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My Husband's Not Gay: What happened to the cast of controversial reality verb 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 unique 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 reality 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.
Curtis and Tera Brown recently celebrated 30 years of marriage, with Tera gushing about the milestone on social media.
A controversial TLC docuseries from 2015 called My Husband's Not Gay has gone viral on TikTok as a recent generation of reality TV fans discover it
The TLC special followed three married Mormon men
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 group of Mormon men (and their wives) who experience SSA, or "same sex attraction," but choose not to act on their gay urges. Even before the show premiered, more than 125,000 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 soci
'My Husband's Not Gay' Reality Show Faces Backlash
— -- A new reality demonstrate featuring men who declare 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 make their marriages work.
“I was office mates with one of my foremost 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 adj to myself, I would eat doughnuts a lot more than I devour 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’
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, essential 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 t