Jam Fran Says He's a 'Ltle Gay'

Contents:

• JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• JAM FRAN ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: 'YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE I'M JT GAY' (EXCLIVE)
• JAM FRAN’S QUEER CATALOGUE: 10 VERY GAY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'
• WATCH JAM FRAN STRIP DOWN IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR HIS GAY PORN THRILLER ‘KG COBRA’
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S A 'LTLE GAY'
• JAM FRAN FALLY SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ON HIS SEXUALY! SO, IS HE GAY OR WHAT?!
• JAM FRAN SAYS 'I'M JT GAY' ABOUT PLAYG THREE HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS
• JAM FRAN ON WHY HE’S DRAWN TO GAY STORI: ‘THE ARE IMPORTANT ISSU OF EQUAL RIGHTS’
• JAM FRAN TALKS THE MANY GAY ROL HE’S PLAYED, THE “CONSIR THIS SH” OSR CAMPAIGN FOR ‘SPRG BREAKERS’ AND MORE
• JAM FRAN TO PLAY 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST MICHAEL GLATZE IN NEW G VAN SANT PROJECT
• REVIEW: JAM FRAN FASCAT AS HE MORPHS OM GAY TO STRAIGHT DRAMA ‘I AM MICHAEL’
• A ‘CISG’ HOMAGE, AND 5 OTHER GAY-THEMED JAM FRAN PROJECTS
• JAM FRAN GAY LOV SCEN 'THE BROKEN TOWER': WILL YOU ONLY WATCH FOR THEM?
• WHAT JAM FRAN'S MOVIE 'KG COBRA' GETS WRONG ABOUT ONE OF GAY PORN'S WILST STORI

JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

Image Cred: Phil Bray Though might have seemed boundary-breakg jt a few years ago for a handsome young heartthrob to talk about his preference for gay rol, Jam Fran's terview wh The Advote has a pleasantly unfsy feelg. In his Advote terview, Fran talks about the way he approach gay rol wh that same sense of ank cursy, like 's jt one more feather his actor's p. " It's no secret that right now is a somewhat firebreathg moment the history of gay rights — and given today's lg about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the gasbaggery is probably jt begng — but there's somethg credibly hopeful Fran's nonchalant exploratn of male sexualy.

That kid don't remember what a gamble was for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal to play gay wboys. Image Cred: Matt Carr/Getty Imag“Is Jam Fran gay? ‘Is he straight or is he gay?

JAM FRAN ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: 'YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE I'M JT GAY' (EXCLIVE)

’ Or, ‘This is your third gay movie — e out already!

’ And all based on, gay or straight, based on the ia that your object of affectn cis your sexualy. ” The actor fely don’t let the speculatn hib his choice of rol; Fran’s filmography is packed wh gay characters, om Allen Gsberg Howl, to activist Stt Smh Milk and poet Hart Crane his jt-wrapped feature The Broken Tower.

“There are lots of other reasons to be terted gay characters than wantg myself to go out and have sex wh guys, ” he says. I mean, I’ve played a gay man who’s livg the ’60s and ’70s, a gay man who we picted the ‘50s, and one beg the ‘20s. And those were all perds when to be gay, at least beg gay public, was much more difficult.

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Or, you know what, maybe I’m jt gay. Fran’s short film adaptatn of Anthony Hecht’s poem is pretty damn gay.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE 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.

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).

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

It was an early example of the meta-ns of Fran’s work, given he portrayed Meo’s “Rebel Whout a Cse” (more on the gay subtext of that film here) -star Jam Dean the 2001 TV bpic “Jam Dean” — which, given Dean himself is a nsirable gay in — probably warrants a spot on this list self. ” The film also was the begng of a fx gay seri of llaboratns between Fran and Rogen. For one, they hilarly spoofed Kim and Kayne late last year by makg a super gay shot-for-shot remake of their bizarro “Bound 2” vio for no apparent reason other than to enterta (and to lead to this).

Jam Fran’s sexualy has been the subject of much speculatn, cludg by Jam Fran; the actor/artist/thor once nducted an terview between his straight and gay selv. In a New York Magaze terview published the April 18 issue, the actor once aga elaborated on the subject, scribg himself as “a ltle gay. ” Notg that Fran has said he’s “gay my art and straight my life, ” the terviewer asks Fran to expla whether he’s not also gay his life, potg out that some gay men have lled him “kd of a gay c—k tease.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S A 'LTLE GAY'

There is a b of overfocg on my sexualy, both by the straight prs and the gay prs, and so the first qutn is why do they re?

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

But if your fn of gay and straight is who I sleep wh, then I gus you uld say I’m a gay c—k tease. Yeah, I’m a ltle gay, and there’s a gay Jam. 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 SAYS 'I'M JT GAY' ABOUT PLAYG THREE HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS

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.

Jam Fran, actor, director, Instagram provotr, is once aga speakg out on his sexualy, sayg he's a "ltle gay. "You may rell that March 2015, "gay" Fran terviewed "straight Fran" for FourTwoNe magaze. Said Fran: "I like to thk that I'm gay my art and straight my life.

"Fran is no stranger to starrg projects that ll for him to play gay characters. He appeared oppose Sean Penn Milk 2008 and 2015 played a gay activist turned Christian pastor I Am Michael. But if your fn of gay and straight is who I sleep wh, then I gus you uld say I'm a gay ck tease, " Fran said.

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Yeah, I'm a ltle gay, and there's a gay Jam.

JAM FRAN TALKS THE MANY GAY ROL HE’S PLAYED, THE “CONSIR THIS SH” OSR CAMPAIGN FOR ‘SPRG BREAKERS’ AND MORE

"Not that I do what I do to nfe people, but as long as they are nfed, I get time to play, " he isn't the only Hollywood star to subvert datg nventn— Febary, Sacha Baron Cohen said he was 23 percent gay. The edian, who played flamboyant gay character Bno, believ there is a fluctuatg sle between gay and straight.

"In 2015, a poll nducted by YouGov found that 23 percent of Brish people nsired themselv not to be 100 percent hetereosexual on the Ksey sle—which charts sexualy on a range of one, meang pletely heterosexual, to six, meang pletely homosexual. In the March issue of Four Two Ne magaze, The Interview star was nvced to grill himself on whether or not he was gay. 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.

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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. He’s gay-ish!

Hmm, we wouldn’t md gettg a one-on-one exclive wh Gay Jam though. Jam Fran has long been the subject of mors that he's "gay" -- and he's kg the gossip for all s 32-year-old actor -- who played Harvey Milk's lover "Milk" and gay wrer Allen Gsberg "Howl" -- fueled speculatn about his sexual orientatn a recent terview wh Entertament Weekly, which he claimed he gravated towards gay characters bee they are faced wh societal "opposn.

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" he said, edg his statement, "Maybe I'm jt gay. 'Is he straight or is he gay? ' Or, 'This is your third gay movie - e out already!

"The actor's latt character, homosexual poet Hart Crane, the yet-to-be-released "The Broken Tower" is the third homosexual role for Fran, though he said their sexualy is not the only aspect that terts him. "There are lots of other reasons to be terted gay characters than wantg myself to go out and have sex wh guys, " Fran said.

"I've played a gay man who's livg the 60s and 70s, a gay may who we picted the 50s, and one beg the 20s.

A ‘CISG’ HOMAGE, AND 5 OTHER GAY-THEMED JAM FRAN PROJECTS

And those were all perds when to be gay, at least beg gay public, was much more dificult.

In an terview wh Vulture, Jam Fran opens up about his self acknowledged affy for projects foced on stori about gay liv and the stggle for queer rights.

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

I Am Michael, Fran's latt film that's currently dog the Sundance circu, tells the story of Michael Glatze, a former edor at XY magaze who sudnly renounced his homosexualy the early oughts followg a health sre and beme a high-profile member of the ex-gay movement.

“It's bee of their art, and then their art was partially rmed by their sexualy, ” Fran said of his storied history actg gay-themed projects. “But then wh somethg like Interr Leather Bar or Milk, those are obvly engagg wh gay them, gay rights, gay polics.

“Lee Daniels says that gay rights are the civil rights of our era, so I like dog a movie like Milk or Interr Leather Bar where I n brg them and ias I've been engaged wh, and do such a way that those ias are pulled to the mastream more. This clus his recurrg reer fascatn wh gay characters, his image as an artist who ref to be pigeon-holed, the “Consir This Sh” Osr mpaign (see below) for his “Sprg Breakers” character and more. On the many gay rol he’s played and gay projects he’s unrtaken:.

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gay men as possible, although some s, I thk is the pot. In “Milk, ” the pot is to show one of the great fighters for equal rights for the gay. character, but wasn’t like, “Y, I want to play another gay role, ” was.

…But I feel like bee I’ve done more gay characters, gay. scen, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see as some sort.

I gus that a lot of the figur that I love were gay. No stranger to tacklg gay them onscreen, Jam Fran is set to play "ex-gay" a new movie. Page Six reports that Fran, who n currently be seen on Broadway oppose Chris O'Dowd "Of Mice and Men, " will star a forthg movie about "ex-gay" activist Michael Glatze.