How Gay Is Vo om The Sopranos? | Observer

Contents:

• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
• WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
• ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• VIGGO MORTENSEN EX WIFE EXENE CERVENKA AND RELATNSHIP TIMELE, WHAT ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS?
• ‘NOT IAL’: GAY PORN STAR JAILED WHILE WEARG PK

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE 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.

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.

WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?

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. Gannasli is known to Sopranos watchers as “Gay Vo” (or even GaVo, certa exotic circl). Gannasli dancg gleefully a biker’s p a leather bar, or gog on the lam to a gay Shangri-La ( this se, “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire) and fallg love wh the handsome mtached ok om the der—“Johnny Cak”—that have given TV viewers that rare feelg that they are watchg somethg new.

Sure, there have been plenty of gay characters on televisn before: wacky Jack om Will & Grace, or David, the fsy unrtaker wh the hot p boyiend on Six Feet Unr. But the plight of Gay Vo has stirred up siar feelgs to those viewers felt when they first tuned on Sunday nights 1999 to see a Prozac-poppg Mafia boss spill his guts to his therapist.

''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU

Gannasli’s character, Vo Spatafore, was revealed as a closeted gay man when, at the end of last season, viewers spied his head e bobbg up om the lap of a secury guard. GANNASCOLI who had ially brought up the ia of a gay mobster to the show’s wrers durg the filmg of season three, after he’d read Murr Mache by Gene Mta and Jerry Capeci, about an openly gay member of the Gambo crime fay who was allowed to live bee he was a good earner. Early this season, the stage for tragedy was set when Vo was spotted by mobsters as he gallivanted full leather regalia a gay bar.

Gannasli was recently asked to serve as grand marshal at an Atlanta Gay Pri para, and he’s received letters om openly gay and closeted men appldg his portrayal.

“Beg the rtrant bs, you’re wh a lot of gays, ” he shgged. One tertg theory floatg around the The Sopranos “universe” is that Lupertazzi boss Phil Leotardo was gay or bisexual. This theory basilly poss that Phil engaged homosexual acts while he was servg “20 years the n”.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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?

VIGGO MORTENSEN EX WIFE EXENE CERVENKA AND RELATNSHIP TIMELE, WHAT ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS?

Viggo Mortensen suggted the possibily that he might not be "pletely straight" rponse to cricism that he is playg Lord of the Rgs star portrays a gay role, John, a new film he penned, Fallg, which is also his directorial but. The movie tells the story of John's relatnship wh his antigay father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), who mov to Los Angel to jo his son after a mentia diagnosis. He said nversatns about stg are "healthy" but he "didn't thk was a problem" about his own portrayal of a gay role.

"People then ask me, "Well what about Terry Chen, who plays my hband the film, is he a homosexual? "Mortensen's remarks e at a time of creased bate over the appropriatens of straight actors portrayg gay rol.

This week, Jam Corn has been slammed for portrayg the "worst gayface" Netflix's The Prom. Historilly, out actors were ls likely to be st starrg rol, even gay on, as this list of 61 straight people who received Osr nomatns for LGBTQ+ rol attts.

‘NOT IAL’: GAY PORN STAR JAILED WHILE WEARG PK

Phil brgs fire and brimstone to his -by-marriage when he fds out Vo is gay. Melfi, where ’s philosophized that’s beg gay prison is accepted.

He shows up the middle of the seri bee he’s been locked up for a long time, and I thk the wrers rerce this ia about beg gay behd bars to brg another subnsc ia to play. I always chalked- up to Phil beg old school and jt really beg homophobic, but now I believe ’s bee he had a lot of homosexual ntact prison, and might have actually been gay himself. The rercement by Tony and the crew that gay prison gets a pass.