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

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• THE TRY GUYS’ EUGENE LEE YANG OUT AS GAY ‘EPLY PERSONAL’ MIC VIO

THE TRY GUYS’ EUGENE LEE YANG OUT AS GAY ‘EPLY PERSONAL’ MIC VIO

He told Out that by harnsg both his Asian Amerin and gay inti, he's been able to tailor his ntent to be more creative and much more personal.

On Saturday, honor of Pri Month, Lee Yang released a vio via The Try Guys' YouTube channel entled, "I'm Gay. It's a betifully grand and lorful celebratn whout a fe end, jt as Lee Yang's life as a gay man ntu. 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. The star upload a ‘eply personal’ mic vio (Picture: YouTube)YouTube star Eugene Lee Yang – one of the members of The Try Guys – has e out as gay a ‘eply personal’ mic vio. The 33-year-old, who wrote, directed and choreographed the vio, ‘I’m Gay’, is now raisg money for the Trevor Project, a non-prof anisatn which aims to ‘save LGBTQ+ liv’.

‘Eugene out as gay his origal, eply personal mic vio, featurg mic by ODESZA, ’ the vio scriptn explas. The YouTuber add: ‘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.

Fellow YouTuber Daniel Howell also recently me out as gay, uploadg his vio ‘Basilly I’m gay’ after a year long hiat om YouTube.

He officially me out as gay on the 15th of June 2019, his origal and personal mic vio "I'm Gay - Eugene Lee Yang. At the same time, Yang me out as gay  July 2019 by releasg an credibly powerful and stunngly betiful YouTube vio, along wh a pann vio that showed what went on behd the scen of the project, while also explag why he had chosen to reveal his tth.

Eugene Lee Yang — a 33-year-old queer choreographer better known as one of Buzzfeed’s “Try Guys” — recently me out as gay a Twter post wh an acpanyg dramatic mic vio which he wrote, directed and choreographed. The vio featur stmental mic by Osza and dramatic terpretatns of societal queerphobia cludg a shootg at a gay bar, a gay bashg, an angry sermon at a nservative church and faial rejectn. While Yang had prevly intified as both queer and LGBT, a recent Twter post, Yang wrote, “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.

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 om.

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