Vo Rso | Makg Gay History

Contents:

• WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
• A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND
• ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• PRIDE – VO REMEMBERED: GAY ACTIVIST AND HERO VO RSO – “WHY WE FIGHT”
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• DO JOEY VOTTO HAVE A WIFE? HOW DID HIS GAY RUMORS ORIGATE?

WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?

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.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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.

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.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

One tertg theory floatg around the The Sopranos “universe” is that Lupertazzi boss Phil Leotardo was gay or bisexual. Sce the 1960s, people have been g the phrase “hidg the closet” to scribe those who choose to nceal their homosexualy.

One theory is that Phil engaged homosexual acts while he was servg his lengthy prison sentence and that he now loath that part of himself.

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

Viggo Mortensen suggted the possibily that he might not be "pletely straight" rponse to cricism that he is playg Lord of the Rgs star portrays a gay role, John, a new film he penned, Fallg, which is also his directorial but.

A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND

The movie tells the story of John's relatnship wh his antigay father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), who mov to Los Angel to jo his son after a mentia diagnosis.

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

)Now that the gay story le is heatg up, the 47-year-old Brooklyn-born actor is immensely pleased, part bee was his ia to make Vo homosexual.

”Gannasli’s suggtn was spired by the book “Murr Mache, ” about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member also named Vo. Gannasli dancg gleefully a biker’s p a leather bar, or gog on the lam to a gay Shangri-La ( this se, “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire) and fallg love wh the handsome mtached ok om the der—“Johnny Cak”—that have given TV viewers that rare feelg that they are watchg somethg new.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

Sure, there have been plenty of gay characters on televisn before: wacky Jack om Will & Grace, or David, the fsy unrtaker wh the hot p boyiend on Six Feet Unr. But the plight of Gay Vo has stirred up siar feelgs to those viewers felt when they first tuned on Sunday nights 1999 to see a Prozac-poppg Mafia boss spill his guts to his therapist.

PRIDE – VO REMEMBERED: GAY ACTIVIST AND HERO VO RSO – “WHY WE FIGHT”

Gannasli’s character, Vo Spatafore, was revealed as a closeted gay man when, at the end of last season, viewers spied his head e bobbg up om the lap of a secury guard. GANNASCOLI who had ially brought up the ia of a gay mobster to the show’s wrers durg the filmg of season three, after he’d read Murr Mache by Gene Mta and Jerry Capeci, about an openly gay member of the Gambo crime fay who was allowed to live bee he was a good earner. Early this season, the stage for tragedy was set when Vo was spotted by mobsters as he gallivanted full leather regalia a gay bar.

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

Gannasli was recently asked to serve as grand marshal at an Atlanta Gay Pri para, and he’s received letters om openly gay and closeted men appldg his portrayal.

DO JOEY VOTTO HAVE A WIFE? HOW DID HIS GAY RUMORS ORIGATE?

So, when I saw that this was about a gay rights activist, I was a ltle skeptil that might tert me, even though I'm a big supporter. Unfortunately, we'll never not que as good as Cmb or Kg of Kong, this is still a good documentary, and I n readily remend to anyone, as long as they're not homophobic. The Sopranos was a show wh some wild twists, but arguably s most shockg revelatn was that Vo Spatafore, the portly po of the Aprile crew and one of Tony’s bt earners, was actually a closeted homosexual.