Joe Gannasli reflects on his groundbreakg character Vo om The Sopranos, who is the godfather of gay TV gangsters.
Contents:
- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
- THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
- ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
- BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
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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.
WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
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Vo at the gay bar.
THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
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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.
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
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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.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
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.
HOW GAY IS VO OM 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. )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 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. One tertg theory floatg around the The Sopranos “universe” is that Lupertazzi boss Phil Leotardo was gay or bisexual.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
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?
''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
Gannasli had read a book about a gay mobster who was an associate of New York’s Gambo crime fay. Gambo associate Vo Arena had survived as a gay mobster the ’80s.
There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that.
Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl.
BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS
A gay Jersey mobster’s murr ma ‘Sopranos’ wrers rensir. Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay. “Nobody’s gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss, ” the killer said urt.
But, all this heterosexism and flattened nuance ignor the obv tth: The Sopranos belongs to the gays now. And while some of the Gays of Gabagool have been fans sce the begng, seems many of them have only disvered recently, via word of mouth. But this new realy rais qutns: How did a show about vlent straight men bee so popular wh queer and trans people, pecially given the racism, misogyny and homophobia shows?