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Contents:
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * vito in gay bar *
Gannasli?In what Gannasli cheerfully lls “the year of the queer,” when “Brokeback Mounta” beme a phenomenon and Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Osr playg Tman Capote, Gannasli’s character (spoiler alert: read no further if you haven’t seen the episo yet) was outed Sunday night on “The Sopranos.”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.“It’s a joke,” Vo weakly offers, then begs: “Don’t say noth’!”By the end of the episo, he’s checked to a motel wh a gun, lookg suicidal.Fans of the HBO seri were stunned last season when Meadow’s boyiend, Fn, saw a secury guard stg the driver’s seat of a tck — and then Vo’s head popped up.This season, Vo has hung around the hospal while Tony Soprano was reverg om a gunshot wound, tryg to gratiate himself wh Tony’s wife while plottg wh Plie Walnuts to grab her cut of a big sre. (In real life, he’s down to 260 om a high of 400 pounds.)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 saw him as, like, a cross between Mike Tyson and Liberace,” Gannasli told The Associated Prs an terview at his home. “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.“They didn’t bother him about , bee I gus he was good at what he did, which was choppg up bodi,” Gannasli said.Gannasli nces that he had a self-servg motivatn for makg the suggtn: Breakg out of the pack.“I thought that was a way of separatg myself om the other actors, bee I would have been the background most of the time.
But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.“I’m a Brooklyn guy.
Vo dancg at the gay bar. Post by Rair DaveFunnit scene EVAH other than Vo suckg would have been even funnier if they had played that gay bar mic omPolice Amy. Gog to a gay bar fullleather, and actg "out", that is unr protectn by his "fay"'s shown himself to be spicly more and more unfortable hetero suatns wh his wife, i.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
Gannasli is known to Sopranos watchers as “Gay Vo” (or even GaVo, certa exotic circl). 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. 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.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
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.
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.