Vo Rso | Makg Gay History

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

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. 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.

HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?

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.

” 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.

In a clip early the film he mak clear what separated him om generatns of gay people before him.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

“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.

” His telligence and fearlsns put him at the center of the gay-rights movement, but he was also by tablishg himself as a televisn host and a film scholar, creatg a popular lecture which he showed how surprisgly open movi before Hollywood’s Productn Co were about homosexualy and then how gay people were subtly monized the films that me after.

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

Schwarz’s film is nothg fancy — the ual mix of historil imag and terviews wh acquatanc and experts — and Rso, perhaps, was not so different om other gay activists who were silenced by AIDS. But the smooth tellg of Rso’s story juxtaposed agast the prent day, when gay marriage is sanctned some stat and gay characters are all over prime-time televisn, driv home how different the cultural landspe is om the one Rso knew.

PRIDE – VO REMEMBERED: GAY ACTIVIST AND HERO VO RSO – “WHY WE FIGHT”

Not wh all the discrimatn and homophobia that rema. Cast & crewUser reviewsVio2005Not Rated1h 31mA llectn of shorts that explor the relatnships between gay men and straight men.

GAY VITO GETS IT IN THE END – AT HOME WITH BROKEBACK MOBSTER

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