Coming out is porno izlemek i?in proxya huge moment in the life of any LGBTQ person.
It's a formality we sometimes feel we owe the world, but a claiming of identity that we ultimately decide we owe ourselves.
Over the past 10 years, a new trend has arisen from the vlogosphere. People are using Youtube as a platform to come out, share their stories, and connect with an online support system.
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In making these videos, vloggers hope that their visibility will inspire their LGBTQ audience to embrace who they are. Their videos provide a frame of reference for a questioning viewer to say, “I relate to this,” “This sounds like me,” and “I am not alone.”
A coming out video on Youtube is sometimes a video of the event of a person coming out to friends or family, or sometimes the vlogger sitting in a chair, telling their story and coming out to their audience.
Every coming out video is courageous in its own right. Watching a person’s raw emotion as they embrace who they are is extremely moving, and something we can all benefit from witnessing. With that said, here are 13 inspiring coming out vlogs, sure to brighten your day.
Ingrid Nilsen is a vlogger and beauty guru who even became the first Youtube personality to become a face for CoverGirl. She recently appeared at Mashable'sseventh-annual Social Good Summit to talk about her evolving identity after coming out in this inspiring video. As she says the words toward her camera, Ingrid’s joy and relief is palpable. “I deserve a full life…It is time to give myself my best chance," she reveals. It’s hard to hold back the tears on this one.
The Rhode's Bros, twins Austin and Aaron Rhodes, went viral with this coming out video. In it, the brothers emotionally call their father to tell him, for the first time, they are both gay. Their father's encouraging response demonstrates how supportive a parent can be when their LGBTQ child comes out.
Rose Ellen Dix is one half of popular married Youtube couple, Rose and Rosie. In this coming out video, Rose puts a humorous spin on her coming out story. Though it’s funny throughout, the video ends with extremely beautiful advice for anyone struggling to come out. "Just relax, because it's okay to just be for a sec.," she says "I know that it's a very scary time for a lot of people [before coming out]... but just know that it does make you youand you need to learn to love it."
Dan, of Youtube channel Mallow 610, chose to not just tell his coming out story on camera, but actually record himself coming out to his mother. After two minutes of nervous pacing around the house, Dan tells his mother that he's gay. His mother, amazingly, takes Dan into her arms and tells him how proud she is of him. "I want you to be happy in life and I want you to not be afraid of who you are," she tells him. Her reaction gives great hope to all those struggling to take this leap.
Hannah Hart is a popular Youtuber who came to be known through her channel, "My Drunk Kitchen." On her personal channel, YourHarto, Hart shares an eight-part Coming Out series that chronicles her coming out, and what happens afterwards. The videos provide her viewers with a deeper understanding of the full coming out experience, exploring topics like feeling sexy, marriage and straight-attraction.
In this video, Youtuber Vitor Robbon comes out as transgender to his mother on the phone. His nerves are obvious as he rocks back and forth, waiting for her to make her feelings on the matter clear. When she responds that she will "always love [him] no matter what," his apparent relief is enough to bring anyone to tears.
Riyadh K is an Irish Youtube personality with over 200,000 subscribers. In this video, he sits down with his mom and dad to tell their experiences with him coming out. Riyadh's father very emotionally admits to having trouble with his son’s sexuality at first, but then came to his senses and calls his original reaction "stupid." He now advocates for all "every father, every mother" to "stand by" their children. This video is beautiful because it details the bumpy road coming out can be, but, even after the turbulence, it is very possible for a family to come out better and stronger on the other side.
Vlogger Shannon Beveridge posted this updated coming out video two years after posting her original, demonstrating to her viewers how much she has grown in that time. She shows how time has moved her much closer to becoming fully comfortable with herself and her identity. In the video, she also tackles the topic of coming out to friends that may be "scary" to come out to. "Sometimes people just don't understand...it takes knowing someone...to show them that this is normal," she says. "People will surprise you."
Cammie Scott made this beautiful video in 2014 on then-girlfriend (profiled above) Shannon's Youtube channel. Here, Cammie talks about not fitting what she felt like was the typical "gay girl...mold," and how she thought that she "must not be gay” because she didn’t fit into it. Overcoming lesbian stereotypes helped Cammie reconcile her presentation and her identity.
Like the Rhodes Bros, the Monastero twins, Adam and Luke, also recorded themselves coming out to their parents. The twins set up a hidden camera in their kitchen and told their parents they were both gay. Though they were surprised, neither parent missed a beat, and the news was met with complete acceptance. "You're born that way," their mother says. The video closes with their parents telling them they shouldn't worry about what anyone thinks, and that they need to live life for themselves.
Gabriel Coppersanis a prolific vlogger who has been medically transitioning since October 2014. On his Youtube, he logs his transition process and progress, both physically and mentally. In this video, he comes out as non-binary, and discusses how he came to identify this way, as a non-binary trans-masculine person. This video beautifully illustrates the continual evolution of identity, and the acceptance of those changes. "To me, I'm just a person," Coppersan says of gender, "I just do what I like, I just do what I do, and that's it."
Popular Youtube couple myladyNme, share their coming out stories in this video. Both vloggers tell their stories playfully and unapologetically. The obvious love, support, and confidence that the couple provides each other reminds us all of the love and companionship that can be found on the other side of coming out.
Connor Franta rose to Youtube fame through channel Our2ndLife, and eventually branched out to his own channel. In 2014, Connor posted this beautiful coming out video. His confidence and certainty while addressing his viewers make this story so compelling. He talks about how hard it was to come out to himself, but shows that on the other side of that hurdle, self-acceptance is found. "I'm not going to let me sexuality define or confine me," he says, "It's part of me, it's not all of me."
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