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. 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.
FILM BASED ON DENIZET-LEWIS ARTICLE ‘MY EX-GAY FRIEND’ RELEASED
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.
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.
‘EX-GAY’ MICHAEL GLATZE SAYS JAM FRAN FILM GAVE HIM ‘NEW LIFE’, APOLOGIZ TO GAY YOUTH: VIDEO
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. The ex-gay iend is Michael Glatze, a former homosexual who has nverted to Christiany.
We worked together 12 years ago at XY, a San Francis-based natnal magaze for young gay men, back when we were young gay men ourselv… Michael was fast beg the leadg voice for gay youth until the day, July 2007, when he announced that he was no longer gay. Michael Glatze, wrer for the (now shuttered) gay twk magaze XY and the short-lived publitn Young Gay Ameri who went "ex-gay" and beme a poster boy for that movement, marryg a woman 2013, sat down for an terview wh vlogger Jake Reynolds followg the screeng of the new movie, I Am Michael at Sundance.
I Am Michael is based on the Beno Denizet-Lewis NYT article "My Ex-Gay Friend". Wayne Ben, founr of Tth Ws Out, an anizatn that has voted much time to exposg the "ex-gay" myth, wrote about Glatze's story 2013:.