The video, a stately contemporary dance number, is a perfect match for the song. This pantheon comes after a striking bit of songcraft, in which Mika shifts “gay guys” to “good guys” in his question, insisting on the still-powerful equivalence “gay is good.” Auden, James Dean, Walt Whitman, Cole Porter, and Jean Cocteau, among others. The most touching part of the song is Mika’s séancelike summoning-“To all my heroes that were dressed up in gold/ only hopin’ one day I could be so bold”-of all the gay figures that have inspired him: W.H.
