Michael glatze today
Interview With Former Gay Activist, Michael Glatze
Dr. Nicolosi: Michael, thank you for giving us this moment to catch up on your life since our First Interview a few years ago. How are things going today?
Michael Glatze: Adv. a lot has changed! I’ve been married a little over two months now.
Dr. N.: Fantastic. How is it going?
M.G.: Perfect.
Dr. N.: No such thing!
M.G.: It really is! It is perfect. Life is full of twists and turns, of course– but it is perfect. Marriage is something that I didn’t intend to verb out. I was very hesitant at first to pursue a significant relationship because I didn’t verb it to be a political thing, since my past as a gay activist was so adv known. And then, there had been that article about my leaving gay life, published in the New York Times. So I didn’t want there to be any part of me that had any political motivation.
But of course, my situation has put me in the public eye. And when Rebekah and I first met, almost three years ago, fortunately she and I could flow together, and we were sincere. At that time, I had already ha
Joseph Nicolosi Interview With Michael Glatze: Two-Year Follow-Up
In 2007, I first interviewed Michael Glatze for an article posted on the NARTH website. A leader in the gay-activist movement, Michael had just gone common about leaving his lifestyle and rejecting the gay movement. Homosexuality is not life-giving, he said, and “I choose life.”
Michael credited his gradual change to many things; a transformation in his understanding of the meaning of his same-sex attractions, a robust spiritual life, the centering power of meditation, and the conviction that fulfillment would come through living a life congruent with his biological design.
In a follow-up interview in October 2009, Michael offered an update on his life.
JN: Michael, it’s been more than two years now since we did our first interview. Tell us what has happened in your life since that time.
MG: Well, right after that whole time, when I had been doing a lot of interviews and sharing a lot of what I was going through, I started to get exhausted by all of the media attention.
JN: Did you receive any
I Am Michael - a lesson in empathy
Last evening I went to spot the UK premiere of I Am Michael at BFI Flare, the London LGBT Film Festival. The film tells the real-life story of Michael Glatze, an American former gay rights advocate who now identifies as heterosexual, denounces homosexuality and is the Pastor of a church in Wyoming.
This is a film that turns LGBT cinema on its head; it presents a ‘going in’ story rather than the well-trodden coming out story. But, perhaps surprisingly, it does so in a way that is empathetic. I Am Michael doesn’t aim to vilify or condemn Glatze, instead to understand and accept.
With that in mind, I can’t help but craft a connection to our approach here at Diversity Role Models. Ultimately our workshops teach young people to empathise with those who are different. We’re clear that it doesn’t matter whether you reflect being LGBT is right or wrong, LGBT people are still people and deserve dignity and respect.
Of course this cuts both ways. Many LGBT people have had negative experiences of religion. And this can colour their opinions of religion, even
In a controversial and very public transformation, co-founder of Young Gay America magazine and gay rights advocate Michael Glatze shocked his followers when he renounced his homosexuality and embraced a heterosexual life. Justin Kelly’s compelling directorial debut presents Glatze’s journey in an admirably measured and non-judgmental fashion. In the beginning, Michael (James Franco) is a joyful, pledged queer activist, living with his boyfriend Bennett (Zachary Quinto) in the Castro where they both compose for XY Magazine. A job offer for Bennett soon takes them to Halifax, Canada, where the two settle into a seemingly fulfilling life with their new lover Tyler (Charlie Carver), and Michael launches YGA, becoming a leading voice on issues of young gay experience. When a health scare leads Michael to convey on a past he has never fully confronted, he searches for deeper meaning in and beyond life. Flirting with meditation and Buddhism, Michael ultimately seeks his answers in the Bible and, eventually, heterosexuality on the road to his truth.
It would be easy to condemn a