Al Belmont just knew it in his gut: he was going to become prom king.

Belmont is 17 and a student at North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He's also transgender, a part of his identity he would have likely had to hide or "correct" if he had wanted to attend prom at pretty much any other point in history besides this one.

As Indiana's first transgender prom king, Belmont hadn't even seen a trans person be nominated at his school. This year, he joined a growing list of LGBTQ youth who've not only attended prom, but captured prom nominations and won.

Millennials are the most queer and trans-friendly generation in history, and that energy appears to have trickled down to one of the institutions most hostile to it: the prom. Still, advocates stress, President Trump has helped cause a spike in bullying against a population already vulnerable to it. The demand for separate LGBTQ proms and more inclusive school ones has grown both because of increased visibility and aggravated harassment.

"The President made it his business to rescind a directive that supported trans youth . . . that emboldens [bullies] to act," Jabari Lyles, Director of GLSEN-Baltimore, told Mashable, referring to Trump rescinding Obama-era protections for trans students to use the corresponding bathroom to their gender identity.

There are more queer and trans-friendly proms than ever before, precisely because it started at, um, zero.