My husbands not gay interview
RememberwhenTLC was The Learning Channel?
With Sunday night's debut of My Husband's Not Gay, the channel that once aired programming intended to educate pre-schoolers, coach about outer space, and was originally founded by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and NASA solidified itself as a mouthpiece for the religious right to propagate false -- and hazardous -- ideas about LGBTQ people.
My Husband's Not Gay is an hour-long particular about four Mormon men in Salt Lake Urban area who are attracted to other men, but oppose to identify as same-sex attracted or bisexual. Three of the men are in "mixed orientation" marriages -- partnerships where one member, in this case the wife, is straight. The special is far from TLC's first foray into fringe radical religious communities; the reach of shows like 19 Kids and Counting and Sister Wives has already given a platform to movements that are intrinsically homophobic and misogynistic.
The couples involve Jeff and Tanya, who've been married for nine years with one child; Pret and Megan, who have been married for eight and have one child and another on the way; and Curtis and Tera, who contain been married for 20 years and have been a
What the Heck Is ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’?
Reality television has always been a medium of validity, 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 increase awareness about significant issues while discussing them with the complexity they merit – 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 alternative religious structures, while interrogating "nature versus nurture" regarding the core aspects of a person, appreciate their sexuality. Rather than offering a nuanced conversation throu
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A petition recently popped up at the finish of 2014 to protest another TLC program. This second, it’s targeted at their upcoming particular titled My Husband’s Not Gay.
The extraordinary , which is scheduled to air this Sunday (January 11), focuses on four Mormon men (three married and one single) as they try to wait faithful to their wives and contradict their attraction to men in request to stay in accordance with their faith. As seen in the trailer below, the wives know their husbands have same-sex attractions and support their men while the one single male is actively searching for a wife and learning how
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Despite outspoken critics and an online backlash, TLC went ahead with its controversial special, "My Husband's Not Gay," on Sunday night.
The reality program, which focused on a group of Mormon men who say they've chosen to marry women despite creature attracted to other men, didn't quite generate the scathing reviews that many might have hoped for. Jeff and Tanya, one couple featured on the program, joined ABC News last week ahead of the Jan. 11 airing of "My Husband's Not Gay" to speak about the show. In the interview, Jeff defended his decision to be married to Tanya instead of another man using a bizarre -- and offensive -- analogy.
"I love doughnuts," Jeff explained. "I would eat doughnuts three times a day, but I desire to be able to fit in my pants in the morning, too."
He went on to note, "So you could say I am oriented toward doughnuts, and if I was being true to myself, I would eat donuts a lot more than I eat doughnuts ... [but] am I denying myself because I don't dine doughnuts as much as I might like to eat doughnuts? I'm not."
He then added, "In fact, I desire to live a healthy lifestyle, so I don't eat a lot of doug