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

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Fran’s short film adaptatn of Anthony Hecht’s poem is pretty damn gay. Gay Town.

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

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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.

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

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Gone are the days when was nsired taboo for a straight heart throb to take on a gay role. ”), 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).

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

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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.

” 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.

JAM FRAN EXPLAS HIS ‘GAY OBSSN’

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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.

JAM FRAN TALKS ABOUT WHY HE LIK PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

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..

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

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.

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