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  • wow , jus amazing tht someone understands.

  • man, i love you.

  • blacks have it just as hard gays weren't in slavery black ppl were weve had it harder for years and years your discrimination is just a small part and HIV is referenced to gays because thats were it may have started. black discrimination and gay discrimination is not the same so STOP COMPARING YOUR SELF TO US IT'S ANNOYING.

  • @im2crazy4game HIV didn't magically pop up in a gay person it was contracted from a monkey which isn't gay thats beastiality and by the way the fastest growing form of getting HIV is through heterosexual transmisson and hes not saying we went through the same thing what hes saying is that discrimination is discrimination in any form 

  • omg ur complaining about gays but yet when it comes to others yall can open ur mouths and say whatever. and being gay is a preferance so come off it and whatever t.i said its what he said you can't control his mouth like he cant control yours so please be quiet.

  • beautiful video

  • go equality

    

  • You are amasing im gay too WOOt :DDDDDDDD GAY PRIDE xD and lesbian pride gotta look out for our sisters And i love streight people too we back them and if we back them they should back us WOOOO xD SOo yay to us being right and to discriminators and haters being anooying and irritatiing :DDDDD

  • @xzF1nalH3artzx Oh and even if ur against us gays dont teach ur kids to hate us cause that is disgusting even ur god knows thats wrong so bamn :DDDDD

  • @xzF1nalH3artzx No one who is truly christian teaches their kids to hate gay people just that christians as well as God believe that ur LIFESTYLE is wrong and thats what most ppl dont wanna hear i love gays some of my closet friends are gay but ive told tham about God and what i believe we dont hate ppl just the gay lifestyle.

  • Very good baby!

  • <3 <3 Preach it!!

  • About fucking time if you ask me... Good job. REALLY!!! :)

  • <3

  • i recently came out me being bisexual....this video has to be reposted, please. i get treated horribly by 8 out of 10 people everyday because of who im attracted to... this made me cry. <3

  • i totally agree with you. if i could meet you i would give you a hug. I'm a gay and I always have discriminatory issues. I'm just a 17 year old as a senior i high school and when discrimination comes my way i take it to the office and they never help me they just say ignore them. This was a very well put together speech about how gays have to live their lives in fear as you said. thank you for making this serious video. *hugs*

  • you are amazing.

  • I'm laughing at you're voice. You Know What It Is.

  • gays are WRONG

  • @TheBANANAA6 your wrong. dead wrong.

  • @TheBANANAA6 Are You kidding me? thats WRONG. your WRONG. im not gay, and imot special, im just agirl a 13 year old girl who has friends who are hurt by joke that are WRONG.

  • Oh I love you! You are great! ((:

  • LOVE! Not hate. 

  • You. are. amazing.

  • You know i used to not take the gay community seriously whenever there were complaints about how being gay effects the chances of getting a job, ignorantly thinking that discrimination against gays wasn't a problem.... until I saw firsthand someone not get hired at my place of employment because he was "to gay" for my manager's tastes.

  • I learned so much from this video....Ty!

  • @oanunkor ummm no in this sitch ti is a prob. I agree he is just a small part but it is an example of what YOU are doing...wat all the rest of homophobes are doing to us sooo maybe u should love...not hate

  • Wow ryan u have an intimidating stare...ur lucky lol

  • oh. my. god. such an inspirational video!

  • I totally agree with this 100%.

    It was a beautiful video.

    I teared up a little bit, this really made me

    Think. Thank you.

  • I LIKE LOVE YOU !!

  • Gay pride man, gay pride.

  • i'm 12 and i have a friend who is lesbian. our school support gays and lesbians. i mean i live in a state with most gays and lesbians. my family is mostly made up of homosexuals. my sister is a lesbian. i'm proud to say this. and i'm proud to say that idc if ur straight(which i am), gay, bi, lesbian, or whatever. ur human and someone who should be respected. okay done with my little rant, nice video :D i agree~

  • Im straight, and i believe in equality. Every single person should have the same rights. WE ARE ALL PEOPLE AND WE ARE BORN WITH THESE RIGHTS! I believe in everything you had to say, and even started tearing up because everything you said is everything I believe in. Good for you for being so mature and standing up for yourself. Keep being strong, you inspire many :)

  • Ryan you handled that very well. I'm so proud of you for standing up and having your voice heard. I'm proud to be a part of the LGBT community. I'm a lesbian and I am proud of who I am! Ryan keep up your great work!!!!

  • I LOVE U :')

  • Ummmm racism still exists buddy. Anyway, take all of this energy and put it towards your local congressmen and women. Rally, protest, have sit-ins, boycott. White gays LOVE to compare their struggle to the Civil Rights Movement but what have they done to get the same results as the Civil Rights Movement. Too many of them poor themselves into Gaga and Glee hoping that celebs who make a fortune off of them will save them. WAKE UP!!! Good video but T.I. isn't the problem.

  • Wow that was very good :-D I was sort of expecting a rant but you addressed the problem in a civil manner and backed everything up with facts. You are amazing Ryan and I love you :)

  • This is a good video, but...racism still exists. And maybe it isn't legalized explicitly, but laws against teaching multiculturalism (instead of only white history) and deporting people who "look like illegal immigrants" are just a few ways racism still exists...the failure of the mainstream gay movement/ culture to recognize that racism (and classism and sexism) STILL EXISTS alienate gay people of color, gay people who are poor, gay women, and people who are transgender.

  • I cant concentrate your eyes ar ejsut so...gorgeous i mean woooowwwwwww

  • @Florin3k You are so intelligent, Im glad you are part of the straight community. LOL

  • @Florin3k Thats mature.. Im so glad you are part of the straight community, because you so represent the ignorance that exists there. Sad.

  • @ParkerTibbs You dumbfuck!! God gave us a choice to follow the Bible or be faggots!! It's not his choice it's our choice!! That's like saying if god didn't want killers and robbers in this damn planet, then why do they exist!! It was their choice during "their" desperate times!! If you gonna say something of god didn't want or want!! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!!

  • @FrostBiteNinja1 I don't really appreciate being called that. I'm not gonna get in a fight with you because it would be stupid. You have your opinion and I have mine. Don't call me names and I won't call you names.

  • @FrostBiteNinja1 ahem... he does have his facts right. and next time i would advise that you follow the terms and conditions of youtube. this is not a family friendly response. and besides YOU don't have to go and be an ass to people that are trying to stand up for what they believe in. and if you don't like gays, WHY did you watch and comment on this video?

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  • @FrostBiteNinja1 IT'S PEOPLE LIKE THAT MAKE SICK.....YOUR A IGNORANT HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLE....GUESS WHAT GAYS ALWAYS HERE AND FIGHTING FOR THERE RIGHTS! SO STFU THANKS (:

  • I LOOOVEEEE THIS. Thank you for addressing the problem in an educated manner. I appreciate everything you said. LGBT love.

  • hahaa oh my God I'm dying.

    TI "If you can take a dick you can take a joke, I thought that was funny."

    Ryan "Well, looks like you can take a dick!"

    I want to thank you so much Ryan. Keep fighting the good fight. I'm a heterosexual female so firsthand, I know nothing of the discrimination you feel, but I can't wait until being gay is socially okay in America so that none of my LGBT friends have to put up with this evil anymore. Thank you for demanding your voice be heard.

  • Wow you're amazing :) that was incredible. Thank you Ryan!

  • hehe

    

  • Good point livesmily

  • if it's such a choice to be gay, I say to everyone who is a homophobe , choose, right now, choose to be gay, choose to love someone of the same sex, then tell me its a choice

  • This is wonderful! You are making history by doing what you're doing, Ryan James. You are my hero.

  • I love you!

  • you are awesome! my cousin and some people i know are gay and they are just the best people, i really feel angry and sad when people hate gays and bi's and everything different. keep makin vids!!:D

  • If God didn't want Homosexuals in the world, why did he create them? Several parts of the Bible were added later on in it's life. How do you know that some hobophobic jerk didn't put it in because he wasn't getting his way?

  • @ParkerTibbs Well then lemme answer that... God gave us a choice of how we should live and he wants us to live free and whatnot, bt he also wants to see if we make the right choice. Not saying being gay isnt the right choice but if that's someone's choice of being gay let them. Only YOU can go and face God BY YOURSELF. Don't worry about anyone elses beliefs or religion. Sure he said spread the Gospel but he also said dun discriminate. Love not hate, my friend... love not hate.

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  • I kinda hate it when people say that the Gay Rights Movement isn't anything like the Civil Rights Movement. What? Now that you have what you want, you don't care anymore? They're similar. They're both about discrimination against something a few people won't get over. You don't choose to be African American, White, or Chinese! Just like you don't choose to be Gay, Straight, or Bi! (second part above)

  • Thank you Ryan, this is truly deeper than so many videos out there with so much inspiration!

    The reason gays cannot live in peace is because those against it are not living in peace. And that's why those laws are created, based off biased hatred.

  • 58 haters :)

  • Wow that is sooo deep I am actually just starting to discover myself as a young man...I love you and what you stand for...:) It makes me want to cry!

  • Wow, I love you.

  • I would SO much rather let a gay couple having take care of my baby, than the straight couples in 16 and pregnant. I support same sex relationships. Always. No matter what anyone says because I believe you have to be true to yourself to actually be happy. Embrace the differences people :)

  • this is so true people discrimanate against others just because there ga if you where to take 3 heathy men 1 whie 1 gay and 1 black and cut the open you would see no difference from any of of them

  • amen brother. but im not gay. but i support you. can i help you takke over the world?

  • im not gay but i love everything you have to say

  • Im not gay or bi But Thumbs up For The Rights for the Gay Peple :D and btw i love my gay/lesbian friends we all the same <3

  • why dont Ignorant str8 ppl question why they're str8?

    if they can feel what we feel for just a day,

    maybe they'll wake-up from there complacent ignorance.

  • Well said. I am straight, and I am a girl, and I agree wholeheartedly. I am age ELEVEN. I think what he said was COMPLETE discrimination. What's happening with gays is similar with what happened with colored people. WHO CARES IF YOU'RE GAY OR STRAIGHT? Martin Luther King, your birthday is soon, and you know what, even today you would be in your 80's, but we STILL need the wisdom and that power. Ryan, there's a WAY to get this turned around. You're VERY intelligent. -Raina Latessa.

  • i lost support from my whole family! i know things will get better when all understand how to love each other no matter what ELE EVERYONE LOVES EVERYONE LOVE DONT HATE

  • i fucking love you, i bet if TI saw this he wouldn't have anything else to say, you have such a way with words its unbelievable <3

  • I would take you SO much more seriously if you weren't bouncing around the screen constantly and making me fucking nauseous.

  • This is truely amazing <3

  • WOW

  • is there anywhere where i can watch what he said i can't find it anywhere on the net, don't get me wrong i don't want to see it to support what ever he says i just am curious and would like to know what was said about us gays ???

  •  completely owned!

  • This is amazing♥

  • did TI ever see this!?

  • you go ryan!

  • Beautifully said.

  • Thank you ryan! stand up to the hater! i also loved the one to rick perry as well!! being gay isnt a choice! No one wakes up and says oh today i think ima be gay today! I have lost 2 best friends due to the ignorance of homophobic assholes! Do people honestly think we would choose to get bullied and ridiculed everyday? I think not.. but all in all theyre hate and ignorance makes us stronger human beings then they ever will be

  • No onw CHOOSES to be gay. If it were a choice no one would make it. No one chooses to be bullied and descriminated against. I think there is a serious issue of people confusing accepting and embracing who you are with choosing it. Those are NOT the same things.

    oh and BTW I love these

  • I would love to agree with you, but what you dont understand is that TI isnt really going to put himself in the shoes of a gay person. That he wont care what you think, and only tried to apoligize for some of his fans to buy his stuff so he can get money. Thats all he wants, and he doesnt care whose feelings he steps on

  • Ryan <3 I'm bisexual, I love this video. <3 You're amazing Ryan <3

  • i love this video he's so awesome!

  • You're too sensitive.

  • Good message, but who gives a shit about TI?

  • AMEN RYAN!!!!

  • Ryan James Yezak 2012<3

  • I'm sorry.. I'm portuguese (so i didn't know) and i have to ask.

    You can't donate blood? WTF??

    P.S.: Love your videos. :)

  • @MariaMSGuerra: In America, when a male goes to donate blood, one of the questions that they ask you is if you've had sexual engagements with members of the same sex since the year 1977. If we say yes, then we're not allowed to donate blood then or ever and our social security is submitted into the program so that we're flagged if we ever try to. It's very similar to how the Pink Triangle was used as a source of embarrassment for homosexuals during the Holocaust.

  • @WorldChanger81 I'm sorry i'm so suprised but... That is just.. Despicable. I'm just shocked. America is perceived by the world as a great country (Obama and NASA and god knows what else..) but then I ear things like these and I'm disapointed. Instead of asking you if you have any disease or if you had safe sex they ask you if you are gay our not?? That is just... ridiculous.

  • @WorldChanger81 So, it's ok for a straight person with aids to donate blood but gay people can't? I'm straight and if i have to get a blood transfusion it doesn't matter if the blood came from a gay person our not. Being gay is not a disease..

    

  • Ryan, your videos are so professionally done I feel like I'm watching an NBC segment that ends with "The More You Know...." Awesome video, dude. Educational without being disrespectful=Classy.

  • @Amelia0Rawr

    If you didn't know.. homosexuality has been around forever.. Even in this advanced age it still effects gay people in many ways much like @MentalGoddess explained

    However.. years ago times were alot tougher.. gay people were most likely killed for being gay.. getting a job being gay years ago was extremely difficult.. if at all possibly the only way was to make sure no-one knew.. you dont understand both have had hard times.. and if one was worse then other.. it dosnt make it rite

  • THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Making me cry you butthead. 

  • i think everyone on this earth should see this video to prove that gays are the people as people that are not but unfortunately there are some people that just wont listen

  • Yor are AWESOME and i thank you so much for posting this video.

  • -3

  • This is so deep!

  • He states the truth. I'm black myself and its exactly the same. things need to change!!!

  • <3 

  • This video was very good, although I don't think It's right to say that the gay rights issue is anywhere as bad as the civil rights issues in the 60's.

    I'm not being homophobic..I'm a lesbian It's just my opinion.

  • @Amelia0Rawr he didn't say that he just said it hurts them as much as it hurt in those in the 60's

  • Do you know how badly the African Americans were treated in the 1900s.People used to frequently kill African Americans in the early 20th century there were places African Americans couldnt go, only white people were aloud, they were paid astronomically less than others, were less likely to get jobs and in general they were looked down upon by the mainstream population. i know that gays are not treated as they should, but don't compare these two issues because they are very different

  • @Amelia0Rawr Gays have all of that happening to them RIGHT NOW. Only 21 states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, only 31 states have a law that addresses hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation, and in 2010 alone 18.6% of victims of hate crimes were attacked because they were homosexual. That 18.6% only includes those victims whom are in the 31 states that acknowledge it as a hate crime & if it gets reported to the police. How are these issues different?

  • @Amelia0Rawr Gays have been and in some cases are still killed just for being gay like blacks were persecuted and lynched just for being black. Not saying either are comparable, no discrimination, act of violence or anything else can be comparable to each other either.

  • Awesome!!!

  • YOU'RE AMAZING!

  • I like his house

  • Make more music videos!

  • Make more vies

  • LOVE U AND THIS VID!<3

  • That was beautiful (: you are well spoken and you obviously know your facts.

  • all i can say, is i totally agree.

  • Very well said Ryan, I'm from France and I follow your videos. I don't have your fame but as soon I can be heard I wanna make people understand who we really are, and make it easier for everyone to live being themselves. (sorry for my english) Everyday since I accepted that I am gay, I try to teach people about sexuality differences and most of the time they just weren't informed on the subject that's why they're kind of scared. It takes time, will and hope but together we can make it. RESPECT

  • @RyanJamesYezak it is caring, loving, nice pple like u that make me feel loved in this cruel world we live in!!! I am trying to get approved to be a surrogate mom for LGBT couples!! I just want to give back the love everyone shows to me but it is really hard cause i live in Missouri where being gay isn't accepted. thank u for never givin up on fighting and because of u, i won't stop either!! thank u Ryan!! ALL<3NOH8!!

  • Well said.

  • I like your Sweater <3 <3

  • @Vaan1891 Ikr? Wtf? He cant donate blood? We are all human no matter what, people in america are just stupid.

  • OMG big tears

  • I cried twice during this video! Its so sadly true!

  • You can't donate blood because your gay........... D: What the hell?? I knew the hatred ran deep but come on,people. Their humans just like us. Why can't they adopt a child, or get married.....Can't even donate live saving blood...........Good grief. :(

  • I love how you can place people where they are without cursing. You use facts.

  • Let me just say: That was absolutely amazing. I loved the way you planned out what you said not just coming up with it. You actually made sense. I give 100000000000 thumbs up to you and this video. By the way, your eyes are just adorable C:

  • i love you

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  • I love you.

  • Ryan, you're absolutely amazing. I'd love to see T.I's response to this. I bet he'd say, ''I was just having fun.'' Or something, and you know what that's pretty much bulling. Idk, I love you Ryan. People are just ignorant. Besides, what's the big deal that someone is homosexual? I doubt it actually brothers heterosexual people, unless they want to be bothered by it. People will try to bring you down, but that's only cause they think you're higher than them. :)

  • i love you

  • amen. we're all humans no matter what!

  • awesome video!

  • I'm not gay, but I am so glad I live in the Netherlands where gay marriage is legalized. The world should be more like the Netherlands. Just stop hating. Gays are people too, they're no different than anyone else. <3

  • You are one of my idols . As a bisexual , I really think some people need to see this *ahem* Rick Perry , T . I . And all the other ignorant fucks .

  • i hope TI saw this. he neeeds to see this.

  • WHAAAAAAAAAT. SERIOUSLY? that happened? o_o

  • TI? The black guy? Who likes him? LOL

  • @AppyXychronicX i know right, TI sucks as a rapper/singer.

  • i cry every night in my bed i am 15 years old i am a girl and i am bi and the thought of telling my mother and father that makes me want to cry because i don't want them to treat me diffrently i dont want every one to laugh at me im scared that if people find out then i wouldnt have a life any more i would just be hiding from life evan my best friend that i have known sens 4th grade she doesnt know im scared i just am i want to be free and live my life the way i should be able to

  • preach it!

  • everyone should watch this NOW

  • Racism & Homophobia are not the same.

  • @devbar21 pretty much. It's hating someone for who they are, and things that are out of their control. Black people can't suddenly choose to be white, or asian. Just like gay people can't wake up one day and decide that they're straight.

  • @devbar21 Racism & Homophobia BOTH = HATE.

  • can you still be gay if you disagree any 50% of this?

  • Sadly ignorance is what runs this nation..

  • I've watched this more then 5 times and its still as heart taking as the first time I watched it <3

  • I don't think the term sexual "preference" is incorrect. None of my preferences are choices. I don't decide to like red more than blue, or coffee more than tea, I just do, aren't those considered preferences. Not saying being gay is a choice, I know first hand that it isn't but I don't think preferences can really be considered choices either...

  • @KiywiKaos Preference & choice are synonyms.

  • @RyanJamesYezak But not the same thing.I'm mean: I PREFER men because I have this sexual atraction for them but I sitll can CHOSE woman if I want.You can chose women instead of men but still prefer men.So what make you gay/straight? Our choice or our preference? Throug this point of view I think the preference does, but only YOU will know that.To the other people it's your choice what will define you.

  • I chose to be gay!

    Just like I chose My hair and eye color, My shoe size, and my learning disability.

    Go suck a dick you close minded fucks.

  • I AM IN TEARS. THIS MAN IS BEAUTIFUL. GOOD GOD. I LOVEE YOUU <3333

  • you are great!!! i love u so much i hope has a voice here like yours in my homophobic country!! saying everyone is the same!!!

  • I am straight but I think it's not fair for anyone who is gay to have consaquenses for being gay.. That is who you are and I respect that.. Everyone is the same!! we r all sopposed to respect one another. We were not made for no reason. You deserve respect! ;) I agree....

  • You don't chose who you love you dip shits stop saying they do I'm straight and I support the lgbt community 100% there is no scientific evidence that they decide who they are attracted to just like everyone doesn't chose who they fall in love with so stfu cause you stupid thanx.

  • I CANT BELIEVE THIS I LOVE TI I AM GAY AND WHEN I WATCHED THIS I CRIED. ITS PEOPLE LIKE HIM THAT MAKES LGBT TEENS TAKE THEIR LIVES. HE IS A PUBLIC FIGURE. HE IS SUPOSE TO SET AN EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG' INS.. I AM FURIOUS AND HURT BY TI. I HOPE YOU SET YOUR MIND AND HEART WITH GOD BECAUSE GOD LOVES ALL OF US . WE ARE HIS CHILDREN AND HATE IS NOT A TRATE HE GIVES US. ITS SATIN. IM REALLY HURT BY THIS. DO YOU REMEMBER JAMEY RODEMEYER, SETH WALCH, ALLL THE OTHERS WHO ARE DEAD BC OF PEOPLE HATINGOUR KIND

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