‘How do you make a map more gay?’ Congressman probes Biden-era’s ‘queering the maps’

Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida, pressed a State Department official over a Biden-era grant for “more gay” maps.

State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, was in the hotseat, testifying at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Advancing National Security Through Public Diplomacy.” It was there that Mast asked her a question about “queering the map.”

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The Biden administration was allegedly wasting taxpayer money making gay maps, according to Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers.

Rep Brian Mast: Can you tell me what is queering the map?

Rogers: So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay.

Mast:… pic.twitter.com/hPFWJxyxGY

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 6, 2026

“Can you tell me what is queering the map?” Mast asked.

“So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay,” Rogers responded, referring to efforts made under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

“Literally? How do you make a map more gay? Or gay at all?” the committee chairman inquired.

“I don’t know. 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,” she admitted.

“It is embarrassing that we have to talk about the fact that things like this were funded non-binary and transfranophones, linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward inclusive French in Montreal, Canada,” Mast responded.

“Other grants were for a DEI flash mob in Kyrgyzstan, a diversity roadshow in India, diversity and inclusion programs in Luxembourg, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, and Malaysia, teaching trans and intersex leaders in India,” he noted at another point. “We would absolutely love to know the individuals specifically who were busy writing these grants, because they have no business receiving another paycheck from the people of the United States of America.”

Incredulous X users reacted:

Wait is this real?

— Bryan Pena (@btpena) March 6, 2026

This is AI right?

— SimpleReality (@OmegaSuperDuper) March 6, 2026

Maps needed more rainbow routes, apparently.

— Eshan Shahid (@xbteshan) March 6, 2026

And all this time, I thought that was why we included Canada on maps.

— Nuclear Herbs (@NuclearHerbs) March 6, 2026

Maps were too straight, needed more vibe.

— Lony Trader (@lonytrading) March 6, 2026

Everything that happened in the Biden administration could be confused as satire, but it was really happening.

— Mrs D (@Denosko1) March 6, 2026

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