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House Hunters Featured a Throuple and the Internet Is LIVING for It
Hey, people in poly relationships need houses, too!
Hey, remember that time a reality show about buying a house had better representation than most TV shows and all mainstream movies?
Yeeeep. That’s where we’re at.
House Hunters threw appealing to the conservatives out the window this week when it aired an episode featuring a throuple looking for a house together. (“It’s a relationship that’s three people, not just two,” explains one of the polyamorous group, Lori.)
Texans Brian and Lori have been married for 18 years, and say they fell in love with Gelli after meeting her in a bar.
“I understood from day one, even when we were dating, that Lori was bisexual,” said Brian. “And so we evolved to a point where we were comfortable having another woman in our lives.”
Gelli said that it wasn’t her intention to join up with another couple, but the whole thing felt like a natural evolution between the three, and thus the throuple came to be.
While Brian and Lori are the ones legally married with two kids, all three of them have exchanged vows and are now raising the kids together. Hence, their need to find a new house to accommodate their unique family.
After the episode aired, the internet was kind of freaking out about such an unprecedented example of real life polyamory being casually presented in an episode of a “regular” show.
\u201c"This is a couple's kitchen, not a throuple's kitchen" #househunters is making my whole night\u201d— Tqwana Brown (@Tqwana Brown) 1581566102
\u201cI was legit about to change the channel until I heard throuple. You have my FULL attention now lol #HouseHunters\u201d— Melanie (Hiatus Edition) (@Melanie (Hiatus Edition)) 1581565166
\u201cthis throuple episode of House Hunters was WILD\u201d— hshtag tahani time (@hshtag tahani time) 1581567218
\u201cBut for real...how many times can you say \u201cthrouple\u201d in one 30 minute television show?! \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f #HouseHunters #Throuple #HGTV\u201d— Ashhhh (@Ashhhh) 1581566500
\u201cWas just about to go to sleep when #HouseHunters comes on with an episode about a THROUPLE shopping for a house in Colorado \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31 AND they have two kids!!! Definitely staying up to watch this #mustseetv #veryprogressiveHGTV!!\u201d— orlibeth (@orlibeth) 1581564876
\u201cWow. A throuple on HGTV! And the explanation as to what that means was to the point. Pretty cool!\u201d— Roberto (@Roberto) 1581564831
\u201cI'm glad I'm not participating in a drinking game involving the word "throuple" during this episode, 'cause I'd be dead already. #househunters\u201d— Rebecca Renner (@Rebecca Renner) 1581565256
While this is the first time they’ve featured a poly relationship on the show, House Hunters has actually had a long history of being inclusive. Many episodes of the show have featured queer couples in all stages of their relationships, and at times, the “On Demand” section for HGTV has even highlighted those episodes for the LGBTQ community to better find house hunting representation that reflects their lives.
And yeah, of course the conservatives are mad, but clearly HGTV isn’t listening to them. Now if only all the big movie studios would take a page from their playbook!
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
