Jam Fran fascat as he morphs om gay to straight drama 'I Am Michael' - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• JAM FRAN’S QUEER CATALOGUE: 10 VERY GAY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• JAM FRAN ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: 'YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE I'M JT GAY' (EXCLIVE)
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'
• WATCH JAM FRAN STRIP DOWN IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR HIS GAY PORN THRILLER ‘KG COBRA’
• A ‘CISG’ HOMAGE, AND 5 OTHER GAY-THEMED JAM FRAN PROJECTS
• REVIEW: JAM FRAN FASCAT AS HE MORPHS OM GAY TO STRAIGHT DRAMA ‘I AM MICHAEL’
• JAM FRAN TO PLAY 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST MICHAEL GLATZE IN NEW G VAN SANT PROJECT
• JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• WATCH: JAM FRAN EXPLAS WHY HE EXPLORED GAY SEXUALY ‘INTERR. LEATHER BAR.’

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

Fran’s short film adaptatn of Anthony Hecht’s poem is pretty damn gay.

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

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).

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 SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'

The story of Harvey Milk, and his stggl as an Amerin gay activist who fought for gay rights and beme California's first openly gay elected official. Image Cred: Matt Carr/Getty Imag“Is Jam Fran gay? ‘Is he straight or is he gay?

’ 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.

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

Or, you know what, maybe I’m jt gay. 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 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. 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?

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

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.

REVIEW: JAM FRAN FASCAT AS HE MORPHS OM GAY TO STRAIGHT DRAMA ‘I AM MICHAEL’

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.

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. And more often than not, the piec veer toward gay them. Fran approached Mathews to oversee a project that would attempt to re-create 40 mut of lost footage om Cisg — a 1980 William Friedk film starrg Al Paco as an NYPD officer who go ep unrver to the gay leather scene to tch a serial killer.

JAM FRAN TO PLAY 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST MICHAEL GLATZE IN NEW G VAN SANT PROJECT

The notor movie, which featured real S&M participants as extras and explic pictns of public gay sex, is nsired shockgly graphic even by today’s standards. The first cut featur “real gay sex , ” Travis says, jt as Fran, who plays himself the film, had stcted. A llaboratn wh openly gay filmmaker G Van Sant — who directed Fran the Osr-wng gay film Milk — this stallatn featured two films, Endls Idaho and My Own Private River, which were pieced together by Fran g daili and other rejected footage om Van Sant’s breakthrough 1991 film, My Own Private Idaho.

Mounted by the Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, the 12-hour prentatn maly foced on the film’s late star, River Phoenix, hard at work on craftg his character, a gay street htler named Mike. A stunt short directed by Fran while he attend New York Universy’s film school, this mostly silent, black-and-whe medatn is based on a homoerotic poem by Anthony Hecht and featur a slim, bpectacled boy (the Stephen of the tle) observg a pickup basketball game on the streets of New York — only to have the young men playg sudnly appear naked to him a fantasy.

JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

Fran met openly gay performance artist Kalup Lzy at Art Basel Miami Beach late 2009, and the two immediately embarked upon a seri of llaboratns. Fran’s ongog fascatn wh gay poets reached s cril mass — if not cril agreement — wh Howl, the most accsible of the bgraphil films. An experimental take on Allen Gsberg‘s unterculture-fg verse om documentary filmmakers Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman, Howl featured Fran as the celebrated and gay beat poet.

To watch Jam Fran go om radiant, tellectually cur gay activist to broodg anti-homosexual Christian “I Am Michael” is a physil, facial and terr transformatn worth your ticket/streamg price ’s fascatg, like a wged creature of lor and movement tryg a reverse metamorphosis, back to a shell reprented by nservatively cut hair, crisp drs shirts and stony ey.

Director Jt Kelly’s first feature — although the send to get released (his sophomore movie “Kg Cobra, ” also starrg Fran, arrived last year) — is a soberly stylish, imprsively non-judgmental portra of a ntroversial real-life se of transformatn. Inspired by a 2011 New York Tim article “My Ex-Gay Friend, ” tells the te story of Michael Glatze (Fran), who at the turn of the lennium is a dyed-blond dynamo wh a lovg partner named Bent (Zachary Quto) and a fiery sense of purpose when me to helpg troubled gay youth e the pair move om San Francis to sleepy Halifax, Nova Stia, for Bent’s work, Michael’s rtlsns leads him to pick up a young man (Charlie Carver) a bar, but even that merrily morphs to a live- threome that reign Michael’s and Bent’s bond.

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

Newly energized, Michael starts a magaze lled Young Gay Ameri, be a sought-after speaker and travels the untry documentg the often-harrowg stori of LGBT youth for a movie eventually lled “Jim Bold.

”That road trip, however, puts him ntact wh a stra of gay youth — Christian-raised, shunned, but still hopeful — that triggers naggg doubts (and paed looks skyward), followed by new thkg about a relign he’d long seen as an tolerant enemy. After a heart-palpatn health sre — a panic attack Michael terprets as a sign om God — his Bible swch om rearch tool to belief-system Bent watch (and Quto picts wh a peratg sadns), Michael separat entirely om him and homosexualy, publicizg his nversn on his blog wh nigratg ments about gays that make him an Inter pariah for some, a champn to others. Based on the fascatg, te-life story of Michael Glatze (Jam Fran), a gay activist who be an anti-gay Christian pastor.

No stranger to tacklg gay them onscreen, Jam Fran is set to play "ex-gay" a new movie.