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What the Heck Is ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’?
Reality television has always been a medium of authenticity, with TV shows and specials spotlighting different identities your average viewer may not see every day. These can be informative, vital pieces of media, ones that raise awareness about important issues while discussing them with the complexity they deserve – and then there's My Husband's Not Gay. This one-episode special of TLC Presents created by Eric Evangelista has been re-discovered by YouTube commentators who are all baffled at the messages being presented.
My Husband's Not Gay follows four men in Salt Lake City, Utah, who were open to the cameras about their issues with "same-sex attraction" (an attraction to other men). They decided to ignore this aspect of themselves, instead adopting the heterosexuality necessary to have wives and remain in their staunchly anti-LGBTQ+ church. These men's choices are genuinely intriguing; they speak to the issues of homophobia within different religious structures, while interrogating "nature versus nurture" regarding the core aspects of a person, prefer their sexuality. Rather than offering a nuanced conversation throu
Enjoying TLC's "My Husband's Not Gay" Doesn't Make You a Monster, It Makes You Tolerant
On Sunday night, TLC aired My Husband's Not Gay, a special "reality documentary" featuring a collective of Mormon men (and their wives) who life SSA, or "same sex attraction," but choose not to act on their gay urges. Even before the show premiered, more than , people signed a petition advocating for its cancelation, while the president of GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told The Hollywood Reporter that the show "is downright irresponsible" and "putting countless young LGBT people in harm's way." The common concern here was that the show would shame gay men and reinforce the idea that sexuality can be changed or repressed, and that a man who is gay or bisexual could be happily married to a woman in a solely heterosexual relationship if he only tried hard enough. That concern was legitimate, because the implicit judgment on gay folks, and especially those struggling to reconcile their sexuality with societal/religious constraints, is that they're just not trying hard enough. That's not OK.
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My Husband’s Not Gay Misunderstands What It Means to Be Gay
The guys on the TLC special My Husband’s Not Gay, which aired Sunday night, don’t identify as gay. Sure, they read as male lover, they acknowledge that they are attracted to guys, and they go out together to check out other men, but they also repeatedly emphasize the ways they differ from people living a so-called “gay lifestyle” because of conscious choices they own made. Despite the network’s assertions that the exhibit “solely represents the views of the individuals featured,” there are repeated ideas that gay men can be attracted to women and that homosexual orientations are not fixed and unchanging but fluid and negotiable. This ought not to be surprising given that some of the show’s subjects are active ex-gay evangelizers. This ex-gay mindset is what makes the show so odious, and its focus on orientation change ought to be distinguished from other, less harmful efforts to reconcile traditional faith backgrounds with LGBTQ identities.
Although My Husband’s Not Gay tries to stick to the personal experiences of its subjects, a group of Mormons who live around Salt Lake City, the ideology of orientation cha
'My Husband's Not Gay' Actual world Show Faces Backlash
&#; -- A new reality exhibit featuring men who speak they are attracted to men but do not identify themselves as homosexual is stirring up real-life controversy as thousands hold signed a petition to stop the show.
“My Husband’s Not Gay” features what its network, TLC, calls “unconventional Mormon marriages.” Of the men featured in the show who are married, they are shown alongside their wives, who know about their husbands’ preferences and try to make their marriages work.
“I was office mates with one of my optimal friends and I said, ‘He told me he’s gay,’” one of the wives, Tanya, told ABC News, of her husband, Jeff. "And she goes, ‘I told you that, twice.'"
Jeff explains his orientation by comparing it to one’s preference for a certain type of food.
“You could say I’m oriented towards doughnuts and if I was being genuine to myself, I would eat doughnuts a lot more than I dish doughnuts,” Jeff said. “But am I miserable? Am I lonely? Am I denying myself because I don’t eat doughnuts as I might like to eat doughnuts? I’m not.”
A second couple featured on the show, Pret and Megan, met in Sunday School 17 years ago and ha
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