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- BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS
- MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS
Joe Gannasli reflects on his groundbreakg character Vo om The Sopranos, who is the godfather of gay TV gangsters. * was vito gay in sopranos *
In 2004, the Season 5 episo "Unintified Black Mal", is disclosed to viewers Vo is fact homosexual after he is seen performg fellat on a secury guard early one morng at the Esplana nstctn se by Meadow's boyiend, Fn De Trol. Vo at the gay bar. Later, that eveng while makg a llectn at a gay bar, two Lupertazzi Fay associat, one named Sal Iaccuzzo, saw Vo dancg provotively wh a gay man.
MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
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The Iaccuzzo character was based on real-life Gambo Crime Fay po Matthew Lanniello, who was known to extort and own several nightclubs New York Cy that tered to homosexual clientele. Vo claimed that his homosexual behavr had been ed by meditn.
Lupertazzi crime fay boss Phil Leotardo, a vilent homophobe, mand Vo's ath, so Tony quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make a h on Vo.
It was later revealed that Vo was found wh a pool cue stick his rectum, a msage that he was killed bee of his homosexualy. Phil Leotardo later told Vo's wife, Marie, that her hband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vo had picked up at a bar. I gus wasn't too much of a surprise when NoHo Hank, an unsavory character om the h HBO seri Barry, was revealed to be gay.
The real-life mobster who orred a h on a gay mob boss, and whose story spired an entire season of spense surroundg gay mobster Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) TV seri' The Sopranos, has been sentenced to life prison.Stefano Vabile, 71, was sentenced to life prison for orrg the 1992 slayg of actg DeCavalnte crime boss John (Johnny Boy) D'Amato, who was killed when he was outed by his fellow mobsters, acrdg to New York's Daily News. * was vito gay in sopranos *
He is also a thls killer, and while he across fun-lovgly, he's anythg revelatn that he was gay was treated as no big al by tle character Barry, played brilliantly by Bill Har, who also -created the show. Har's Barry is a hired h man, so his teractns wh Hank are not only edic but vlent, or rooted nfirmed my spicns -- my gaydar went off wh him season 1 -- that he was gay when he was outed the season 3 opener.
His sexualy is prented wh a touch of flamboyance and sills, jt like the other attribut of his mob boss beg gay got me thkg about other mob, rtel, or gang members on other h televisn shows who are gay too and how their sexualy is more matter-of-fact and not sensatnalized. Beg gay is treated a way that do not dimish their menacg nduct or their masculy.
Pacho, a Colombian portrayed the show by Argentian actor Alberto Ammann, was head of distributn and secury for the Cali dg also happened to be gay. The fact that Mickey is an obnox, cel jerk who, aga, happens to be gay, was part of what ma him so -- well, I'll jt say , shamels. Another gay neighborhood crimal was om HBO's blood-soaked seri The Wire.
THE st of The Sopranos is fur at Joe Gannasli, who played gay gangster Vo Spatafore, for dog a seri of glowg terviews about Jam Gandolfi - when fact they were not close iends and hadn't talked years. * was vito gay in sopranos *
The fact that all the men were gay was treated as a given. They were villas first, and y, some episos of each seri voted storyl to the fact that they were gay, but at the end of the day, wasn't a big al. However, what sets Gannasli's character apart om the others is that when Vo was outed as gay the seri almost 20 years ago, was not only a major twist on the show but was also big news pop culture.
A mob character who was gay? Now, that was uld say that Vo was the "Godfather" of gay mafsi on televisn. "I started out as a chef and worked a bunch of rtrants New York Cy almost 30 years ago, and I worked wh a lot of gay people, and never bothered me at all, " Gannasli remisced.
"In fact, I worked at an all-gay rtrant lled Company, which was Chelsea. I was jt one of his crew, so my part was the background, and hey, I wanted more screen time, jt like any other actor, so I was tryg to figure out ways to make that happen, " he a break om the seri, Gannasli read a book that clud a gay mob character, so he had an ia. Wouldn't be tertg to make Vo gay?