''The Sopranos'': Tony's gay issu |

Contents:

• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
• ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU

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.

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

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? Gannasli had read a book about a gay mobster who was an associate of New York’s Gambo crime fay. Gambo associate Vo Arena had survived as a gay mobster the ’80s.

There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that. Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl. A gay Jersey mobster’s murr ma ‘Sopranos’ wrers rensir.