fantastical music video — which shows the artist queering religious iconography, including a pole dance descent to hell and a lap dance for Satan — was hailed by many LGBTQ+ fans for its embrace of sexuality.In a follow-up note on Instagram, Lil Nas X, who came out as gay in 2019, penned a note to his younger self (his birth name is Montero Lamar Hill) declaring that the video "will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist.""I wrote a song with our name in it," he wrote in full. "It's about a guy I met last summer.