Sopranos' Gay Character 'Johnny Cak' Kills Himself - Queerty

Contents:

• WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?
• GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
• SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
• THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
• JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
• HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

WAS PHIL LEOTARDO GAY?

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. 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.

GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME

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.

One tertg theory floatg around the The Sopranos “universe” is that Lupertazzi boss Phil Leotardo was gay or bisexual. This theory basilly poss that Phil engaged homosexual acts while he was servg “20 years the n”. Sce the 1960s, people have been g the phrase “hidg the closet” to scribe those who choose to nceal their homosexualy.

In other words, they see as a ht that Phil has been hidg his own homosexualy.

SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF

One theory is that Phil engaged homosexual acts while he was servg his lengthy prison sentence and that he now loath that part of himself. When emerg that Vo is gay, Phil’s revulsn towards him seems bter, over-the-top and exaggerated.

Is he thkg about his wife’s statement about how Vo is gog to hell for beg gay? ”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.

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

But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.

JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’

“The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on “The Sopranos” has died of a self-flicted gunshot wound New York, police said. The 47-year-old former New York Cy firefighter gaed fame 2006 when he was st as short-orr ok Jim “Johnny Cak” Wowski oppose Joseph Gannasli, who played gay mobster Vo Spatafore on the h HBO show. 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.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl.