Tag: Eugene Lee Yang

June marks pride month, but it’s also the halfway point of the year. As such, it’s the perfect time to look back at the past six months to take a look at some of the people who have come out of the closet. As society accepts the evolving definitions of sexuality and gender, the process of coming out has become more complex. Stars like Sam Smith and Jonathan Van Ness – celebs we already knew as gay – are now publicly...

Eugene Lee Yang — a 33-year-old queer choreographer better known as one of Buzzfeed’s “Try Guys”  — recently came out as gay in a Twitter post with an accompanying dramatic music video which he wrote, directed and choreographed. The video features instrumental music by Odesza and dramatic interpretations of societal queerphobia including a shooting at a gay bar, a gay bashing, an angry sermon at a conservative church and familial rejection. The video also features other Asian performers including RuPaul’s Drag...