"Can you tell me what is queering the map?" asked Mast, who serves as chair of the committee. "So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay," said Rogers, referencing Biden administration efforts. "Literally? How do you make a map more gay? Or gay at all?" Mast replied. "I DON’T KNOW," ADMITTED ROGERS. "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."
