In 2023 , Chris Tyson , who ’s often featured on the democratic MrBeast line , share their decision to start hormone replacement therapy . According to their Instagram bio , their pronoun are " any for now ! "
From Hannah Hart toTyler Oakley, so many iconic LGBTQ+ internet celebrities have gotten their start on YouTube. However, if you haven’t been keeping up with the creators you grew up watching, then you may have missed some of the amazing coming out stories they’ve shared in recent years.
Here are 17 YouTube stars who’ve come out as LGBTQ+ in the past five years:
1.Vlogbrothers and Crash Course creator Hank Green casually came out as bi onTwitterin 2023.
In areplyto a tweet aboutBlake LivelyandRyan Reynolds , he said , " I ’m bi and Ryan is not in my interest group menage . Is this a known way out ? Is he only hot to straights ? "
2.In January 2023, Charlie McDonnell (aka charlieissocoollike) shared her identity as a transgender woman in the video “What happened to charlieissocoollike? | A Reintroduction Q&A.”
She said , " I ’m a transgender woman , my pronoun are she / they , and I am continuing to utilise the name ' Charlie . ' "
3.When Anna Akana won an award for Acting in a Drama at the 2018 Streamy Awards, shecame outin her acceptance speech, saying, “Please, please, please vote. People need us more than ever. Marginalized people need us more than ever. I’m not only a woman of color, but I’m also a queer woman, so please get out to the polls and vote.”
In a follow - upYouTube TV , she order that she ’d never planned to descend out publicly , but she was drunk at the Streamys and decided to speak out .
She also revealed that , before that , she came out to her parents by engraving , " Hi , I ’m bi " on an prize she won at Buffer Festival .
4.In 2019, Daniel Howell returned from a long hiatus with his iconic 45-minute coming out video, “Basically I’m Gay.” He came out as both queer and gay.
In closing , he say , " To anyone watch this that is n’t out , it ’s okay . You ’re o.k. . You were deport this way . It ’s correct , and anyone that has a trouble with it is faulty . Based on your circumstance , you may not feel ready to recite people yet or that it ’s good , and that ’s fine , too . Just know that living your trueness with superbia is the way to be glad . "
5.Phil Lester (aka AmazingPhil) closed out Pride Month 2019 by telling his subscribers that he’s gay in the video “Coming Out To You.”
He state , " Part of me just want to make this a five - irregular video where I just [ popped out of my closet and said , ' Hi , I ’m gay ' ] , but I thought it ’d be nice to talk about it here [ on my channel ] because some festive citizenry — most gay citizenry — have a pretty similar report , which some people might not see . "
6.In 2023,Chris Tyson, who’s often featured on the popular MrBeast channel,sharedtheir decision to start hormone replacement therapy. According to theirInstagram bio, their pronouns are “any for now!”
OnTwitter , they said , " I ’m genuinely so happy so many multitude are memorize what hormone-replacement therapy is and how it CAN and HAS avail so many people because of my tweet . I was passing nervous to be public about this bc I ’ve always been so private when it come to this , but encounter conversations started bc of me is amazing . "
7.Nikkie de Jager-Drossaers(akaNikkieTutorials) publicly spoke about being a transgender woman for the first time in her 2020 video “I’m Coming Out.”
She revealed that she made the telecasting because someone else was threatening to blackmail her and out her .
However , she also said that she want " to inspire little Nikkies around the world who palpate unsafe , who experience out of situation , who feel misunderstood . "
She said , " I hope by me standing up , and being devoid , that it inspires others to do the same — to unfeignedly exist your life story like you wanted and the way you merit . "
In 2023, Chris Tyson, who’s often featured on the popular MrBeast channel, shared their decision to start hormone replacement therapy. According to their Instagram bio, their pronouns are “any for now!"
8.In her 2021 video “coming out for the last time…,” Gigi Gorgeous shared that she’s pansexual, which, to her, means, “falling in love with the soul of somebody.”
She said , " It was really through my married man Nats [ Getty ] that this variety of was unsecured inside of me . It ’s always been there , this young lady has always been inside of me , but it took this stage of my life-time really to open up up . "
9.In 2022, Jaiden Dittfach (aka Jaiden Animations) shared that she’s aromantic and asexual in her video “Being Not Straight.”
She said , " I opine if I could facilitate more people become more cognizant of this , then that would be awesome . I was confused as hell for a while and could ’ve used something like this . "
10.Pop singer Trevi Moran, who was part of Our2ndLife, began sharing her journey as a transgender woman publicly in June 2020 with the video “Coming Out. I Am Female.”
She frankly share , " I ’ve deal with this feeling my entire life , and I know that I ’m a woman late down inside . It ’s just a feeling you know . "
11.Ricky Dillon, who’s also a former member of O2L, came out in a 2020 video titled, “I’m Gay.”
He said , " I ’ve barely said this out loud , so I ’m saying it several multiplication to normalize it to myself . I am gay . "
12.In June 2020,Tana Mongeautweetedthat she’s “pansexual as hell.”
She also wrote , " It ’s also pride calendar month , and i have n’t had the chance to go hard for my lgbtqia+ babies … i stand for u all [ sic ] . "
13.In 2021, dodie (aka doddleoddle) — who previouslycame outas bisexual in a song she wrote in 2017 —updatedtheir pronouns to she/they on social media to reflect their identity.
They toldPride Source , " It ’s heavy to even talk about what beloved is for me and what attraction is for me because it just keeps shifting . I still do n’t really know myself very well when it comes to relationships . So , I just do n’t think I can land solidly on talking about any of that . All I experience is that I ’m epicene , and that have in mind something to me . "
14.In 2019, Eugene Lee Yang, a member of The Try Guys, came out in a stunning dance video titled “I’m Gay — Eugene Lee Yang.”
Additionally , the video raise over $ 150,000 forThe Trevor Project .
15.Lilly Singh (formerly known as IISuperwomanII) came out as bisexual viaTwitterin 2019.
She wrote , " Throughout my life these [ label about grammatical gender , race , and gender ] have evidence to be obstacles from time to time . But now , I ’m fully embracing them as my superpowers . No matter how many ' box ' you check , I encourage you to do the same . "
16.Jenn McAllister (aka jennxpenn) talked about her bisexuality for the first time on her channel in the 2020 video “addressing your assumptions about me…”
She said , " I ’ve really been out and openly identifying as bisexual with everyone in my life since I was about 19 yr old . … in person , I just do n’t finger as if being a funny person ask a large promulgation , which is pretty much the only reason why I have n’t talked about it on YouTube . "
17.And finally, in 2022, Adam B came out in a video titled, “I’M GAY.”
He toldPink News , " What lead me to doing it in public is that I just did n’t want to be the subject of another mortal ’s perspective on the story . Because this is my story . And I bed just what occur in it . … [ Now ] , I do n’t have to watch over my back anymore when I ’m out in populace with my swain , Dom ; I do n’t have to correspond if citizenry are taking picture and posting them anywhere , because I was always conscious that this was my chronicle . And I wanted to be the author , and I did n’t want anyone else to separate it for me . "
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