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Hulu special 'Mormon No More' offers rare look of two former Mormons exploring faith and LGBTQ+ identity
A new ABC News Studios docu series follows two women who left their Mormon faith to begin on an emotional journey of self-discovery after they fell in love.
The display details the story of Lena Schwen and Sally Osborne as they navigate their way out of the Mormon church and out of their marriages all while co-parenting their seven children.
“I remember saying in Sunday school, not that long ago, ‘Who am I without Mormonism?’” said Osborne. “This is a feeling of grief and just the pain of change, and the pain of not existence naïve anymore. It's firm to know the truth.”
Told in four parts, the docu-series captures the couple as they work to reconstruct their lives while maintaining relationships with their ex-husbands, parents, friends and siblings.
Throughout, the series includes interviews and powerful vérité from other Mormon and ex-Mormon members of the LGBTQ+ community, who wrestle with reconciling their individuality with the church’s prohibitive doctrine on same-sex relationships.
All four episodes of “Mormon No More” begin streaming Friday, June 24, o On Sunday night, TLC aired My Husband's Not Gay, a special "reality documentary" featuring a organization of Mormon men (and their wives) who encounter 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. I've watch 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 actual world 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 Same-sex attracted 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 — -- A new reality illustrate featuring men who tell they are attracted to men but do not identify themselves as lgbtq+ is stirring up real-life controversy as thousands contain 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 finest 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 right to myself, I would eat doughnuts a lot more than I dine 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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