is my beautiful girlfriend Cammie

and today we're doing something really, really, really exciting

Art

Okay, so we've partnered with Marriott for their

#LoveTravels Campaign

So the basic idea is everyone from all over the world

is going to enter in some form of artwork that expresses love to them

It can be a painting, a drawing, a picture, a quote

Whaterver helps you show love

Then they're gonna put all of these together for an art installation at DC pride

So today Shannon and I are gonna make our art pieces

Yes, we are

And to make this video even more gay

we're gonna do like a Q&A that I posted on Twitter

that's kind of LGBTQ+ related

If you want to get one of these art kitswe're gonna let you know later

so your art pieces can be as fancy as ours

I love the tissue paper

We have so many babe brushes!

I get so excited over art supplies

I don't deserve this!

I...I'm not good enough for you!

More acrylics in vibrant colors

What, there's more?!

This is the cutest little...

What are they called?

Canvas?

Pencils, erasers...

What do these do?

To fix all my life mistakes

Oh, my god! It's so fancy!

How do you hold it?

Really? All 5 brushes

Now that we got all our supplies out

Let's do the Q and Gay

How do you make younger siblings...

like say 5 to 10...

understand what being LGBTQ means?

I actually think they are the easiest people to explain it

Shannon: like, you know what I mean? Cammie: Absolutely

I think the younger you are you're just like "yeah, ok, whatever"

Cammie: "You love them? Cool" Shannon: "You love who you love"

I've heard rumors that there's a petition to get Elsa a girlfriend for Frozen 2

Shannon: Can you imagine? Cammie: I think that would be...

...so cool because then it would just normalize it for little kids just to see...

real love between two people of the same sex

I just think that would be amazing

I'm so excited I'm gonna squeeze it

What's your advice to feeling alone when it comes to sexuality?

My personal advice is

you're so not alone, like I don't even know how to explain like

other than...you're definitely not alone

With like 7 billion people in the world

there's going to be someone who has the same sexual preference that you do

no matter what that is

and you may feel alone if you're leaving in a small town and what not

but who knows, the person next to you might be feeling alone

and feeling the exact same thing as you

Shannon: Exactly Cammie: You're not alone by any means

Do people ever get surprised when they find out that you're gay?

All the time

Yeah

All the time...I think it's odd and a bit rude to express that

Like for people to say that they're surprised

I feel like a lot of people think it's a compliment

"Oh my gosh, you don't look gay at all!"

They want me to be like

"Oh, thank you!"

I just think it's wrong to assume anyone's sexuality either way

Have you ever been attracted to a girlfriend?

I feel like it's like...

Oh, like a friend

Yeah. I think that's like inevitable

Absolutely!

I feel like when I was younger was more like

"oh my gosh, you're so pretty!"

"maybe I just wish I was like you"

Yeah...

No

No, no

I love painting!

Dab, dab, dab, dab, dab

What was it like coming out to your friends and family?

It was scary

but it was like awesome

like the most freeing thing ever

like it was like "ok, now it's done, I don't have to worry about it anymore"

It was never what I expected it to be

it was always different with each different person

but it was always freeing and it was always like

I just took 10 thousand pounds off of my body

Scariest part is like the unknown of it

like you don't know how someone will react

so yeah, that's really scary

but I think a really important thing is that you shouldn't

get to focus on that thought process because

you're gonna totally make yourself paranoid

and freak out and think that like every reaction will be bad

when in reality like...like most are great

lots are great

What should I do when friends and/or parents try to forcibly make me change my sexuality?

Think it's much easier to deal with that stuff when

you've accepted yourself

I was actually talking to Amanda

Shut up. Promo for promo

And she was saying that as well

Like once you're confident in yourself is so much less scary to tell people because...

not that their reactions don't matter anymore

Whenever I would have to come out to people

or someone would say something about me possibly being gay

before I had accepted that about myself or was comfortable with that

it was a crippling feeling

it was terrifying

I didn't want anyone to know

I was just...It would freak me out

And I think if somebody did try to change me

in that vulnerable state

I may have gone along with that

I may have fit into that and thought

"you know what? maybe I can change"

'cause it wasn't a fun feeling

it was terrifying

but I really did wait to come out until I was secure in myself

for the most part

And I think that really made a difference

because I stopped caring what people were gonna say and how they were gonna react

and hoped that they loved me and hoped that they accepted me

but knew that if they didn't I was still gonna be me

That was great, baby

Thank you

well done

So...is this for highlighter?

Okay, I finished my painting

Cammie's still working on hers so

I'm gonna do another one!

What is like the best advice you have for someone who wants to come out?

I think at the end of the day you have to remember that

you have one life to live

and it is your life and you need to live it for you

so to like to go through your life and

and limit yourself and hold yourself back from being honest and truthful

it's like you're only hurting yourself

like you're the only one who's gonna be hurting from that, you know?

so do you wanna live your life for everyone else or you wanna live it for you?

I just wanna also add that

your happiness is the most important thing at the end of the day

and there's no way to be happy when you're living a lie

so bite the bullet and just go for it, hommies

Cammie, read yours

"I am what I am"

And mine says:

"To be yourself in a world that's constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"

It's like mine is the silly version of that

Shannon: Yeah, exactly!

So like we said earlier there's a chance that you guys can get this kit

and make your own piece of art

So leave a comment down below explaining why you would like one of these kits

Please, share your post on social media and hashtag "LoveTravels"

so yours can be included in the art installation with ours

With ours!

That's crazy. That'd be so cool

We'll have all the links in the description

to like getting a kit if you want a kit or like whatever

All the stuff is down below

I hope you guys liked this video

I hope you got something out of either our answers or our awesome artwork

Something

I hope something touched you in this video

Just go with it

We love you guys and we will see you next time

Bye!