Award winning teacher wanted to be visibly queer in Oval Office photo with Trumps

I have a feeling Donald Trump (and most of the rest of the human race) would be happier if he were starring in the sitcom suggested by this photo insteading of serving the American people as a federal bureaucrat. In actuality, it's a photo of Nikos Giannopoulos, Rhode Islands teacher of the year, who said he wanted to be visibly queer when he posed for this photo with Mr. and Mrs. Trump.

From Washington Post:

Giannopoulos grew more confident then enough that when an aide asked him to put the fan away for his private photo, he raised a small protest.

I said, I was hoping to pose with this, he said. They said, No just put it away.

He did, for a minute. But before the shutter snapped, Giannopoulos asked the president if he minded.

He said, sure. So the fan came out, the ensemble was complete, and the rest is history, Giannopoulos said.

To be clear, the whole thing was surreal and very brief.