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.
He was nfint that the filmmakers – many of whom are gay themselv – had the same basic goals md.
FILM BASED ON DENIZET-LEWIS ARTICLE ‘MY EX-GAY FRIEND’ RELEASED
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).