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Glatze claimed he became aware of his [[same-sex attraction]]s at about the age of 14 and publicly declared himself “gay” at age 20. He maintains that homosexuality came easy to him, because he was already weak -his mom died when he was 19 and his father when he was only 13. At an early age, he was already confused about who he was and how he felt about others. At age 22, he became an editor of the first magazine aimed at a young, gay male audience and that bordered on [[pornography]] in its photographic content.  

Glatze claimed he became aware of his [[same-sex attraction]]s at about the age of 14 and publicly declared himself “gay” at age 20. He maintains that homosexuality came easy to him, because he was already weak -his mom died when he was 19 and his father when he was only 13. At an early age, he was already confused about who he was and how he felt about others. At age 22, he became an editor of the first magazine aimed at a young, gay male audience and that bordered on [[pornography]] in its photographic content.  

In 2004, Glatze moved from [[San Francisco]] to [[Halifax]] in eastern [[Canada]] where his partner,  publisher of ''Young Gay America'' magazine launched the same year, had family. As founding editor of this magazine, Glatze received numerous awards, including the ''National Role Model'' Award from the major ‘[[LGBT|gay rights]]’ organization Equality Forum. [[PBS]] television and [[MSNBC]] invited him to appear in their media and Time magazine wrote about ''“The Battle Over Gay Teens”'' on the front page.<ref name="TIME">{{cite web |title=The Battle Over Gay Teens: What happens when you come out as a kid? How gay youths are challenging the right--and the left |author=John Cloud |publisher= TIME |date=October 2, 2005 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1112856-10,00.html |accessdate=December 1, 2014 |quote="Today so many kids who are gay, they don't like Cher. They aren't part of the whole subculture," says Michael Glatze, 30, editor in chief of YGA Magazine. "They feel like they belong in their faith, in their families." ...The political part is what worries Glatze. "I don't think the gay movement understands the extent to which the next generation just wants to be normal kids. The people who are getting that are the Christian right," he says. ... "Dorothy resonates so much with older gay people--the idea of Oz, someplace you can finally be accepted," says Glatze of YGA. "The city of Oz is now everywhere. It's in every high school." That's not quite true, but the emergence of gay kids is already changing the politics of homosexuality.}}</ref> With support from PBS affiliates and Equality Forum he also produced the first major documentary film ''“Jim In Bold”''<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Glatze: Biography |publisher=IMDb.com |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395540/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1  |accessdate=December 2, 2014 |quote=Mike Glatze is a composer, known for Jim in Bold (2003) and Copain de Paris (2005).}}</ref> about homosexual teen suicide which won numerous “best in festival” awards worldwide.  

In 2004, Glatze moved from [[San Francisco]] to [[Halifax]] in eastern [[Canada]] where his partner,  publisher of ''Young Gay America'' magazine launched the same year, had family. As founding editor of this magazine, Glatze received numerous awards, including the ''National Role Model'' Award from the major ‘[[LGBT|gay rights]]’ organization Equality Forum. [[PBS]] television and [[MSNBC]] invited him to appear in their media and Time magazine wrote about ''“The Battle Over Gay Teens”'' on the front page.<ref name="TIME">{{cite web |title=The Battle Over Gay Teens: What happens when you come out as a kid? How gay youths are challenging the right--and the left |author=John Cloud |publisher= TIME |date=October 2, 2005 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1112856-10,00.html |accessdate=December 1, 2014 |quote="Today so many kids who are gay, they don't like Cher. They aren't part of the whole subculture," says Michael Glatze, 30, editor in chief of YGA Magazine. "They feel like they belong in their faith, in their families." ...The political part is what worries Glatze. "I don't think the gay movement understands the extent to which the next generation just wants to be normal kids. The people who are getting that are the Christian right," he says. ... "Dorothy resonates so much with older gay people--the idea of Oz, someplace you can finally be accepted," says Glatze of YGA. "The city of Oz is now everywhere. It's in every high school." That's not quite true, but the emergence of gay kids is already changing the politics of homosexuality.}}</ref> With support from PBS affiliates and Equality Forum he also produced the first major documentary film ''“Jim In Bold”''<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Glatze: Biography |publisher=IMDb.com |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395540/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1  |accessdate=December 2, 2014 |quote=Mike Glatze is a composer, known for Jim in Bold (2003) and Copain de Paris (2005).}}</ref> about homosexual teen suicide which won numerous “best in festival” awards worldwide.  

Although the magazine made an attempt to provide a “virtuous counterpart” to the other media aimed at homosexual youth, he considers it now just for pretension and admits that in fact it was as damaging as anything else in that category, just not so overtly pornographic. It promoted homosexuality which destroys impressionable minds and confuses their developing sexuality. During the period of his editorship at ''YGA magazine'', he regarded the opponents of [[Gay activism|homosexual activism]] for being “mean and crazy,” and was afraid that “they wanted to hurt [him].” In 2005 he was asked to speak on the prestigious JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he featured in a panel with mother of slain homosexual [[Matthew Shepard]].

Although the magazine made an attempt to provide a “virtuous counterpart” to the other media aimed at homosexual youth, he considers it now just for pretension and admits that in fact it was as damaging as anything else in that category, just not so overtly pornographic. It promoted homosexuality which destroys impressionable minds and confuses their developing sexuality. During the period of his editorship at ''YGA magazine'', he regarded the opponents of [[Gay activism|homosexual activism]] for being “mean and crazy,” and was afraid that “they wanted to hurt [him].” In 2005 he was asked to speak on the prestigious JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he featured in a panel with mother of slain homosexual [[Matthew Shepard]].