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Contents:

• A QUEER TAKE ON JAM FRAN’S ‘STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM’
• STRAIGHT JAM / GAY JAM
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

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

Charl told his parents he was gay when he was 12 years old. Jam Charl Sexualy: Is He Not Fully Gay? “So you’re not even fully gay, ” Wtek says, promptg Charl to expla that his prev relatnships, there have been girls the past who he has thought were really, very betiful.

Acrdg to one Twter er, Jam has received a lot of backlash after revealg that he is terted trans men, which mak him “ls gay.

Also Read: Is Ken Den Gay? Also Read: Is Jack Harlow 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.

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.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

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.