When I accepted the invitation I had no idea that GLAAD [(Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)] harbored any resentment toward me as someone who occasionally expressed his distaste for stereotypical Hollywood representation in transgressive language on his Twitter account. In fact, GLAAD had nominated The Rules of Attraction as movie of the year in 2003; it lost to The Hours, where (of course) a tormented gay man with AIDS conmits suicide by throwing himself out of a window in front of Meryl Streep.