How the Mob Helped Establish NYC’s Gay Bar Scene | HISTORY

Contents:

• A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS
• MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• GAY MAFIA
• MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND

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The patrons repaid the mob by buyg cheap liquor at premium pric, along wh bootleg cigarett and sometim the 1970s, Willie the Rat sought to tablish some new gay bars, along wh strip clubs and peep shows, an area lled River Quay that a rival mob associate hoped to velop to a place of legimate rtrants and dispute was settled wh so many bombs and bullets that both plans were scuttled. The ad clud David Bonadonna, whose son had cled to help Willie the Rat secure liquor licens for his new gay bars and strip jots. And stagg the raid, the ps seem to have been at least as tent on punishg the mob as they were on hasslg the gay mob self remaed rolutely ristant to the gay rights movement.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

“Nobody’s gog to rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, ” the triggerman, Anthony Capo, later 2009, former Gambo fay hman Robert Mormando me out to a Brooklyn feral judge through his lawyer, makg clear the danger of beg gay the Mafia. “He has been openly gay sce he left the mob.

MOB H MAN OUT OF THE CLOSET: ROBERT MORMANDO IS GAY AND REGRETS LIFE OF CRIME, HIS LAWYER SAYS

”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.

MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'

But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive. Mob h man Robert Mormando stunned a veteran Brooklyn judge Monday when he renounced his membership La Cosa Nostra and - for good measure - acknowledged he was gay. "He has been openly gay sce he left the mob, " Ennis said.

Members of the Mafia do not accept a gay liftyle wh s ranks although there is no specific le that ducte mt accept, like the prohibn om havg an affair wh another gangster's DeCavalnte crime boss John D'Amato was whacked 1992 for beg gay. A burly gay h man named Vo Arena was a member of the murro Roy DeMeo crew.

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

The boss of the mafia fay on which the Sopranos seri is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers bee he was gay and they feared that if news got out the fay would be ridiculed by the rt of the unrworld, a Manhattan urt has been told. "Nobody's gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, " an rmer told the urt on "Johnny Boy" D'Amato, head of the DeCavalnte fay, the biggt the state of New Jersey, was shot ad 1992 after was moured that he was havg relatnships wh other a DeCavalnte soldier, Anthony Capo, heard the tale om D'Amato's girliend he was credibly angry.

GAY MAFIA

"She told me John D'Amato and her were gog to sex clubs the cy, swappg partners and John was engagg homosexual activy, " he told the urt. As D'Amato sat the back of the r, Capo turned and shot him twice, and when he ntued to move, twice mafia culture there is a strict taboo agast homosexualy. If they are gay then they would have to keep credibly quiet.

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.

MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'

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

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.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

In the Sopranos the character, "Vo Spatafore" is killed basilly bee he was gay.

If me out irl that ma man was gay, would he get whacked? If a ma man was a closet homosexual, would the mafia look down upon this and kill him? Who's your favore gay mobster?