Many critics of the film say it portrays an anti-gay image and that the Christian right might try and use the film as evidence that conversion therapy can work. I Am Michael tells the true life story of Michael Glatze, co-founder of Young Gay America magazine, and his story of finding religion and renouncing his homosexuality. Once those stories are told, we can tell unexpected ones that might challenge us or make us uncomfortable in some ways.” “All of these films are very important, but not every movie needs to be like that. “There’s the coming out narrative, the fighting for rights narrative, the closeted secret affair narrative, like we saw in Brokeback Mountain,” said Franco. James Franco says his upcoming movie, I Am Michael, is different than other LGBT films but that it is certainly not anti-gay.įranco and I Am Michael writer/director, Justin Kelly, spoke with Benoit Denizet-Lewis, the writer of the New York Times Magazine article on which the film is based, about the complexities of doing a film so controversial for a new interview for BlackBook.
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