Australia's 'embarrassing' gay film ban A ban on a gay film, I Want Your Love, by the Australian Classification Board is "embarrassing," says Hollywood star James Franco. Franco's interest in the film was largely due to the fact that he recently co-directed a bondage sex film, Interior.Leather.Bar, with I Want Your Love's director, Travis Mathews. Mathews' story of a gay man who has sex with his best friend while partying in Los Angeles was considered by the board to be too explicit in its sex scenes and the board wouldn't allow it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival. The scene itself was a six-minute montage of friends, housemates and partygoers. Melbourne Queer Film Festival director Lisa Daniel said it was an embarrassment for Australia since it had been seen in many festivals around the world. Less than a year ago the board allowed a film called Donkey Love, which featured bestiality, to screen at film festivals. Franco posted a YouTube video saying that it was "such a disappointment to me and it just seems really silly." Frankly, adults should be able to choose. They're not going in blind. I don't know why this day in age something like this, a film that's using sex not for titillation but to talk about being human, is being banned. with Philippa Hawker