Jam Fran’s Queer Catalogue: 10 Very Gay Career Highlights – IndieWire

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• JAM FRAN GAY LOV SCEN 'THE BROKEN TOWER': WILL YOU ONLY WATCH FOR THEM?
• JAM FRAN’S ‘KG COBRA’ DIRECTOR ON EXPLIC GAY SEX SCEN: ‘ACTORS TOOK THGS FURTHER THAN THE SCRIPT’
• WATCH JAM FRAN STRIP DOWN IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR HIS GAY PORN THRILLER ‘KG COBRA’
• AND HERE'S A SCENE FROM JAM FRAN'S NEW GAY BDSM MOVIE [NSFW]
• JAM FRAN & ZACHARY QUTO GO GAY IN A HOT THREE-WAY SEX SCENE! FD OUT WHICH TEEN WOLF STAR JOS IN HERE!
• JAM FRAN FALLY SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ON HIS SEXUALY! SO, IS HE GAY OR WHAT?!
• JAM FRAN, ZACHARY QUTO AND CHARLIE CARVER SET FOR STEAMY MéNAGE à TROIS GAY DRAMA ‘MICHAEL’
• WATCH: JAM FRAN EXPLAS WHY HE EXPLORED GAY SEXUALY ‘INTERR. LEATHER BAR.’
• JAM FRAN’S QUEER CATALOGUE: 10 VERY GAY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• JAM FRAN SAYS MICHAEL SHANNON WAS 'UNFORTABLE' WH THEIR SEX SCENEALSO, FRAN WAS THISCLOSE TO FILMG A SEX SCENE WH DANNY MCBRI...WHAAAAT?!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MALE ROTHJANUARY 31, 2015/2:42 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}JEROD HARRIS/GETTY IMAGBY MALE ROTHJANUARY 31, 2015 / 2:42 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"JAM FRAN SAYS MICHAEL SHANNON WAS 'UNFORTABLE' WH THEIR SEX SCENE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-01-31T19:42:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-01-31T19:42:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"MALE ROTH","KEYWORDS":"SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAM FRAN GENERATED MAJOR BUZZ AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL THIS YEAR FOR HIS PERFORMANC “TE STORY” AND “I AM MICHAEL.” BUT THE LATTER FILM HAS ONE SCENE THAT DIENC WERE PARTICULARLY EAGER TO SEE: A THREOME VOLVG FRAN AND HIS STARS ZACHARY QUTO AND CHARLIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR FRAN, THE SEX SCENE WAS NBD, WHICH HE ATTRIBUT TO HIS VOLVEMENT OTHER MOVI ABOUT GAY EXPERIENC — SUCH AS “MILK” AND “INTERR. LEATHER BAR.” — AS WELL AS HIS STARS’ FORT WH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN VULTURE ASKED FRAN ABOUT THE THREOME, HE SAID WAS WAY EASIER PARISON TO ANOTHER GAY SEX SCENE HE FILMED, FOR 2011’S “THE BROKEN TOWER,” WH MICHAEL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IT WAS VERY DIFFERENT. I HAD TO TAKE [SHANNON] TO DNER BEFORE WE SHOT BEE HE WAS SO UNFORTABLE,” FRAN DISHED. “HE WAS LIKE, ‘WE'VE GOTTA TALK ABOUT THIS.’ SO I WENT TO NEW YORK, AND AS SOON AS WE SAT DOWN, HE WAS LIKE, ‘AW, NOW I FEEL STUPID THAT I'M SUCH A WIMP. ALL RIGHT, I'LL DO , I'LL DO .’”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT ONCE THEY GOT TO SET, FRAN SAYS, SHANNON’S NERV KICKED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WE DID ONE TAKE, AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT THE SCENE, YOU'LL SEE THAT I AM PULLG HIS FACE CLOSE TO ME BEE HE [REFED TO GET CLOSE], AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PASSNATELY MAKG OUT,” FRAN TOLD VULTURE. “AND HE'S A STRONG DU! BUT THE END, WORKED. HALF-ASSED LOVE SCEN ARE THE WORST. STRAIGHT OR GAY! SO I WAS JT DOG MY JOB ON [‘I AM MICHAEL].’”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHAT IF HAD VOLVED SOMEONE LIKE DANNY MCBRI, WHO’S STARRED ALONGSI HIM RNCHY EDI LIKE “PEAPPLE EXPRS” AND “THIS IS THE END?”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT MAY SEEM LIKE AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD POSSIBILY, BUT FRAN REVEALED THAT ALMOST HAPPENED ... FOR REAL. FRAN SAID THAT HE AND MCBRI WERE IALLY ATTACHED TO ANOTHER SUNDANCE FLICK, “THE D TRA,” WHICH CLUS A SEX SCENE BETWEEN THEIR WOULD-BE CHARACTERS, BUT THE ROL EVENTUALLY WENT TO JACK BLACK AND JAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I WAS ORIGALLY TERTED ‘THE D TRA’ IS BEE DANNY IS UNFORTABLE WH THAT KD OF MATERIAL, SO THERE WOULD BE A REAL SUATN THERE, I THOUGHT, WHERE HE WOULD ACTUALLY BE UNFORTABLE DOG THAT SEX SCENE AND PLAYG OUT THE AFTERMATH,” FRAN SAID. “NOT THAT HE'S HOMOPHOBIC, BUT JT ENGAGG WH THAT HIMSELF, HE WOULD JT BE UNFORTABLE, I KNOW. THERE ARE THGS ‘YOUR HIGHNS’ THAT HE WOULDN'T DO, EVEN FOR A LGH!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, ALAS, WE WERE ALL SWDLED OUT OF A STEAMY FRAN-MCBRI BEDROOM SH. GUS THIS’LL BE AS CLOSE AS WE EVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}SUNDANCE FILM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'

JAM FRAN GAY LOV SCEN 'THE BROKEN TOWER': WILL YOU ONLY WATCH FOR THEM?

It was around this time that news of Fran's recently pleted Hart Crane bpic, The Broken Tower, reigned the is-he-or-isn't-he-gay chatter that has followed the actor sce at least his Milk days. He was also a tortured homosexual, so 99 percent of the talk on this film was about the blow job scene, natch. The movie is currently available On Demand, but I wonr if all of that buzz about the gay scen has garnered more tert than the trailer, or even the life of Hart Crane.

The gay film I Am Michael, about Jam Fran playg a gay activist-turned-"straight" pastor, has arrived on Vio on Demand, and wh , leaked scen of some the movie's more.. Related | Ex-Gay Bpic I Am Michael Should Be Rated XWhile the scene is a b darkly l and wily shot for our tast, 's still a real treasure of morn cema.

JAM FRAN’S ‘KG COBRA’ DIRECTOR ON EXPLIC GAY SEX SCEN: ‘ACTORS TOOK THGS FURTHER THAN THE SCRIPT’

“Kg Cobra, ” a fact-spired movie about the unrbelly of gay porn starrg Jam Fran and Christian Slater, ph boundari far beyond s grty subject matter. Director Jt Kelly‘s film, which premier Saturday at the Tribe Film Ftival, clus eye-poppgly explic scen of gay male sex — and a lot of .

”Also Read: Watch Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton First Clip for Jam Fran's Porn Drama 'Kg Cobra' (Vio)“Cobra” is spired by the 2007 murr of Bryan Kocis (renamed Stephen the movie and played by Slater), founr of Cobra Vio and producer of adult films specializg young gay died at the hands of two male rts and dtry petors (played by Fran and “Pretty Ltle Liars” star Keegan Allen). They allegedly wanted to elimate the producer’s ntract wh young porn star Sean Pl Lockhart (Disney Channel alum Garrett Clayton), who worked unr the stage name Brent isn’t lyg when he says his actors were not shy, and to his cred the most explic sex scen manift the relatnships of the characters, as opposed to the adult movi they make wh the scen range om graphic to tenr to borrle non-nsensual, and are unflchg showg the specificy and variety of gay male love-makg. “That’s the thg everyone has been sayg, ‘This is somethg that hasn’t been done before, '” producer Stt Levenson said of the film’s sexual producer Jordan Yale Leve add, “I’m not gay, I jt love great film.

Gay, straight, black, whe, nothg phas me — and now wh society as is, ’s the right time for somethg like this. ”Also Read: Jam Fran to Direct Stripper Saga 'Zola Tells All' Based on Twter Sensatn“Kg Cobra” is the latt film to tt the boundari of onscreen pictns of gay sex mastream movi, which have creasgly phed the envelope sce Heath Ledger‘s implic palm-lickg “Brokeback Mounta” a Stoll‘s recent stt on “Girls” saw the actor’s ankl planted on the shoulrs of Andrew Rannells, both men fumblg through sex. And Chris Kelly‘s Sundance 2016 entry “Other People” featured a siar enunter wh Jse Plemons and “Silin Valley”‘s Zach se his film ls as a bellwether and more an accurate reprentatn of gay relatnships, he said, addg that such scen rema taboo bee of a double standard and base homophobia wh Hollywood.

WATCH JAM FRAN STRIP DOWN IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR HIS GAY PORN THRILLER ‘KG COBRA’

“It’s a plete fact that graphic gay male sex will get you an NC-17 ratg, ” Kelly said. The story riv om a 2011 New York Tim article by Beno Denizet-Lewis lled “My Ex-Gay Friend, ” about a gay activist turned fundamentalist anti-gay Christian.

Van Sant, who is gay and has directed several films about gay characters (Mala Noche, My Own Private Idaho, Elephant, Milk), said a 1993 terview that when he was gettg his start the early ‘80s, gay dienc “would see anythg that related to them” bee there was so ltle the way of gay cema. Sce the overwhelmg populary of Brokeback Mounta, movi about gay characters are seen more and more by wir dienc, and imag of gay people love — and lt — are transng om niche to mastream.

AND HERE'S A SCENE FROM JAM FRAN'S NEW GAY BDSM MOVIE [NSFW]

Jam Fran strips down to nearly nothg the new trailer for his upg gay porn thriller Kg Cobra, which he stars and produced.

The movie is based on the real-life murr of gay porn producer Bryan Kocis, who’s embodied by Christian Slater’s Stephen. Earlier this year, Slater, 47, and Fran opened up about playg gay characters. “I remember when I saw Brokeback Mounta and I had such a visceral reactn to that movie, and thought, ‘Oh, my god, I uld never do anythg like that, '” Slater told The Hollywood Reporter back April about the Osr-wng movie about two gay wboys.

JAM FRAN & ZACHARY QUTO GO GAY IN A HOT THREE-WAY SEX SCENE! FD OUT WHICH TEEN WOLF STAR JOS IN HERE!

He add: “I’ve never played a homosexual before and I jt didn’t want to, I gus, brg any stereotypil nonsense to , or do any kd of riture-y type thgs that I’ve seen other films.

Jt like the movie, 's all about gay sex. While the clip is fely NSFW—not for nudy, but for the sounds of moans and slaps (you should be fe if you e headphon)—most of is a nversatn about gay sex, specifilly, Fran's personal thoughts (he plays "a versn" of himself the film) on the importance of showg mastream movi to bat hetero-normative fuckg love story is a du that wants to be wh a girl, and the only way they're gog to end up happy is if they walk off to the sunset together. Is a "re-imagg" of the ntroversial 40 mut of footage that was cut om Cisg, the 1980 Al Paco film about a serial killer targetg gay men Wt Village leather bars.

Acrdg to Cisg's director William Friedk, all of the leted footage was shot si actual gay clubs and picted "graphic homosexualy wh Paco watchg, and wh the timatn that he may have been participatg. Sundance 2013: Jam Fran talks gay sex 'Interr.

JAM FRAN FALLY SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ON HIS SEXUALY! SO, IS HE GAY OR WHAT?!

We are so exced to see Jam Fran and Zachary Quto as a gay uple Michael! In se you don’t regnize him, that’s Charlie Carver who played gay tw Ethan on MTV‘s Teen Wolf. In the March issue of Four Two Ne magaze, The Interview star was nvced to grill himself on whether or not he was gay.

JAM FRAN, ZACHARY QUTO AND CHARLIE CARVER SET FOR STEAMY MéNAGE à TROIS GAY DRAMA ‘MICHAEL’

Straight Jam: Let’s get substantial: are you f**kg gay or what? Gay Jam: Well, I like to thk that I’m gay my art and straight my life. Although, I’m also gay my life up to the pot of terurse, and then you uld say I’m straight.

So I gus pends on how you fe gay. In the twenti and thirti, they ed to fe homosexualy by how you acted and not by whom you slept wh. Sailors would f**k guys all the time, but as long as they behaved mascule ways, they weren’t nsired gay.

WATCH: JAM FRAN EXPLAS WHY HE EXPLORED GAY SEXUALY ‘INTERR. LEATHER BAR.’

He’s gay-ish!

JAM FRAN’S QUEER CATALOGUE: 10 VERY GAY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Hmm, we wouldn’t md gettg a one-on-one exclive wh Gay Jam though.

Jam Fran will portray a gay magaze publisher turned Christian fundamentalist his next film, but don’t thk ’s all fire and brimstone: dienc n expect a threome om Fran’s character’s pre-nversn days, an dividual wh knowledge of the productn told TheWrap.

While the film has s rnal diversns, s’ not whout substance: “Michael” was adapted om a 2011 New York Tim article about Michael Glatze, who intified as gay before clarg himself healed by a “spirual awakeng.

JAM FRAN SAYS MICHAEL SHANNON WAS 'UNFORTABLE' WH THEIR SEX SCENEALSO, FRAN WAS THISCLOSE TO FILMG A SEX SCENE WH DANNY MCBRI...WHAAAAT?!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MALE ROTHJANUARY 31, 2015/2:42 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}JEROD HARRIS/GETTY IMAGBY MALE ROTHJANUARY 31, 2015 / 2:42 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"JAM FRAN SAYS MICHAEL SHANNON WAS 'UNFORTABLE' WH THEIR SEX SCENE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-01-31T19:42:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-01-31T19:42:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"MALE ROTH","KEYWORDS":"SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAM FRAN GENERATED MAJOR BUZZ AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL THIS YEAR FOR HIS PERFORMANC “TE STORY” AND “I AM MICHAEL.” BUT THE LATTER FILM HAS ONE SCENE THAT DIENC WERE PARTICULARLY EAGER TO SEE: A THREOME VOLVG FRAN AND HIS STARS ZACHARY QUTO AND CHARLIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR FRAN, THE SEX SCENE WAS NBD, WHICH HE ATTRIBUT TO HIS VOLVEMENT OTHER MOVI ABOUT GAY EXPERIENC — SUCH AS “MILK” AND “INTERR. 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SO I WAS JT DOG MY JOB ON [‘I AM MICHAEL].’”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHAT IF HAD VOLVED SOMEONE LIKE DANNY MCBRI, WHO’S STARRED ALONGSI HIM RNCHY EDI LIKE “PEAPPLE EXPRS” AND “THIS IS THE END?”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT MAY SEEM LIKE AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD POSSIBILY, BUT FRAN REVEALED THAT ALMOST HAPPENED ... FOR REAL. FRAN SAID THAT HE AND MCBRI WERE IALLY ATTACHED TO ANOTHER SUNDANCE FLICK, “THE D TRA,” WHICH CLUS A SEX SCENE BETWEEN THEIR WOULD-BE CHARACTERS, BUT THE ROL EVENTUALLY WENT TO JACK BLACK AND JAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I WAS ORIGALLY TERTED ‘THE D TRA’ IS BEE DANNY IS UNFORTABLE WH THAT KD OF MATERIAL, SO THERE WOULD BE A REAL SUATN THERE, I THOUGHT, WHERE HE WOULD ACTUALLY BE UNFORTABLE DOG THAT SEX SCENE AND PLAYG OUT THE AFTERMATH,” FRAN SAID. “NOT THAT HE'S HOMOPHOBIC, BUT JT ENGAGG WH THAT HIMSELF, HE WOULD JT BE UNFORTABLE, I KNOW. THERE ARE THGS ‘YOUR HIGHNS’ THAT HE WOULDN'T DO, EVEN FOR A LGH!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, ALAS, WE WERE ALL SWDLED OUT OF A STEAMY FRAN-MCBRI BEDROOM SH. GUS THIS’LL BE AS CLOSE AS WE EVER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}SUNDANCE FILM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Fran’s short film adaptatn of Anthony Hecht’s poem is pretty damn gay. Gay Town. Callg an exhibn “Gay Town” certaly creat a good headle, but we’re not entirely sure what else achiev.

Long before Harry Potter was a gay poet (the sential tabloid take on Daniel Radcliffe’s turn as Gsberg), Fran offered his own take “Howl”, a much more tertg film on formal terms at least.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'

The nce is clever, the executn is exquise; ’s funny whout beg knowg, tricks you but isn’t smug about , and bt of all ’s about hard-re gay sex and s perceptn both wh and whout the gay muny. Gone are the days when was nsired taboo for a straight heart throb to take on a gay role. ”), Meo’s homosexualy is explored through a chronicle of the fal day of his life (he was stabbed to ath at the age of 37).