In a day and age when some antigay leaders still need to be dragged out of the closet, it’s always great to see young people doing it right.
When it comes to coming out, Joey Graceffa knows the cover of People doesn’t quite cut it anymore. Today’s cultural climate calls for something far grabbier––say, a glossy four-and-a-half minute music video complete with enchanted forests, serious swordplay, magical amulets, evil ogres, and the occasional sorceress–all culminating in a fantastically gay fairy-tale kiss with a princely cohort.
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That’s exactly what the Amazing Race alum and YouTube personality unleashed to a (relatively) unsuspecting public this week. The video’s release coincides with Graceffa’s 24th birthday and helps push his brand new memoir, In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World. The book candidly discusses his experiences being bullied as a child, dealing with an alcoholic mother, growing up with an autistic brother, and slowly coming to accept his own sexuality.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Never ones to be stingy when it comes to some well-deserved publicity, we thought we’d celebrate the occasion by compiling a handful of particularly enticing Graceffa snaps, highlighting his off-the-charts charisma and disarming handsomeness.
Beau in a bowtie.
No sleeves attached.
Just desserts.
Babe with the bathwater.
Rare candid shot.
Doggy style.
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Hillers
Love beautiful Joe Joe, and am so proud of him. No brb while I go bathe in the bathwater of the bitter fangirls MUAH HA HA HA Haaaaaaa!
José Ramón Chavira
Because it’s not a surprise
Raúl Hernández
He was already out on the amazing race
Stetson Hogue
duh everyone knew this lol.
NoCagada
That is NOT a candid shot
George Swanepoel
Nicely done tho
Paul Tidd
Actually, he came out a few years ago, freaked out, took down the video, and went back in the closet for a few more years. Not that anybody actually thought that he was straight in the first place.
AtticusBennett
“gracefully”, – he was evasively coy about it for YEARS.
AndYouWillDeal
G3rl, anyone who has listened to her speak or watched her videos for long enough knows that’s a queen if you ever saw one. Love her though! She is HILAR and so cutie pie 🙂 My personal thought is that what’s obvious does not need to be asked, answered, confirmed, denied or explained.
nemesis9
I read all about this in No Sh*t! magazine.
cflekken
This might be the funniest “coming out” I’ve ever seen. Really? “Coming out”? Of what? The rainbow onesie you’ve been wearing for years but thinking that people actually thought you were straight? This is a perfect example of deluded self-image. I’m not trying to bust on Joey. He’s a great, talented, well-intentioned guy. But him thinking he needed to declare his homosexuality is seriously gut-crushingly laughable.
Xzamilio
He “came out” right before his book hit shelves, so there was a marketing ploy behind it… with that said, his coming out story was very sweet in that I could tell that is was something that he was really struggling with, although it was pretty obvious. And I don’t care about the whole “You didn’t know I was gay because I didn’t tell you” crap that that little bitch Tyler Oakley was going on about because in this case, it was an accurate assumption. I’ve seen a couple of his videos, and Joey Graceffa is pretty unbearable in large doses. But my 30 year old ass isn’t his demographic, so all the power to him. Good luck to him, now that he has put the closet door that he has been carrying down
Raphael
nah. he’s just using the “coming out” to promote his new book…
stranded
@Raphael: I kind of got the same impression, but he always seems really genuine, or i’m blinded by his beautiful face and i don’t care. Now if only Shane Dawson would be brave enough.
TheAngryFag
@José Ramón Chavira: Exactly. Willam Belli clocked his gayness years ago.
NG22
Whether Joey sees this or not, I want to send him a lot of love and support. Congratulations. Enjoy Pride season as an out man.
I’ve never heard of him before (though he’s so pretty that I wish I had). But I do want him to feel like his community supports him. It’s important to remember how scary coming out can be. Pinging others’ gaydar doesn’t make any of it easier.
jwtraveler
So a cute guy posts some photos of videos on line and tells the world he’s gay. That’s nice for him, but haven’t we seen this about A THOUSAND TIMES before. What’s the news?
Khánh ??ng
Handsome
Arcamenel
The guy he kissed in his music video is hot. That’s all I have to really say about any of this.
Glücklich
Could be jet lag crankiness but who the hell is this person? Youtube personality? Is that like Bravolebrity?
Captain Obvious
@Glücklich: Far below Bravo, but a touch above being famous for hanging out in front of a building/street corner everyday.
I’d put Youtube personalities at slightly more famous than the Naked Cowboy guy in New York but maybe I’m wrong and he’s totally more well known than them?
I’d be curious to see any of these Youtube fame kids not look like Disney channel cast offs and still have a legion of followers. Pretty privilege.
Bryguyf69
I wasn’t aware that he was ever closeted. We actually corresponded when he lived in Massachusetts and had a joint Youtube channel with a female friend (the same woman who joined him on The Amazing Race?). Nice guy. He may have even subscribed to my very gay channel. I lost interest after he became famous so I never realized that he was closeted. Actually, he probably lost interest in me. I assumed he was out because he did collabs with other gays.
Jeames Granger
it’s great that he did, tho I wish he didn’t sell it to US nice twice. once in his book & music clip. then not telling US that he has a boyfriend or that he had two other boyfriends. i would like to think this would be in his the book, but it’s Okies the Internet has done it for me.
stuartaidanlover
Friends with benefits in Oregon. By Colby Keller colbydoesamerica.com + West Virginia (new) FREE! ( recommended by a fan).
Ben López
More like everyone already knew, or at last should have known.. #mygaydarisflawless lol
IvanPH
Whaaat? He was actually in the closet?
IvanPH
Whaaattt? He was actually in the closet?!
Tracy Lopez
Ben López Yeah lol it was totally obvio. Glad he finally had the courage to come out though. #dontflatteryourself lol
Ben López
Tracy Lopez you crack me up lol. How did you even see my comment?
Tracy Lopez
Ben López your comment was the one lol
Curty
Came out of what? What anyone who has ever seen him on video, assumed or knew. Come on… lol… a 2 year old could figure out this guy was gay.
crowebobby
If he were butch (straight or gay), he would be one of the hottest men in the world. Nothing wrong with being Nellie, but it doesn’t really complement those Errol Flynn features.
Curty
Crowebobby so says you. Of course you are just the perfect specimen of male masculinity… and everyone has to live to your standards of being “butch” GTFOH
Anthony Reed
Bitch please! Everyone knew before he did
DarthKitsune
I always thought he was gay, I never knew he wasn’t out until he “came out”.
mediajky
Oh please…
crowebobby
@Curty: No, I’m nowhere near as butch as I should be to make the most of my looks, but for the opposite reasons to Joey. I look (or looked) quite like Robert Mitchem when I was younger. That’s a hot look for a bad-ass, but not for an effete young interior decorator . . . or dancer, as I was. I love Tyler Oakley’s persona and have no objection to Joey’s or Truman Capote’s or any other camp gay man’s – I’m referring only to Joey’s incredibly handsome face, which I personally would find even more attractive if he weren’t continually contorting it into those screaming “girly” expressions alien to any true human emotion. But it’s his face and he can do whatever he wants with it; I greatly admire his success.