I'm Gay - Eugene Lee Yang - The Shorty Awards

Contents:

• GAY DATG EUGENE
• I’M GAY – EUGENE LEE YANG
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

GAY DATG EUGENE

While he’s been out as queer for some time, Yang wanted to make clear that he intifi as 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, ” Yang wrote on Twter. He said that that experience “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.

Beg gay and Asian is your mom seeg your g out vio and the first thg she says is “오모 you look too skny. 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.

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I’M GAY – EUGENE LEE YANG

This reprents the Orlando nightclub massacre, where 49 people were killed at a gay bar.

In an terview wh Hannah Hart, Eugene says “As a kid, I wasn't even aware that I was gay at that pot.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

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Eugene Lee Yang never thought his "I'm Gay" vio would do well.

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