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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...

hile serving as a teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was the faculty adviser to a Gay-Straight Alliance club founded in 1999. In August 2024, the managing editor of the Christian satire website The Babylon Bee, Joel Berry, used that fact to claim in an X post that "Tim Walz recruited young boys into a gay club at school."

Twitter thread with source material (ammendment and video of official meetings) about H. F. No. 1655.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signs a ban on so-called conversion therapy during a ceremony at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Walz said conversion therapy, the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to "convert" LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations, is a "byzantine, tortuous practice." He said his order empowers state agencies to ensure that no Minnesotans under age 18 are subjected to it, and that insurance companies and state health plans don't cover it. “There’s no place for hate in this state, there’s no room for division,” Walz said at a...