Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * gay guy in sopranos *
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.
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.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
"The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-flicted gunshot wound New York, police said. Police * gay guy in sopranos *
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. “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.
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
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But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive. The Sopranos was a show wh some wild twists, but arguably s most shockg revelatn was that Vo Spatafore, the portly po of the Aprile crew and one of Tony’s bt earners, was actually a closeted homosexual.
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
He’d pched to one of the wrers after learng about a real-life gay mobster om a book he was readg, lled Murr Mache. Sce fdg fame on The Sopranos, Gannasli has published a novel, gotten married (“I got married late, and I said ‘I gotta get married quick here bee people are really gog to thk that I’m gay, ’ so was a sh job. You talked about them rporatg real-life thgs wh the actors to the show, but the whole Vo arc where he’s gay, that was your ia, right?
And one of the characters was gay and I thought that was… I was like, “Wow, was a gay mobster.
''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
They’re so homophobic that even the portrayal of a gay man on TV they’re like, “I don’t like . I worked a gay rtrant.
If you have a problem wh gays you shouldn’t be the rtrant bs. In the episo where they disver that Vo’s gay at the leather bar, do you remember what you were thkg the first time that they me and showed you the wardrobe that you were gog to have for that?
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
But, all this heterosexism and flattened nuance ignor the obv tth: The Sopranos belongs to the gays now.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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? LGBT LbianGay Bisexual Tony Soprano.