'I still love you son,' his father was heard saying through the phone line. I've known for … forever.'ĭescribing how his heart was 'beating like crazy,' Phillips told his father that he did not want to tell him over the phone, but wasn't sure when he would see him again and didn't want him to find out any other way. He took a beat, and then said it: 'Dad, I'm gay. 'You promise you'll always love me? Period?' Phillips asked his father, his voice shaking. In the clip, Phillips said it was 'the hardest thing that gay guys will ever have to say. Phillips, a 21-year-old airman stationed at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, sat alone in front of a camera Tuesday, and under his YouTube handle 'AreYouSurprised,' called his father in Alabama to tell him that he was gay.
