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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Groomer Walz.
Stuper Stuper Creepy weirdo.
Seems a little effeminate visually. One wonders if his mind is racing with “I’m in my high heels, waste-hugger bustier and miniskirt with red wig just layin’ it down for all my peeps.”
Their version of the old British folk song ‘The Water is Wide’ is one of my favorites; and the Lilith Fair version with Sarah McLachlan and Jewel was fabulous.
Yeah, same. They had a great debut record.
It's kinda funny in retrospect, that there were all these recording artists in the 80s and 90s like Indigo Girls, George Michael, Freddy Mercury, Boy George, Melissa Etheridge, KD Lang, etc. who were so obviously gay and we all just kinda pretended like they weren't.
And when they all later came out publicly, people either feigned shock or were like, "Duh..."
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Rob Halfod. I found that one the most entertaining after a bunch of the metal fans who called people fags all the time were emulating him.
Why’d they have to chaperone a student who is fixated on her sexuality to a concert by people fixated on their sexuality and attended by thousands of people who are fixated on their sexuality? This strikes me as creepy to be honest.
Fixated?
LOL
I don’t like going that far back in time.
I’ll stick with the present and keep on pounding on the Tampon Timmy.
Name-calling WORKS.
Komrade Kammy and Tampon Timmy.
Both highlight Marxism and perversion.
As far as pedophilia goes, I’m not sure it is going to stick.
Court records and his daughter’s verification of the court record provide evidence that Joey was a pedophile who showered with his minor daughter.
And Halford was like, "I wear nothing but studded black leather. How could you possibly think I was anything other than a gay man?"
Indigo Girls?
You can’t get more lesbian that that.
Something very wrong there...
What ever it took for him to get close.
“Good grief. 🙄
It is possible to socialize with people and not have sex with them.”
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Not if you are a teacher and a student. Unless it is a school-sponsored field trip you don’t socialize with students outside of class.
A lot of classical artists (even those who produced great Christian art!) were probably gay, too.
Gayness isn’t new, it’s been with us forever. Making it ‘fashionable’ is rather new...
“”Things like the Future Farmers of America club””
FFA was NOT a club...anymore than Home Economics in high school was.
Big Indigo fan here. Love their music, hate the politics. That being said, one of the best birthday presents I ever got was a 20 minute (which turned into 35 minutes) online guitar lesson one-on-one with Emily my hubby got for me. She taught me the lead to Land of Canaan and some other picking things. Very nice and very gracious. Unfortunately, Emily’s voice is not the same anymore and I can’t listen to any of the new stuff.
More like a penchant for honking on bobo.
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