I’ve been delighted by how LGBTQ people are responding to this. The video hits people hard with joy. In my own little publication on Medium, Prism & Pen, it seemed like everybody wanted to write about Montero and LNX.

From a middle-aged queer white Christian woman in western Canada to a young, trans, Hindu college boy in Kolkata, this song electrified LGBTQ people, striking some kind of universal cord and filling them with pride.

Props to Lil Nas X. He hit one not out of the park but straight into the heart.

And if conservatives are hating on him, it’s because they know how powerful, joyful and transformative his message is.