Twins Call Dad to come out Instead Break up Crying (see Vid)
Before fraternal twins Aaron and Austin Rhodes tearfully came out as gay to thousands of YouTube viewers, they had to call their father.
The Los Angeles-based models behind “The Rhodes Bros,” a popular YouTube channel, were already nervous wrecks waiting for their father to pick up the phone.
“Leading up to this, we just hadn’t told him. We knew he was the last person to tell,” Aaron Rhodes, 19, told the Daily News.
The big call captured on video for their show found their dad busy at work in Ohio.
As both teens tried to explain their news, they lost their words and silently broke into tears before Aaron finally spit it out: “I’m gay. Austin’s gay, too.”
Trying to explain themselves — speaking a mile a minute while wiping tears from their red faces — their father, Rodney, cut them off.
COURTESY AARON RHODESAaron Rhodes stands next to his father, Rodney, who’s heard on a phone call supporting his twin sons after they said they were gay.
“Would you just stop it? It’s the way things are, you know,” their father said. “You grew up in a different generation that me ... You know I love you both. That’ll never change.”
The heartwarming words heard over speakerphone in their video lifted what Austin described as “10 million pounds” off his shoulders.
“When he said ‘I love you’ ... that’s all I wanted to hear,” Aaron told the News.
After years of “hiding” and pretending to be who they weren’t, Aaron said it was time to come out. He and his brother prefaced their eight-minute video by saying they wanted to be “as authentic as possible.”
“We were out to close friends and our mother. She’s known for like two years,” Aaron said. “We were always afraid of our dad. He’s very masculine. He doesn’t show a lot of emotion.”
Their fears, however, were unfounded.
Aaron flew to Ohio shortly after their phone call and went came to face with his father. A photo shared on Instagram shows the two standing side by side, smiling.
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