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GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
Vo Beg Cght In A Gay Club. Even a layman like me is aware of the mafia's fluence shakg down and takg stak gay bars. He was heavily volved the gay bar tra.
It's not jt gay bars, most stripclubs and peep shows had lks, however tenuo, to the mob. Wh all this backstory, how likely is really that someone Vo's posn would take the chance of gog to a gay bar a cy lol to him and engage wanton generacy, right out there the open. Mobsters have been murred for beg spected of beg gay wh ltle or no tangible proof.
”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.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
“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.
When Vo got ught at the gay bar, why didn't he jt pretend he was jt there makg a llectn or that he was about the rob the place? But between New York’s LGBT muny the 1960s beg forced to live on the outskirts of society and the Mafia’s disregard for the law, the two ma a profable, if uneasy, the gay muny blossomed New York Cy the 1960s, members had few plac to gather publicly. At the time, was still illegal to serve gay patrons alhol, to display homosexualy public or for two gay people to dance together.
Unr the guise of New York State’s liquor laws that barred “disorrly” premis, the State Liquor Authory and the New York Police Department regularly raid bars that tered to gay the law saw viance, however, the Mafia saw a goln bs opportuny. “Fat Tony, ” purchased the Stonewall Inn 1966 and transformed om a bar and rtrant that attracted straight clientele to a gay bar and nightclub. Dpe s ls-than-ial ndns, Stonewall quickly beme a popular statn the gay muny—even somethg of an stutn.