Jam Fran’s Queer Catalogue: 10 Very Gay Career Highlights – IndieWire

Contents:

• WATCH JAM FRAN STRIP DOWN IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR HIS GAY PORN THRILLER ‘KG COBRA’
• REVIEW: JAM FRAN FASCAT AS HE MORPHS OM GAY TO STRAIGHT DRAMA ‘I AM MICHAEL’
• 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'
• JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• A ‘CISG’ HOMAGE, AND 5 OTHER GAY-THEMED JAM FRAN PROJECTS
• JAM FRAN TO PLAY 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST MICHAEL GLATZE IN NEW G VAN SANT PROJECT

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

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..

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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.

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

“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. 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.

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'

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 TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

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!

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

’ 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.

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

“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.

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