This archive post will cover Joey Graceffa’s coming out as gay in his YouTube video “YES I’M GAY” published on May 18, 2015.  Joey’s trademark of his videos was always his flamboyance, but without an official coming out many young people still believed that he was straight. The significance of Joey, however, is how he triumphantly turned coming out into an art form.

Joey Graceffa definitely has one of the more interesting coming out stories. After posting some very… suggestive videos for years, he released a music video to an original song called “Don’t Wait” wherein the video he kisses a man. The lyrics go: “Don’t wait for the world to be ready.” This line is obviously an allusion to his homosexuality. His coming out video is in response to the praise the music video received:

“Obviously, this has been taken away from the video, but I’m gay”

He later came out in his book called “Joey Graceffa: In Real Life.” Chapter 14 is titled “Surprise!” and the only two words written on the page are “I’m gay.” Joey posted this video because he didn’t want people to have to buy the book to know about his sexuality.

Like the other coming outs we’ve covered, Joey has inspired his audience too. I will leave you with this comment:

“Joey I have been here since you had around 2,000 subscribers. I have never been more proud of you. I have always seen people harass you and question you about your sexuality and I am just so happy that you can now just shut them all up and be yourself and be the person that inspires so many people every dang day and oh my goodness gracianious I just love you so much Joey! Please never change <3333″