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He became not only a born-again Christian but also a born-again heterosexual. ' King Cobra ,' which also stars Garrett Clayton, Molly Ringwald and Christian Slater, is based on the 2007 murder of gay adult film impresario Bryan Kocis. Then, around his 30th birthday, something in Glatze changed. James Franco faces legal action over sexual misconduct allegations. The film, which co-stars Zachary Quinto and Emma Roberts, is based on Benoit Denizet-Lewis’s 2011 story “My Ex-Gay Friend” for The New York Times Magazine.įranco stars as Michael Glatze, who was once an editor for the San Francisco-based gay magazine XY in the ’90s, a tireless activist for gay rights, a documentarian that chronicled the epidemic of suicide amongst LGBT youth, and was in a steady relationship with a man. For I Am Michael he shakes it up a bit by playing an avowed “ex-gay” based on a real person. Michael will be Francos third film in which he plays a gay man, but he has produced other gay-based films in the past. There was the activist Scott Smith in Milk, poet Allen Ginsburg in Howl, Hart Crane, another poet, in The Broke Tower, and a murderous gay porn producer in the recent King Cobra. The 36-year-old actor said he is gay in his 'art' during an interview with himself. James Franco might be Hollywood’s most prolific portrayer of characters based on real life gay men. Hollywood star James Franco has opened up about his sexuality after years of speculation over his personal life.