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Contents:

• ‘BARRY’ STARS ANTHONY CARRIGAN AND MICHAEL IRBY ON PLAYG THE CUTT GAY MOBSTER COUPLE ON TV
• BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS
• BARRY MANILOW OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY, EXPLAS WHY HE KEPT SEXUALY A SECRET
• BARRY MANILOW REVEALS HE IS GAY
• WHY SEBASTIAN BARRY’S NEW BOOK WAS SPIRED BY HIS GAY SON
• ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP

‘BARRY’ STARS ANTHONY CARRIGAN AND MICHAEL IRBY ON PLAYG THE CUTT GAY MOBSTER COUPLE ON TV

Anthony Carrigan's character NoHo Hank was revealed to be gay the Season 3 premiere of "Barry" on HBO. I gus wasn't too much of a surprise when NoHo Hank, an unsavory character om the h HBO seri Barry, was revealed to be gay. He is also a thls killer, and while he across fun-lovgly, he's anythg revelatn that he was gay was treated as no big al by tle character Barry, played brilliantly by Bill Har, who also -created the show.

Har's Barry is a hired h man, so his teractns wh Hank are not only edic but vlent, or rooted nfirmed my spicns -- my gaydar went off wh him season 1 -- that he was gay when he was outed the season 3 opener.

His sexualy is prented wh a touch of flamboyance and sills, jt like the other attribut of his mob boss beg gay got me thkg about other mob, rtel, or gang members on other h televisn shows who are gay too and how their sexualy is more matter-of-fact and not sensatnalized.

BARRY’S NOHO HANK: JT ANOTHER A SERI OF GAY TELEVISN MOBSTERS

Beg gay is treated a way that do not dimish their menacg nduct or their masculy. Pacho, a Colombian portrayed the show by Argentian actor Alberto Ammann, was head of distributn and secury for the Cali dg also happened to be gay. The fact that Mickey is an obnox, cel jerk who, aga, happens to be gay, was part of what ma him so -- well, I'll jt say , shamels.

Another gay neighborhood crimal was om HBO's blood-soaked seri The Wire. They were villas first, and y, some episos of each seri voted storyl to the fact that they were gay, but at the end of the day, wasn't a big al.

However, what sets Gannasli's character apart om the others is that when Vo was outed as gay the seri almost 20 years ago, was not only a major twist on the show but was also big news pop culture. Now, that was uld say that Vo was the "Godfather" of gay mafsi on televisn.

BARRY MANILOW OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY, EXPLAS WHY HE KEPT SEXUALY A SECRET

"I started out as a chef and worked a bunch of rtrants New York Cy almost 30 years ago, and I worked wh a lot of gay people, and never bothered me at all, " Gannasli remisced.

"In fact, I worked at an all-gay rtrant lled Company, which was Chelsea.

BARRY MANILOW REVEALS HE IS GAY

I was jt one of his crew, so my part was the background, and hey, I wanted more screen time, jt like any other actor, so I was tryg to figure out ways to make that happen, " he a break om the seri, Gannasli read a book that clud a gay mob character, so he had an ia. There are gay mobsters, Turns out that that ia pletely changed my life.

"Gannasli and the productn team of The Sopranos eventually realized that creatg a gay mob character would be revolutnary.

"It was also important for Gannasli, personally, for Vo to be gay sce prented him an opportuny to stretch his character beyond a mobster.

WHY SEBASTIAN BARRY’S NEW BOOK WAS SPIRED BY HIS GAY SON

Some of my iends thought I was crazy to make Vo gay, but that was their problem. ""Look, we all know now that beg gay is monplace, and gay people are every walk of life, om firemen to police to mobsters, " Gannasli said. "If you rell, Tony wanted Vo to live, and the fact that Vo was gay didn't bother him.

ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP

It had nothg to do wh Vo beg gay and everythg to do wh that fact that Vo was hurtg Tony where he felt the most, his wallet.