The Real Gay Househusbands of Bravo’s "Housewives"

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As the old saying goes, “behind every great man, there’s a great woman.” But in the case of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise the tables are turned, and it could very well be said that “behind some housewives, there’s a gay househusband.”


Gay men on reality TV are often portrayed as the ones who unsheath their claws at the first hint of a verbal catfight, but in the "reality" of Bravo's Housewives it has so far been the women who are front and center and ready to throw down (or flip over a table), pull weaves and go for the jugular with their cutting comments. Meanwhile, the gay househusbands are mostly there in the background for support, ready to lend an ear and, yes sometimes, to stir the pot, too.


Surprisingly for shows with such a vast gay following, only a handful of gay househusbands – or “GHH’s” – have made an appearance over the years. And the majority of these guys have been on hand to make the ladies, and sometimes their not-so-humble abodes, look fabulous.


This isn't exactly groundbreaking territory – nothing that the Queer Eye guys for instance hadn't already covered before – but still, the GHHs have made their contributions to gay visibility in reality TV. To better assess those contributions we figured we’d take a lighthearted look at the form and function of gay men in each of the Real Housewives cities: Orange County, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, D.C. and Beverly Hills.