Thank you to everybody who made this past year so incredible. I feel really grateful for every kindness, every opportunity, every challenge, every meal, every hug, every cry, every song, and every moment of joy I was lucky enough to experience in 2022. Not all years are great. This one truly was.

I’m sitting in my living room in Garden City in my rainbow snowsuit, thinking about how beautiful change can be. This year brought big, sweeping adventure into my life — and it’s exactly what I needed. From releasing my debut album for Kill Rock Stars, to living out my fashion dreams with Alessandro Michele and Gucci, to collaborating with Yellow Trash Can, Gino Mari and others, to working with Portugal. The Man, Lucy Dacus and DotGay, to to Idaho, this year has been all smiles and hi-fives.

Happy New Year to each and every one of you! I have new music coming in 2023 and can’t wait to share it with y’all. Thanks for being here. 💙

I’m one of like 5 people who somehow managed to have a good year — but I miss restaurants, live music, trying on clothes in stores, and staying home for fun. I miss making eyes with random men at parties and the creepy way my chiropractor always used to tell me I smelled good while he was cracking my back. I miss your faces, I miss movie theaters, and most of all, I miss not being afraid all the time — for you, for me, and for what all of this means for the future.

I responded to this madness by leaning all the way into joy, glamour, music, fashion, fundraising and gayness, everywhere I could. I made keeping myself, my family, and my colleagues safe and moving forward my number one priority in 2020 — and it worked. We did the thing and we are still here.

Love you all. I’ll kiss you at midnight next year.