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I Am Michael maps painful betrayal

In I Am Michael, Franco and Quinto play lovers whose relationship is torn apart by a radical shift in religious beliefs

IN THE LATE 2000S, MICHAEL Glatze—a former advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Young Gay America, a magazine for LGBT youth—announced that he had embraced Christianity and was no longer gay. He also denounced homosexuality as

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