Book Review: Straight Jam / Gay Jam – Tron Tim

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Straight Jam/Gay Jam by Jam Fran My ratg: 3 of 5 stars This llective work falls le wh poetic performance art piec more than do a poetry chapbook as Jam Fran explor many aspects of persona. The poetics by self is passable but never sublime. However, the teasg and toyg of personal vers…

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

Is he gay? Do you still re? Did you ever? * straight james gay *

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. 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? 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.

JAM FRAN EXPLAS HIS ‘GAY OBSSN’

The multihyphenate gaybas his way through a book of poetry. * straight james gay *

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.

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?

STRAIGHT PORN SUPERSTAR JAM DEEN TALKS GAY SEX, ONSCREEN AND OFF

Porn performer Jam Deen will not discs his Canyons star Ldsay Lohan. But he will discs his experienc wh gay sex, both onscreen— Pl Schrar’s aforementned bizarrely mmerizg and already-storied thriller—and his real life. What do that say about a performer whose heterosexualy is a mody that’s sold untls straight porn movi, cludg Farrah Abraham’s “sex tape?” * straight james gay *

GJ: Well, I like to thk 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.

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. 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?

BOOK REVIEW: STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

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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. 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.

POETRY REVIEW: STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM BY JAM FRAN

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.

STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM

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’.

THE STRAIGHT JAM FRAN TALKS TO THE GAY JAM FRAN

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? But he will discs his experienc wh gay sex, both onscreen— Pl Schrar’s aforementned bizarrely mmerizg and already-storied thriller—and his real life.

41 STRAIGHT JAMGAY JAM STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

Or maybe we’ve jt reached a pot society where our straight porn stars risk losg nothg (and maybe even stand to ga more fans) by revealg gay eded transcript of my chat wh Deen is ’s a stereotype of porn stars beg obssed wh crossg over to the mastream.

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