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Whilewemay get annoyed with you for existence a queer-baiter, I know you're not to blame. The more you ambiguously hint, the more we eat you up. The Gay media nearly exploded after you mentioned you're "a small gay" in your recent New York Magazine interview. You've consistently teased us, always in the form of art or humor, which has allowed you to keep your personal sexual orientation a mystery. You've kissed men on multiple occasions, and in many of your movies possess made not-so-subtle references or jokes about your sexuality. You even sat down and conducted an interview with yourself between your dual personas: Straight James and Gay James.
In your recent interview, a promotion for your newest production King Cobra, about gay porn stars, you stated:
[I]f your definition of gay and unbent is who I sleep with, then I guess you could say I'm a gay cock tease. It's where my allegiance lies, where my sensibilities lie, how I define myself. Yeah, I'm a tiny gay, and there's a gay James.
A little homosexual, ay? Mainly straight? Talk about bi-erasure much?
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James Franco Addresses His Sexuality in Bizarre New Interview: ''I'm Gay in My Art''
"If it means whom you have sex with, I guess I'm linear. In the Twenties and Thirties, they used to define homosexuality by how you acted and not by whom you slept with. Sailors would f--k guys all the day, but as long as they behaved in masculine ways, they weren't considered gay."
Gay James added, "I like my queer universal persona. I like that it's so hard to define me and that people always have to guess about me. They don't know what the hell is up with me, and that's fantastic. Not that I carry out what I do to confuse people, but as long as they are confused, I get time to play."
And while Franco is fine with the general discussion of his adoration life, he has zero interest in adding his two cents to the mix.
"I really don't nurture what people think about my sexuality, and it's also none of their business. So I really don't choose to detect with my public persona. I am not interested in most straight male-bondin
A Queer Take on James Franco&#;s &#;Straight James / Gay James&#;
Actor, director, artist, fiction writer and poet James Franco knows how to get a reaction. Perhaps the prevailing response to him remains a swooning and fanning-of-self on the part of many women and men alike, a holdover from his days as an undifferentiated teen idol. But as his resume has turn into more diverse and admittedly more impressive, an eyeroll seems just as likely. And in recent years, two groups of people in particular have become increasingly fed-up with (and increasingly antagonistic to) the celebrity provocateur: poets and gay men.
Both groups, it seems, share the same aim of contention: that Franco, in his career as a poet, as in his ongoing joke/performance/trolling about the nature of his sexuality, has simply not earned his place. It should appear as no surprise, then, that gay poets can get especially riled about Franco’s play with identity and “literary manspreading,” to borrow a phrase from Purvi Shah’s piece for Vida on the Michael Derrick Hudson yellowface controversy.
And yet Franco’s “queer publ
James Franco Is Gay—Well, At Least Half of Him Is
James Franco tends to be a polarizing figure. Either you’re into his polymathic, actor/director/poet/writer/Ph.D. student/is-it-all-performance-art? thing, or you find it unbearably precious and frustrating. That’s enough of a challenge for most people, but gay audiences deal with an added issue: Is Franco, who devotes a striking amount of resourceful energy to gay-themed projects like Interior. Leather Barand The Broken Tower and yet identifies as unbent, gay-baiting or gay-engaged? Is he a hyperartistic closet case or just a really enthusiastic fan?
Those looking for an answer may find it—or perhaps finish up more confused—in the March issue of Four Two Nine magazine. Editor-in-chief Kevin Sessums convinced Franco to speak on the gay question in a novel and surprisingly successful (at least to my reading) way: The unbent James Franco would interview the gay one. The conversation that unfolds between the two Francos is only occasionally cutesy (Gay James: “You jerk me off all the time.”). More often, the men struggle to unpack the