I can't understand why you're so hung up on some rumour you heard that defies logic and the facts. You really think a trusted gangster would have survived and prospered in the Mob for 50 years as a homosexual, closet or othewise? Just because you "heard" it or read it on some blog doesn't make it so. I suggest you study the thousands of pages of FBI surveillance files on Rosselli, as I have, and then show me where he's living a secret gay life. Good luck with that.

As for why Rosselli was killed, it was because he was about to talk to Congress about the JFK assassination, and the Mafia co-conspirator he was going to talk about, Santo Trafficante, was the one who had him murdered. Johnny knew it was coming, knew it was Santo, and told his friends about it when he came out to LA to say goodbye (yes, I've talked to those friends in depth, and none of them are gay, BTW). Johnny accepted his fate and did nothing to avoid it. He had lived the later years of his life in pain from TB, Emphysema, and Arthritis, and he was ready to pack it in.

Rosselli's murder was OKed by Chicago, which was not a big deal to them, since Rosselli was out of the picture by then. Tony Accardo never liked him, and had always been jealous of Johnny, going back to the days when Capone took a liking to Rosselli (and not in a gay way, in case you're interested).

As for him being cut in half when he was killed, it wasn't to send a message about him being half a man. Where did you get that? He was supposed to disappear. They stuffed him in an oil drum and dumped him in Dumfoundling Bay so he'd never be found! They cut him in half because they couldn't fold him into the oil drum after rigor mortis had set in. They punched holes in the barrel so the gasses from the decomposing body could escape, and the oil drum would stay at the bottom, but they didn't punch enough holes. He wasn't supposed to be found.

Can't wait for your next bad joke.