{"id":21432,"date":"2026-03-08T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-do-you-make-a-map-gay-biden-era-program-used-tax-dollars-to-queer-maps\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:31:35","slug":"how-do-you-make-a-map-gay-biden-era-program-used-tax-dollars-to-queer-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-do-you-make-a-map-gay-biden-era-program-used-tax-dollars-to-queer-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How Do You Make A Map Gay?\u2019 Biden-Era Program Used Tax Dollars To \u2018Queer\u2019 Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A question about \u201cqueering\u201d maps \u2014 raised during a Thursday hearing on Capitol Hill \u2014 revealed just how deep the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were buried in the U.S. State Department under former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) posed the question to Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, who assumed the role previously held by Biden-appointee Liz Allen in 2025, asking her what it meant to \u201cmake maps more gay.\u201d Mast was questioning Rogers on a series of programs that were given grant funding during the Biden administration to push DEI priorities.<\/p>\n

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.@RepBrianMast<\/a>: How do you make a map more gay? @UnderSecPD<\/a> brings reciepts exposing just what the Biden State Department wasted tax dollars on for four years. pic.twitter.com\/4nQvIptIFM<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cCan you tell me, what is queering the map?\u201d Mast asked Rogers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think we were trying to make the maps more gay,\u201d Rogers replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally? That\u2019s \u2014 How do you make a map more gay?\u201d Mast asked, clearly baffled by the concept. \u201cOr gay at all?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially with AI \u2014 since the age of cartography we\u2019ve had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren\u2019t gay enough,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cI know also \u2014 I took critical theory in college, I think sometimes people use \u2018queer\u2019 as a verb. I do understand that the maps that we were trying to make gay were I think of Czechia and Slovakia, so maybe those countries asked for it. I doubt it, but I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mast made it clear that he was unimpressed by the previous administration\u2019s priorities, adding, \u201cWe do have real things to work on in Congress like what\u2019s going on with the imminent threat of Iran, and it is embarrassing that we have to talk about the fact that things like this were funded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mast went on to list a few other similar DEI-focused initiatives that had been funded during the Biden administration, including introducing \u201cnon-binary and trans francophones\u201d to minimize the heavily-gendered nature of the French language in order to make it more inclusive.<\/p>\n

The goal, Mast explained, was to shift \u201clinguistic attitudes and ideologies towards inclusive French in Montreal, Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning to Rogers, he asked the undersecretary to provide him with receipts for other such initiatives and with the identities of those who were writing the grants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever documentation they have on all of these things, we would love to see that and would absolutely love to know the individuals specifically that were busy writing these grants because they have no business receiving another paycheck from the people of the United States of America,\u201d Mast concluded.<\/p>\n

Rogers commented<\/a> on the exchange afterward, offering her apologies to the people of Czechia and Slovakia for what the Biden administration had done to their maps.<\/p>\n

\u201cCzechia and Slovakia are great countries. I\u2019m sorry that my predecessors \u2018queered\u2019 your maps! This is why future public diplomacy grants will be streamlined, accountable, and channeled toward real American interests, like free speech and sports diplomacy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n