āAsking me if Iām homosexual is like asking James Brown if heās black.ā So crowed the American glam-rocker Jobriath as he commenced his career in the early 1970s. Backing up the faggy hubris was Jobriathās musical talent (he was a classical piano prodigy) and his shameless manager, who unleashed an avalanche of hypeāfrom Times Square billboards to full-page ads in Rolling Stone and Vogue, all before one note of music had been releasedāthat would ultimately prove ruinous. In Jobriath A.D., documentarian Kieran Turner tracks this incredible tale through archival and contemporary interviews, gracefully plot-forwarding animation, and dazzling performance footage. (Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, grandillusioncinema.org, 7 and 9 pm, Jan 31āFeb 6)