Gay mormon show
The Sunstone Review reviewed what may be the earliest instance of gay Mormon theater, “Emmett: A One-Mormon Show,” written and performed by Emmett Foster, which was staged in 1983 at The Public House in New York City.
Emmett’s mother has been married nine times. His sister tries to hide her smoking habit while she ogles missionaries. And teenage Emmett is learning that he’s gay. Just your average 1970s California Mormon family—and all performed by Emmett Foster.
“This, to me, belongs in testimony meeting,” David Fletcher wrote in his review. “What was ‘Emmett’ but one of those long, humorous travelogue testimonies to his fellow believers, the audience of liberated gays.”
“It reminded me of James Arrington’s ‘Farley Family Reunion,’” Fletcher continued. Indeed, Foster plays his mother, sister, and grandmother hilariously. His sister teasing her hair in the bathroom mirror while strategizing how to land the latest returned missionary. His mother letting her customers’ hair burn in her beauty salon’s hair driers while trading ward gossip on the phone. And his grandmother unwittingly serving up double entendres while her cats destroy her furniture.
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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 collective of Mormon men (and their wives) who trial 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 societal/religious constraints, is that they're just not trying hard enough. That's not OK.
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My Husband's Not Gay: What happened to the cast of controversial reality demonstrate 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 exceptional 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 truths 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 Lgbtq+ has gone viral on TikTok as a unused 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
The Mormon mums of queer sons
Alyson Deussen and Jill Rowe are both members of the Mormon church which opposes gay sex and marriage. But Alyson and Jill have ended up fighting for their gay sons and are part of a team called Mama Dragons - it's made up of members of the Mormon church who want the church to do more, to be more accepting of LGBTQ youth. Not only have they get friends, but when they're not meeting and supporting each other, they're lobbying the church.
Gerardo Weiss is known as the Beatles barber of Buenos Aires. Since he became obsessed with the Fab Four over 40 years ago, he's been collecting more and more Beatles tune, merchandise and memorabilia. His hair salon has now become famous as a shrine to the group.
Dr John Rice is a retired surgeon whose specialism is the ear and he's known for doing some of the first cochlear implants in Australia. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that can be fitted to your head to support you hear. John has done nearly 60 operations since the early 1990s - mostly on very young children. He told Emily Webb how it all started.
Image: (L) Jill Rowe and (R) Alyson Deussen
Credit: Jill Rowe and Alyson Deussen
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