In The Legal Briefly episode “No Rainbow After Revolution,” Indira Rahman (JD ’25) speaks with Ohio State University Prof. Rasel Ahmed about LGBTQ+ rights in Bangladesh. The Red Dot: Reflecting on Revolution Late January 2025 found me peering into a Zoom screen, a red dot in the corner indicating that the recording was live. Across from me was Professor Rasel Ahmed, a longtime friend and pioneering activist in the Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ community. Rasel and I were both scholars of queer issues in Bangladesh, and spontaneous conversations on the work that defined us was not unusual. Rasel told the story of queer resilience through the lens of film as a professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Studies at the Ohio State University. Meanwhile, before law school, I had narrated the same story through data as a senior researcher for the Franklin & Marshall Global Barometers of Gay Rights (GBGR) and Transgender Rights (GBTR) project—the first global LGBTQ+ human rights database funded by the United States government. What was unusual, however, was the context: I hadn’t called Rasel …