'Sister Wiv': Mariah Brown Talks About Beg Gay In Relig Upbrgg

Contents:

• 'SISTER WIV' ' DGHTER, MARIAH, SHOCKS PARENTS BY COMG OUT: 'I'M GAY'
• 'SISTER WIV' STAR MARIAH BROWN REVEALS SHE BEME A HOMOPHOBE TO COMPENSATE WH HER CONFLICTED FEELGS ABOUT BEG GAY
• WHERE IS MARIAH BROWN NOW? NEW DETAILS ON THE GAY 'SISTER WIV' DGHTER AND WHAT SHE'S UP TO TODAY
• ‘SISTER WIV’: MARIAH BROWN TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY IN RELIG UPBRGG
• SISTER WIV’ KODY BROWN COMPAR DGHTER MARIAH’S GAY LIFTYLE TO POLYGAMY: ‘I KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE PICKED ON’
• 'SISTER WIV' ' MARIAH BROWN TAK HER MOM TO A GAY BAR FOR THE FIRST TIME
• SISTER WIV’ KODY AND MERI BROWN’S DGHTER MARIAH COM OUT AS GAY
• 'SISTER WIV': KODY BROWN COMPAR DGHTER MARIAH'S GAY LIFTYLE TO POLYGAMY
• MARIAH BROWN OF ‘SISTER WIV’ MAK HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SHE IS GAY

'SISTER WIV' ' DGHTER, MARIAH, SHOCKS PARENTS BY COMG OUT: 'I'M GAY'

“I’m gay, ” she announced to her shocked fay.

'SISTER WIV' STAR MARIAH BROWN REVEALS SHE BEME A HOMOPHOBE TO COMPENSATE WH HER CONFLICTED FEELGS ABOUT BEG GAY

While Fundamentalist Mormonism, which the Browns closely align their fah to, do not approve of homosexualy, the fay told HuffPost Live a 2013 terview that everyone should be able “stcture” their fay “ any way they want, ” whether they are gay or straight. Terrified of beg gay, the Sister Wiv star says she beme a self-proclaimed homophobe. “If you were to ask me my biggt fear, would have been to be gay.

As a child Utah, Brown says her church’s stance on homosexualy was always ma clear to her.

“I remember beg church, and they talked about how beg gay was bad, ” she rells.

WHERE IS MARIAH BROWN NOW? NEW DETAILS ON THE GAY 'SISTER WIV' DGHTER AND WHAT SHE'S UP TO TODAY

One bishop told me gay people were selfish. “People say they try to ‘pray away the gay, ’ but I wouldn’t even let myself thk the word, ” she says.

While visg a school, one of Mariah’s guis was gay and shared his story wh her.

‘SISTER WIV’: MARIAH BROWN TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY IN RELIG UPBRGG

Jt before Thanksgivg, Mariah told her fay, cludg her father, Kody, blogil mother, Meri, and her mothers through polygamy, Janelle, Christe and Robyn, that she was gay.

While their church may not approve of homosexualy, the Brown fay is standg by their dghter.

SISTER WIV’ KODY BROWN COMPAR DGHTER MARIAH’S GAY LIFTYLE TO POLYGAMY: ‘I KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE PICKED ON’

Then, after some time, Mariah sat her dad and four mothers down to reveal she was gay. She is also the only Brown child to announce that she is gay. Brown told her fay she was gay a much-promoted episo of the show, Brown asked all the adults her fay to meet wh her at the same time.

Brown me right out and said, "I'm gay. She didn't have a problem wh homosexualy; she was jt sad that her dghter hadn't e to her first and that the life she had always imaged was gog to be different.

'SISTER WIV' ' MARIAH BROWN TAK HER MOM TO A GAY BAR FOR THE FIRST TIME

Brown did acknowledge the plexy of beg LGBTQ+ a relign that had sent her negative msag about beg gay. While her parents hadn't been overtly homophobic, she relled hearg bad thgs about gay people om church lears and as a rult, she always feared her own sexualy. It was when she went to llege and got to know gay people that she started to acknowledge her feelgs and started to accept who she said an terview, "I was stg next to one of my iends and we were talkg about her girliend and I realized that this iend of me is gay.

” That’s when the Sister Wiv star admted that was oftentim hard for her to be “gay and be relig at the same time. But still wasn’t easy beg gay and still be a part of her fay’s church.

SISTER WIV’ KODY AND MERI BROWN’S DGHTER MARIAH COM OUT AS GAY

In the preview clip, she lghed wh her love as she relled the first time that she realized she was gay, as reported by the Internatnal Bs Tim. “Part of my sexual awakeng was when I learned that I liked Audrey, and I was like, ‘Oh, maybe I’m gay, '” she joked.

In 2017, Mariah me out as gay on a Sister Wiv episo, which left her mother and father shocked. They were born on July 29, 1995, Lehi, Utah, Uned is an Amerin natnal who intifi as gay.

Beg a part of the church, they grew up hearg negativy about homosexualy their Mormon church:"I remember beg church, and they talked about how beg gay was bad. One bishop told me gay people were selfish" had a hard time alg wh this.

'SISTER WIV': KODY BROWN COMPAR DGHTER MARIAH'S GAY LIFTYLE TO POLYGAMY

In an terview, she said:"People say they try to 'pray away the gay, ' but I wouldn't even let myself thk the word.

After they me out as a gay 2017, they me out as a trans later 2022. Source: Instagram@leothemountasIn the same post that Leon me out as gay, they also announced that their pronouns are now they/them.

MARIAH BROWN OF ‘SISTER WIV’ MAK HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SHE IS GAY

That may have well-been somethg that helped me, personally, velop a high level of jt acceptance of people who are gay. In an exclive clip om the TLC seri, the mother-dghter pair, joed by Mariah’s girliend Audrey Kriss, enter their first gay bar together, over a year after the 22-year-old told her polygamo Mormon fay that she is gay. “I’ve always wanted to share special experienc wh my dghter, and for the first time gog to a gay bar, I gus this is our experience, ” Meri, 47, tells viewers about visg the Unirn Bar Seattle, Washgton.

Jt before Thanksgivg 2016, Mariah me out as gay to her blogil mother Meri as well as her father, Kody, and her mothers through polygamy, Janelle, Christe and Robyn. “When Mariah first told she was gay, I felt like a failure as a mom for not seeg . Mariah me out as gay and entered to a relatnship wh a girl named Audrey, movg away om home and across the untry om her fay.