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James Franco Traces Gay Rumors Back To High School Bullying

Much has been said, written, speculated and fantasized about in regards to James Franco‘s sexuality. And while queer fare like Interior. Leather Bar and kink only stoke the flame, so to speak, it’s nothing that the actor-director-[insert other title here] isn’t accustomed to.

“In high school these girls got mad at me and so they spread this rumor that I was having a gay relationship with one of my closest friends,” he told MTV News . “And they even made up a little dance they would do in the girl’s locker room about me being gay. I still don’t know what the dance was.”

We’re assuming it wasn’t this:

Nowadays, however, Franco doesn’t let the rumors get to him, since he’s got bigger, gayer fish to fry.

“It wasn’t like it was anything new,” he said. “And in fact, it wasn’t something that frightened me, like if people think that, it’s fine. I really don’t care.”

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