WATCH: Gay Airman Com Out To Mom After Comg Out To Dad On YouTube
Contents:
- GAY SOLDIER WHO ME OUT ON YOUTUBE NOW REVEALS EVEN MORE
- 'DAD, I'M GAY': SOLDIER OUT TO HIS FATHER ON YOUTUBE AFTER DON'T ASK DON'T TELL IS REPEALED
- RANDY PHILLIPS, GAY AIRMAN, COM OUT TO MOM ON YOUTUBE (VIDEO)
- WATCH: OUT GAY SOLDIER RANDY PHILLIPS REFLECTS ON DADT REPEAL
GAY SOLDIER WHO ME OUT ON YOUTUBE NOW REVEALS EVEN MORE
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What started out as an anonymo vio blog for gay solir Randy Phillips has turned to a revealg, r, and sometim risque, look to his life. Phillips’ YouTube channel, AreYouSuprised, began wh a sober look at beg gay the Uned Stat ary, equently showg jt his torso (and not head) to nceal his inty the pre-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell era.
His most recent vios give a glimpse to who he really is: an active guy who disapprov gay stereotyp and smartly paliz om his new-found populary and sex appeal.
After almost 18 years, the Pentagon this morng repealed 'don't ask, don't tell' - allowg gay soldiers for the first time to publicly reveal their sexualy.
'DAD, I'M GAY': SOLDIER OUT TO HIS FATHER ON YOUTUBE AFTER DON'T ASK DON'T TELL IS REPEALED
After famoly g out to his dad and the world a YouTube vio, gay soldier Randy Phillips talked to MSNBC about how thgs have changed the * randy phillips gay *
Scroll down for vio Brave: Randy Phillips, a 21-year-old gay soldier statned at Ramste Air Base, Germany posted a YouTube vio of himself g out to his father'I lled my dad to tell him the harst thg that gay guys will ever have to say, ' reads the scriptn of the vio, posted to Phillips' acunt AreYouSuprised.
What follows is an emotnal acunt of a gay soldier g out to the world on the channel, which has attracted more than 13, 000 subscribers, and more than two ln vio views wh the last five months. ' Delivered: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, applds as former service members Sgt First Class Stacy Vasquez, left, Lt Colonel Victor Fehrenbach and Major Mike Almy hold the signed bill Wh affirmatns om his father, he ntu: 'Dad, I'm gay'. DISCHARGED GAY ACTIVIST LT DAN CHOI RE-ENLISTING An Iraq veteran and gay rights activist who has bee a poster boy for the mpaign to overturn 'don't ask, don't tell' says he plans to re-enlist sce the repeal.
RANDY PHILLIPS, GAY AIRMAN, COM OUT TO MOM ON YOUTUBE (VIDEO)
Randy Phillips (born May 8, 1990) is an airman of the Uned Stat Air Force whose g out September 2011 followg the repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy (DADT) garnered media attentn. DADT had banned the service of openly gay members the Uned Stat Armed Forc and... * randy phillips gay *
He beme a gay rights in after makg the admissn on The Rachel Maddow Show while reprentg Knights Out, an LGBT alumni group for Wt admissn prompted ary officials to enact his discharge unr the 17-year-old policy, which prevented gay personnel to disclose their sexual retaliated wh an open letter to Print Obama, which lled his treatment 'a slap the face'. Pentagon prs secretary Gee Ltle said on Monday that the ary is prepared for the end of 'don't ask, don't tell, ' a practice adopted 1993 that allowed gays to serve as long as they did not openly acknowledge their sexual orientatn. 'Our natn will fally close the door on a fundamental unfairns for gays and lbians, and ed affirm equaly for all Amerins, ' the California Democrat said.
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No; I found my way to this page bee one of his most recent vios, "Tellg my dad that I am gay-LIVE", has gone viral, spreadg quickly through word of mouth and social media. ) It's not for lack of attempts -- there were entire books and anized media mpaigns -- but no sgle story has broken through followg the recent repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), the 18-year-old official policy that kept gay men and women om servg openly the Uned Stat ary, like Phillips' was tert om the begng. " Once he's gotten that out of the way, Phillips drops the bomb: "Dad, I'm gay.
WATCH: OUT GAY SOLDIER RANDY PHILLIPS REFLECTS ON DADT REPEAL
Through YouTube, Phillips is dog more than raisg awarens about the repeal of DADT and gays servg the ary; he's promotg a dual msage of urage and tolerance that ronat wh anyone, gay or straight. "This beg YouTube, of urse, there's also plenty of stomach-churng homophobia the mix, " Williams wrote Salon. YouTube er tzpan sums them up: "The urage and ndor wh which you exposed your heart to the world, and specifilly your qutsential human attribute, the sire to be loved, bed wh your obv virtu, and the nature of your occupatn, have ma you a rare and exemplary role mol not jt for bisexual, gay, and transgenred Amerin youth, but for anyone who has ever qutned the temperature of the world, or nvictns of their safety .
Jt hours after "don't ask, don't tell" was repealed on September 20th, Randy Phillips, a 21-year-old gay member of the Air Force statned Germany, viotaped a phone ll of himself g out to his father and posted to YouTube. Now, a ltle over a week later, Phillips, who up until the repeal of DADT last week posted facels vios about beg gay the ary g the YouTube name AreYouSurprised, has revealed another vio, this one featurg his g out nversatn wh his mother. After famoly g out to his dad and the world a YouTube vio, gay soldier Randy Phillips talked to MSNBC about how thgs have changed the ary sce the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” one year ago.