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JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN

Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved" * shame gay bar scene *

Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved"ByNov 15, 2013 3:04 PMTagsJim Spellman/WireImageIn the 2011 movie Shame, Michael Fassbenr played a sex addict who— a moment of speratn—had an R-rated enunter wh another male the back of a gay bar. The film was received well by crics, but Jam Fran has some issu wh —particularly how the Steve McQueen-helmed movie picts sex addictn and gay culture. ""And that scene where he's at his lowt pot and wants to f--k and go to a gay club, " he wr, "and 's picted like the seventh level of hell...

I mean, go back to the horrible reprentatns of gays the '70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everythg dark and praved. Fran, who played a gay character Milk, has long been an outspoken supporter of the LGBT muny.

JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY

* shame gay bar scene *

Before his Comedy Central Roast September, he told the Daily Beast, "Brg on the gay jok! Bee the aren't sults at all…I don't even re if people thk I'm gay, so was like, 'Awome!

' I mean, I wish I was…I wish I was gay. "And like, for me, the greater scheme of thgs—gay jok as an issue is one thg but when people make fun of me beg gay 's like [shgs] do all day, " he went on. CelebryJam Fran cricized the Michael Fassbenr movie, 'Shame, ' for s pictn of the gay muny, which he felt was a reprentatn.

THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME

The edian discs the shame he felt growg up gay the 1990s, and how he overme . * shame gay bar scene *

One cric Jam Fran, however, blasted the film for what he saw as a poor reprentatn of the gay muny. In his review, Fran cricized the film’s pictn of the gay muny.

TOM ALLEN: THE IA OF GAY SHAME STILL PERVAS

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PROBLEMATIC FRIENDS STORYL THAT NEVER MA THE CUT – OM RACHEL MOVG WH GUNTHER TO THE BOMB SRE AND THE GAY CLUB

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HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

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"Those were such seismic events 15 or 20 years ago, " says Allen, whose new memoir studi the shame he felt growg up gay.

‘LOVE, SIMON’ DELETED SCENE FEATURG COLTON HAYN SHOWS AN AWKWARD EXPERIENCE AT SIMON’S FIRST GAY BAR

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ROANOKE’S GAY BAR SCENE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

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