Unpacking the Claim That Walz 'Recruited Young Boys' into
While 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 While 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 In August , 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.
Tim Walz Advised the Gay
Tim Walz Once Advised A High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance—What We Know About The Governor And The Club By Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes Staff. Minnesota Gov. It showed the bully a better path forward, and I can think of no one better than Tim Walz to show that better path forward for America. Former students recall teachers Tim and Gwen Walz as allies
In , Walz agreed to be the faculty adviser for the school’s first ever gay-straight alliance (GSA). With weeks before Election Day, opponents of Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign renewed a talking point about her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and his past supervision of a high school gay-straight alliance. A Rumor Claims Walz 'Recruited Young Boys' into High School
While working as a teacher in rural Minnesota in the late ‘90s, Walz helped launch the high school’s first club for LGBTQ students. But Meyer, who came out as queer in his freshman year of high school in , admits he was wrong about Tim Walz. Dozens of those former students are now campaigning for him to reach the White House. Tim Walz's Gay
In — after the Clinton administration had enacted the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and banned same-sex marriage through the Defense of Marriage Act — a gay student at Walz’s high school wanted to start a GSA, or gay-straight alliance. . Tim Walz’s gay backstory means everything to queer voters
Reitan was a student in at Mankato West High School in Minnesota, where Walz and her husband, Tim, were teachers. In her classroom, Gwen Walz had announced at the start of his sophomore year that her class was a safe place for gay students. . 
‘I knew who I could go to’
As Snopes previously reported, Walz indeed served as the faculty adviser to a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at Mankato West High School in Minnesota when it was founded in Rumors about. .
Tim Walz helped a gay student start a high school GSA. Gwen
Much has been made of vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz signing on to be faculty advisor for a Gay-Straight Alliance club in the high school where he taught and coached. .