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JAM FRAN Q & A: HIS FILM ON TORTURED GAY POET HART CRANE
In Los Angel on June 20, he’ll unveil his latt enavor – directg and starrg an experimental bpic of the tortured, gay Amerin poet Hart Crane – at the Los Angel Film Ftival, which ns om June 16-26.
“He has ma a film about Hart Cane, the visnary, but also about the hard life of Hart Crane, as a gay man, not jt gay, but a wolf, really, gog after sailors, ” Mariani told The Chronicle of Higher Edutn. The graphic gay sex scen will no doubt be fodr for those who love to speculate as to Fran’s sexualy, given that he has also played the lover of ngrsman Harvey Milk “Milk” and the Jewish beat poet Allen Gsberg “Howl. ” He’ll release a vyl album July wh his equent llaborator, the drag queen Kalup Ldsay, and he once famoly teased a reporter, “Maybe I’m jt gay.