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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
* vito in a gay 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. But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
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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.
A TE TOUGH GUY: THE MAFIA, GAYS, AND MICHAEL SAM’S BOYIEND
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. 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.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
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.
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) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
“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.
THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH
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.
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).
GROUNDBREAKG BOOK DETAILS WHEN MAFIA CONTROLLED GAY BARS
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.
VO GAY ?
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. 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.
VO MARZANO WS FIRST BATTLE AGAST GAY BEAR BAR HE SAYS IS BIASED AGAST EFFEMATE MEN
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.