YouTuber Dan Howell Just Came Out As Gay

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

\u201ci always wanted to upload this next video in the month of june ..it ended up taking an entire year longer than i thought but here we are again and now it is time\u201d
— Daniel Howell (@Daniel Howell) 1560451088

\u201cthis really feels like a new chapter for me. i doubted all my life that the world would change to be a place i could personally feel open and accepted and that\u2019s because of all of you. thank you.\u201d
— Daniel Howell (@Daniel Howell) 1560452546

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.

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