Steve Grand is the “Instinct” cover man!

The up and coming singer Steve Grand of All-American Boy fame is on the cover of Instinct Magazine.

Steve, as you probably know, wrote his breakthrough song and paid for the video that exploded on YouTube over the summer.

“It’s been the most amazing, most hectic thing, a real whirlwind,” Steve tells Instinct. “I was terrified leading up to it. I knew I had to do this, that I had this in me. This video and song have had a much greater impact, a much deeper impact than I could have ever hoped for. I really wasn’t expecting for it to resonate with people on such a deep level. It’s been a huge, huge gift.”

After the song took off, Steve gave an interview with Good Morning America in which he discussed the therapy he underwent after coming out to his Christian family. He wants to make clear that it was not conversion therapy.

“This is such a touchy subject to talk about. I don’t want to misrepresent what happened, but I also don’t want to endorse anything or take away from others’ experiences,” Steve says. “I was not in conversion therapy. I was seeing a Christian therapist, who, among many beliefs, believed I would be happier if I didn’t live life as a gay man. He did not shame me. He did not make me feel bad for what I felt. But he did believe I would be happier in life if I lived as a heterosexual, and that part is indeed harmful. If you’re doing anything but affirming someone’s sexuality, you’re harming them. Especially a child.”