LGBTQ Interview | My Personal Story, Political Stances, & More! 

My younger sibling was the only family I told about my dating life and they didn't realize it wasn't a joke for YEARS. They came out to me as non-binary and i basically told them "I'm sorry you felt weird about coming out. I want to be someone you can confide in, like how you're so casual about me being gay" And then they were like "what the fuck you're gay". Funniest shit ever. I'd been publicly dating this person for like three months. We would literally like spoon in front of my sibling. They thought it was one of those ironic male friend things where you're like "wanna smash?" when referring to smash bros or something. me and the boys spooning but ironically

It was so great speaking with Vaush and thank you for the shout out!

When I was a kid my family never talked to me about gender or sexuality so I didn't realize that people were straight until my family explained that being gay was a thing. I was just like "Y'all don't just love everyone??"

broke: calling vaush fat woke: calling vaush a four eyes

I was in the closet for the longest time to the point to where I would project this strange overt homophobia. I basically lied to myself. I told myself I'm a good Christian boy and the "dirty gays" wont take me. I fooled myself into genuinely believing this. I was the bully. Then for some reason I just stopped lying to myself? there was no catalyst, no awakening event. Even as I type this I'm thinking of what may have caused my seemingly overnight change and I'm drawing a blank. I didn't tell anyone. I didn't announce that I was gay. Just one day I drew some gay porn and my mom found it and seemingly no one cared. I wasnt ridiculed for it and no one brought up my previous homophobia. I was in high school at the time and no one there found out until someone asked why i wasn't so hateful anymore. Again no one seemed to care. It felt odd since it was a floridian semi rural area but i didn't bother questioning it. I do regret the way I treated others during that period but I'm glad I pulled myself out of that mindset. I didnt hate myself for being who I am anymore and that was a good feeling.

The kids I hung out with in grade school would call me a woman teasingly but I never registered it as insulting lol. I gave myself the nickname Super King Bitch and they eventually didn't even tease me anymore. Then my Christian step dad came in and turned me into a lil Nazi. Thankfully he died when I was 16 because now I'm back to my flower child self. Love you my fellow queers ♥️

did anyone else when they when they were young think gay meant happy? I vaguely remember in elementary school saying "I feel so gay today!" and it turned out to be self fulfilling prophecy.

Is there an ace segment? As an ace dude i often feel like im occupying this weird limbo space in an lgbtq adjacent scene, where ace folks are included when convenient and excluded when forgotten or unwanted. Most discourse ive encountered comes from talk about how asexuality "isnt as hard," "doesnt face the same discrimination," or "isnt real." I still feel uncomfortable associating with the lgbt scene at large bc i feel like dont have a space or properly belong. Would love to either share or hear another's story on their experiences.

"I don't care about Ireland". You can tell this was recorded during any month aside March

16:45 I remember seeing a meme somewhere when I was just starting to come out as nonbinary and making my first queer friends. It was like "my cis het friend who I've known since highschool" and a drawing of two women at a cafe talking about handbags or something. And then "a queer friend I met yesterday" and it's a pic of two people hugging each other on a sofa at 2am and describing their innermost fears and dreams. And that literally has been my experience of queer friendships. Shit can get deep real fast

I had a really odd process of self discovery, i don't want to say that I always assumed I was straight, but whenever I would've been told I would have a wife in the future, I was always completely uninterested but acknowledged it would be an inevitability. Come me turning 12 and 3 months into starting in a new school i learn that gay people exist and realised that mightve explained why I was never interested in women, within a matter of days i knew i was gay and it's still so to this day lol. But it still took me 3 years to actually tell anyone

I agree with one thing A LOT, is that LGBTQ memes and the jokes are *chef's kiss*

Im gay and i knew since I was 5 years old. The time it took me to accept that is another story, but i knew for sure that I was very attracted to men at a young age. It's so crazy to me when i hear people say they didn't knew they were LGBT until they were a teenager. Sexuality is so complex man

God i WISH i had Vaush’s story. I was hard bullied throughout middle and high school, my mom sent me to a christian family counselor for a couple of weeks after school and the harassment from people i used to call friends continued until i was nearly 19 coming onto my second year of college. I still don’t have a very good relationship with my mom despite us being better off together than we were in the past. Hell my first kiss was with a girl out of nothing but peer pressure. Had her as a gf just to try and get people to stop harassing me but that didn’t work. Even the school faculty didn’t ever help me out when they’d literally be standing right in front of me when i’d be getting death threats or having wet gummy bears spit at my face. So much other shit happened too. Now that my dad moved out of that town i’m not going back unless i actually have to for some reason.

23:08 I think this is the sentiment Vaush is looking for: "In a thousand years, there will be no men and women, just wankers, and that's fine by me." - Trainspotting 1996

Just came here to say that I thought the thumbnail said, "I'M PAIN" and I said, "Damn, aren't we all sometimes?"

I have basically the same experience with my sexuality; I never “came out”, there was never an announcement, I just always was the way I am. It’s a novelty to explain it to people at the bar, but it’s mostly because i think it’s funny when stuff like being pansexual and polyamorous and kinky just BLOWS their minds 🤣 bruh it’s all I’ve ever known

“The sexuality neutral f slur” god I love this man.

I'm bi but I'm a very late bloomer. Like I didn't fully say I was bi until like 2 or 3 years ago. I definitely said I was bi curious before then, but I didn't fully accept it until later. It's weird too cause despite going to the most progressive art school in my area (I live in the deep south) with half the school being gay, I didn't end up coming out during that time or early college. I'm assuming it's due to the oppressive religious culture of the south and my religious parents shaming any remotely femme or gay traits I had as a child.

"Hi, Pan. I'm dad."

for me i like to use micro-labels or personal use and broader labels for when im interacting with others. it's much easier for me to just tell people that im queer than it is to try and explain what being a genderfluid greyromantic omnisexual means to me. the micro-labels are for me to use to define myself on a personal level

society: "it's inherently unmasculine to be gay or use lipbalm" Vaush: exists

I feel i am in the same position as vaush. I never "came out of the closet" to my parents because i never went into one to begin with. My mom just kind of accepted the reality that i was not straight when i told her that i was over at my boyfriends house once, what she has had small problems/issiues with is that i am polyamorous and a kinkster. No real hate or anything like that. But she just do not understand it. But she is on the whole very "live and let live" And i dont think i ever even talked about any of this with my dad. Altho i am shure he would be accepting. It just have not come upp in conversations. Altho i do post lots of stuff about it on Facebook so he cannot have failed to notice it at this point.

This was great! I wish it was longer

I'll be Vaush's straight friend.

Hey, I am a panic-sexual as well.

The thumbnail is SO BRAVE!!

Pan Pride ❤️💛💙 I love hearing about other people like me, it makes me feel like I'm not being a "sexual orientation snowflake". Still yet to meet a fellow agender person, but I'm holding out hope 🥰🏳️‍🌈

It was only a year and a half since I discovered I was bi, but I think it was the oddest way to figure it out. I'd always thought I was straight, but when I watched porn I always looked to the women, but I would say to myself that I couldn't be bi since I didn't have any sexual attraction to women. A year and a half ago I just discovered that I really do find girls attractive, just not sexually. And six months ago I also discovered that I don't even find boys sexually attractive if I'm not already in a relationship with them, and in very specific contexts, so I think I'm just a weird demisexual bisexual

Every copy of gender is personalized. My system grants everyone the option to have their own personalized labels. Gender roles are made up and so is every word in and out of the dictionary. I have my own custom gender and different sets of pronouns and labels depending on whomst’d’ve I’m vibing with.

So I'm 25 now and in a way I had a similar awakening like Vaush. Futa in hentai and shit like that. However as I reflect on it now, I am fine with dick, as I just see it as a sex organ, but I'm just not into men. But I can understand why someone would. But for me I like the feminine looks. So as long as they look female, it's all good for me. I don't know if I added to the conversation but hey, open and safe space right?

would what vaush be describing be "metrosexual"? I think it was more of a thing in the early 2000's

18:00 in my experience as a (probably) strait dude, it’s way easier to talk to new people and make friends in queer spaces

I feel so proud that one day history books are going to say that the first person to beat Bloodborne is a gay man.

Coming from a straight person, this was a nice conversation!

One time I tried to to tell my dad I am bisexual. He said I wasn't like he was in denial and never said anything about it again.

If my kid told me he or she was bi I would use that as a moment to teach them the good old "dont give info for free" cause now both genders are going home at night fall till 16 lol

It's weird how queer changed from a slur to proper terminology and f flipped too. Bisexual Green Day singer/guitarist Billie Joel calls himself one in the song American Idiot.

I think the term (slightly) bisexual lesbian makes sense for me, and I'm not trying to 'feel special'... I'd rather be normal. It's not over thinking it either... it's literally the most straightforward way of expressing it. Anything else would end up more complex.

I wasn’t aware of any labels but as a little girl i wanted a husband when I grow up but a part of me also knew I didn’t mind girls and thought they were pretty. Fastforward now bisexual probably fits the most but I feel more ambivalence? Still prefer men though because they’re simpler and haven’t come out to anyone

Looking up Vaush videos and getting Vaatividya instead would be hilarious. Like if you're in the mood for based leftists takes and instead getting deep Soulsborne lore just feels weirdly fitting to me. Hard to explain but I hope that makes sense to someone.

Minor part of the video's presentation, but I love the BTBAM rainbow shirt LeftistOwl has. I always wear the rainbow designs more during Pride months. Really wish I could relate to not being harrassed for being LGBT, it's so awful in small town Indiana that I chose to move to Florida as an alternative. I can only imagine how bad it is in the bible belt by comparison, Indiana was awful enough. Lovely conversation!

came for the interview. stayed for the gameplay.

I dont like having to choose, it depends on my mood/what drugs i am on.

Haven’t watched it yet, but the thumbnail reminded my of “Gigi the Christmas Snake” and that’s a win in my book.

"im so glad my son went to that computer science camp!" computer science, you say?? PepeTrans

1 min in, this mans got a between the buried and me shirt? Immediate follow

I could be Vaush's straight friend

the Between the Buried and Me shirt!

vaush not trusting bluetooth is insane. probably one of the best technologies humans have developed

GAYMERS RISE UP!!!1!!1!!

Unironically got into watching the game. Used to play Diablo 2 in grade school, now seeing it remastered with the one place that I could never best with my Necromancer(still can't get past Tal Rasha with Necromancer, SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THE SECRET TO THIS GOD FORSAKEN PLACE SOMEONE TELL ME). ...Good times :)

Leather thing definitely a stretch...are bikers now queer? I'm straight and leather lingerie is super sexy.

I can relate to the thing about your parents still accepting you regardless if you're gay or straight. But for some reason growing up, even tho I had already accepted other sexualities, I would always find it irrationally annoying when my parents would tell me that it "didn't matter if I dated / married a girl or a guy", as privileged as that sounds. It was only until recently that it was because I was aromantic asexual. Finding out that I just naturally didn't experience those kinds of attraction made a lot of things about myself make sense. What also makes a lot of things make sense for me is that I'm non-binary as, despite being assigned male at birth, I never really thought of myself as a "boy" on my own and just assumed that I was because that's what I was told. And now what complicates things is that I honestly have no idea how I'm going to even attempt to come out to the people around me and explain things that they probably aren't too familiar with. The anxious and antisocial part of me is telling me that it's a pretty silly matter that I needn't not worry about and just not tell anyone. But the realistic part of me is telling that interaction is inevitable and it isn't worth it to keep my identity bottled up like this for the rest of my life. So while I have told a handfull of people about my asexuality, I haven't fully comeout to everyone about everything and I don't know how. Google knows more about me than my family.

As a fellow pan, I want this thumbnail.

33:40 hes talking about 196

My husband literally told me yesterday that when Bluetooth first came out he didn’t trust it and didn’t think it would last. Now he loves it, after trying it. Sooooo….do what you will with that.

Nice convo!

I remember him having a bad take on polyamory in this one I wouldn't put it in the kink category. Allowing marriages of more than two people is a similar struggle to allowing gay marriage

Tbh the bit at 27:00 is a bit weird, I mean I get the conflation but technically expected monogamy falls under the Amatonormativity heading rather than the Heteronormativity heading.

As a gay man, yeah we're annoying af. Sorry bout it.

BTBAM Shirt? Did he love Colors II as much as I did? Do you?

I'm Also Pan!!!!

the soy bluetooth users vs the CHAD wired connection users

Wow... "I realized I liked Dick" LOLOLOL! This statement is hilarious and very true. Also, once again, The D word came up again. I really think he likes you or you like him and you need to act on this. Nothing but power debaters...Just NIKE (Do it!)!!

I think, being straight, that if I was queer, the worst part of coming out would be discussing sexlife with either of my parents...

the parents already knew lol. i'm sure you had a tell

Very nice and very pog

He's so open he would literally date anyone

I wnat to know about that bluetooth device, I'm having SO much trouble finding a good wireless sound device for wireless vr

Im straight.... But if I drink realy realy much alcohol Im gay. Sooo the day after I drink much people think that I am gay. I can't realy drink and pick up girls that way....only men...

does vaush talk about how pan is different than bi because I'm still trying to find the difference can't watch the video rn but I will in a bit

17:48 I feel attacked

What is that game? It looked so familiar but I can't think of the name at all.

Polyamorous people being considered queer isn't nearly the same as people with a leather kinks being considered queer. When was the last time you heard about leather loving weddings being illegal? As a pansexual, non-binary, polyamorous person, I really can't come up with a valid reason to separate it from my other queer identities. With any of the three, I know I'm powerless to change them, I've been both alienated for and found great community through them, and all are minorities often shit upon. The only experience I can think of with any significant relevance to my life is that I am free to be married to another gay and/or trans person, but I'll probably never be able to have the kind of marriage I'd actually want. The same ways I've have been forced to compromise on my sexuality and gender, I've also been forced to compromise on my polyamory. I feel hopeless in ever finding love because everytime I get in a relationship, I get denied a polyamorous relationship, settle for monogamy, then get cheated on. It kills my ability to trust, breaks my heart, then goes on infinitely to be the only relationship opportunity I ever get, despite knowing for a fact that I'm not nearly the only person on the planet that feels this way. (Also, if polyamory isn't queer nor part of queer culture, why are other romantic orientations such a large part of it too? Such as an asexual panromantic, or a pansexual aromantic person. The line Vaush is drawing at polyamory seems very arbitrary to me.)

7:32 can someone tell me what doc they are talking about here?

6:00 that's what i'm doing too lol

There are a number of comments but I am here quite early

YASSSSSS

What game is playing? Reminds me of Legend of Mir

The rumor come put: does ian kpchinski is straight?

DESTINY IS BI?

Well I’m super kinky but I never thought it was about Society.

I did not see the anti Bluetooth take

What pronouns am I supposed to use for pansexuals? Wondering because I'm pan myself

The real question is does vaush like vaati

Day 5 asking vaush to debate me over harry potter

Bangerang.

*insert unfunny joke about fucking pans here*

Hi Pan I’m dad

As I straight guy I think that LGBT people are awesome, but I have one problem with how LGBT community is represented in media.

Crazy how people consider sexual orientation so fuckin relevant. It was Personal story, Political Stances, but a good portion is about one topic, it got to the point where i was waiting for the subject to change.

2 mins in and he summarized my story lol

What is he playing.

27:15

I've faced a lot of homophobia, I've experienced multiple hate crimes... I even studied heterosexual behaviour and learned to act like them... so as someone who's had it pretty bad I really don't like when other people diminish their own experiences because they haven't had it as bad and "don't want to take away from people who've had it worse"... there's always someone who's in worse conditions than you are, but that doesn't make your own experience any less valid... this is just internalised bigotry and I've noticed that pan and bi people tend to struggle from it even more than other queer people... I wonder why... this also feels weirdly condescending... "I don't want to take away the focus from people who are, less fortunate" I know that this isn't how it's intended, but I really do not like that shit...

11:20

I’m Pot

19:13