Citing it as irresponsible and dangerous, Sarah Kate Ellis, president of GLAAD, has called on TLC to drop its plans to air an upcoming special entitled My Husband’s Not Gay. The one-hour program, scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 11, follows the lives of a group of Mormon men who are married to women but attracted to…
http://youtu.be/NccyqI4L2EE Coming to TLC this January is a show that follows married Utah Mormon men who are attracted to the same sex despite being married to women. “My Husband’s Not Gay,” will follow couples Jeff and Tanya, Pret and Megan, Curtis and Tera, and a 35-year-old bachelor named Tom, according to The Wrap. Quotes from…
The Duggar family – made famous by TLC’s popular reality television show – just helped repeal an ordinance protecting LGBT people from discrimination. What responsibility does TLC have for the work being carried out by its reality TV superstars asks Media Matters for America. Since the debut of their TLC reality show 19 Kids and…
Thousands have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting over the stars’ discriminatory sentiments against the LGBT community. According to the Huffington Post, a petition on Change.org launched by Jim Wissick of San Jose, Calif., states that 19 Kids and Counting, starring conservative Baptists Jim Bob and…
TLC’s Next Great Baker returns to our screens June 24 for season four. Hosted by Buddy Valastro, the star of his own reality series, Cake Boss, the show features contestants participating in challenges that test their baking and decorating skills. According to TLC, this new season comes with a whole new set style and spice….
LOS ANGELES – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), has released its sixth annual Network Responsibility Index (NRI), a report that maps the quantity, quality and diversity of images of LGBT people on television. Primetime programming on the five broadcast networks was evaluated as well as original primetime programming on 10 major cable…
GLAAD‘S 2012 Network Responsibility Index reflects the changing times for LGBT people, revealing a broadcast and cable television lineup, despite having grown almost exponentially since GLAAD‘s early days monitoring the mediascape for homophobia and all forms of anti-LGBT bigotry, that is replete with LGBT characters, personalities and issues portrayed or presented in realistic, often positive…
