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Contents:
- "GAY VO" GETS BTED
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- PRIDE – VO REMEMBERED: GAY ACTIVIST AND HERO VO RSO – “WHY WE FIGHT”
- GAY VITO GETS IT IN THE END – AT HOME WITH BROKEBACK MOBSTER
"GAY VO" GETS BTED
The HBO documentary “Vo” profil Vo Rso, the gay activist and thor of “The Celluloid Closet,” who died 1990. * gay vito *
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.
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
Straight Men & the Men Who Love Them: Directed by Javier Agirre, Je Ameer, Alequ Eerer, Stewart Wa. A llectn of shorts that explor the relatnships between gay men and straight men. The llectn clus Espac Dos (Spa) In the Name of the Father (Brazil), My Straight Boyiend (US), Tth or Consequenc (Brazil), Coffee Date (US), Poprn & Coke (UK), and Unhibed." data-id="ma * gay vito *
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.
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
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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.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * gay vito *
” But really was a life cut short: Rso, a film scholar and gay-rights activist, was 44 when he died of AIDS 1990. The likable, energetic gadfly who emerg here would have been a great voice to have on hand today, providg an rmed perspective on the sweepg chang Amerin culture has seen the last few wasn’t an stigator at the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, but he immersed himself gay-rights issu soon after, beg a proment voice on the New York scene.
PRIDE – VO REMEMBERED: GAY ACTIVIST AND HERO VO RSO – “WHY WE FIGHT”
In a clip early the film he mak clear what separated him om generatns of gay people before him.
GAY VITO GETS IT IN THE END – AT HOME WITH BROKEBACK MOBSTER
“I don’t know what was different about the way I was raised or the way I reacted, ” he says, “but I never once, not for a send, believed that was wrong to be gay, that was a s, that homosexualy was evil. “He was fully equipped wh ias and arguments, and he was ready to take you on, ” David Ehrenste, a wrer and fellow member of the Gay Activists Alliance, rells the ’s versn of gay liberatn wasn’t one that mastream Ameri uld endorse, then or now, but was of urse a pre-AIDS view. “And Vo was of a generatn when havg sex wh as many men as you possibly uld was a way of exprsg gay pri.