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That student was Jacob Reitan, now a disability rights attorney and LGBT+ activist in Minnesota. On his first day in Gwen Walz’s English class in 1997, the teacher “stood up and said that this ...
Jacob Reitan, a gay former student of Tim Walz, appears in a video shown on a large screen at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
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.
In 1999, Walz, then a 35-year-old social studies teacher at Mankato West High School, advised the school’s first gay-straight alliance (GSA), a student-led club supporting LGBTQ students and ...
And a gay marriage ally. As a teacher, Walz dedicated time and effort to helping his students establish the school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance in 1999. He said it was important for the sponsor ...
When a student at Mankato West wanted to start the school’s first gay-straight alliance club in 1999, Walz agreed to be the group’s faculty adviser. Tim Walz's political career Walz made the ...
Former students traveled to Chicago to cheer on the former geography teacher and gay-straight alliance adviser Tim Walz’s students introduce America to their teacher and coach at the DNC ...
Tim Walz, now a governor and vice presidential candidate, took a risk in 1999 for the safety of queer students. ... Walz also became faculty advisor for the school’s first gay-straight alliance ...