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- 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
- SOPRANOS GAY GANGSTER ACTOR DEAD
- ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
- GAYNGSTER
- THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
"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 gangster sopranos *
”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.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
The st of “The Sopranos” is fur at Joe Gannasli, who played gay gangster Vo Spatafore, for dog a seri of glowg terviews about Jam Gandolfi — when fact they were not close iends and hadn’t talked years. * gay gangster sopranos *
)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. 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.
SOPRANOS GAY GANGSTER ACTOR DEAD
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.
‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
“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.
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There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that.
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THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay. “Nobody’s gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss, ” the killer said urt. Homosexualy the Sopranos.
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"? The actor who played the gay lover of a gangster on the h show The Sopranos has been found ad an apparent suici.
His character was romantilly volved wh closeted gay gangster Vo Spatafore – played by Joseph Gannasli. Drawg on fictnal characters like Vo Corleone (Marlon Brando), The Sopranos changed US televisn forever, and also add new layers to the gangster genre - tacklg subjects like male mental health, and how the mob viewed homosexualy. After Phil Leotardo orred the ath of Vo Spatafore for beg gay - another parallel wh the story of D'Amato - a vlent nflict epted between the DiMeo and Lupertazzi crime fai.