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Contents:
- JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN
- JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
- THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME
- TOM ALLEN: THE IA OF GAY SHAME STILL PERVAS
- PROBLEMATIC FRIENDS STORYL THAT NEVER MA THE CUT – OM RACHEL MOVG WH GUNTHER TO THE BOMB SRE AND THE GAY CLUB
- HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
- ‘LOVE, SIMON’ DELETED SCENE FEATURG COLTON HAYN SHOWS AN AWKWARD EXPERIENCE AT SIMON’S FIRST GAY BAR
- ROANOKE’S GAY BAR SCENE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
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.
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JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
Jam Fran cricized and lled out the movie 'Shame' for beg disrpectful toward the gay muny wh s offensive reprentatn. * shame gay bar scene *
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. Before his Comedy Central Roast September, he told the Daily Beast, "Brg on the gay jok!
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THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME
* shame gay bar scene *
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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
For all of the ground that the h film Love, Simon broke, there was one aspect of morn queerns that fans wanted to see reprented the film: gay nightlife. * shame gay bar scene *
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HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
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‘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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TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
I wasn't gay when I was four, although I knew I was different.