Tim Walz’s gay backstory means everything to queer voters
Walz's support for queer teenagers in the '90s show the kind of vice president he could become. 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. ‘I knew who I could go to’
Unpacking the Claim That Walz 'Recruited Young Boys' into 'Gay Club' at School Walz was asked to supervise a high school Gay-Straight Alliance organization in 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. Tim Walz Advised the Gay
A spokesperson for Gwen Walz told the New York Times that she and her husband had grown close to a gay student at the Nebraska public high school where they taught. 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's Gay
‘I knew who I could go to’: How Tim Walz gave his queer high school students a refuge Before he was Kamala Harris’s running mate, the Minnesota governor was a geography teacher, coach and. In a video intended to help introduce vice presidential nominee Tim Walz to a national audience ahead of his Democratic National Convention speech Wednesday night, a handful of students from his years as a high school teacher sang his praises. For Jacob Reitan, Walz was the teacher who had his back against bullies during one of the most difficult chapters of his teenage life , when he came out as gay just before his senior year of high school a quarter-century ago, in
Former students recall teachers Tim and Gwen Walz as allies
Topline Some 25 years before Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz became Kamala Harris' running mate, he was picked to serve as a faculty advisor for a Minnesota high school's Gay-Straight Alliance--the first. . 
VP contender Tim Walz helped make Minnesota an LGBTQ 'refuge'
It was Tim Walz whom Reitan approached about starting a Gay-Straight Alliance at the high school. Having the backing of the football team’s defensive coordinator — a straight, married man and soldier in the Army National Guard — gave the plan a boost. .
Tim Walz Once Advised A High School’s Gay
While working as a teacher in rural Minnesota in the late ‘90s, Walz helped launch the school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance for LGBTQ students. . 
Tim Walz was a staunch LGBTQ+ ally, long before it was common
Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who’s emerged as a top contender for Vice President Harris’s running mate, helped turn Minnesota into a refuge for LGBTQ Americans, signing laws that. .