Yes, Thomas Sanders is definitely gay, the YouTube star came out as gay in 2017. He stated that he has accepted who he is and asks his fans to do the same. However, Thomas has not publicly revealed his partner on any of his social media platforms. He prefers to keep his personal life away from the limelight.
Thomas Sanders is a multitalented American who has been involved in everything concerning entertainment, including acting, scriptwriting, and singing. However, it is on social media that he has become more famous as a prankster and comedian. He started establishing his ground as an entertainer in 2002, although it was much later that he came to be recognized.
While his professional life has made a lot of media buzz, his personal life, including his sexuality and family life have not been much of a public affair as Sanders is not generous with such details. Here is a look at his life away from the entertainment circle.
Is Thomas Sanders Really Gay?
With a personality that has sentenced him to the easy-to-love category, The personal life, and sexuality of the versatile and highly talented YouTuber has always been subjected to a lot of questions and speculations.
However, he decided to put all these to rest when he finally came out and cleared the air by making it known that he’s neither straight nor bisexual; he is just gay. Thomas Sanders first made the revelation on Twitter in response to the never-dying question of whether he is gay. He answered in the affirmative, pointing out that he is gay because he was born that way.
The beloved YouTube star would go on for the second time in a matter of days to confirm that he is gay, this time around on YouTube.
What Fueled the Speculations About His Sexuality?
Long before coming out, there was always the speculation that the social media personality could as well be gay. One of the main reasons behind this is that he usually made jokes about liking guys. Because of this, he was once asked if that was him coming out.
While most people really believed he was only gay, there were others who felt he could also be bisexual. The claim that he was bisexual started after he stated that both genders were great, but he cared more about a person’s personality than gender.
Also, many thought he was bisexual because of the personalities he sometimes adopts in his videos.
Is He Dating Anyone?
Although he has finally come out as gay, there is still so much that Thomas Sanders has not revealed about his private life, most especially as regards who he is dating or even who he has dated in the past. In the meantime, he has not introduced any special person in his life to his myriad of fans and there is nobody we can confirm to be his boyfriend for now.
Who is Thomas Sanders?
The popular social media personality, singer and actor was born Thomas Foley Sanders on April 24, 1989. He was brought up alongside his brothers; Shea, Patrick, and Christian in Gainesville, Florida.
When Thomas and his brothers were little, they would take the family camcorder and record clips of themselves doing different things that would later make them laugh. This marked his first romance with the camera even though he was always a shy kid.
A devoted Catholic of Irish descent, he achieved his high school education in Gainesville and then moved to the University of Florida from where he got a Bachelors’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
He started his social media career on Vine where he grew to become one of the most popular individuals on the platform. When he first opened the platform, he used it to post songs, comedy, and pranks under the name of his dog, Foster Dawg.
On the platform where he made his first post in 2013, Thomas Sanders commanded a legion of more than 8.3 million followers before it shut down. He was one of the most favourite individuals on Vine and was awarded the favorite Vine celebrity in 2014 before going on in 2016 to clinch the Streamy Awards for Viner of the year. His resume became richer that same year when he was also named the Best YouTube Comedian at the awards.
Although he had started his YouTube channel since 2009, it was in 2011 that he made his first post and then from 2013, he started sharing videos more regularly. He would later gain even more fame for his YouTube series; Sanders Side which centres on how to deal with procrastination, anxiety, breakup, adulthood, and responsibility. He runs the show using different personalities such as Prince Roman, Patton, Virgil, and Logan.
After Vine was shut down, he started posting more and more on YouTube. By January 2020, he had built his channel to more than 3.2 million subscribers and close to a quarter-billion views.
Apart from his social media presence and strength, Thomas Sanders is also a singer who released his first album in 2016. He is also famous in the acting sphere, having played roles in the community theatre and he regularly performs in any local function. Sanders appeared in the productions of Hot Mikado (2007), Singin’ in the Rain (2009), and Les Misérables (2014) among others.
Thanks to the success of his YouTube channel, he is reported to be bagging as much as $3 million each year.
