thank god, i'm gay
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0:00 welcome back
0:15 being a closeted kid
1:20 the strength behind a lie
2:30 the power of self
3:50 defining pride
4:15 the world is technicolor
4:40 i am grateful to be me
5:05 before i go
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Have a great week everyone x
happy pride everyone 💗🏳🌈
Happy pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Happy pride!
As a Gay man, Happy Pride Gays 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Happy pride!! 🌈✨
HAPPY PRIDE WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH
So much love to you because when my friend told me her favorite youtuber came out, I watched your video in secret and that was the first time I ever felt seen. To watch your videos now and see both of us as our authentic gay selves is so special to my heart. I wouldn't be here without you.
Wow 💕
that's beyond special to me too, sending you so much love!
your coming out was the first ever video I personally watched when i googled 'gay', you've played such an important role in this my and this generation's queer stories, thank you for always being here and sharing your journey!
i was and will always be, an honor 🥺❤
Happy Pride! I'm 52 almost 53, and my coming out process has been ongoing since I was 19. My mother doesn't approve, so we don't talk about it, and she's 80 years old and I live with her, taking care of her (and vice versa) since my dad had a heart attack in the mid90s. He's no longer with us, but he was accepting of my gayness. I live in a very rural area, conservative, Bible belt, Trump supporting state (West Virginia) and it isn't as easy to be out and proud, although I am very proud and glad to be gay! Thank you for this video.
sending you a hug 🤗
*hugs*
Happy Pride from Milwaukee. Be happy being you 🤗🌈🙏
Your story resonates with me I started coming out at the same time age and now at sixty eight it takes me back to a world of “What If’s “
you have SUCH a way with words, i've never heard someone describe those concepts so precise and emotionally deep at the same time
this is so kind of you to say, wow! im humbled you think so :)
@@ConnorFrantaI mean it wholeheartedly!! i've been learning english as a second language on a deeper level past years and trying to find someone with sophisticated oral speech and then realised that you were here the whole time! i also teach the language now so it helps me personally greatly 💘
2:02 (Flashbacks to Kit Connor as Nick Nelson typing ‘Am I Gay?’)
I was outed by my younger brother, who ended up coming out himself after 11 years of marriage to a woman and 2 kids later. When I was outed, I decided, it's time. The one thing about coming out that really made my life, my entire high school, classmates, teachers, etc. It was no big deal. Everyone knew me as Joe Jett because I love Joan Jett. It was awesome. But I got to be myself, which I already was. I am grateful I only had one horror story from it all. David S. Had a crush on him in junior high. Told him in high school. He threatened to tell everyone. Told him, go ahead, they already know. A**hole.
i just adore you 🫶🏻
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I’m 20 now, i’ve known for 12 years. the exhaustion of exactly what you’re describing was genuinely debilitating today. saving this to share with my parents when I come out
I'm 20 too and also have known I am gay for 12 years, since I was 8
even though I'm not queer, I enjoy watching your videos because they make me think about life and reconsider some of my life choices. When I was younger I was super insecure, I got bullied for my looks in elementary school a lot and when I went to high school I went through a deep cleaning of my bedroom and found a photo of me from back in elementary school, I had short hair and I a smile that looked a bit crooked, like I wasn't smiling genuinely. I threw the photo away, along with the frame, because I just couldn't look at myself from back then and slowly started a glow-up journey that went on until my final years in college. Once I finally looked like the ideal version of myself, life happened and I gained a lot of the weight back and I didn't look like my ideal version of myself. It made me realize that I was worrying about my appearance more then I was able to admit and that no matter what you look like, you should love yourself because if you disrespect yourself like that, it's unfair to expect for others to respect you, too. I wish I still had that photo of me from elementary school, it honestly didn't look that bad, I just looked like a shy kid. I wish I respected myself more back then and gave myself more credit. Something as simple as a childhood photo is so valuable and I would genuinely like to see it now, to look at my young self in the eye and say "you were always enough".
now this is cinema. film. movies.
"I am so grateful for my gayness" Ugh, I love that so much! I agree so much! 🏳️🌈
I’m tearing up this was so beautiful ❤
so glad you liked it :)
From a 19-year-old gay boy, who had the privilege to grow up in changing/more open times, I sincerely thank you and all queer people who came before me for paving the way. Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Funny enough, the first video I ever saw of you was your coming out video. I didn’t have a clue who were at the time, but I appreciated the raw honesty. That’s what I’ve continued to stay for. Your perpetual raw honesty and everything else in between as you keep evolving into the truest version of yourself💙
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i love you connie🤍🌈 growing up with you has been the best time
isn't it so special that we all can say that?
Loved the video!!! Happy pride, Connor!
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I'm the same age as you (literally I was born september 1992 lol) and I wish you knew how much you've always helped me just by being your true self. I'll always be thankful for that and I'll always be proud of you! Happy pride Connor and happy pride everybody!
aw, now way! look at us! i'm so glad my words/videos resonate with you ❤
What an AMAZING insightful video! It really made me reflect on my own childhood and how grateful I am that we have come so far. Thank you for sharing this and happy pride to you! 💗
You`ve really found your element in these recent videos of yours, I love your commentary on these broader subjects. Very confident. Often times you say things that act as a reminder of essential values I already get. But as people, as individuals, we still tend to let those things slip our mind as we go through life.
Thanks Connor 👍
Connor, thank you for showing up as you are. You are contributing so much as those amazing humans that also fought and/or have been fighting for our rights. Happy pride 🏳🌈❣️
this is so kind of you to say, wow. thank you!
I wish that i could show this to my family. you articulate thoughts and feelings like no one else, and i really wish my family would just open their ears and mind. unfortunately, i have tried to have conversations with them and it results in them laughing at how frustrated i am at their apathy. Thank you for your words, Connor. Happy pride!!
This just made me want your podcast back so bad!! You always have such well written videos.
i may have to rebooted and rebrand it tbh
Love this 💜 thank you, Connor. So glad you have reached this mindset.
literally came out because you had the courage to do too - told someone a month after watching your coming out video and haven't stopped since. Can't thank you enough 💖✨🌈
This is the GREATEST Pride video I have ever seen!! It is beautiful and perfectly epitomizes what it is like to grow up gay. I am so grateful for being gay! Thank you Conner for this masterpiece. Happy Pride!! 🏳️🌈
what a compliment, wow. im so glad it made you feel this way :)
loved this, happy pride connor, hope you’re having the loveliest month🫂
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you always have such a beautiful way of speaking. love you sm. 💗
aw thank you, that's kind to say
Good video, I’m loving the aspect ratio and the colors
Well said and I'm glad I'm the way I am as well. I never thought it would be possible several years ago. Thank you Connor for helping me along the way and for being my compass ❤
Inspiring!
always happy to do so ♥
Thank you so much for this Connor !!
This was a beautiful and well said video. Loved. Happy Pride.
This is awesome! Very well said and very much hits home for me.
Reminds me so much of my own experience. The praying and the hiding. Things are good now. Getting better with each year. Even after all the hardship I also wouldn't change a thing. I'll always be grateful for all your wisdom over the years. Happy Pride!
Thank you for this Connor... this makes me stop, cry, and just think how proud I am of the person I'm today, Little old me wouldn't belive ❤
aw good, im so happy for you 🥹
dude, your videos always go so hard
Ok I teared up, thank you for sharing ❤
5:20 The video was great until you mentioned that company. There’s a whole campaign on why the sponsorships are under great scrutiny at the moment
Your words helped me so much over the years, they are what I always come back to. Thank you for your gentle heart
thanks a lot for your content !!!
loved it so much , connor !! happy pride month everybody💌
haven't watched yet but thank you for blessing me with this. you are my comfort human and my inspiration. sending all my love from the UK and I hope you feel it wholly! ❤
I rewatched your videos after some years and your content is as wholesome as I remembered. Happy pride, Connor!
Happy pride Connor and everybody
the cinematography is such inspiration for wanting to film my life and make little videos about what i'm going through. thank you
So grateful that throughout my life, from my darkest moments, to my best days, I’ve always had you as an influence in my life to add hope when everything feels hopeless. Nine year old me watched you as you built a platform, and uploaded your coming out video. I admire your strength and bravery through that time in your life.
When I was at my lowest, you inspired me to write poetry which saved my life and taught me how to manage my mental health. Your perspective on life feels like home, Con. Thank you for that. I sit here writing this, about to turn 21, feeling happier and more content with life than ever. Here you are, still motivating me to better myself. Reminding me look back at how far I’ve come. It’s like we’re reminiscing together.
I’m forever proud of you. I truly feel that you are the single most valuable influence in my life. I will never be able to explain the complexities of how thats true when I don’t really know you. You’ve just always been there with the right thing to say. I don’t know who I would be, where I would be, or if I would even be here without you. I’m so proud to see you so happy. And I’m proud of myself. I know I have a long way to go before I can feel so confident in my identity as you. But what I do know is that one day I will feel what you feel. I’m so excited for that. I will never stop expressing my gratitude for everything you’ve done for me. From all of the versions of me, that appreciation for you never has, and never will waver. Thank you Connor. Maybe I’ll be able to thank you in person one day.
“If my crime is being boring your crime is being NOTHING”
Watching your coming out video when I was in fifth grade pushed me to the realization that I couldn’t keep hiding from myself. Not long after, I came out to some close family and friends. I thank God for that opportunity. Thank you so much, Conner! I am so grateful
oh connor, this video means so much to me. for my ethnic studies final this semester i wrote an 8 page essay on Marsha P Johnson and how her otherness made her such a powerful activist for homeless transgender youth. hearing the words "your otherness is your greatest strength" from you just instantly hit home for me.
Always love to hear your words & wisdom, Connor 🫶🏳️🌈
Connor you have touched so many lives and have empowered kids to embrace who they really are without shame and fear. My daughter came out to me at 15 and you had a huge influence on her accepting herself and trusting me to love her and support her. I’ve taken her to Vid Con, your book signings and to Henderson, NV for the book signing and art installation, just beautiful. Happy pride to you sir and thank you for helping a lot of kids through the scary parts. 🌈💕
I give you greatest credit don't t let anyone chip away at your self esteem and strengths
This is beautifullll. I remember watching your coming out video and being so confused and scared battling my sexuality. Hoping that someday I can accept it and come out just like u did. Now I’m almost at the comfort level that I’ve never imagined. I’m out n live love lesbian🫶🏾 younger us is SUPER proud 🥲
Thank you, Connor. Happy Pride all year long!
You have been my favorite creator since I was 13 and I also bought your book :) I’m 20 now and also a former swimmer like you, seeing you be visible helped me so much, although I haven’t even been out for long you have always been apart of my queer journey when I was figuring out who I was, watching your videos was a highlight of my young gay journey and I can’t wait for the day I can walk around as proud as you are of yourself. You’re truly an inspiration!
this was such a lovely video, happy pride month ❤
i havent watched your videos in so long, but i wanted to come back and see what you were up to and saw that this was uploaded! you've always inspired me as a younger queer person myself, so getting to hear you talk about something like this was just really nice to hear. :) thank you always
your videos always make my day
I was so on board until the betterhelp sponsorship :(
I adored you on this video, Connor!!!
glad you enjoyed it :)
Happy Pride Month, Connor!
I remember at 17 still being in the closet, putting up a facade of myself - very outgoing and obnoxiously "funny." How I nearly let my mask fall by almost telling my friends,"I have a crush on a guy in my English Lit. class." but I stopped myself due to fear and not being confident, but after high school ended, I gave myself the freedom in coming out 🌈 I've become who I'm meant to be, and I'm much happier.
love this & u❤️
100% my brother. Went thru a very similar experience. And I appreciate you being light hearted about it even though I know your struggle, just as mine, just as us all, had darker days as well. It's why I've been so happy to see the community so resolute in ensuring no other generation ever has to experience that again. That's why Pride is important and will always be important.
Happy Pride Month, Connor.
You really articulated a lot of the things I wish I could say to others.
And I agree with one of your core points. Otherness grants vaster perspective, based on how my own Otherness helped me appreciate the nuances and diversity of humanity.
I am so proud of how far you have become. Don't let anyone bring you down just be yourself😊😊🤩🤩
I’m not 10 years old, but I feel what you were saying. I want to be where you are someday. So much love, happy pride!! ❤️
sending you so much love!
This was genuinely beautiful ❤️
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this is the celebration video everyone needs this month honestly (happy pride y'all!)
Thank u for these words, Connor. I’m gay too and I’m really proud of being me, I’m so grateful with life that I’m gay, it is a blessing.🏳️🌈
James Baldwin and now Audre Lorde? Connor you've been reading some wonderful authors lately! ❤
Hearing you speak on the things you struggled with when you were younger and getting such a strange feeling as you told that snippet of your past and how it was like you were telling my own. I would do the same thing, in tears and feeling so sick, praying to God to take it away so I wasn’t gay. Make it so I wasn’t a sin or bound to go to hell. That I could just be like everyone else. I wish I could say I’m as confident and steadfast in myself as you are now. It still seems unimaginable or unachievable to me. But I hope someday, I can feel like you. Thank you for your example and for sharing so much of your journey. You’ve played a role in my life and will continue to and I’m really thankful for that. From a still struggling 26 year old me, much love ❤
I enjoyed watching your video. Now I will be 93 next month. Lost my partner of 56 years nine years ago. People had to know because we were always together at most functions but never went to bars etc. Regardless of my quiet personal happiness, being gay always stunted my growth being an unspoken secret and never knowing when it would come out. I was intelligent and able to get ahead in my job but at times fear kept me quiet. Your openness makes me wish I had been born in the generation where being gay was recognized as more normal but I made it through and after both of our parents died he moved in with me and we had 20 years together and my family supported us and always from the beginning accepted our friendship. Enjoy yourself and I hope you find the kind of lasting love I was able to share. Love is what it is all about!
Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
You’re a gay-sthetic poet who touches our hearts ❤
Happy Pride Month 🌈🌈🌈 thank you this was an incredible video and so pleased that everything you spoke about is exactly what any 10 year old is craving to know that it’s ok to be different. You’re the best!
I'm 71 now Connor and feel the same way now, but I didn't at 12. Best wishes.
Fantastic video.
Happy Pride from Milwaukee! 🤗
I wonder what high school would have been like if I'd figured out the ace thing way earlier - would I have engaged with people differently? Or tried to understand them differently? Or been more accepting of myself and how I was different, and how that wasn't a thing to be worried about at all?
Beautiful video♥. Happy Pride 💞🌈🩷
thank you for being such an inspiration to many. happy pride, connor! we
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Thank you for this video Connor, happy pride ❤️🌈
happy pride connor!
happy pride!
This hits. My ten-year-old self knew I was different, didn't necessarily know the words for it, but knew it was "wrong." It took me so f*cking long to get past that. I'll never get those lost years back, so I do everything I can to be visible to the next generation of queer kids.
I said once to a friend " why are straight people annoying? I hate being straight" at age 15. I didn't come out till 19. But I think if this quote often now almost 8 years later
HAPPY PRIDE CONNOR AND EVERYONE ❤
happy pride connie, i too, am very grateful for my gayness. i love our community so much, i'd do anything for y'all
Connor, you are the reason im who I am. I was 12 when I found your coming out video. My life changed overnight. thank you. You helped me find myself. Im now 22. My life is great, I have a long term girlfriend and I'm proud of who I am. Thank you.
This young man makes sense!
Love you
Love you ❤
happy pride month connor, i freakin love u so much i always enjoy your videos so much they make me so happy
3:20 The biopic on him is going to be such an injustice to him. Also, talk about someone who only dropped truth bombs.
You are just my favorite🥰🥰
love it., 🎉🎉🎉
Excellent video.
thanks :)
Thank God, you are alive ❤
Thank u for this video Connor 😢it made me cry and laugh and feel pride in my identity as a queer person I ❤you
So True, just be true to your self.
We need more LGBT+ stories and characters in movies, series, animation and games! 🏳️🌈❤️
always!
Happy Pride Connor! Thank you for this 🙏🏻 🏳️🌈
happy pride to you too!
Happy Pride Month everyone!!!