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My Husband's Not Gay: What happened to the cast of controversial reality exhibit 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 life 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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A controversial TLC docuseries from 2015 called My Husband's Not Homosexual has gone viral on TikTok as a novel generation of reality TV fans discover it
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
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, inherent 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, love their sexuality. Rather than offering a nuanced conversation throu
'My Husband's Not Gay' life show stirs up controversy
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- "You could say I'm oriented toward doughnuts, and if I was existence 'true to myself,' I would eat doughnuts a lot more than I eat doughnuts."
That's the mentality toward their sexual orientation held by Jeff and many of the stars of a controversial modern TLC show.
On Sunday, TLC plans to air "My Husband's Not Gay," a special about four Mormon men who are married to women but attracted to men. They cite to it as SSA, Same Sex Attraction. The show also stars a single male who is dating women while attracted to men. The stars are all friends.
In the special, the stars will "share the challenges they face every day and explain why they own decided to live the way they do," according to TLC.
The show has come under fire because critics say it promotes the idea that homosexuality can be turned on and off. The president of GLAAD, an entity that promotes gay rights, said this idea has been discredited and called the show irresponsible.
"To even give the idea that it can be a choice can be very dangerous, especially for juvenile people,"
'My Husband's Not Gay' Existence Show Faces Backlash
— -- A new reality demonstrate featuring men who state they are attracted to men but do not identify themselves as homosexual 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 top 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 factual to myself, I would eat doughnuts a lot more than I chew 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
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