Actor from Controversial New LGBT Film “Adam” Alleges Cast Was Lied To About Content

Phaylen Fairchild
5 min readNov 1, 2019

The controversial new film “Adam” directed by Rhys Ernst which features a cisgender man who pretends to be a transgender man in an effort to deceive his sister’s friends into having sex with him has been widely condemned for it’s lesbophobic and transphobic themes, even fetching calls for a boycott.

Based on the 2014 book of the same name by Ariel Schrag, Adam portrays transgender people as con artists who easily slip into the trans identity to manipulate others, as the protagonist does to a lesbian woman he essentially rapes, but in an amazing turn of events, when Adam reveals himself to be a straight male, the lesbian character seems to shrug off her sexuality, and the fact that she was mislead into having sex with him, and decides she’s not completely a lesbian after all and goes on to have a relationship with him suggesting lesbian women aren’t really all that serious about their sexuality and are for the sake of storytelling, all sexually fluid as long as the man satisfies them.

It’s pretty repugnant and reckless, to say the least. But, a recent twist of events shows the theme of deception began long before the film hit theaters.

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Phaylen Fairchild

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