"Can you tell me, what is 'queering the map'? Mast asked, according to Fox News. Rogers, a former white-shoe law firm partner handling cases involving the National Rifle Association, Big Tobacco manufacturers, and the online 'censorship' of Charlie Kirk, claimed that Biden's State Department was proactively making U.S. foreign policy 'more gay.'"
"So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay, she told Mast. Literally? How do you make a map more gay? Or gay at all? Mast asked. I don't know, Rogers admitted. Since the age of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough."
"I also took critical theory in college, and I think sometimes people use 'queer' as a verb. I do understand that the maps 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't know."
During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on public diplomacy, Republican chairman Rep. Brian Mast questioned State Department official Sarah Rogers about Biden administration grants, characterizing them as promoting 'woke ideology.' Mast specifically asked about a project called 'queering the map,' and Rogers acknowledged the State Department had worked on making maps related to Czechia and Slovakia, though she appeared uncertain about the project's specifics. Rogers, a former law firm partner with backgrounds in NRA and tobacco industry cases, suggested the administration was attempting to make foreign policy 'more gay.' The hearing reflected broader Republican criticism of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the State Department.
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