New photos from I Am Michael have been released in anticipation of the film’s premiere during Sundance 2015, and we’re expecting good things. James Franco stars as the real-life character Michael Glatze, the gay activist turned ex-gay homophobic Christian pastor. The drama is based on out writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis’ New York Times profile “My Ex-Gay Friend,” which tells the story of how Glatze became a poster child for the ex-gay movement after rejecting his sexuality and repenting for his life as a homosexual, during which he founded the homoerotic teen magazine XY. Zachary Quinto costars as the lover of Franco’s character, Teen Wolf‘s Charlie Carver plays a young man they hook up with and American Horror Story‘s Emma Roberts also has a role in the film.
“It’s actually a very relatable story about the power of belief and the desire to belong,” director Justin Kelly told Variety. The film is co-produced by Franco and Gus Van Sant, director of Milk, My Own Private Idaho and Mala Noche.
Take a look at new stills from the film:
LadyL
A “relatable story about the power of belief and the desire to belong”? Well, having followed the link to read Denizet-Lewis’s poignant article, I’m no longer sure I want to see this film; it might just depress me further. I’m not sure who Michael Glatze was and I’ve no particular wish to “relate” to the person he has become.
jwtraveler
The only reason I’d see this film would be to watch James and Zach making out and whatever else they do. They story is a complete turn-off.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
James wants to have “under the radar” gay sex with men who predominantly identify as straight by inadvertent association. That way they trust he’ll keep their secrets, and they get to have good, risky, gay sex. And it’s risky, but we are talking about gay sex afterall. It beats using illegal drugs to achieve that same high I guess.
I mean honestly, who has that much going for them just to come out of the closet, and thus limit your options to assholes like Stache, and Trippy? Ha ha ha! Honestly. Who does that knowingly? No one! That’s who. Who comes out of the closet just have gay sex with bitchy creepaziods with no sense of masculinity, or strength like Ladbrook, or Saint Law? Who wants these weak, wishy washy, whiny crybaby, rasist assholes?
Use a condom James! Personal responsibility is still your responsibility, and not the HIV positive community’s responsibility for you.
grero
@I’m Black, and HIV-Positive.: Where are you getting any of this from?
GayDSalinger
I’m so sick of James Franco.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@grero: Life bitch. Life. Figures you need a lesson in it, but I’m here to school you. Pull up a chair. Feeling indirectly exposed by my exposition bitch? Come out of the closet sucka!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@grero: Where am I coming from? Straight outcha mama’a ass!
Saint Law
@I’m Black, and HIV-Positive.: One of the funniest things about your ‘Uncle Remus on crack’ routine, ‘Jason’, is how you use it to vent all of the timid, embittered rage you make such efforts to conceal when posting under your other aliases.
But when you log off you’re still you. And for that you have my sincere pity.
Chris Vogel
There is the matter that “ex-gay” individuals and those who claim to have altered others’ sexual orientation, whether by religious or medical means, are frauds and, worse, they do enormous damage. Since they are ineffectual, these interventions waste a lot of time and money and, not uncommonly, drive the “patient” to suicide. Despite the fact that the numbers of “ex-gays” in existence are any one time are miniscule (they don’t last long, as a rule)and are vastly outnumbered by ex-ex-gays, their charade is huge among religious conservatives who use them as an excuse for their arrogance, malice and wilful ignorance.
Arconcyyon
I´m is love like the author directton belive mem sex chic James Franco ! More is single is history the new is film dont´s is no ex-gay and gay ! dont´s yes no ! the live history is party the mundi planet is people sex love !Sucess is ticket is shoop telle TVe DVD shopp tuor .
mujerado
@GayDSalinger: And you think we all need to know this? If you’re sick of him, ignore him. Nobody made you read the article.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Saint Law: But the good Lord blessed me with not being you bitch so… Ha ha haa! Stalk much?
Uncle Remus? Another razial reference from you? You must be really embarrassed about your attraction to black men. We see that more often than closeted homosexuality in it’s most basic form you know? Good luck with that. Secrets can be a bitch to keep. That must suck. You know. Having to come out twice, and all.
Q: You know who has my pity? A: Your mama. Ha ha ha!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Saint Law: I can’t wait until you realize that I am my own person, and Jason is his own person, and BJ is his own person, and we are all our own people and that you really are the odd man out.
You’re just a paranoid, delusional old cracker who is all alone in life, and consumed with mixed feelings of jealousy and hatred (which ofcourse will have turned into feelings of rage by then), and who needs to be told off about herself daily now. And that who the entire world really does literally hate… and for all the right reasons! Just kill yourself now bitch. Save the time.
Bye! And again, don’t forget to think of me. Oh, who am I kidding. If I told you my shoe size your lonely ass would send me a Christmas present.
buffnightwing
@I’m Black, and HIV-Positive.: YOU JUST DESCRIBED YOURSELF PERFECTLY.
buffnightwing
@mujerado: Like we need to know your stupid comment back? LOL
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@buffnightwing: I know you dumb bitch. I am a black man, who is HIV-positive, but who is also very attractive, and who is also decisively witty. I was wondering how long it would take you before you had the common sense to put your razist angst aside, and take a black man’s words at face value.
Not that I was speaking to you directly anywhere on this page again for you to be responding to anything even in the slightest bit legitimate that I wrote, so was that yet another attempt to covertly start a fight with me bitch? You either really hate black people, or you’re really mentally unstable, or you have a crush on me. I mean, you’re not even commenting on the articles themselves, or even other people’s comments in reference to the articles. You’re just straight up starting fights! And that’s who really are, so take a moment to look at yourself, and thus examine just how rotten to the core that piece of fruit is. Because I don’t care what you think you saw – nobody was speaking to you anyway all the same.
You really have cracked bitch, and it’s not funny. But it is funny how you tried that shit before, and didn’t think that I would recognize that shit behavior of yours as bullying. You even responded to mujerado with: “Like we need to know your stupid comment back? LOL”. Were you speaking to yourself in regard to the comment you left for me? Lol. Because that’s really funny. You are definitely the pot calling the kettle black here, because you just described yourself perfectly to a tee. That’s called projection bitch. See how many times I need to tell you that? Project much? Like we needed to know your stupid comment back. LOL.
Still haven’t learned your lesson I see.
Sluggo2007
@I’m Black, and HIV-Positive.: Excuse me, but you protest too much. The more you post, the more you show your insecurity. Shut up, already!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Sluggo2007: “Excuse me, but you protest too much. The more you post, the more you show your insecurity. Shut up, already!”
Fuck you whore! You’re just a jealous rasist bitch who’s mad that I’m handing all you jealous rasist bitches your fucking ass! I’m protesting too much? But what was that bitch that just came from you just now? Good question bitch. Answer it! Sounded like a protest to me bitch. Oh. So… whatchu a hypocrite bitch? See. You need to shut the fuck straight up before you get your ass handed to you! Whoops, too late. Here I go:
What did I protest? If I slam a dumb rasist bitch for attacking me with her dumb bitch rasist offensive commentary to me that’s called standing up for myself. Some reason why you just tried to make up some bullshit reasoning for why the black girl in the argument needs to shut the fuck up you rasist bitch that doesn’t imply rasism on your part you rasist bitch? No, and I don’t that way either bitch. Because it exactly has been my experience that you rasist white bitches will only open your fucking mouths to defend, and support other rasist white bitches, so maybe that would explain why it’s you who’s doing all the protesting you rasist bitch!
Furthermore, you exemplified all this dumb rasist bitch qualities before she admitted she was wrong, and left the site for good: which is projection bitch! That’s right projection bitch! So you’re mad that I’m handing you rasist, white bitches yo ass, so you protesting, but in response you call me protesting? Nice try bitch. That’s called projection, and you probably were too scared to call my actions what the fuck they really were, because you knew how strong it would make me sound, and you would know wrong your scared, bitch, coward, rasist ass was for trying to interject in the first place. Protest that bitch!
Or how about this bitch: Since I’m handing you your ass why you don’t lead by example, and not stand up for yourself by responding back here for fear of being called protesting too much by your own rules your damn self? I can’t wait to see how you dictate this course of discussion should continue you hack job, rasist bitch. Or should I say: Buffnightwing!
Or how I just this another way bitch because you didn’t have to speak to me no way about some dumb rasist projection bullshit in the first place: Bitch why don’t you make me shut the fuck up?
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Sluggo2007: Fuck you whore! You’re just another jealous, rasist bitch who’s mad that I’m handing all you jealous, rasist bitches your fucking asses! I’m protesting too much? But what was that bitch that just came from you just now? Good question bitch. Answer it! Sounded like a protest to me bitch. Oh. So… whatchu a hypocrite bitch? See. You need to shut the fuck straight up before you get your ass handed to you! Some reason why you defended the white one Sluggo with your rasist ass? Or should I call you Buffnightwing? Yeah. Because you need to learn how to mind your fucking business otherwise. The way I see it is like this you carbon copy of a jealous bitch: Why don’t you just make me shut the fuck up?