YouTuber Dan Howell Just Came Out As Gay

Popular, longtime British YouTuber Dan Howell just publicly came out as gay. 

Coinciding with Pride Month, Howell, who has been creating content on YouTube for the past decade and is one-half of the Dan & Phil duo, shared a lengthy, heartfelt, 45-minute video to his channel earlier today, coming out to his fans and sharing his journey of acceptance. 

"This really feels like a new chapter for me," he wrote in a tweet to his fans about the response to his coming out. "I doubted all my life that the world would change to be a place I could personally feel open and accepted and that’s because of all of you. Thank you."

Watch Dan's entire, 45-minute coming out in the video below.