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.

WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?

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.

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.

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

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.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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.

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. 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?

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

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. The subtle wrg and expert actg (not to mentn a few mercils gay jok) make as worthwhile as any other story of the show. Now that Vo's homosexualy was disvered many want him ad, Tony wants more proof.

Intertg story about homosexualy. Kill that fat bracle sucker, except for Tony who while homophobic still realiz Vo is his top earner and also realiz 's the 21st century, and mobsters maybe should let the thgs sli. Plie wants Vo's head on a silver platter (for other reasons add to him beg gay) and Phil Leotardo is shocked that his sister would marry a wise guy who is light the loafers.

The word is out: Vo is fely gay. He easily spots some gays town.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

This unexpected gay subplot will ntue for several episos, and is not to everyone's tast, me clud. One tertg theory floatg around the The Sopranos “universe” is that Lupertazzi boss Phil Leotardo was gay or bisexual. This theory basilly poss that Phil engaged homosexual acts while he was servg “20 years the n”.

Sce the 1960s, people have been g the phrase “hidg the closet” to scribe those who choose to nceal their homosexualy. In other words, they see as a ht that Phil has been hidg his own 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.

When emerg that Vo is gay, Phil’s revulsn towards him seems bter, over-the-top and exaggerated. Is he thkg about his wife’s statement about how Vo is gog to hell for beg gay? Phil Leotardo was gay and Vo Spatafore knew .