Making The Maps Gay Again: This Is Where Dems Will Take Us

Here’s an example of what America will go back to if Democrats get back into power: Queering the maps. 

During the Biden years, the State Department reportedly spent $72,000 on making maps “more gay.” 

That’s according to testimony from Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, questioned at a recent House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting. Committee Chairman, Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., wanted to get to the bottom of a host of crazy projects and initiatives the Biden administration funded with our money. 

The congressman was particularly perplexed about the State Department’s LGBTQ-focused map-making process. 

“Can you tell me: what is ‘queering the map?’” Mast asked Rogers. 

“So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay,” the undersecretary said. 

Mast understandably sounded incredulous. How does one go about making a map more gay? Or gay at all? 

“You know, since the age of cartography, we’ve had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren’t gay enough,” Rogers sad. 

Thankfully, the undersecretary took “critical theory” (Marxist indoctrination) in college. Sometimes people use “queer” as a verb, she said.  

“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,” Rogers said. 

According to the Library of Congress, “Queering the Map is a community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories in relation to physical space.”

Well, that’s queer.

‘Provide Me the Receipt’

Rogers apologized to Czechia (the European country that also identifies as the Czech Republic) and Slovakia for her predecessors penchant for “queering” their maps.  

“This is why future public diplomacy grants will be streamlined, accountable — and channeled toward real American interests, like free speech and sports diplomacy,” she said in a post on X. 

LGBTQ activists got huffy after Slovakians had the audacity to approve pro-family constitutional amendments recognizing that there are only two sexes, restricting adoption to straight couples and banning surrogacy. 

Mast said the State Department programs on President Joe Biden’s watch included a DEI flash mob in Kyrgyzstan; a diversity roadshow in India; and diversity and inclusion programs in Luxembourg, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, and Malaysia. There was money for a program to teach trans and intersex leaders in India, Mast said, and a study on “the relationship between collective movement — meaning walking, boxing, dancing — and systemic conditions of anti-trans violence.”

“Any of these that you can provide me the receipt for — the Facebook link where they wanted people to take photos of how they were doing a DEI flash mob in Kyrgyzstan, whatever documentation they have of all of these things — we would love to see that,” Mast directed Rogers at the hearing. “And 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.”

‘Immense Public Waste’

As Sarah Wilder recently reported for The Federalist, an early Biden directive to the State Department demanded nongovernmental organizations report the many ways that they funded and supported “advancing the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons around the world.” In a report, the State Department called the initiative a “U.S. foreign policy priority.”

One of President Donald Trump’s first actions of his second term was to exorcise the DEI agenda from the executive branch. The programs were not only an egregious waste of taxpayer money, they came with discriminatory practices through identity-based preferences.

“The public release of these plans demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination. That ends today,” Trump wrote in an executive order on his first day in office. “Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.”

Trump was elected in 2024 in no small part on his predecessor’s insane focus on transgender and other DEI policies. The GOP filled the airwaves with campaign ads hammering Democrats’ support of biological males competing in female sports. One Trump ad took aim at then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat’s DEI presidential candidate, in a campaign ad asserting “Kamala is for they/them, Donald Trump is for you.” 

Even Democratic Party Strategist James Carville — who suffers from a rabid case of Trump Derangement Syndrome —  has advised Democrats to stay away from “pronoun politics.” 

It doesn’t seem many congressional Dems are listening to the old man. 

‘We Have to Have an Agenda’

Democrats are doubling down on the crazy, promising to bring back the unpopular radical left policies of the Biden era when they get back into power. 

“We can’t be just anti-Trump,” Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, House Democratic Caucus policy leader, told The Washington Post in late February. “We have to have an agenda.”

They’ve shown us what that radical agenda looks like — abolishing Immigration & Customs Enforcement, reopening the border, turning free more violent criminals, demanding disastrous government-run health insurance, making it easier for noncitizens to vote in elections, and pushing race- and gender-obsessed politics. 

The far-left that is now the engine of the party is driving this bus despite limited appeal from the broader liberal base, according to a recent poll by the Manhattan Institute. The leftists don’t care. They are “queering” the Democratic Party, so to speak, and the Biden years will look downright moderate compared to the political map they’re envisioning. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.