There are the obvious answers. But there are the oblique ones, too.

Warren also had a booth at RuPaul's DragCon NYC in September -- the only Democratic presidential candidate to have one. "We had so many conversations with so many young people and voters, and I think it's important that we get these young voters fired up and excited about the next presidential election," Shea Couleé , best known as a contestant on Season 9 of the cultural institution "RuPaul's Drag Race," said of her decision to speak at Warren's booth.

Having a presence at DragCon could've been seen as pandering. But that doesn't seem to be how audiences took it, likely because it was bolstered by Warren's aforementioned policy stances. Indeed, it's significant that the senator did something politicos often struggle to do: show a deeper willingness to meet LGBTQ voters where they are and on their own terms.