As a young gay man, Michael Glatze seemed very happy wh who he was. Then he changed his md.
Contents:
- MY EX-GAY FRIEND
- FILM BASED ON DENIZET-LEWIS ARTICLE ‘MY EX-GAY FRIEND’ RELEASED
- ‘EX-GAY’ MICHAEL GLATZE SAYS JAM FRAN FILM GAVE HIM ‘NEW LIFE’, APOLOGIZ TO GAY YOUTH: VIDEO
MY EX-GAY FRIEND
* my ex gay friend by benoit denizet lewis *
In 2010, Emerson assistant profsor Beno Denizet-Lewis head out to Wyomg to wre a New York Tim Magaze piece about a former lleague who, the space of a , had gone om beg an arnt champn for the LGBT muny to an anti-gay fundamentalist Christian pastor--trag. The rultg 2011 article, “My Ex-Gay Friend, ” did not produce any easy answers about what ed Michael Glatze to not jt abandon, but actively reject, everythg he was and stood for.
FILM BASED ON DENIZET-LEWIS ARTICLE ‘MY EX-GAY FRIEND’ RELEASED
He was nfint that the filmmakers – many of whom are gay themselv – had the same basic goals md. But when me time to approach Glatze – who had married a woman and wrten some “tly mean spired and dishont thgs” about gay people – about makg a movie based on his terr stggle, was anyone’s gus how he would react. Denizet-Lewis said Glatze, who has sce apologized for some of the anti-gay thgs he wrote, didn’t necsarily love the NYT Magaze article, but he did rpect and felt was fair.
And back San Francis, when he and Denizet-Lewis worked together at a gay magaze, Glatze was a huge fan of I Am Michael producer G Van Sant’s work. Christian fundamentalists uld watch and see as evince that gay people n turn straight; gay people and alli might see a man who is not beg hont wh himself about who he is.
‘EX-GAY’ MICHAEL GLATZE SAYS JAM FRAN FILM GAVE HIM ‘NEW LIFE’, APOLOGIZ TO GAY YOUTH: VIDEO
Denizet-Lewis said for anyone who don’t know Glatze, ’s easy to be angry wh him, but ’s important to regnize what a source of spiratn he was to a lot of young gay people when he was wrg for XY Magaze, and later, Y. (Young Gay Ameri).
“LGBT people have credibly strong and powerful reactns to nversn therapy and to people who say they are ex-gay, bee church and relign has done so much psychic damage to so many LGBT people. So I thk ’s really unrstandable that someone who claims to no longer be gay then wr really awful thgs about gay people [ mak them angry], ” Denizet-Lewis said. The New York Tim has a fascatg report about a man payg a vis to his long lost ex-gay iend.