“Homosexuality, delivered to young minds, is by its very nature pornographic. The two lovers toured the country filming Jim In Bold, billed as the first major documentary to tackle the suicide epidemic among gay teens.Īnd then-out of the blue-Glatze became a born again Christian and renounced his homosexuality. Glatze and Nycum eventually left XY and started the non-profit Young Gay America, aimed at shaping the lives of gay youths for the better, before launching the magazine Young Gay America (YGA), which was awarded the National Role Model Award from the gay organization Equality Forum. They even shared a home with a third man they’d picked up during a brief stay in Nova Scotia. On the weekends, the two would go out to raves and enjoyed being gay and liberated. He was in a loving relationship with fellow XY editor, Benjie Nycum. He was fascinated by queer theory and disturbed by Christian fundamentalism. He was serving as the managing editor of XY magazine, a popular gay San Francisco-based publication that dispensed invaluable advice to men on how to survive young and gay. Michael Glatze seemed quite sure of himself.
