Video that sums up the feelings of being young and gay

I ran across this when I was doing some spring cleaning and it remains one of the most powerful statements of what it FEELS like to be young and gay. The isolation, the fear, the longing, the judgment of other people...
the song is:
viðrar vel til loftárása
by Sigur Rós
The translation is:
I let myself go forward inside my mind, half-way backwards. I see myself singing a psalm. A Gospel. We wrote together. We had a dream, you have everything... We rode to the end of the world. We rode searching, climbed skyscrapers that later erupted. The peace is gone. I stayed steady. I fell down, still I let myself go forward and some how, I always come back down in one place. Total silence. No Words. The best thing that God has created is a new day.

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• Gay
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• isolated
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• Sigur
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• loftárása

[vfxbear]

JonathanRobinson: Thank you for the great comment. This is one of my favourite music videos, maybe because it evokes such tangible memories of how I felt when I was young.

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7Monastica7Rex7rgis:

Just about every gay person struggles with accepting themselves as they are and that can be hard in a world that is predominantly heterosexual. But no matter your sexuality, you are worthy of love and happiness and will find it. Stay strong, be true to yourself, and above all never lose hope. Much love, my friend.

[7Monastica7Rex7rgis]

That is very deep. It touched me in a way that I cannot explain. I have had issues with my sexuality and sometimes I feel like this. I am now just starting to come to terms with it.

[JonathanRobinson]

Its very powerful, a great film.