YouTube Star Eugene Lee Yang: 'I’m Not Jt Queer — I’m a Gay Man'

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They have sce started their own productn pany (2nd Try), amassed nearly 6 ln subscribers, published their first book (The Hidn Power of F*ckg Up), and started their own weekly podst, and they are about to h the road on their first natnal Yang has been intifyg as part of the queer muny for some time now, he has cid to pletely e out -- this time wh his full tth, as a gay man. The Advote got a chance tch up wh Yang on the eve of his g-out vio's out a portn of the terview below as well as Yang's betifully poignant and amazgly artistic vio (but grab a box of tissu first, bee will touch your soul) Advote: So, why is important for you to e out aga, now as a gay man, when you were already pretty out as queer? And so that sort of shad a lot of my first sort of ways that I vered regards to my openns about my sexualy bee I already had seen the way some other openly gay kids were treated my school -- and was really, really terrible....

I'm jt announcg I'm a gay filmmaker, actor, producer, viral vio maker, whatever you want to ll me -- but I'm gay, and that's the perspective I'm g beg an ter star fluence your cisn to be more open about your inty terms of sexualy and genr norms? I was very quickly nonted wh this realy -- I'd always been 100 percent prepared to speak through my work as a wrer-director, behd the mera, as someone that uld be openly gay through my [work]. Thgs that were very explicly queer and gay.

So that was some of the reasons why I never was 100 percent fortable about sayg that I was "gay" on, speakg of genr norms, you seem to be really experimentg wh genr-fluid fashn lately, which you also touch on the vio. Try Guys' Eugene Lee Yang out as gay his origal, eply personal mic vio, which also serv as a fundraiser for the Trevor Project - a suici preventn and crisis terventn for LGBTQ Youth. Eugene Lee Yang has e out a mic vio tled “I’m Gay.

“I created this mic vio as my personal way of g out as a proud gay man who has many unheard, specific stori to tell, ” wrote Yang a Twter post when sharg the vio.

Eugene Lee Yang never thought his "I'm Gay" vio would do well. In fact, he wasn't really sure what to expect at, he uld e our obssn wh the cult of ter celebry to give "I'm Gay" an ial ph, a reason for people to watch, somethg for his lns of followers and subscribers to talk about. And while he's always been a vol proponent and advote for the LGBTQIA muny, he had never fively said, "I'm gay, " until the makg-of this vio.

Constantly wkg at the mera regards to people knowg I wasn't heterosexual, " he says, before credg his fans — some of whom told him that his vios had spired them to e out to their parents — as the talyst for "I'm Gay.