‘The Sopranos’ Belongs to the Gays Now

Contents:

• ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
• ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU

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.

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.

‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW

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. On ''The Sopranos, '' Vo go to hidg when everyone learns his secret, and Tony has to ci his top earner's fate Jam Gandolfi ”The Sopranos”: Tony’s gay issu The optns are right there on every New Hampshire license plate: Live Free or Die. ”Every f—’ TV show, they b your nose , ” Tony observ, examg the subject of homosexualy Dr.

THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE

But actually, Tony is onto somethg when he blam televisn, as is another ep, theologil-md mobster who pontifit that Vo’s secret gay life ”mak a mockery of the whole sacrament. ” See, here’s the thg: The latt episo of The Sopranos is, on the face of , about Vo’s chanc of livg ee or dyg as a gay man. But, all this heterosexism and flattened nuance ignor the obv tth: The Sopranos belongs to the gays now.

And while some of the Gays of Gabagool have been fans sce the begng, seems many of them have only disvered recently, via word of mouth.

JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’

But this new realy rais qutns: How did a show about vlent straight men bee so popular wh queer and trans people, pecially given the racism, misogyny and homophobia shows?

LGBT LbianGay Bisexual Tony Soprano. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) Augt 12, 2021. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) March 28, 2021.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

“The men are so secure about thgs like homosexualy, but at the same time, many of them are much more image-nsc and effete than mastream men of different social class — the manicur, the obssn wh cloth, the hair, the jewelry, the logne. There’s a lot of shared terrory between this branch of 1990s/2000s Italian-Amerin ultra-macho culture and gay men’s club culture of the same perd.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

— hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) April 3, 2021.

— hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) October 14, 2020. But even better, what I found was other gays to chat wh about my favore mobsters. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) September 27, 2020.

But wrer and gay porn performer Ty Mchell says “g at the end” might be exactly why The Sopranos has bee so beloved queer circl now. Gannasli had read a book about a gay mobster who was an associate of New York’s Gambo crime fay. Gambo associate Vo Arena had survived as a gay mobster the ’80s.