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Contents:
- ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- ''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * gay guy the sopranos *
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.
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. Police * gay guy the sopranos *
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. 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? LGBT LbianGay Bisexual Tony Soprano.
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * gay guy the sopranos *
— hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) Augt 12, 2021. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) March 28, 2021. “The men are so secure about thgs like homosexualy, but at the same time, many of them are much more image-nsc and effete than mastream men of different social class — the manicur, the obssn wh cloth, the hair, the jewelry, the logne.
There’s a lot of shared terrory between this branch of 1990s/2000s Italian-Amerin ultra-macho culture and gay men’s club culture of the same perd.
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
— hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) April 3, 2021. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) October 14, 2020.
But even better, what I found was other gays to chat wh about my favore mobsters. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) September 27, 2020. But wrer and gay porn performer Ty Mchell says “g at the end” might be exactly why The Sopranos has bee so beloved queer circl now.
The Sopranos was a show wh some wild twists, but arguably s most shockg revelatn was that Vo Spatafore, the portly po of the Aprile crew and one of Tony’s bt earners, was actually a closeted homosexual. He’d pched to one of the wrers after learng about a real-life gay mobster om a book he was readg, lled Murr Mache.
''THE SOPRANOS'': TONY'S GAY ISSU
Sce fdg fame on The Sopranos, Gannasli has published a novel, gotten married (“I got married late, and I said ‘I gotta get married quick here bee people are really gog to thk that I’m gay, ’ so was a sh job. You talked about them rporatg real-life thgs wh the actors to the show, but the whole Vo arc where he’s gay, that was your ia, right?
And one of the characters was gay and I thought that was… I was like, “Wow, was a gay mobster. They’re so homophobic that even the portrayal of a gay man on TV they’re like, “I don’t like .
I worked a gay rtrant. If you have a problem wh gays you shouldn’t be the rtrant bs.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
In the episo where they disver that Vo’s gay at the leather bar, do you remember what you were thkg the first time that they me and showed you the wardrobe that you were gog to have for that? ”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.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
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So I've heard that the monstratn of homophobia the show is a tad dramatized parison to other historil fai. Now that isn't to say that homophobia wasn't at all prevalent historilly mob culture, but would there really be stanc of a guy like Vo gettg whacked jt for beg gay and "disgracg the fay"? Gannasli is known to Sopranos watchers as “Gay Vo” (or even GaVo, certa exotic circl).
Gannasli dancg gleefully a biker’s p a leather bar, or gog on the lam to a gay Shangri-La ( this se, “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire) and fallg love wh the handsome mtached ok om the der—“Johnny Cak”—that have given TV viewers that rare feelg that they are watchg somethg new. Sure, there have been plenty of gay characters on televisn before: wacky Jack om Will & Grace, or David, the fsy unrtaker wh the hot p boyiend on Six Feet Unr.