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• 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 TO PLAY 'EX-GAY' ACTIVIST MICHAEL GLATZE IN NEW G VAN SANT PROJECT
• JAM FRAN FALLY SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ON HIS SEXUALY! SO, IS HE GAY OR WHAT?!
• JAM FRAN EXPLAS HIS ‘GAY OBSSN’
• JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• JAM FRAN RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS IN ATTU MAGAZE INTERVIEW (PHOTO)

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

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. 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.

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

”), 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). Image Cred: Matt Carr/Getty Imag“Is Jam Fran gay?

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

‘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.

” 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.

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

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.

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.. Related | Ex-Gay Bpic I Am Michael Should Be Rated XWhile the scene is a b darkly l and wily shot for our tast, 's still a real treasure of morn cema. Jam Fran, who says he's "gay [his] art and straight [his] life, " is takg on yet another gay role.

The actor, who recently played Michael Glatze, a gay activist who rejected his homosexualy and beme a Christian pastor, the bpic I Am Michael, will share the screen wh Robert Duvall and Josh Hartt upg thriller Wild will play Ben Briggs, the tranged gay son to Robert Duvall's Stt Briggs. No stranger to tacklg gay them onscreen, Jam Fran is set to play "ex-gay" a new movie. Page Six reports that Fran, who n currently be seen on Broadway oppose Chris O'Dowd "Of Mice and Men, " will star a forthg movie about "ex-gay" activist Michael Glatze.

JAM FRAN EXPLAS HIS ‘GAY OBSSN’

" As The New York Tim reported, Glatze found Young Gay Ameri (or Y. ) magaze and toured the untry for a documentary about gay teens before he had a ntroversial change of heart, renounced his sexualy and beme a fundamentalist Christian. "We nnot see the tth when we’re bld by homosexualy, " Glatze wrote a 2007 edorial for nservative news se WND.

"We believe, unr the fluence of homosexualy, that lt is not jt acceptable, but a virtue. But there is no homosexual 'sire' that is apart om lt. "Fran, 35, has played gay characters "Milk" and "Howl, " and teamed up wh Travis Mathews to direct 2013's "Interr.

JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

"It’s not like ’s my missn to tell the stori of as many gay men as possible, although some s, I thk is the pot, " the Amy Award nomee told The Daily Beast last fall. "I gus that a lot of the figur that I love were gay. "Before You GoCelebri Who've Faced Gay RumorsPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

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 RPONDS TO GAY RUMORS IN ATTU MAGAZE INTERVIEW (PHOTO)

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.

He’s gay-ish! Hmm, we wouldn’t md gettg a one-on-one exclive wh Gay Jam though. Hollywood actor Jam Fran recently revealed what fuels his “obssn” wh tellg LGBT stori on screen – specifilly that of gay men.

Durg an terview wh Rollg Stone magaze, the actor opened up about his “artistic preoccupatn” wh homosexualy and gay men general. He also starred bpic ‘I am Michael’, which tells the ntroversial te story of gay activist Michael Glatze, who rejected his homosexualy and beme a Christian pastor.