
Spanish: 
- Hice un poco el tonto y, en
vez de celebrar su cumpleaños
y esperar al momento oportuno,
le compré el libro "Cómo
tratar con tu hijo gay".
- Joder, tío. Joder.
- Ese fue mi regalo.
- ¡Sorpresa!
- Sí.
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según lo que ven.
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episodios los viernes!
Antes no era la típica persona
que busca una relación.
Soy gay y de un pueblo
conservador de Texas,
así que muchas veces,
lo que hacía era protegerme
de otras personas.
Estos últimos años,
he empezado a cambiar eso un poco
y a permitirme sentir
amor por otras personas
y abrirme a la posibilidad

English: 
- So stupidly, instead of
celebrating the birthday
and waiting until an appropriate time,
I bought him a book,
How to Deal with Your Gay Son.
- Oh boy.
Oh, boy.
- That was his birthday gift from me.
- Surprise.
- Yeah.
In the past, I've typically
not been a relationship person.
Growing up gay in a
conservative Texas town,
like, I think a lot of that was kind of me
shielding myself from other people.
For the last few years,
I've started to like,
break that down a bit
and allow myself to feel
love from other people
and allow myself to be open to

Spanish: 
de tener una relación.
- Mi última relación se
terminó hace más de dos años.
Muy mal, además.
Cuando acabó, me di cuenta
de que me había convertido
en alguien que no era yo
solo para ser esa persona,
porque estaba muy desesperado
por tener a alguien que
me dijera: "Te quiero".
He pasado este tiempo
intentando volver a ser yo
y a sentirme mejor conmigo mismo.
Ahora, dos años después,
siento que estoy listo
para volver a intentarlo.
- Como diría mi mentora personal, Beyoncé,
solo quiero ser feliz.
Estoy abierto a que me
lleven por el camino de
hacer reservas para dos
y de elegir... no sé,
toallas de baño o lo que sea.
- A estas alturas, no salgo
con alguien porque sí.
Mi intención es escribir una
historia con esa persona,
quiero conocer a un coautor.
Y si tiene ojos bonitos y un buen culo,
eso solo es ponerle la
guinda a un delicioso pastel.

English: 
the possibility of a relationship.
- My last relationship
was over two years ago
and it ended really poorly.
When it ended I realized
that I had allowed myself to
become somebody who I was not
just to try and be that person
because I was so desperate
to have somebody say the words I love you.
I took that time to just
really go back into myself
and build myself back up.
And so now, you know, two years later,
I feel like I'm ready to get back into it.
- To quote my personal
life coach, Beyonce,
I just wanna be happy.
I'm open, I'm open to being
guided down the path of,
you know, making reservations for two
and picking out, I don't know,
bath towels, or something.
- At this point, I
don't date just to date,
I date now with an intention
of writing a story together,
and so I'd like to meet a co-author.
And if you have great
eyes and a great butt,
then, I mean, that's just
frosting on top of an already great cake.

English: 
Your name is Brandon.
And this is your story.
You are 24 years old.
For work, you are a graphic designer.
You grew up in New York,
and your family heritage
is Middle Eastern.
Your astrological sign in Taurus.
Your height is 5 foot 10 inches.
- My name is Kian, and this is my story.
I am 26 years old.
I work in TV and film development.
I grew up in the Dallas, Texas area,
and my family heritage is
Columbian and Also Jewish.
My astrological sign is a Cancer,
and I am 6'4".
- Wow.
- Your name is Blake,
and this is your story.
You are 27 years old.
For work, you are a nurse.
You grew up in Chicago,

Spanish: 
Lo básico
Te llamas Brandon
y esta es tu historia.
Tienes 24 años.
Eres diseñador gráfico.
Creciste en Nueva York
y tu origen es de Oriente Medio.
Tu signo del Zodiaco es Tauro.
Mides 1,78.
- Me llamo Kian y esta es mi historia.
Tengo 26 años.
Trabajo en desarrollo de cine y TV.
Crecí en Dallas, en Texas.
Mi origen es colombiano y también judío.
Mi signo del Zodiaco es Cáncer
y mido 1,93.
- Guau.
- Te llamas Blake y esta es tu historia.
Tienes 27 años.
Eres enfermero.
Creciste en Chicago

English: 
and your family heritage is Irish,
or maybe Portuguese in there.
Your astrological sign is Libra,
and your height is 6'1".
- My name is Aaron, and this is my story.
I am 25 years old.
For work I am an actor, who
works seven part time jobs.
I grew up in Nebraska,
and my heritage is Irish.
My astrological sign is Cancer,
and my height is 6 foot even.
So you're a Cancer, too?
- I am a Cancer.
Do you take this seriously at all?
No.
- I know that it's
not real science,
but I do love to ask people,
like, what their birth chart is
as soon as we meet each other.
- And I think, like, when
you're born does impact you
as a person.
- My logic is like,
the moon can affect, like,
the ocean and like the waves,
then like, why can't it affect us?
Which might be entirely wrong science.

Spanish: 
y tu origen es irlandés.
O quizá portugués.
Tu signo del Zodiaco es Libra
y mides 1,85.
- Me llamo Aaron y esta es mi historia.
Tengo 25 años.
Soy un actor con siete
trabajos a tiempo parcial.
Crecí en Nebraska
y mi origen es irlandés.
Mi signo del Zodiaco es Cáncer
y mido 1,83.
¿Tú también eres cáncer?
- Soy cáncer.
¿Te tomas esto en serio?
- No.
- Sé que no es una ciencia real,
pero me encanta preguntarle a la gente
por su carta astral en cuanto la conozco.
- Yo creo que el momento
en que naces te influye
como persona.
- Mi lógica es
que si la luna puede
afectar al mar y a las olas,
¿por qué no puede afectarnos a nosotros?
Podría ser una teoría errónea, pero...

Spanish: 
- Suena bien.
- Sí.
- Suena bien.
No esperaba que adivinaras mi origen.
- Lo he pensado un minuto.
"Tiene la piel clara,
seguro que se quema mucho.
Será irlandés".
¿Te pasa?
- Sí, me han hospitalizado
dos veces por quemaduras.
- ¡No!
- Sí.
¿Kian es un nombre colombiano?
- No.
Y siempre me siento un
fraude cuando me preguntan.
El nombre "Kian" tiene el acento en la a,
pero yo no lo pronuncio así.
Y es un nombre persa.
Mi madre no es persa, que yo sepa,
ni ha estado en Irán.
Y quería que mi nombre empezara por K,
pero no quería que fuera Kevin o Kyle.
Le hablaron de este nombre,
ella lo eligió y el resto es historia.
- Quizá de ahí me ha venido
la esencia del Medio Oriente.
- Porque es parte de mí, he
aceptado que me lo impusieran.
- Ya es parte de ti.
Qué gracia.
Sí, yo creo que Aaron
es el nombre para chicos
blancos más básico que existe.

English: 
- It sounds great.
- Yeah.
- It sounds great.
- I'm really impressed
that you guessed Irish.
- I thought about it for a minute.
I was like, this is fair skin,
he probably sunburns a good amount,
I'm guessing it's probably Irish.
Is that true?
- It is, yes, I've been hospitalized twice
because of sunburns.
- No!
- Yeah.
So Kian, is that Columbian?
- It's not.
And I always feel like a fraud
when people ask me about that.
The name Kian is actually pronounced Kian,
but I don't pronounce it that way,
and it's a Persian name.
My mom, not Persian, to my knowledge,
had never been to Iran before,
but she wanted to name me a K name,
but didn't wanna do Kevin or Kyle.
Someone told her about my name,
she picked it, and the rest is history.
- Maybe that's where just the essence
of Middle Eastern came to me there.
- Because I've like, grown into it.
I've accepted this
being put onto me.
- Being like, into me.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, Aaron, I feel like,
is the most basic white
person name you could pick.

English: 
My parents, obviously, both very white,
both very Irish,
and they were like, let's
give out kid the whitest name.
But people usually just call me A-A-Ron.
- Yes, of course.
- Key and Peele, yep.
- I like, sensed some Midwest,
that was what I told myself.
- I get that so much.
- I mean, I get told so much,
especially since I moved out here,
like, are you from the Midwest?
- They can smell it on you.
- I guess, what is it about
me that looks Midwest?
- I think it's like the bright colors,
the bright smile, that to me was like,
I feel this for him, this is his journey,
the Midwest, made the move to Los Angeles.
You tend to eat out often.
You do love to cook.
You hate spicy foods.
The one food you can't stand is tomatoes.
Your idea of comfort food is corn.
If you could only eat one
thing for the rest of your life
it would be eggplant.

Spanish: 
Mis padres, muy blancos, muy irlandeses,
pensaron: "Vamos a ponerle
el nombre más básico".
Pero la gente me llama A-A-Ron.
- Claro.
- Key y Peele, sí.
- Yo he intuido que podrías
ser del Medio Oeste,
pensé eso.
- Me lo dicen mucho.
Me lo dicen mucho,
sobre todo desde que me mudé aquí.
"¿Eres del Medio Oeste?".
- Lo huelen.
- ¿Pero qué les hace
pensar que parezco de ahí?
- Supongo que los colores
vivos, esa sonrisa brillante...
Eso fue lo que me hizo pensar:
"Creo que él es del Medio Oriente
y luego se mudó a Los Ángeles".
Comida
Sueles comer fuera.
Te encanta cocinar.
Odias el picante.
La comida que no soportas es el tomate.
La comida que te hace
sentir bien es el maíz.
Si solo pudieras comer una cosa
durante el resto de tu vida,
serían berenjenas.

English: 
The one food you can make
really well is tacos.
You would cook for
someone on the third date,
and I'm taking some liberties here,
'cause it might be never,
but if you're doing it with me,
I would force you on the third date.
- Okay.
Okay.
So, I tend to eat out often.
I do love to cook.
I love spicy foods.
The one food that I can't stand is cheese.
My idea of comfort food is my
mother's chicken fried steaks.
If I could only eat one
thing for the rest of my life
it would be Spanish rice and beans.
The one food that I can make
really well is t-bone steak.
And I would cook for
someone on the third date.
You tend to make meals at home.
You do love to cook.
You love spicy foods.

Spanish: 
Un plato que cocinas
muy bien son los tacos.
Cocinarías para alguien
en la tercera cita.
Estoy siendo un poco libre,
porque podría ser nunca,
pero si sales conmigo, te
obligaría en la tercera cita.
- Vale.
Vale.
Suelo comer fuera.
Me encanta cocinar.
Me encanta el picante.
Una comida que no soporto es el queso.
La comida que me hace sentir bien
son las milanesas de pollo de mi madre.
Si solo pudiera comer una
comida el resto de mi vida,
sería arroz con frijoles.
Un plato que cocino muy
bien son los filetes T-bone.
Y cocinaría para alguien
en la tercera cita.
Sueles comer en casa.
Te encanta cocinar.
Te encanta el picante.

English: 
The one food you can't
stand is McDonald's.
Your idea of comfort food
is your mother's enchiladas.
If you could only eat one
thing for the rest of your life
it would be peanut butter.
The one food you can make
really well is pasta.
You would cook for someone on
the sixth, maybe seventh date.
- I do make meals at home.
I do love to cook.
I love spicy foods.
One food I can't stand is olives.
My idea of comfort food is pizza.
If I could only eat one
thing for the rest of my life
it would be tacos.
The one thing I can make
really well is pizza.
And I would cook for
someone on the second date.
- I love how a lot of
your answers were just,
what's the whitest thing
that I can put for this guy?
- So here's the thing,
context clues.
I will say, you're from Nebraska,
so I thought corn.

Spanish: 
Una comida que no soportas
es la del McDonald's.
La comida que te hace sentir bien
son las enchiladas de tu madre.
Si solo pudieras comer una
cosa el resto de tu vida,
sería mantequilla de cacahuete.
Un plato que cocinas muy bien es la pasta.
Cocinarías para alguien en
la sexta o séptima cita.
- Sí que como en casa.
Me encanta cocinar.
Me encanta el picante.
Una comida que no soporto
son las aceitunas.
La comida que me hace
sentir bien es la pizza.
Si solo pudiera comer una cosa
durante el resto de mi vida,
serían tacos.
Un plato que cocino muy bien es la pizza.
Y cocinaría para alguien
en la segunda cita.
- Me encanta. Parece que,
para muchas de tus respuestas,
has pensado: "¿Qué es lo más
de blancos que se me ocurre?".
- Esta es la clave:
contexto.
Eres de Nebraska,
así que he pensado en maíz.

Spanish: 
- Tiene gracia porque lo odio.
- ¡Oh!
- La única verdura que no pruebo.
- Bueno es saberlo.
- Crecí con él.
- Es demasiado.
Ya te has cansado.
- No te vas comer la pared de tu casa.
En Nebraska, crecemos así.
- Tiene sentido.
Lo del picante sí que
es porque eres blanco.
No sé cuántos irlandeses
he conocido que suporten el calor como yo,
¿cómo lo ves?
- Ya estamos.
- Lo siento.
- Dame una oportunidad.
No, me encanta el picante.
Si voy a comer fuera y hay comida picante,
siempre intento pedir lo que más pique,
porque me encanta el picante.
- Eso digo yo.
Si me vas a dar algo picante,
quiero que me haga sentir mareado.
Así de picante quiero que sea mi comida.
- Casi acierto con la pasta...
- Sí.
- En el plato que cocinas bien.
- Mismos ingredientes,
diferente ejecución.
- Mejor ejecución.
- Me encanta la pizza.
He pasado los dos últimos años
intentando hacer la mejor masa de pizza.
La pizza es lo único que
siento como que es mío.

English: 
- Which is funny, 'cause I hate corn.
- Oh!
- Corn is the one
vegetable I will not eat.
- Good to know.
- Probably 'cause I grew up in it.
- It's too much.
You've had your fill already.
- You can't eat
the walls off your house.
And that's pretty much what
Nebraskans grow up in.
- That makes sense.
The spicy stuff is, in
fact, because you're white.
I don't know how many Irish people
I have met that can handle
the heat in a way that I can,
how 'bout that?
- There we go.
- I'm sorry.
- Gotta give me a chance, man.
No, I love spicy foods.
Usually if I go somewhere and
it's got a hotness factor,
I always try to order the hottest,
'cause I love spicy food.
- I always say that,
if you're gonna offer me something spicy,
I wanna feel like I'm getting dizzy,
like, that's how spicy I
want my spicy food to be.
- I got close with pasta
- You did.
- on the one thing you
can make really well.
- It's the same ingredients,
different delivery.
- Yeah, right, a much better delivery.
- I love pizza.
I have like, spent the last couple years,
like, developing the right pizza dough.
Pizza is like the one thing
that I feel very territorial about

English: 
that I've been able to like,
kinda tweak year by year,
and I am like, convinced I
have like, the best pizza.
- I'm gonna have to try that out.
I love pizza.
- But if you don't like cheese,
I feel like that's gonna be an issue.
- It's dairy in general,
because I'm lactose intolerant,
but if it's on pizza, that's
the only way I'll eat cheese.
I can slam an entire pizza to myself.
I love pizza, I think it should be
its own place on the food pyramid.
- And your body doesn't just like,
go on strike afterwards?
- I mean, doesn't matter.
It's so good.
Ice cream is also a close second.
I grew up, our family's very big on dairy,
'cause, surprising, once again, Nebraska,
cattle, everything,
but my parents actually
run a ice cream business.
And so not liking ice cream
would be like, sacrilegious.
- Family drama.
- Yeah, I would have a
better chance of like,
cutting my mother's brakes
and having the family
deal with that trauma
rather than being like,
I don't like ice cream.
- I love that your family
has an ice cream shop.
- Oh, yeah, they're the
cutest little old couple

Spanish: 
Porque he podido retocarla, año tras año,
y ahora estoy convencido de
que mi pizza es la mejor.
- Voy a tener que probarla.
Me encanta la pizza.
- Pero si no te gusta el queso,
podría ser un problema.
- Son los lácteos en general,
porque soy intolerante a la lactosa.
Pero la pizza es la única
comida en la que me lo como.
Me puedo comer una pizza entera yo solo.
Debería tener su propio apartado
en la pirámide alimenticia.
- ¿Pero el cuerpo no se
pone en huelga después?
- Da igual.
Está demasiado buena.
El helado queda segundo por poco.
Mi familia es muy de lácteos porque,
sorpresa, otra vez Nebraska
con su ganado y todo.
Pero es que mis padres
tienen una heladería.
Y si no me gustara el
helado sería un sacrilegio.
- Un drama familiar.
- Sí, sería mejor si le cortara
los cables de los frenos a mi madre
y toda mi familia debiera
vivir con ese trauma
que decir: "No me gusta el helado".
- Qué guay que tengan una heladería.

Spanish: 
- Sí, son la pareja de
heladeros más mona que hay.
Los quiero mucho.
Familia
- La fiesta que más te
gusta pasar con la familia
es la Navidad.
Llamas a tu madre tres veces por semana.
Tus padres querían que
tuvieras una heladería
de mayor.
La mayor mentira que les has contado
es que nunca has hecho
algo que ellos no harían.
El familiar con quien mejor
te llevas es tu madre.
- La fiesta que más me
gusta pasar con mi familia
es la Navidad.
Llamo a mi madre dos veces por semana,
pero le escribo todos los días.
Mis padres querían que
fuera actor de mayor.
La mayor mentira que les he
contado es que era hetero.
El familiar con quien
mejor me llevo es mi madre.
La fiesta que más te
gusta pasar con tu familia
es el Día de Acción de Gracias.
Llamas a tu madre dos veces por semana.
Tus padres querían que
fueras abogado de mayor.

English: 
that sell ice cream.
I love them so much.
- Your favorite holiday to
spend with family is Christmas.
You call you mom three times a week.
Your parents wanted you to
be an ice cream shop owner
when you grew up.
The biggest lie that you
ever told your parents
that you didn't do anything
that they wouldn't do.
The person in your family
that you are closest with is your mom.
- My favorite holiday to spend
with my family is Christmas.
I call my mom two times a week,
but I text her every day.
My parents wanted me to be
an actor when I grew up.
The biggest lie that
I ever told my parents
was that I was straight.
The person in my family that
I am closest with is my mom.
Your favorite holiday to spend
with family is Thanksgiving.
You call your mom two times a week.
Your parents wanted you to
be a lawyer when you grew up.
The biggest lie you ever told your parents

English: 
was that you were straight.
The person in your family
that you are closest with is your mom.
- My favorite holiday to spend
with family is Christmas.
I call my mom four times a week.
My parents wanted me to be
an Air Force pilot when I grew up.
The biggest that I ever told my parents
was that I was straight.
And the person in my family
that I am closest with is my mom.
I do love being straight
was the biggest lie.
I didn't wanna like,
project that onto you,
but I do love that that was
what we both put for each other.
- I feel like if you're a gay man--
- It's the only one.
- If you have a bigger lie
you've told your parents,
I wanna hear it, because.
- When did you come out to your parents?
- So they always knew,
- My parents, too.
- but being religious and stuff,
it was, we don't talk about that
or no, you're not, you're
just thinking you are.

Spanish: 
La mayor mentira que les
contaste es que eras hetero.
El familiar con quien mejor
te llevas es tu madre.
- La fiesta que más me
gusta pasar con mi familia
es la Navidad.
Llamo a mi madre cuatro veces por semana.
Mis padres querían
que fuera piloto de la
Fuerza Aérea de mayor.
La mayor mentira que les he
contado es que era hetero.
Y el familiar con el que
mejor me llevo es mi madre.
Me encanta que lo de ser
hetero fuera la mayor mentira.
No quería proyectar eso en ti,
pero me encanta que sea
lo que ambos hemos puesto.
- Creo que si eres un hombre homosexual...
- Es la única.
- Si hay una mentira mayor
que les hayas contado,
quiero oírla, porque...
- ¿Cuándo se lo dijiste a tus padres?
- Siempre lo supieron.
- Mis padres también.
- Pero siendo tan religiosos...
No se hablaba de eso o pensaban:
"No, no lo eres. Solo crees que lo eres".

English: 
And it was finally after I
had moved away to college,
I had kind of a rough period of time
and I finally decided it was either
keep going down this
dark place I was headed,
or finally just live
my truth and be happy.
And so I came out when I was 19.
- 19.
- To my family, yeah.
And my brother and sister were like, cool,
where's the nearest gay pride parade,
like, let's go.
My parents, they took it kinda hard,
and there was a period of
time when we didn't talk.
And now they've come around to the idea.
It's still not something we discuss.
- Yeah, sure.
- But they, at least, are back in my life
and they acknowledge that this is my life
and it's not going to change.
- Not changing anytime soon.
- Mmhm.
- I am a big ol' cliche,
and came out to my mom in
route to a Lady Gaga concert.
So she didn't know before then,
that was probably her first clue,
and I was so, so, so, excited.
And we went to a mall beforehand
to like, do some light shopping,
get something to eat,
and I wanted to get one of
those legalize gay t-shirts.

Spanish: 
Fue cuando me mudé para
ir a la universidad.
Pasé por una mala época
y, al final, decidí que
o seguía por ese camino tan
deprimente por el que iba
o me atrevía a ser yo y ser feliz.
Y salí del armario con 19 años.
- 19.
- Ante mi familia, sí.
Mi hermano y mi hermana
se lo tomaron bien.
"¿Cuándo es la próxima
fiesta del Orgullo? Vamos".
A mis padres les costó más.
Hubo un tiempo en que ni hablábamos.
Ya se han hecho un poco a la idea,
pero no es algo de lo que hablemos.
- Claro.
- Pero ya han vuelto a mi vida
y reconocen que esta es mi vida
y que no va a cambiar.
- No va a cambiar.
- Ajá.
- Yo soy un cliché.
Salí del armario de camino
a un concierto de Lady Gaga.
Ella antes no lo sabía,
probablemente esta fuera la primera pista.
Y yo estaba superemocionado.
Fuimos antes al centro comercial
a hacer algunas compras,
a coger algo para comer.
Yo quería una de esas camisetas
de "Legalizad el matrimonio gay".

English: 
So my mom asked me what was in the bag
when I met up with her again,
and I was like, oh, nothing,
it's just like a shirt.
And so she grabbed the bag and saw it,
and was like, you have to return this.
And I was like, okay,
are you ashamed of me,
I can't believe you're ashamed of me,
and she was like, okay, get in the car,
we're driving home now.
And I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
we are already half way
to the Lady Gaga concert,
you can't do this to me.
So we sat in the car for like
10 minutes just in silence
before I was like, we can just go home.
And we had this whole conversation,
and she was like, first of all,
I'm not mad at you for being gay,
I'm mad at you for thinking
I am ashamed of you.
And I was like, okay, fine, mom,
but are we gonna go to the
Lady Gaga concert or what?
- Right, you're like, I'm
already in my fishnets
and crop top,
like, are we doing this or what?
- We did end up going,
but we had floor seats
and did not sit next to each other
because she was really upset with me
and we didn't speak for like a week
because I accused her
of being ashamed of me.
Now I call my mom four days a week
because she makes me,
and we talk about boys all the time.
- I think every gay man
really goes through that like.
- It's a weird experience.

Spanish: 
Mi madre me preguntó qué había en la bolsa
cuando nos encontramos
y yo le dije: "Nada, una camiseta".
Y cogió la bolsa, la vio y
dijo: "Tienes que devolverla".
Yo contesté: "Vale, te avergüenzas de mí,
no me lo puedo creer".
Ella respondió: "Sube al
coche, nos vamos a casa".
Y yo dije: "No, no, no, no.
Ya estamos a medio camino del concierto,
no puedes hacerme esto".
Y pasamos 10 minutos sentados
en el coche, en silencio,
antes de que yo dijera:
"No podemos volver".
Y ella me dijo:
"No estoy enfadada
contigo porque seas gay,
sino porque pensabas que
me avergonzaba de ti.
Y yo respondí: "Vale, mamá,
¿pero vamos al concierto
de Lady Gaga o qué?".
- "Ya llevo las medias y
el crop top, ¿nos vamos?".
- Y fuimos, pero teníamos
entradas de pista
y no nos sentamos juntos,
porque ella estaba muy enfadada
y no hablamos en una semana,
porque la había acusado de
sentirse avergonzada de mí.
Ahora la llamo cuatro veces
por semana porque me obliga
y siempre hablamos de chicos.
- Creo que todos los gais pasan por esto.
- Es una experiencia extraña.

English: 
- The way I kinda look at is like,
you are pretty much murdering the child
that your parents thought they had,
and you're, like,
but here's this baby.
- Get on board
with this new one.
Get on board with it.
- There's no kind of
grieving period for them,
and I think that's what a
lot of parents go through.
- I like that you are
centering them in that process.
For me, my coming out was more like,
I can't believe I have to do this.
Like, straight people
don't have to do this,
this isn't for you to know that I'm gay,
this is for me to tell you for me.
So I'm like, oh, that's true,
I forgot that they are a
part of this, aren't they?
- So I actually came out to
my parents at the same time.
I mean, they'd both kind of known.
I sent my mom the Macklemore--
- Same Love.
- Same love music video.
- Of course, of course.
- And I wrote out this big, you know,
long email like, this is who I am,
and I can't hide it anymore.
And she emailed back, yeah, I
figured you were a big homo,
but like, why did you think
that I would be mad at you?
Why would I ever disown you
as my child, or whatever.
And so I thought, okay,
cool, my mom's cool with it.
And then the next day
was my dad's birthday.

Spanish: 
- Pienso que debe ser
como que asesinas al hijo
que pensaban que tenían
y dices: "Pero tenéis este".
- Acostumbraos al nuevo. Aceptadlo.
- No les dejas tiempo de duelo
y creo que eso es lo que sienten muchos.
- Me gusta que los pongas
en el centro del proceso.
Para mí, salir del armario fue:
"No me puedo creer que
tenga que hacer esto.
Los heteros no tienen que hacerlo.
No se trata de que sepáis que soy gay,
sino de decirlo yo por mí".
Olvidé que ellos también
forman parte de esto, ¿verdad?
- Yo salí del armario
ante los dos a la vez.
Ambos lo sabían, en cierto modo.
Le mandé a mi madre la
canción de Macklemore...
- Same Love.
- Sí, el videoclip.
- Claro.
- Y le escribí un correo
larguísimo diciéndole:
"Este soy yo y no puedo
seguir ocultándolo".
Y ella me respondió: "Sí,
ya me lo había imaginado,
¿pero por qué pensabas
que me enfadaría contigo?
¿Por qué iba a repudiar
a mi propio hijo?" y tal.
Y pensé: "Guay, a mamá le parece bien".
Y al día siguiente era el
cumpleaños de mi padre.

Spanish: 
Hice un poco el tonto y, en
vez de celebrar su cumpleaños
y esperar al momento oportuno,
le compré el libro "Cómo
tratar con tu hijo gay".
- Joder, tío. Joder.
- Ese fue mi regalo.
- ¡Sorpresa!
- Sí.
E hizo lo que hace el típico
padre del Medio Oeste.
Lo miró y...
- Lo dejó y ya está, muy bien.
- Sí, exacto.
Y desde entonces,
salgo del armario con la
gente cuando confío en ella.
- Salir ante tu familia es raro.
Yo salí ante mi madre,
no creo que lo hiciera
de verdad con mi padre.
Siempre recordaré cuando
mi padre me preguntó
si tenía algún novio.
Y yo pensé:
"Vale, parece que toca
hablar de esto ahora".
- ¿Alguna vez has estado con alguien
que intenta que salgas
del armario delante de él?
- Cuando un compañero de
trabajo dice: "¿Y tu novia?",
y yo pienso: "Dios mío,
otra vez tengo que...".
- U omiten los pronombres:
"¿Sales con alguien?".
- Sí."¿Y tu pareja?".
Pienso: "Puedes preguntar, sí".
- Dices: "Soy gay".
- "Sí, soy gay".
- Yo llevo una riñonera,

English: 
So stupidly, instead of
celebrating the birthday
and waiting until an appropriate time,
I bought him a book,
How do Deal with Your Gay Son.
- Oh, boy, oh, boy.
- That was his birthday gift from me.
- Surprise!
- Yeah.
He just kinda did the
typical Midwest dad thing
of he looked at it and went--
- Put it away, and
that's that, and alright.
- Yep, yep, exactly.
And then ever since then,
I slowly would come out to
people once I trusted them.
- Coming out to your family is weird.
It's like, I came out to my mom,
I don't think I really
ever came out to my dad,
I kinda was just like,
I will always remember the
time that my dad asked me
if I was dating anyone, any boyfriends,
and I was like.
Okay, I guess we're
talking about this now.
- Do you ever find when
you're walking around
people like, try to get
you to come out to them?
- Oh, like, you're hear
like, a coworker who's like,
hey girlfriend, and I'm like, oh my God,
alright, here we go, I'm gonna have to--
- Or they leave out pronouns.
Are you seeing anyone?
- Yeah, like,
your significant other.
And I'm like, I mean, yeah,
ask, I guess.
- You're like, I'm gay.
- Yes, I'm gay.
- I wear like a fanny pack,

Spanish: 
pero me la engancho así
porque no me fío de nadie en la ciudad
y tengo un pin de una drag queen.
Y me pasa sobre todo con
mujeres de más de 40.
Se quedan así.
"Sí, soy gay. No voy
a salir con tu hermano
solo porque ambos seamos gais".
- Yo soy lo contrario. Digo...
- "¿Me das su número?".
- Si me haces pasar por esto,
tendrás que buscarme una cita con alguien.
- Y tienes tarjetas con tu número.
"Soy gay. Si conoces a alguien...".
- "Mándamelo, necesito ayuda".
- "Aquí tienes mi foto".
- Me pasa también al revés,
cuando intento averiguar si
otra persona es gay o no.
Tengo que descubrir cuáles
son sus palabras clave.
Digo: "¿Los heteros
conocen a Kylie Minogue?".
- "¿Tu cantante favorito?". "Beyoncé".
Y piensas: "Guau".
- "Gracioso".
- Algunas canciones son de hetero.
Pero si dicen: "Formation es una pasada",
piensas: "¡Ajá!".
- "Te pillé".
- Sí.
Mi riñonera es como un radar gay,
porque allá donde vaya,
alguien siempre...
- Los heteros no llevan.

English: 
but I put it around my back
'cause I don't trust
these hos in this city,
and it's got a drag queen pin on it,
and it's especially women over 40,
and they'll always be like, hm.
Like, I'm gay.
I'm not gonna date your brother
just because we're both gay.
- Well, actually, I'm the opposite.
I'm like--
- You're like, what's his number?
- I'm like, if you're gonna like,
make me sit through this,
like, I need you to like,
set me up with someone as a result.
- Right, yeah, just have
cards with your number
and be like, listen, I'm
gay, if you know anybody.
- Please send them here,
I need help--
- Here's my headshot, yeah.
- I find that vice versa,
when I'm trying to like,
sus out someone else
who might or might not be gay,
is like, figuring out what
the gay codewords are.
I'm like, do straight people
know about Kylie Minogue?
- They're like, who's
your favorite singer?
They're like, mm, Beyonce,
and you're like, wow.
- Fun.
- 'Cause if they're like,
Harass, you're like, well, he's straight.
But if they're like,
I don't know, Formation
was just so out there,
you're like, ah-ha!
- Gotcha, I found you.
- Yeah.
My fanny pack actually is
like my gay-dar give away
because everywhere that I've ever been,
somebody always--
- Straight guys
don't wear fanny packs.
- Just randomly will be like,

Spanish: 
- Alguien dice: "Me gusta tu riñonera".
Y yo pienso: "Mmm".
- "Sí".
- "Lo sé".
- "Lo sé, gracias por reconocerlo".
- "Sé que te gusta. Sé
adónde quieres ir a parar".
Cosas que no soportas
- No soportarías a alguien
que no sea creativo,
a quien no le gusten las
milanesas de pollo de tu madre
y que no sea flexible con tu agenda.
- No soportaría que la persona fumara,
fuera maleducada y perezosa.
No soportarías a alguien que
solo quiere salir de fiesta,
que no sintiera pasión
o que fuera dependiente.
- No soportaría a alguien
que no me hiciera reír,
que no vea la TV o películas
y a quien no le guste comer.
¿Saldrías conmigo?

English: 
I love your fanny pack.
And I'm like, mmhm.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I know you do.
- I know.
Thank you so much for recognizing it.
- I know you love my fanny and my pack.
Like, I know where you're going with this.
- Your deal breakers are
people who aren't creative,
people who don't like your
mom's chicken fried steak,
and people who aren't
flexible with your schedule.
- My deal breakers are smoking,
being rude, and being lazy.
Your deal breakers are people
who only like to party,
they have no drive, or if they're clingy.
- My deal breakers are someone
who can't make me laugh,
someone who doesn't watch TV or movies,
and someone who doesn't like to eat.

Spanish: 
- Kian.
Cuando te he visto la primera
vez, he pensado que...
saldría contigo.
Y ahora que te he conocido un poco,
he pensado que saldría contigo sin dudar.
- Aaron, cuando te he
visto la primera vez,
he pensado que saldría contigo.
Y ahora que te he conocido un poco,
seguiría saliendo contigo.
- ¿Qué te ha hecho pensar que sí
cuando me has visto la primera vez?
- Cuando te he visto,
he pensado: "Esa camisa es muy chula,
me da un poco de envidia".
Lo cual era una buena
señal, una buena señal.
¿Por qué seguiría saliendo contigo?
Me gusta tu amabilidad.
Eso es muy importante para mí.
Ser empático, valorar la amabilidad...

English: 
- Kian.
When I first saw you I
said that would date you.
And now that I've gotten to know you more,
I said, that I would absolutely date you.
- Aaron, when I first saw you
I said that I would date you.
And now that I've gotten to know you,
I would still date you.
- So what made you say yes,
when you first saw me, what was it?
- When I first saw you,
I said this is a cool shirt
that I'm a little
jealous that I don't own.
Which I was like, good sign, good sign.
Why I would still date you,
I like how much you place kindness.
That's really important to me.
Like, being empathetic, valuing kindness,

English: 
that's important to me.
- Yeah, I definitely said I'd
date you when I first sat down
'cause I'm not blind.
- Oh, stop.
- I mean,
you're very handsome,
very handsome.
- Stop.
- Very much.
And just getting to know you,
like, you're funny.
Very rarely can somebody make
me laugh as much as you did,
so that was good.
- We both think laughing is our favorite,
so that's good.
- Right?
- That's like, a good starting point.
- Right, yeah, yeah.
I was really nervous,
not because I thought,
oh, I'm gonna hae this person,
but because it just,
I don't know, I didn't feel like
I filled out this super long profile
about likes and dislikes or anything,
it was just like, hey,
what are you looking for?
Cool, we got someone.
And I was like, ooh.
I wouldn't even trust my mother
to set me up with anyone.
- Yeah, but that's just it,
it's like, there are a
select group of people
who I'd be like, yeah, I trust
your judgment to set me up.
- There was like, obvious
connection through it,
and that took some of the nerves off,
but it's still like.
- Please don't ruin my life.
I feel like I have like,
an obligation to share this with people,
and what am I supposed to do,
say, hey, guys, here's the video,
please don't watch the
last two minutes of it.
- Here's me getting my heart broke, yeah.

Spanish: 
es importante para mí.
- Desde luego que pensé en
salir contigo cuando te vi,
porque no estoy ciego.
- Oh, para.
- Eres muy guapo, mucho.
- Para.
- Mucho.
Te he conocido un poco y eres gracioso.
Es raro que alguien me haga
reír tanto como lo has hecho tú.
Eso es bueno.
- A ambos nos importa eso,
está bien.
- ¿Verdad?
- Empezamos bien.
- Sí, sí.
Yo estaba nervioso, no porque pensara:
"Voy a odiar a esta
persona", sino porque...
No sé, no creía que rellenar
una ficha superlarga
con lo que me gusta y lo
que no fuera a servir.
Me dijeron: "¿Qué buscas?
Vale, tenemos a alguien".
Y yo pensé: "Ohhh".
No confiaría ni en mi madre
para que me preparara una cita.
- Sí, hay pocas personas de
las que yo me fiaría para eso.
- Obviamente, hubo conexión
y eso me quitó un poco los nervios.
Pero aun así...
- No me arruinéis la vida, por favor.
Siento que debo compartir
esto con la gente.
¿Pero qué debo decir?
"Aquí está el vídeo, no veáis
los dos últimos minutos".
- "Este soy yo con el corazón roto".

English: 
- Please watch it up until the very end.
- In other news, I joined seminary.
- In other news, I am
actually no longer gay.
- Right.
- I've learned it's no
longer working for me
after this experience.
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- And thanks so much for
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- Let's get out of here.

Spanish: 
- "Por favor, vedlo hasta el final".
- "Más noticias: entré en el seminario".
- "Más noticias: ya no soy gay".
- Claro.
- He visto que no me sirve
después de esta experiencia.
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- Y por enviar estas preguntas tan chulas.
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