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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.
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
”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. But, all this heterosexism and flattened nuance ignor the obv tth: The Sopranos belongs to the gays now.
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?