The Gay Mobster 'Sopranos' Wrers Used as the Basis for Vo Spatafore

Contents:

• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
• WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
• EVERYTHG YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY VO BUT WERE AAID TO ASK
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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.

MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED

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. ”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.

WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?

“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.

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.

The real-life mobster who orred a h on a gay mob boss, and whose story spired an entire season of spense surroundg gay mobster Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) TV seri’ The Sopranos, has been sentenced to life prison. It was after Sopranos wrers read about Vabile’s 2003 trial feral urt that Gannasli urged them to make his Vo Spatafore character gay. On this season’s Sopranos, Spatafore left his wife and kids when two mobsters spotted him a gay bar.

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

Gannasli did the gay prs circu leadg up to this season’s killg, and told the prs he felt the wrers of the show treated his character wh the rpect he served. “Nobody’s gog to rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg bs wh other fai, ” DeCavalnte turnat Anthony Capo told jurors 2003, acrdg to the Associated Prs.

© 2006 GayWired; All Rights Rerved. The exprsn “gay mafia” first went mastream 2002, when fallen super-agent Michael Ovz gave an terview to Vany Fair which he claimed a bal of the gay and vengeful were largely rponsible for the mise of his management subsequent apology notwhstandg, most everyone around town saw as some maniftatn of Ovz’s unravelg egomania (after all, his list of nam clud known heterosexuals), though the phrase “gay mafia” had been kickg around Hollywood for que as long, of urse, as gay men had been risg to power as agents, actors, producers and top executiv while leavg off their bs rds.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

And risg as mob men, as “The Sopranos” njur , takg “gay mafia” lerally and to s most logil extreme.

EVERYTHG YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY VO BUT WERE AAID TO ASK

Several episos ago, one lled “Live Free or Die, ” mob pta/ancillary character Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) went to hidg after beg spotted dancg leather chaps at a gay bar that pot you thought he had about half an episo to live.

Instead, his “outg” has turned to an outg -- Vo fleeg through the night to his ’s place New Hampshire only to stumble upon a yuppie Pleasantville for gay men, a leafy, idyllic hamlet lled Dartford, where even the volunteer fire partment looks like a kd of a gay men’s promis some form of rolutn, Vo havg returned om his hi-out, exorably drawn back to the leral fay he abandoned and the figurative one chg to exact mob culture, men kiss each other on the cheek greetg, but homosexualy is a s punishable by ath, although you get a pass prison, Tony tells his psychiatrist, Dr.

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In the culture too, we still have our old-school l: Audienc get a pass when gays are prented as burlque (see “Will & Grace, ” which end s long n on NBC on Thursday night) or as victims of disease and/or “The Sopranos, ” through Vo, means to get at the culture war over gay marriage that won’t go away any time soon. Although Tony’s crew is eager for him to orr Vo clipped, Tony is cled to give him a pass: The guy’s a solid earner, and Tony’s pretty sure he’s not the kd of homosexual who would annoy him, brgg kchen curta sampl by the Bada Bg.

“I fd disgtg, ” Tony tells Melfi of his attu on homosexualy.

”Gay mobster hidg at a bed-and-breakfast leaf-peepg untry sounds about as rich wh edic potential as mobster therapy and on Prozac. But “The Sopranos” has mostly played as poignant and tragic -- ’s of a piece wh “Brokeback, ” even though Gannasli has said he brought the ia to the show’s wrers several years ago, after readg a book about a gay his bum hip, Vo’s signature duck walk adds a Chapl-que isolatn and sadns to the character. But beg gay do not make him signifint; only highlights his sential disnnect wh the crew: He kills other men, but he also cuddl wh them.