Contents:
- HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
- CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
- FIXER UPPER STAR ASKS FOR “SLACK” WAKE OF ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
- HGTV: FIXER UPPER DON’T DISCRIMATE AGAST GAYS, NO MATTER WHAT CHURCH ITS STARS REPORTEDLY ATTEND
HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
Gay people: we’re jt like regular people, bee we are regular people. But while I love a good fictnal gay (shout out to the legendary T Andromedon) and a good realy gay (RuPl’s Drag Race), I am nowhere near that flashy and/or fabulo my day-to-day. That’s what mak the gays of the home-based realy show so revolutnary!
CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
And every now and then, you get a gay uple. Real talk: the HGTV shows may be the only shows on TV to show what gay people are actually like! The episos let gay upl see themselv on TV while buckg all the stereotyp seen on scripted shows.
The gay episos are diamonds the renovated rough; they’re hard to fd but they she so brightly. Here are all of the gay episos of HGTV shows rangg om Property Brothers to Hoe Hunters that you n currently stream on Hulu. But the Ga’ populary — alongsi speculatn about their offscreen relig beliefs and polics — has land them at the center of an anti-gay ntroversy.
In particular, their fah and their beliefs on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights have e to qutn due to the anti-gay views held by the pastor of their church. BuzzFeed brought up qutns about the Ga’ pastor and why Fixer Upper never featur gay upl. And why hasn’t Fixer Upper ever featured a gay uple while other HGTV shows have — is bee the hosts believe what Seibert preach?
FIXER UPPER STAR ASKS FOR “SLACK” WAKE OF ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
Specifilly, she c Seibert’s ments that most LGBTQ people are LGBTQ bee they were abed, and that he believ ’s possible for gay people to bee straight if they m to dog so:. I’ve worked wh people for over 30 years — I have seen hundreds of people personally change their directn of same-sex attractn om a homosexual liftyle to a heterosexual liftyle. Conversn therapy is banned five stat and Washgton, DC; the Amerin Psychologil Associatn stat that nversn therapy and ex-gay mistry (the ia that sexualy n be changed through relign) n be dangero:.
[S]uch efforts [nversn therapy or ex-gay mistry] have ser potential to harm young people bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth is a mental illns or disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. What we do know is that there hasn’t been a gay uple featured on any of Fixer Upper’s 40-pl episos to date (the upl featured also tend to be whe); that fact was the apparent impet for Aurthur’s article.
HGTV: FIXER UPPER DON’T DISCRIMATE AGAST GAYS, NO MATTER WHAT CHURCH ITS STARS REPORTEDLY ATTEND
Is the lack of gay upl featured on Fixer Upper the Ga’ choice, and if is, then is discrimatn? Ameri’s gay muni are bet wh elevated rat of anxiety, prsn, substance abe, and suici.
The roundabout logic French — that gay people would be ls sad if they jt listened to God, whom he argu has told people that ’s okay to discrimate agast gay people and make said gay people sad — is really somethg. There’s a b of glossg over of Seibert’s quot about nversn therapy and discrimatn agast gay upl (you n hear those quot full this 2015 sermon he gave rponse to the legalizatn of same-sex marriage), as well as generalizg the BuzzFeed piece wh the claratn that “liberals hate the Christian fah.
As mentned above, 2014 the channel nceled a proposed show, Flip It Forward, bee s hosts, David and Jason Benham, were volly anti-gay. David Benham spoke to a nservative talk show September 2012 and said, “Homosexualy and s agenda...