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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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This is from a gay publication. It says he "grew close to a gay student." Took student to a gay concert.
1 posted on 08/24/2024 11:20:08 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

Stan Marsh : What the hell are you doing, Cartman?

Cartman : My Mom said if you want to become a lesbian, you have to lick carpet.

Kyle Broflovski : Really?

Stan Marsh : Well, I got a Indigo Girls CD, the guy at the record store said it was perfect

[puts the CD in the player]

Stan Marsh : .

Kyle Broflovski : I got these killer Birkenstocks.

[the boys all start licking the carpet while the Indigo Girls are playing]

Stan Marsh : This is a bunch a’ crap! I’ve been licking this carpet for three hours and I still don’t feel like a lesbian!


2 posted on 08/24/2024 11:21:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: xxqqzz

Lol, he should be made to quit just for subjecting a kid to that.


3 posted on 08/24/2024 11:21:55 AM PDT by struggle
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To: xxqqzz

This was a grooming couple.

All we need is one whistleblower.


4 posted on 08/24/2024 11:21:59 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: xxqqzz

The democRATs and pedophilia...er...MAP are mostly allies, but a big percentage are the same. And involved in child trafficking and human trafficking. Both Clintons and Joe Biden included.


5 posted on 08/24/2024 11:26:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: cgbg

Yes. Putz screams I’m a groomer. Please God, pus just one sexually abused kid forward. Pleeeeaaassse


6 posted on 08/24/2024 11:27:52 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: xxqqzz

Nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal


7 posted on 08/24/2024 11:28:03 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Back when I was a teacher if I’d taken a student to a Rolling Stones concert I’d have been fired


8 posted on 08/24/2024 11:30:10 AM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: dfwgator
You forgot the part about chowing on the box :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljoBfB7X44

Kind of suspect Walz’s interests lie in different direction.

9 posted on 08/24/2024 11:31:06 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Fai Mao

One decent private investigator focusing on the grooming history of Walz would find lots of stuff.

Almost certainly China and our intelligence services have thick files on Walz.


10 posted on 08/24/2024 11:33:38 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: xxqqzz

Well the rest of us dont feel safe with Tim around....


11 posted on 08/24/2024 11:34:16 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: struggle

I was an Indigo Girls fan in the 90s. Finding out they were gay didn’t change the music...


12 posted on 08/24/2024 11:34:50 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: xxqqzz
There is definitely something “weird” about this guy….


13 posted on 08/24/2024 11:36:08 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: cgbg

Well with 30 trips he gave them a huge opportunity to create a “book” him!


14 posted on 08/24/2024 11:38:16 AM PDT by Reily
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To: dfwgator

Oh, you are bad Mist’ Rhett….


15 posted on 08/24/2024 11:38:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: cgbg; NetAddicted; little jeremiah

This was a grooming couple.

All we need is one whistleblower.

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

3 way?


16 posted on 08/24/2024 11:38:51 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: cgbg
Looks like Walz and his wife were queer before queer was cool.

They were so far ahead of their time that the term “minor attracted” had not even been invented yet.

17 posted on 08/24/2024 11:39:25 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: hole_n_one

He’s one of those fatuous people who don’t realize how weird and goofy they come across; or that people can see how really mean they are underneath.


18 posted on 08/24/2024 11:40:31 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: thinden

The wife may have been a “beard”—this was fairly common in the old days for homosexuals who were in the closet.


19 posted on 08/24/2024 11:40:45 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Fai Mao

Putz is one of those too friendly teachers. No doubt he is a groomer.


20 posted on 08/24/2024 11:42:16 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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