Should LGBTQ people be fully accepted, with equal rights including marriage?
Both brothers have consistently supported gay people's equality: John backed gay marriage from 2007, and in 2012 Hank called equality under the law the only argument that matters, extending his support to gender identity that year. John celebrated nationwide marriage equality in 2015 and in 2025 restated his support for trans rights and marriage equality.
Axis: full acceptance and equal rights ... restriction
Positions by date: 22 records in 22 videos. The position did not change in these records.
John
| date | how | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-12-04 | first on record | Asked his stance on gay marriage, John says he is for it. | December 4th: Question Tuesday!!!! 00:00:39 |
| 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) | restate | John argues 'gay' can never work as an insult because being gay is not bad. | GAY is NOT an INSULT 00:02:36 |
| 2010-05-14 | restate | John says being gay is not a political or religious issue to him and points to Christians who believe it cannot separate anyone from God's love. | Advice on First Kisses, Stalkers, College Majors, and More 00:03:05 |
| 2011-04-11 | restate | John tells someone asking whether their boyfriend is gay that human sexuality is not either/or and that denying its complexity makes both partners miserable. | Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? 00:00:48 |
| 2012-04-17 | restate | John calls it ridiculous that gay people's sex could be morally justifiable in Vermont but not Mississippi, and says gay kissing is not wrong and nothing to be ashamed of. | Thoughts on Romance and Sex in an Airport 00:01:56 |
| 2012-05-15 | restate | John argues that marriage is defined by the people inside it, that gay marriage already exists, and that denying gay couples the rights of marriage is discrimination; legal benefits can't hinge on a religious covenant. → refers to Your Arguments Are Invalid: Gay Marriage | Religion and Gay Marriage 00:03:09 |
| 2015-06-30 | restate | John celebrates that people anywhere in the US can now marry the person they love and toasts the activists behind it. | Some News 00:03:38 |
| 2024-02-27 | restate | As progress, John notes that 20 years ago the median American did not believe in equal rights for LGBTQ people. | I Was Wrong about the Average American 00:03:53 |
| 2024-12-17 | restate | John says book banners feel the existence of LGBTQ people is obscene, which is why they disproportionately ban books about them. | About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska 00:04:52 |
| 2025-06-17 | restate | John supports trans rights and marriage equality: being the person God made you to be cannot separate you from God's love. | My Religion 00:04:22 |
Hank
| date | how | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-11-23 | first on record | Hank says using 'gay' in the derogatory sense, as a synonym for 'lame', is not cool; he means it as 'homosexual'. | November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! 00:00:40 |
| 2010-06-14 | restate | Hank: Turing's persecution shows how much acceptance of gay people has changed; more change is needed, and it comes as individuals change. | Be The Change - vlogbrothers 00:02:35 |
| 2011-10-12 | restate | On National Coming Out Day Hank says stereotyped interests say nothing about orientation, orientation is complicated and rarely 100% either way, and people should be honest with themselves and those they love. | Coming Out and Sperm Spikes 00:02:56 |
| 2012-05-11 | restate | Hank says opposing gay marriage treats some citizens differently from others, rebuts the religious, 'undermining marriage' and 'unnatural' arguments, and says the only argument that matters is equality in the eyes of the law. | Your Arguments Are Invalid: Gay Marriage 00:03:31 |
| 2012-10-12 | restate | Hank restates his support for LGBTQ people, now extended to gender identity: every combination of sex, gender, orientation, behaviour and roles is legitimate, pronouns follow gender, and everyone deserves understanding and respect. | Human Sexuality is Complicated… 00:03:28 |
| 2013-04-19 | restate | Hank (description) says the cultural stigma around homosexuality when he was growing up was so severe that tiny signs made him fear he was gay; he assumes it is hard for many others. | On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg video description |
| 2013-05-03 | restate | Hank says using "gay" as an insult is insulting to gay people and makes the speaker sound immature. | 17 Rants in 4 Minutes 00:02:54 |
| 2014-12-26 | restate | Hank welcomes Missoula's first same-sex marriage at the courthouse, saying he can't believe it took so long. | The Best and Worst of 2014 00:02:25 |
| 2017-02-03 | restate | Hank calls it ludicrous that so much time was spent denying the joy of marriage to people because of whom they love. | Are We Making Things Worse? 00:00:49 |
| 2019-12-27 | restate | Hank notes, as a bigger deal, that back then gay marriage was illegal. | Why I'm Worried about 2020 00:00:33 |
| 2024-09-13 | restate | Hank thinks Gianforte also runs to do things, but many people believe America went wrong because gay people can marry, women can choose abortion and schools teach honest history, which scares him. | My Governor is Weirder than Yours 00:05:52 |
| 2025-04-04 | restate | Hank says some norms and taboos spring from undesirable aspects of culture, like rules controlling women's bodies or whether trans or gay people can be publicly trans or gay. | Morality 00:02:30 |
Background
| date | how | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-28 | background | Hank is happy that at least 55% of the Supreme Court 'is not crazy', in a video titled for marriage equality. (playful) | Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality 00:01:30 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).