Nobody said resistance would be fun — but Michigan's queer artists are making a strong case for it. As federal rollbacks on LGBTQ+ rights, attacks on DEI programs and relentless culture war rhetoric wear on audiences, performing artists across the state are reaching for a sometimes-elusive tool of resistance: joy. Chad Swan-Badgero, artistic director for Lansing's Peppermint Creek Theatre Company, has spent 30 years exploring political and human…