AsapSCIENCE was last featured here in a May 21, 2013 posting about a Periodic Table of Elements video the pair, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, produced for their YouTube channel, AsapSCIENCE. Thanks to a June 11, 2014 posting by Sarah Gray for Salon.com, I learned of a recent video, Coming out Twice, produced by Moffit and Brown for their second YouTube Channel, AsapTHOUGHT,

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Today [June 11, 2014], the creators of these two channels shared what might be their most powerful and impactful video to date: “Coming Out Twice.” In it Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit, proudly state that while their YouTube experience has been mostly positive, they’ve encountered a lot of vitriol and homophobia. To combat this, the two, who are partners and have been together for 7 and a half years, decided to make this video to “come out, again.”

“We are openly, proud gay people, who love science,” Brown says.

It seems fitting to share on this on the eve of the July 1, 2014 Canada Day celebrations and just post the 2014 World Pride Celebrations (June 20 – 29, 2014) in Toronto, Ontario.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously said, more or less,  the ‘government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation’ and, as then Justice Minister, went on to decriminalize (with a lot of help) homosexuality in Canada in 1969.

The celebration of 2014 Canada Day started here last week with a four-part posting about art authentication. You can start here with: Art (Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven), science (Raman spectroscopic examinations), and other collisions at the 2014 Canadian Chemistry Conference (part 1 of 4).