Watch: Queer, Body-Positive Rapper 'Eating Up' as Conservatives Fly into Frenzies

A queer rapper known for showing plenty of skin at his performances went viral (and commanded notice from major stars) when right-wingers started whining and clutching their pearls over his video clip.

"It was more just like that same rhetoric of like, the liberals want to dismantle American values, that shit," Chris Conde, a bear who performs in scanty leather trappings, told Rolling Stone of the homophobic tizzy the clip inspired among conservatives who, evidently, couldn't stop watching. The snippet has racked up tens of millions of views on right-wing social media.

"They're just angry, but they don't know why, right?" the 37-year-old went on to say. "Which is hilarious."

"I'm eating up that these people are so bothered by my existence," Conde added. "I've been subverting heteronormative ideologies since I came out, especially with my music."

The clip shows "Conde performing in his harness at a Pride festival in the small Austrian town of Bad Ischl in mid-June," Rolling Stone explained. The footage was shared on social media by a conservative influencer named Juanita Broaddrick.

@chrisconde666 There really aren't enough words to accurately communicate how grateful I am to have finished another tour in Europe. I'm so grateful to Crise our tour manager, booking agent and driver who made this all possible. Thank you for being our cheerleader, guide and most of all - friend. I'm also so privileged to go on these adventures with the beautiful @Myles Bullen who constantly educates me with his kindness, art and zest for life. My world has truly changed since he's entered it and I'm so lucky to have him as a friend. Thank you to the promoters, venues and friends who put let us play their spaces, housed us, fed us showed us cool shit in their cities. Thank you to all the beautiful people who came to our shows, told us how our music connected with them, supported us through buying our merch and loved on us through this entire trip. Finally, thank you to @ceschi ramos and @Fake Four Inc for believing in us and connecting us to a greater community in Europe and the world Ending at Fusion Fest really couldn't have been a more beautiful celebration to culminate the journey. The lights, the people, the music and the community was all really breathtaking. I never thought I could rave and cry at the same time. I'm exhausted and happy #queer ♬ original sound - Chris Conde

"The clip has since racked up 21 million views on her page," Rolling Stone detailed. "Other conservatives appeared eager to incite ridicule of Conde with similar comments, and garnered homophobic, body-shaming replies."

But the video had a broader reach than that – and broader appeal, too.

"Yvie Oddly, winner of season 11 of 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' quoted Broaddrick's post to express interest in a 'musical collab' with Conde," Rolling Stone relayed.

Meanwhile, "Azealia Banks," Rolling Stone noted, "posted a screenshot of him on her Instagram stories to compliment his work and ask who he was."

"I was like, 'That's bizarre, I was just listening to Azealia Banks this morning,'" the Conde told the music magazine.

"To his surprise, they were soon DMing one another," Rolling Stone said.

Conde has been steadily ramping up his successes since first entering the music scene more than a decade ago. He shared the why and when of his signature stripped-down on-stage look with Rolling Stone, recalling, "The first time I took my clothes off on stage, I was performing at a sports bar" where, the magazine said, he was the opening act for a drag show.

"Nobody was paying attention to his set, so he stripped," Rolling Stone said.

"And people paid attention," Conde said. They still are – now more than ever.

"I do rap about gay sex and queer sex," Conde (who says that his revealing performances in front of enthusiastic, accepting crowds has helped him with body image issues), "but I also rap about overcoming drug addiction and mental health."

Even before conservative outrage fueled his meteoric rise, Conde was getting his music (and his message) out to the world with songs like C.O.M.B. (which, Rolling Stone said, stands for "Come On My Beard") and "The Notorious F.A.G." (no explanation needed for that last title).

Added the out musician – who sports a tattoo of the word "Queer" on his belly – "The full show kind of brings you through all these moments and the queer experience – queer joy, queer sex, queer hurt."