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Contents:

• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
• A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
• THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH
• GROUNDBREAKG BOOK DETAILS WHEN MAFIA CONTROLLED GAY BARS
• VO GAY ?
• VO MARZANO WS FIRST BATTLE AGAST GAY BEAR BAR HE SAYS IS BIASED AGAST EFFEMATE MEN

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

”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.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive. Even a layman like me is aware of the mafia's fluence shakg down and takg stak gay bars. 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.

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

Post by Rair DaveFunnit scene EVAH other than Vo suckg would have been even funnier if they had played that gay bar mic omPolice Amy.

Gog to a gay bar fullleather, and actg "out", that is unr protectn by his "fay"'s shown himself to be spicly more and more unfortable hetero suatns wh his wife, i. Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill. “Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported.

“I’m workg now on a sex memoir about the lov of my life, ” Whe, who 1977 -wrote wh Charl Silverste, “The Joy of Gay Sex, ” said. In that era, “the three most heo thgs Ameri were hero, munism and homosexualy, ” Whe wrote an say. “Or they would try to get passn for gays and prent as sick sad stori, ” Whe said.

JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘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.

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. 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.

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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. 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.

GROUNDBREAKG BOOK DETAILS WHEN MAFIA CONTROLLED GAY BARS

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. The son looks equally proud to be wh his happit ncln you uld draw om this image is that Gerlarmo knew his son’s sexual orientatn and accepted as an tegral part of a magnificent young even if Gerlarmo was not yet aware that his son was gay, he is now. Willie the Rat operated out of a bar he named the El Reno Tavern after his favore prison, but the Kansas Cy mob also ran most of the cy’s gay bars back the benighted time when beg gay was nsired a same was te of the mob New York and Chigo and a dozen other ci.

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.

VO GAY ?

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. “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.

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.

VO MARZANO WS FIRST BATTLE AGAST GAY BEAR BAR HE SAYS IS BIASED AGAST EFFEMATE MEN

“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. It was the only place where gay people uld openly dance close together, and for relatively ltle money, drag queens (who received a bter receptn at other bars), naways, homels LGBT youths and others uld be off the streets as long as the bar was open.