Jam Fran: 'I'm a Ltle Gay' | Time

Contents:

• JAM FRAN FALLY SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ON HIS SEXUALY! SO, IS HE GAY OR WHAT?!
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'
• JAM FRAN RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS IN ATTU MAGAZE INTERVIEW (PHOTO)
• JAM FRAN EXPLAS HIS ‘GAY OBSSN’
• JAM FRAN IS GAY, IN A WAY, BUT NOT REALLY: READ HIS CONFG ANSWER
• JAM FRAN IS GAY
• A QUEER TAKE ON JAM FRAN’S ‘STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM’
• STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM
• JAM FRAN ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: 'YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE I'M JT GAY' (EXCLIVE)
• JAM FRAN ADDRS HIS SEXUALY BIZARRE NEW INTERVIEW: ''I'M GAY MY ART''
• STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S A 'LTLE GAY'
• BOOK REVIEW: STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM
• STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

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

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. In the twenti and thirti, they ed to fe homosexualy by how you acted and not by whom you slept wh.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'

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’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?

JAM FRAN RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS IN ATTU MAGAZE INTERVIEW (PHOTO)

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. “Are you f***g gay or what?

” he asked which he rpond, “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.

JAM FRAN EXPLAS HIS ‘GAY OBSSN’

“Sailors would f*** guys all the time, but as long as they behaved mascule ways, they weren’t nsired gay.

”Thanks for clearg that up se you’re late to the party and wonrg why there are so many mours about his sexualy, well, the past Fran has appeared several films wh gay them, cludg Milk, The Broken Tower and Sal. In an upg movie lled Michael, Fran reportedly appears a steamy three-way gay sex scene wh Star Trek’s Zachery Quto and Teen Wolf’s Charlie Carver. ”This isn't the first time Fran has broached the gay mors recent months.

While speakg wh MTV News January, the "Oz: The Great and Powerful" actor revealed the homosexual hearsay started high school.

JAM FRAN IS GAY, IN A WAY, BUT NOT REALLY: READ HIS CONFG ANSWER

He said he was neher "ightened" by the speculatn nor did he gay mors certaly didn't stop when Fran rose to stardom. Talk remaed steady after he took rol, such as gay rights activist Stt Smh, and buted his homoerotic film "Interr. ‘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. ” "Part of what I’m terted is how the people who were livg anti-normative liftyl ntend wh opposn, " he said regardg his choice to play gay rol.

JAM FRAN IS GAY

"Or, you know what, maybe I’m jt gay. ”h/t Pk News for the You GoCelebri Who've Faced Gay RumorsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Hollywood actor Jam Fran recently revealed what fuels his “obssn” wh tellg LGBT stori on screen – specifilly that of gay men.

Durg an terview wh Rollg Stone magaze, the actor opened up about his “artistic preoccupatn” wh homosexualy and gay men general. He also starred bpic ‘I am Michael’, which tells the ntroversial te story of gay activist Michael Glatze, who rejected his homosexualy and beme a Christian pastor. Last year, the actor, director-turned-poet released a book tled ‘Straight Jam / Gay Jam’.

A QUEER TAKE ON JAM FRAN’S ‘STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM’

The chapbook also ntas an terview of ‘Gay Jam’ nducted by ‘Straight Jam. “Y, Straight Jam asks the qutn: Let’s get substantial: are you gay or what?

Jam Fran terviewed himself as a straight and gay versn to reveal his sexual inty. So, is Jam Fran gay or what? It's a sndal he has been tied to stars like Lana Del Rey, Eia Clarke, Amanda Seyied and Sienna Miller, to name a sort of set the rerd straight, no pun tend, a s-down wh 429 magaze, which he was asked to terview himself as Straight Jam Fran and then rpond as Gay Jam Fran.

STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

Check out his teractn wh himself:Straight Jam: “Let’s get substantial: Are you f---g gay or what?

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

”Gay Jam: “Well, I like to thk that I’m gay my art and straight my life. In the '20s and '30s, they ed to fe homosexualy by how you acted and not by whom you slept wh. Sailors would f--- guys all the time, but as long as they behaved mascule ways, they weren’t nsired gay.

”In other words, “gay” is jt a label and Fran don’t re what you ll me on Twter @mariamzzarella© Copyright IBTim 2023. Fally, proof that actor-poet Jam Fran is a gay man, published on his Instagram feed!

#gay, " he wa: Are the real photographs of Jam Fran and his gay (male) lover—or a provotive prank by the director-artist himself? Acrdg to Amazon's scriptn of his new poetry book, Straight Jam / Gay Jam:Straight Jam / Gay Jam, actor Jam Fran's new chapbook of poems, explor the facets of his public and private personas.

JAM FRAN ADDRS HIS SEXUALY BIZARRE NEW INTERVIEW: ''I'M GAY MY ART''

Straight Jam / Gay Jam is a poetic bildungsroman--raw, ndid, and unhibed. The chapbook also ntas an terview of "Gay Jam" nducted by "Straight Jam. " Y, Straight Jam asks the qutn: Let's get substantial: are you fuckg gay or what?

The qutns and others will be "answered" when Straight Jam / Gay Jam out of the lerary closet on January 1. Or you n get your digal py and quench your Gay Fran thirst now. And recent years, two groups of people particular have bee creasgly fed-up wh (and creasgly hostile to) the celebry provotr: poets and gay men.

STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

It should e as no surprise, then, that gay poets n get pecially riled about Fran’s play wh inty and “lerary manspreadg, ” to borrow a phrase om Purvi Shah’s piece for Vida on the Michael Derrick Hudson yellowface ntroversy. And yet Fran’s “queer public persona, ” as he scrib his latt poetry chapbook, Straight Jam / Gay Jam (Hansen Publishg Group), is meangfully distct om Hudson’s ce, as is om Rachel Dolezal’s, and om the cultural appropriatn of Katy Perry and Iggy Azaela—all of whom I’ve wnsed whe gay poets pare Fran to. Do the succs of this public persona, then, of which his intifitn as a poet is most certaly a part (see: his affy for gay poets Frank Bidart, Allen Gsberg and Hart Crane), pend on the tails of Fran’s private life?

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S A 'LTLE GAY'

From this poem on, which the speaker intifi himself as a “sister clown, / Wh a se pated / So thick / I looked mad-happy, always, ” Straight Jam / Gay Jam ncerns self primarily wh problems of persona.

Fran don’t want to fuck Lana Del Rey so much as to be her—not unlike the relatnship to women he characteriz “Hello Woman, ” and not, as happens, unlike many gay men’s relatnship to Del Rey. Intertgly, when Del Rey’s mic vio for “Summertime Sadns” told the story of a lbian affair spe the sger’s ostensible heterosexualy, no one acced her of gay-bag.

BOOK REVIEW: STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

In his tle poem, which tak the form of an terview between Straight Jam (SJ) and Gay Jam (GJ), and is one of the most engagg the llectn, Fran do fally rpond to the accatns he himself fac, settlg once and for all the qutn of whether he’s gay the most leral sense (not really). Let’s get substantial: are you fuckg gay or what? GJ: Well, I like to thk I’m gay my art and straight my life.

Gay Jam go on to make the valid, if non-revelatory pot about how sex acts were not, historilly, unrstood as the basis of sexual inty, and Straight Jam later adms, “Sh, I’d love to fuck you, ” to his alter-ego, but the takeaway is clear: Fran is terted—scerely— the trappgs of gay inty, and not terted participatg gay sex. (“I was not the one who pulled my public persona to the gay world; that was the straight gossip prs and the gay prs speculatg about me, ” Fran remds his self-terview.

STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

The rapid cultural sea-change on gay rights and the sudn (if limed) regnn of trans narrativ means that there has never before been so many queer mols accsible the mastream, even as the ins of mastream acceptance (marriage equaly, Calyn Jenner) paradoxilly ero queer difference. This might be key to the problem that persists Fran’s claim to queerns, and what about that rankl so many gay men: a lack of perspective. What do you say to people who cricize you for appropriatg gay culture for your work?

So do Jam Fran have anythg telligent to say about beg gay? ” And while Fran might not yet have mastered the difference, he’s a straight man  2016 whose entire project pends on the assumptn that beg gay would be ls borg.