Is Michael Cimo Gay Real Life? Who Is Love Victor's Michael Cimo Datg?

Contents:

• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• VIGGO MORTENSEN EX WIFE EXENE CERVENKA AND RELATNSHIP TIMELE, WHAT ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS?
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS
• MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS
• IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

Episo NotFrom Eric Marc: The late thor and activist Vo Rso is bt known for his 1981 landmark book, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, and for -foundg both GLAAD (origally known as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and ACT UP (the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) my terview wh Vo, you’ll hear him trace the start of his activism to a ndlelight vigil outsi St. Vcent’s Hospal for Diego Val, who was arrted on March 8, 1970, a police raid of the Snake P bar ( his Makg Gay History terview, Vo mistakenly dat the raid to July 1969). Vo read a flyer that was beg hand out at the vigil and that led him to jo the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Rso the late 1960s.

A profsor of me—she knew that I was gay, but we never spoke about — said to me, ‘I’m warng you, if you ph this thg some day they’ll shoot you the streets.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

A month before his ath, I met wh Vo to choose photographs to go along wh his chapter the origal 1992 edn of Makg Gay History. One of the photos he chose, which you’ll fd below, shows Vo wh Bette Midler at the June 24, 1973 Gay Pri rally Washgton Square Park New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, which followed the fourth annual Gay Pri para.

VIGGO MORTENSEN EX WIFE EXENE CERVENKA AND RELATNSHIP TIMELE, WHAT ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS?

Vo was the Rso and Bette Midler at the Gay Pri rally Washgton Square Park, New York Cy, June 24, 1973.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

You n also watch the speech Rso and his boyiend, Jeff Sevcik, celebratg Gay Pri New York Cy, June 1982.

Michael Schiavi’s thorough and engagg bgraphy of Vo, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Tim of Vo Rso, was published 2011 by the Universy of Wisns Rso’s oral history n be found Eric Marc’s book Makg Gay History. Jefey also piled hours of outtak om the documentary on a range of topics and featurg terviews wh several different people, which you n fd Rso is also creded as a wrer for the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, which is based on his book and learn more about the pictn of male homosexualy  the silent and “pre-” eras of film the U.

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

And Europe, have a look at Shane Brown’s vio say, Queer Romance: Gay Characters and Male Bondg Early Film, here. Cred: Lee New York Tim published Vo Rso’s obuary, which Vo was scribed as a film historian, cric, and advote for gay honor of Vo Rso’s work, GLAAD named the “Vo Rso Tt” after him.

The llectn clus rrponnce, journals, photographs, extensive rourc om his “Celluloid Closet” lectur, as well as var “gay and lbian ephemera. ”In his Makg Gay History terview, Vo referenc a 1919 film lled Different om the Others, which was -wrten by Magn Hirschfeld.

BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS

———Episo TranscriptEric Marc Narratn: I’m Eric Marc and this is the season fale Makg Gay after I signed a ntract to wre my book Makg Gay History, I ma a list. AIDS was burng through a generatn of gay men. And he was also one of the founrs of GLAAD, an anizatn that challenged how gay people were reprented the media.

MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS

It was a landmark book on the history of how gay people were portrayed I lled Vo and ma an appotment to terview him at his apartment the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Tape one, si you remember the first time you saw a film which gay characters were portrayed? He ms suici at the end only bee he’s acced of beg gay.

He’s not even gay. He had one homosexual experience the Army and was beg blackmailed. Instead, he tracked down the blackmailers and operated wh the police and put them jail, all to challenge the existg laws agast homosexual behavr.

IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?

And that I was right and that they were wrong, but that they were gonna beat me up for so I had to keep my mouth wasn’t like high school I didn’t know any gay kids. ” And I had never heard of Fire Island and was like a total revelatn to me that there was like this gay muny out Do you remember anythg about the movement at that time.

VR: The only thg I knew was I picked up magaz like ONE and I got the sense that there were people out there who were makg a se for gay people, sayg that they shouldn’t be persecuted. And he was aaid that if me out that he was gay he would be ported. And that was the followg Thursday when I went to my first Gay Activists Alliance So then you were volved activist activi through the early ’ What was happeng by 1971, ’72, ’73 was that I was graduate school cema, gettg a masters film.

And I was heavily volved wh the Gay Activists Alliance. So those three facts sort of nspired to make me realize that I wanted to wre a readable, accsible book about the history of the ways which lbians and gay men had been portrayed on the screen, pecially mastream movi, which reach most people, bee I felt that our image was at the root of homophobia.

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

That people were beg tght thgs about as gay people that simply weren’t te. And I wonr often, I mean, I have no way of perceivg whether or not the book did any good terms of s actual impact on movi bee I still see most mastream Hollywood films as vilently homophobic. And now people are jt “A, ” sred to al wh this subject at all, or “B, ” homophobic the extreme.

I was booked to do a lecture at a gay film ftival.