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Ryan Allen just made my day. The Washington Post reports that last month, Allen became George Mason University’s Homecoming Queen while competing as Reann Ballslee, his drag persona. In the above YouTube video, Allen is crowned and sashed in front of a sold-out Patriot Center. The video ends with Ms. and Mr. Mason linking arms while the crowd cheers.

The university’s response?

Officially, the university is “very comfortable with it. We’re fine,” spokesman Daniel Walsch said. The school does not require participants in the Mr. and Ms. Mason pageant to compete along precise gender lines, he said.

At a time when we are experiencing increased hate and violence and ongoing civil rights struggles, this piece of positive news is especially heartening. It gives me hope that we might sooner see the day where examples of gender nonconformity don’t merit reporting.

In the meantime, as a native Northern Virginian, I’m proud to see GMU make this decidedly progressive statement. Take it from Ms. Mason: “In the larger scheme of things, winning says so much about the university. We’re one of the most diverse campuses in the country, and . . . we celebrate that.”

All hail the Queen.