Ssa my husband is not gay

Petrey is Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Some boast that their relationships are more satisfying than many straight couples they know. 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.

For many years, the church not only insisted on the unnaturalness of homosexuality, but it also used circumlocutions to avoid language that suggested homosexual identity was in any way fixed and immutable to change. Additionally, each couple assures the audience that this lifestyle works for them – and, much more insidiously, that it can work for those watching, too.

Behind the upbeat music and comedic timing, My Husband's Not Gay broadcasts an extremely harmful message that LGBTQ+ advocacy groups have spent decades fighting against.

My Husband’s Not Gay profiles Mormon men living in Utah who openly acknowledge that they live with same-sex attraction (SSA), but who are married to women. In recent years, the LDS Church has struggled to be more sensitive and open around the issue of homosexuality, both outside the church and within the community, which is still dealing with the negative attention it received for its support of California’s Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriages.

The belief that sexuality is a choice has ruined the lives of many individuals whose desire to live authentically offended the bigots around them. The rejection of homosexual relationships is not just a matter of biblical literalism or conservative politics, but a view that the very structure of heaven can only accommodate opposite-sex marriages.

The LDS Church spent much of the twentieth century retreating from its polygamist past by cultivating the image of a religion that promoted the quintessential American family, staking out moderate-to-conservative positions on gender roles, divorce, women working outside the home, and same-sex relationships. Every person's opinion is valid, yes, but with My Husband's Not Gay, it's clear that TLC's main focus was making this lifestyle entertaining – no matter who it might hurt in their audience.

There's Never Been a Show Like 'My Husband's Not Gay'

While My Husband's Not Gay is a fantastic title and premise, it definitely isn't the first time TLC has crafted an image of quirky comedy around a group's troubling lifestyle.

Many liberal thinkers have been caught off-guard at the ways in which these politically and religiously conservative Mormons in Utah—these “not gay” men and their wives—increasingly appropriate the language of queer and postmodern gender theory to justify their conventional heterosexual marriages. I mean, hey, if those men can do it, I can too, right?

My Husband's Not Gay is available to stream on Amazon Prime in the U.S.

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