HomoQuotable - Sara Gilbert

"I think if you're on a show called My Husband's Not Gay, then your husband's gay. But I also think there is a reverse bullying in the gay community where you can't do it a certain way and - I'm sure this is controversial - but I think if a guy is attracted to guys and he wants to try to live a straight lifestyle that is as much his prerogative than somebody who wants to live a gay lifestyle." - Sara Gilbert, responding to criticism of the coming reality show.

Yesterday Truth Wins Out pointed out that the show's cast is "deeply involved" with the "ex-gay" brainwashing movement.

Truth Wins Out today expressed dismay over TLC’s upcoming special, “My Husband’s Not Gay,” set to air Sunday, January 11, which purports to show the lives of Mormon men who have chosen to marry women despite the fact that they are attracted to men. Advertisements for the show depict a curious look into the unique lives of these men, but, as is the case with TLC’s show “19 Kids And Counting,” a much darker agenda lies under the surface. Seven members of the cast of “My Husband’s Not Gay” are deeply affiliated with North Star, a radical Mormon “ex-gay” group. Jeff Bennion, one of the stars of the show, is so extremist that he has written that “it would have been wrong to ordain a black person in May of 1978, even if you knew with a certainty that is changing the next month,” referring to the fact that, before 1978, black men could not be Mormon priests, and that both black men and women were generally prohibited from full membership in the church. Bennion has also written extensively in support of the deeply harmful practice of “ex-gay” therapy.

A Change.org petition which calls on TLC to cancel the show currently has over 90,000 signatures. From the petition:

The men featured in this show deserve to be shown compassion and acceptance. Perhaps even more importantly, TV viewers need to know the horrific consequences of trying to change who you are. Instead, TLC is presenting victims’ lives as entertainment, while sending the message that being gay is something that can and ought to be changed, or that you should reject your sexual orientation by marrying someone of the opposite sex. This message is harmful to both LGBT people and communities of faith, and I call upon TLC to stop spreading such dangerous misinformation by cancelling “My Husband’s Not Gay” immediately.

The show has also been denounced by GLAAD.

VIDEO: Via Gay Star News, here's the discussion about the show on yesterday's episode of The Talk.

Actress Sara Gilbert Surprises Talk Show Co-Hosts With Pregnancy Announcement

Former Rosanne star and talk show host Sara Gilbert surprised her co-hosts by revealing her pregnancy during a "face your fears" segment of the show. The cast's reaction is really sweet. Gilbert is married to rocker Linda Perry.

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Sara Gilbert Marries Linda Perry

Rosanne cast member and talk show host Sara Gilbert married rocker Linda Perry on Sunday. News of the ceremony was revealed yesterday by co-hosts on Gilbert's show, The Talk.

"Let's get started with a big congratulations for our own Sara Gilbert, who got married last night," Julie Chen said. "It was magical. It was the most beautiful ceremony." Aisha Tyler chimed in with, "Amazing, amazing night. Beautiful, and it was at sunset and overlooking the ocean." Then she caught herself. "I mean, we can't tell too much about it because we want Sara to talk about it," Tyler said. The 39-year-old newlywed is off on her honeymoon all week, Chen said, but teased that come next Monday they'd be showing pictures of the event and Gilbert would share details.

The couple got engaged last April. Perry is perhaps best known to the public for the 4 Non Blondes 1992 smash What's Up?  Since then she's had enormous success writing chart-topping hits such as Pink's Get The Party Started and Christina Aguilera's Beautiful, the latter of which earned Perry a 2004 Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year.