Gay ‘Sopranos’ mobster fds a b of fame

Contents:

• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
• ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
• SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• BEG GAY THE FIREHOE
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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

The Brooklyn actor who played Johnny Cak – the gay-fireman lover of a mob po on “The Sopranos” – killed himself a holiday tragedy that has stunned fay and iends. In the h HBO seri, actor Joseph Gannasli – a longtime iend of Costelloe’s – played mobster and closeted homosexual Vo Spatafore, who fled New Jersey after he was outed.

In the show, Vo beme attracted to Johnny Cak once he learned the short-orr ok was a volunteer firefighter, before beg whacked by his homophobic rivals. 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.

‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW

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.

WITH THE DEATH of John Costelloe, the actor who played Jim “Johnny Cak” Wowski on The Sopranos, fans of the landmark TV seri (1999–2007) lost an important player the show’s most gay-posive, and perhaps most ccial, story le. 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. He’d pched to one of the wrers after learng about a real-life gay mobster om a book he was readg, lled Murr Mache.

SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF

Sce fdg fame on The Sopranos, Gannasli has published a novel, gotten married (“I got married late, and I said ‘I gotta get married quick here bee people are really gog to thk that I’m gay, ’ so was a sh job. You talked about them rporatg real-life thgs wh the actors to the show, but the whole Vo arc where he’s gay, that was your ia, right?

And one of the characters was gay and I thought that was… I was like, “Wow, was a gay mobster. They’re so homophobic that even the portrayal of a gay man on TV they’re like, “I don’t like .

I worked a gay rtrant.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

If you have a problem wh gays you shouldn’t be the rtrant bs. In the episo where they disver that Vo’s gay at the leather bar, do you remember what you were thkg the first time that they me and showed you the wardrobe that you were gog to have for that? 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. 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.

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

“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.

— 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. “The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on “The Sopranos” has died of a self-flicted gunshot wound New York, police said.

BEG GAY THE FIREHOE

The 47-year-old former New York Cy firefighter gaed fame 2006 when he was st as short-orr ok Jim “Johnny Cak” Wowski oppose Joseph Gannasli, who played gay mobster Vo Spatafore on the h HBO show. ”Drsed appropriate leather bar attire, Vo Spatafore — the heretofore closeted gay mobster — was sighted by a uple wiseguys who me by the sweaty S&M jot to llect their protectn money.

)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. “I wanted to make him sort of self-nial, self-loathg, a real gay hater. ”Gannasli’s suggtn was spired by the book “Murr Mache, ” about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member also named Vo.

But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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. There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that.

Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl. A gay Jersey mobster’s murr ma ‘Sopranos’ wrers rensir.

Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay. “Nobody’s gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss, ” the killer said urt. gay-fireman.

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Were lled to his rince after fay members were unable to reach 47-year-old former New York Cy firefighter gaed fame 2006 when he was st as short-orr ok Jim "Johnny Cak" Wowski oppose Joseph Gannasli, who played gay mobster Vo Spatafore on the h HBO show. A Brooklyn actor who played the gay-fireman lover of a mob po on "The Sopranos" - killed himself a holiday tragedy that has stunned fay and iends, a report said.