One tertg theory floatg around the The Sopranos universe is that Phil Leotardo is gay or bisexual.
Contents:
- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
- ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
* the sopranos gay scene *
”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.
THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * the sopranos gay scene *
)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.
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
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?
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.
WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
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.
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 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.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that.
''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
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.
Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay. “Nobody’s gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss, ” the killer said urt. Slang they ed to scribe a homosexual.
When chris go to the bg to report on vo beg spotted at the gay bar, he's says he lled before, tony go you knew he was a "ricky oh". But, all this heterosexism and flattened nuance ignor the obv tth: The Sopranos belongs to the gays now.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
And while some of the Gays of Gabagool have been fans sce the begng, seems many of them have only disvered recently, via word of mouth.
But this new realy rais qutns: How did a show about vlent straight men bee so popular wh queer and trans people, pecially given the racism, misogyny and homophobia shows? LGBT LbianGay Bisexual Tony Soprano. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) Augt 12, 2021.