Jam Fran talks about why he lik playg gay characters |

Contents:

• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'
• JAM FRAN FALLY SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ON HIS SEXUALY! SO, IS HE GAY OR WHAT?!
• JAM FRAN ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: 'YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE I'M JT GAY' (EXCLIVE)
• JAM FRAN’S QUEER CATALOGUE: 10 VERY GAY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• JAM FRAN RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS IN ATTU MAGAZE INTERVIEW (PHOTO)
• 'GAY RAPIST' ACTOR SURPRISGLY COOL ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
• JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S A 'LTLE GAY'
• JAM FRAN: ‘YEAH, I’M A LTLE GAY’
• WATCH EMEM TELL JAM FRAN HE’S GAY IN A SCENE FROM ‘THE INTERVIEW’
• JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• WATCH JAM FRAN STRIP DOWN IN THE NEW TRAILER FOR HIS GAY PORN THRILLER ‘KG COBRA’
• 'STRAIGHT JAM FRAN' INTERVIEWS 'GAY JAM FRAN'; BOTH SUCK
• JAM FRAN ACCEPTS HE IS GAY, BUT ONLY HIS ART
• JAM FRAN ON WHY HE’S DRAWN TO GAY STORI: ‘THE ARE IMPORTANT ISSU OF EQUAL RIGHTS’

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE 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. ” 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? 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 plays gay!

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

The actor has taken on enough gay parts (cludg Allen Gsberg Howl and the activist Stt Smh Milk) and addrsed gay them so equently his own directg work (such as Sal and Interr. Where more circumspect performers ve speculatn through their very utns, there n be few people who even re any more about whether or not Fran is I Am Michael, one of the six or seven new films which this prolific actor will be seen this year, is no straightforward gay movie. Soon Glatze had nounced his former life to bee an anti-gay Christian pastor.

Until that pot I’d read all his anti-gay rants so was que hard to re about him. “He had been so public as a gay activist, and maybe there was this misguid need to burn down everythg he was before. Photograph: Snap Stills/REXPerhaps homosexualy wasn’t even part of Glatze’s problem.

” For Kelly, that was a al-breaker: “Had Michael been unhappy his gay life, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to do the movie. ”What is missed emphasisg Fran’s own tert gay subject matter is that is the fluidy of inty, rather than sexualy alone, that stimulat him.

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

Glatze n’t see what’s wrong wh a formerly gay man proclaimg “Turn or burn! ’ Not even the homophobic stuff, jt … nuts!

Nowhere is this more apparent than the crisis pots of I Am Michael, all of which rt on tight close-ups of the star: the shower followg a health sre, starg at a gay uple the supermarket or wag church to greet his first ngregatn. “Wh one day we might shoot gay Michael wh blond hair, then gay Michael wh brown hair, then straight Michael. 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.

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

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

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

He’s gay-ish!

Hmm, we wouldn’t md gettg a one-on-one exclive wh Gay Jam though.

'GAY RAPIST' ACTOR SURPRISGLY COOL ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

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.

JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S A 'LTLE GAY'

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

Fran’s short film adaptatn of Anthony Hecht’s poem is pretty damn gay. Gay Town. Callg an exhibn “Gay Town” certaly creat a good headle, but we’re not entirely sure what else achiev.

JAM FRAN: ‘YEAH, I’M 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.

WATCH EMEM TELL JAM FRAN HE’S GAY IN A SCENE FROM ‘THE INTERVIEW’

”), 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). ”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. 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.

JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

” "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.

"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. Is Jam Fran gay or what?

You'll remember there was that omo mor that he once raped his gay lover that was sort of tense and icky.

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

In the terview, he discs his new film Milk, a bpic about 1970's gay rights activist Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn). " He'll also be playg gay poet Allen Gsberg the upg movie Howl. I mean, other than this queasy-makg gay rapist mor, Fran otherwise across as rehgly "enlightened"—a dashg, talented young man wh an active tert furtherg his tn and a sober, rpectably artistic approach to supposedly difficult issu of a hetero playg a homo.

'STRAIGHT JAM FRAN' INTERVIEWS 'GAY JAM FRAN'; BOTH SUCK

Or, you know, maybe there's no mystery at all and grim mors are jt grim mors and Fran is jt a straight actor posssed of a progrsive and exploratory spir and I'm kd of an ass for harpg on this gay stuff, bee why should straight actors feel chased away om gay rol, you know? Jam Fran, actor, director, Instagram provotr, is once aga speakg out on his sexualy, sayg he's a "ltle gay.

"You may rell that March 2015, "gay" Fran terviewed "straight Fran" for FourTwoNe magaze. Said Fran: "I like to thk that I'm gay my art and straight my life. "Fran is no stranger to starrg projects that ll for him to play gay characters.

He appeared oppose Sean Penn Milk 2008 and 2015 played a gay activist turned Christian pastor I Am Michael. But if your fn of gay and straight is who I sleep wh, then I gus you uld say I'm a gay ck tease, " Fran said.

JAM FRAN ACCEPTS HE IS GAY, BUT ONLY HIS ART

Yeah, I'm a ltle gay, and there's a gay Jam. "Not that I do what I do to nfe people, but as long as they are nfed, I get time to play, " he isn't the only Hollywood star to subvert datg nventn— Febary, Sacha Baron Cohen said he was 23 percent gay. The edian, who played flamboyant gay character Bno, believ there is a fluctuatg sle between gay and straight.

"In 2015, a poll nducted by YouGov found that 23 percent of Brish people nsired themselv not to be 100 percent hetereosexual on the Ksey sle—which charts sexualy on a range of one, meang pletely heterosexual, to six, meang pletely homosexual. “Yeah, I’m a ltle gay, and there’s a gay Jam, ” the actor, 38, told the publitn.

JAM FRAN ON WHY HE’S DRAWN TO GAY STORI: ‘THE ARE IMPORTANT ISSU OF EQUAL RIGHTS’

“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, ” he said. In 2015, Fran famoly explored his gay si an article for FourTwoNe magaze, which he terviewed himself as “Straight Jam Fran” talkg to “Gay Jam Fran.

“I like to thk that I’m gay my art and straight my life, ” he explaed his piece for FourTwoNe. “Although, I’m also gay my life up to the pot of terurse, and then you uld say I’m straight.

Throughout his reer, the Straight Jam/Gay Jam thor has never shied away om participatg LGBTQ-themed projects. He has portrayed gay men films such as Milk, I Am Michael and Interr Leather Bar. Jam Fran attends a signg for his new book “Straight Jam/Gay Jam” at Book Soup on March 6, 2016 Wt Hollywood, California.