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Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.
A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.
I think that things would be far better if these type of informations should not be disclosed by anyone in context like this, where they are irrelevant.
Sure, maybe you don't need to put your sexual identity in a post asking for help configuring nginx, but in an introductory post where you're explicitly describing yourself... Yeah, I think you should be allowed to mention your sexuality.