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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The one comment by a pundit rings true with this guy: “Dancing around like a Kansas City faggot”. Probably didn’t use IVF ,,, hired a semen provider.
>>>>This was a grooming couple.
All we need is one whistleblower.<<<<
Maybe one of the kids he coached will come forward.
(Think Jerry Sandusky.)
“ Hey Gwen, 3 is a crowd.”
It was an organized club my high school. Some of the hottest girls in my class were members and "helping out" with their new baby calf was a perfect excuse to stop by and say hi.
I haven’t listened to later stuff, but they are very talented.
I haven’t followed them in recent years, but I never thought of the Indigo Girls as being ‘fixated’. They never seemed to make much of it at all.
Wiki: For nine years Walz and his wife also ran Educational Travel Adventures, which organized summer educational trips to China for high-school students.
Never heard of Indigo Girls.
“All we need is one whistleblower.”
I figure that there are a few boys that Walz “coached” who are waiting in the wings to be brought out at the proper time.
Don’t know how long ago that was but FAA during my time in high school (early 1950’s) was classroom study with maybe a couple of field trips thrown in. We lived in a rural area in upstate NY and all the boys from the farms were in the FAA. What you’re describing would fit more 4H than FAA...Girls did not enroll for FAA class..I think probably because all the guys there were our friends and not of any interest other than that. These were the guys who drove to school in family pick ups.
Maybe there are other “farm” girls here also. I found it interesting after graduation that all the “town” girls married farm boys and all the “farm” girls married “non farm” guys and met partners in college or the working world.
IMO the “clubs” listed in the original post were extracurricular - not on school time - gun club etc.
Looking back 70 years, perhaps “club” would fit as the yearbooks always had group pictures of the FAA class as well as band and glee club etc. Interesting.
“”” Weirdo Walz Gets Oddly Giddy During his Entrance for Kamala Rally “””
The circus music that accompanied Walz’s dancing around was very appropriate for this clown.
After coming out, and with Mr. Walz in charge of the GSA, the bullying generally came to a halt, he said.
Tim Walz is gay gay gay like obama.
Did I really say FAA? My apologies! My late husband and I were in aviation for years so “FAA” came naturally to me.
You were kind not to point it out - LOL....
So what?
No worries, I love aviation too -even if I have mixed feelings about the FAA
Fun fact: Indigo Girls lost Best New Artist Grammy to Milli Vanilli.
“This is not believable. Any time a bullied kid went to the teacher, the bullies piled on all the more.”
Worst thing you could do in school was getting a narc reputation. Every kid would turn on you.
Thanks. I can’t think of the FAA without remembering how a friend used to pronounce it by dragging out FAAAAAAAA. He had to deal with the salesman who used to come to John Wayne Airport in OC to get advertising for the Pacific Flyer out of Oceanside, CA (??) - think they’re closed now - it was years ago - so many OLD memories...
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