How Gay Is Vo om The Sopranos? | Observer

Contents:

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

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

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.

WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?

Vo claimed that his homosexual behavr had been ed by meditn.

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

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.

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. 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.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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 .

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

I worked a gay rtrant. 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? Of all the embarrassg moments the characters of this seri have experienced, none n have been more shameful than the disvery that Vo Spatafore, one of Tony's most loyal men, is gay. As you might remember, the fat hoodlum was a gay bar the prev episo, wearg an all too obv leather outf, and got ught by two low-level, word is out on the streets, and the reactn is practilly unanimo: the poor son of a b*tch should get clipped.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

Bis, he claims, there's no actual proof, asi om the two guys' ttimony, that Vo really is homosexual (Chris's rponse: "What, we actually have to see him take the ass? That life will be the foc of the next few episos, and the fact that this bloodls subplot works is all due to Gannasli, whose reful performance is away om the overblown "gay gangster" ritur seen Guy Rchie's films.