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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: xxqqzz

Groomer Walz.
Stuper Stuper Creepy weirdo.


41 posted on 08/24/2024 12:18:47 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope”)
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To: hole_n_one

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.”


42 posted on 08/24/2024 12:20:43 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Roadrunner383

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.


43 posted on 08/24/2024 12:30:51 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
I was an Indigo Girls fan in the 90s. Finding out they were gay didn’t change the music...

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..."

44 posted on 08/24/2024 12:36:03 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Jamestown1630
He’s one of those fatuous people who don’t realize how weird and goofy they come across;

Weirdo Walz Gets Oddly Giddy During his Entrance for Kamala Rally

45 posted on 08/24/2024 12:36:47 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Drew68

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.


46 posted on 08/24/2024 12:39:38 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: xxqqzz

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.


47 posted on 08/24/2024 12:42:07 PM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack

Fixated?


48 posted on 08/24/2024 12:43:32 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: dfwgator

LOL


49 posted on 08/24/2024 12:44:30 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: xxqqzz

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.


50 posted on 08/24/2024 12:44:33 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Fuzz
Rob Halford. I found that one the most entertaining after a bunch of the metal fans who called people fags all the time were emulating him.

And Halford was like, "I wear nothing but studded black leather. How could you possibly think I was anything other than a gay man?"

51 posted on 08/24/2024 12:45:11 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: xxqqzz

Indigo Girls?

You can’t get more lesbian that that.


52 posted on 08/24/2024 12:45:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: hole_n_one

Something very wrong there...


53 posted on 08/24/2024 12:48:32 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: hole_n_one

What ever it took for him to get close.


54 posted on 08/24/2024 12:50:12 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Fuzz

“Good grief. 🙄

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

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.


55 posted on 08/24/2024 12:51:20 PM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Drew68

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...


56 posted on 08/24/2024 12:52:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: rdcbn1

“”Things like the Future Farmers of America club””

FFA was NOT a club...anymore than Home Economics in high school was.


57 posted on 08/24/2024 12:53:43 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Jamestown1630
On top of everything else, he’s very close to the edge of having the jazz hands thing going on too.
58 posted on 08/24/2024 12:54:22 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


59 posted on 08/24/2024 12:54:40 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: rdcbn1
Kind of suspect Walz’s interests lie in different direction.

More like a penchant for honking on bobo.

60 posted on 08/24/2024 1:07:41 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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