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Tim Walz and His Wife Gwen Took a Gay Student to an Indigo Girls Concert in the ’90s
them.us ^ | August 21, 2024 | Samantha Riedel

Posted on 08/24/2024 11:20:08 AM PDT by xxqqzz

As Minnesota Governor Tim Walz vies for the U.S. vice presidency, new details are surfacing about his teaching career, including the impact he made as faculty advisor for a high school Gay-Straight Alliance club. However, sources say the Walz family were LGBTQ+ community boosters even before then, as especially evidenced by one extracurricular Indigo Girls concert where the Walzes taught in Nebraska.

,,, Jacob Reitan — a former student of both Walz and his wife Gwen Walz (nee Whipple), both teachers at Mankato West High School in the 1990s — described feeling stunned when Ms. Walz announced her husband would be leading the GSA. Reitan said he had been subjected to homophobic abuse by other students, but confiding in Ms. Walz that he was gay gave him enough confidence to also come out to his parents, and eventually the school. After coming out, and with Mr. Walz in charge of the GSA, the bullying generally came to a halt, he said.

“It was important to have a person who was so well-liked on campus, a football coach who had served in the military,” Reitan told the Times. “Having Tim Walz as the adviser of the Gay-Straight Alliance made me feel safe coming to school.”

While Walz certainly deserves credit for stepping up, it seems to have been Gwen Walz who understood the raw importance of LGBTQ+ allyship in the mid-90s. Before the Walzes became involved with the GSA, Reitan recalled, Ms. Walz told him she had offered support to another gay student while teaching in Nebraska at the school where she and her husband met. A spokesperson for Ms. Walz confirmed to the Times that the couple chaperoned the anonymous student at an Indigo Girls concert — truly, one of the decade’s strongest bastions of queer community and camaraderie.

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TOPICS: Education; History; Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; indigogirls; nebraska; nonstory; pedowalz; samanthariedel; walz
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To: thinden

Good grief. 🙄

It is possible to socialize with people and not have sex with them.


21 posted on 08/24/2024 11:42:44 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Jamestown1630
Indigo Girls is the perfect musical metaphor for Walz

Indigo Girls - Galileo (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI1keSSwdcI

Queer and kind of creepy if you care to look closely - it's official

22 posted on 08/24/2024 11:48:37 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Fuzz

I think a question no one seems to be asking, would be, does the school district have policies against fraternization with students after hours?

I’ve heard some school districts do have such policies.

Maybe their school district does not.

There are some legitimate questions to be asked about this.


23 posted on 08/24/2024 11:49:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Fuzz

Of course it is possible to not have sex with teenage kids when you are a teacher.

However—if you find opportunity after opportunity to get them away from their parents it is reasonable to ask why....especially if it is happening with a lot of kids over many years....

It is the Walz body language that gives him away—pay attention to how he reacts to men vs women—and especially young men.


24 posted on 08/24/2024 11:50:38 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: xxqqzz

As the real Tim Walz is being exposed on ‘This is Your Life’, I keep wondering why the folks in Minnesota have not already been talking about his history.


25 posted on 08/24/2024 11:51:39 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: xxqqzz

This is a plus for most democrats.


26 posted on 08/24/2024 11:53:42 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: cgbg

“All we need is one whistleblower.”

They are spinning this and any whistleblower that might come forward as great heroes of the alphabet people.

Who’s got that really gross gif of Walz baring his midriff and queer dancing at some country - western scene? It was posted on FR a week or two ago, but it’s nowhere to be found on the web (maybe it was fake, but it sure looked real).


27 posted on 08/24/2024 11:57:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Fuzz

“people”???

Teachers do NOT take students to concerts. That is NOT “socializing;” that is a firing offense. Doesn’t matter one iota whether it’s a gay or straight student. Fraternizing with students like that outside the school is off limits.

Lots of teachers here attest to that.


28 posted on 08/24/2024 12:00:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’ve heard some school districts do have such policies.

Maybe their school district does not.

There are some legitimate questions to be asked about this.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxx

With all the good things assistant coach walz was contributing to the community, why did he pack up & move to Minnesota?


29 posted on 08/24/2024 12:02:34 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: cgbg

“pay attention to how he reacts to men vs women—and especially young men.”

Great...we go from VP Biden endlessly sniffing young girls to VP Walz doing Lord knows what to young boys.


30 posted on 08/24/2024 12:02:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Fuzz
Good grief. 🙄

It is possible to socialize with people and not have sex with them.


Yeah, it is possible.

Some very talented and caring teachers are very good at sharing their avid interests that they are passionate about with students and often sponsor school clubs for extra curricular activities with like minded individuals.

Things like the Future Farmers of America club

The Competitive Shooting Club

The Archery Club.

The Debate Club.

The Scuba Diving Club

The Ski Club

The Future Business Leaders of America Club.

The Flying Club

The Travel Club.

The Glee Club.

The Hiking Club.

Who are we to judge that starting in the 1990s Walz and his wife have an avid interest in Gay-Straight Alliance club and are passionate enough about the subject matter to sponsor the club and mentor students with gay themed extra curricular activities. Perfectly normal.

31 posted on 08/24/2024 12:03:06 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: xxqqzz

So was this a school sponsored event?

Educators should not be taking students (regardless of their sexual orientation )to social events. The exception would be school sponsored events.

Not appropriate.


32 posted on 08/24/2024 12:03:39 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: All

This approach will not swing votes, I think the uneasy leaning-Democrat voters would be attracted only by economic or security issues. Getting high fives from already convinced Trump voters is good for early morale but otherwise meaningless white noise. Just saying we’re going to need more substantive issues than what Walz did thirty years ago.


33 posted on 08/24/2024 12:05:58 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: hole_n_one

Makes one wonder why he was a assistant coach for a little boys ball club.


34 posted on 08/24/2024 12:07:00 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Jamestown1630

Indigo Girls were kind of classy IMO. Saw them on a late night talk show. They were asked if REM was more famous because of sexism. They gave REM full credit, didn’t whine, said it was because REM were damned good.


35 posted on 08/24/2024 12:07:40 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Vaduz
Makes one wonder why he was a assistant coach for a little boys ball club.

More precisely put, he was a volunteer assistant coach.

36 posted on 08/24/2024 12:13:06 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: rdcbn1

My eldest son was in the GSA back in high school. Straight as an arrow. (Now married to a lovely young lady. Sadly, they lost their first child).

Why?

He is Christian. He knew the easiest way to witness to them was to know who they were as people and have them see him as a friend. Moreover, he has a shepherd’s spirit. He didn’t want to see them bullied.

He was the only straight in the entire group.


37 posted on 08/24/2024 12:16:23 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: xxqqzz

So what?


38 posted on 08/24/2024 12:17:33 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: xxqqzz

I can’t wait to dust off my posts suggesting the “October surprise” Will be from a student of his. He is a degenerate homo pervert. Only a degenerate homo pervert would sexualize boys by putting tampon machines in boys’ bathrooms.


39 posted on 08/24/2024 12:17:35 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Peter ODonnell

You are making a common mistake I see in the corporate world—linear thinking.

“This issue works.”

“This issue does not work.”

Life is way more complicated than that.

Imho Walz was a pervert then and is a pervert now.

Understanding his past sheds light on his present.

It may be important to some voters—it may not.

It may cause the Democrats to dump him or it may not.

Don’t overthink it.

Let it roll—lets see where it goes.


40 posted on 08/24/2024 12:18:27 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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