTHY · never found
The Four Tenets
I.
The Family is eternal. Once you are made, you are made forever, in this life and in whatever comes after it. There is no resignation letter.
II.
Our power is not a metaphor. It runs in both female and gay male descendants of BRIDGET BISHOP, and always has. Everyone else is, with respect, staff; if you’re lucky, toys; and with disrespect, food.
III.
What is said at the table stays at the table. The first rule is silence. Log in for other rules. CAVEAT: Master François / Frankie is NEVER silent. And NEVER ask him to be.
IV.
We do not retire and we do not die. We relocate. “Witness protection” is simply our word for evolved.
If you have read this far, someone sent you. Petition for consideration. Or keep telling yourself it was a coincidence.
Tribute
Every tribute is put to work, quietly and without receipts. Choose your standing; the Family keeps the rest.
Obsidian Order
The made, the undead, and the off-world keep their own counsel. If you carry a key, you already know where it goes.