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My Husband's Not Gay: What happened to the cast of controversial reality present about married male Mormons attracted to other men?
A controversial docuseries from 2015 about homosexual Mormon men in heterosexual marriages is now going viral on TikTok.
Titled My Husband's Not Gay, the TLC extraordinary followed three married Mormon men who are all same-sex attracted, but chose to pursue a traditional lifestyle with wives and children.
Although it aired almost a decade ago, a new generation of actual world TV fans like TikTok influencer Julian Hagins have unearthed the special and tracked down the current whereabouts of the cast.
While mixed-orientation marriages have a 70 per cent divorce rate, the couples from My Husband's Not Gay are miraculously all still together.
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The TLC special followed three married Mormon men who are all same-sex attracted, but chose to pursue a traditional lifestyle with wives and children
'My Husband's Not Gay' Reality Show Faces Backlash
— -- A new reality demonstrate featuring men who say they are attracted to men but do not identify themselves as gay is stirring up real-life controversy as thousands own 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 construct their marriages work.
“I was office mates with one of my best 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 tell I’m oriented towards doughnuts and if I was entity true to myself, I would ingest doughnuts a lot more than I eat doughnuts,” Jeff said. “But am I miserable? Am I lonely? Am I denying myself because I don’t eat doughnuts as I might enjoy to eat doughnuts? I’m not.”
A second couple featured on the show, Pret and Megan, met in Sunday Educational facility 17 years ago and
What the Heck Is ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’?
Reality television has always been a medium of truthfulness, 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 lift awareness about significant issues while discussing them with the complexity they earn – 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 other religious structures, while interrogating "nature versus nurture" regarding the core aspects of a person, favor their sexuality. Rather than offering a nuanced conversation throu
My Husband’s Not Gay Misunderstands What It Means to Be Gay
The guys on the TLC extraordinary My Husband’s Not Gay, which aired Sunday night, don’t name as gay. Sure, they read as gay, they acknowledge that they are attracted to guys, and they go out together to check out other men, but they also repeatedly accentuate the ways they differ from people living a so-called “gay lifestyle” because of conscious choices they have made. Despite the network’s assertions that the present “solely represents the views of the individuals featured,” there are repeated suggestions 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 attempts to reconcile traditional faith backgrounds with LGBTQ identities.
Although My Husband’s Not Gay attempts to stick to the personal experiences of its subjects, a group of Mormons who live around Salt Lake City, the ideology of orientation cha