Gay student says "Coach" Tim Walz protected him from homophobic bullies - LGBTQ Nation
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Kamala Harris highlighted Walz's past as a faculty advisor for his school's gay-straight alliance.
  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Headline undersells how he did this during the 90’s during the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell era. Was not nearly as socially or politically acceptable then as it is now in the US to do that

    • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      And he didn’t just protect one kid. The football coach, the manliest man in the entire school, was the faculty sponsor for the Gay Straight Alliance club that welcomed everyone. In the 1990s.

    • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Seriously. In the late 90s and early aughts it was common to hear teenage boys and young men throwing around words like f_g and using “gay” in a derogatory way. This was common even in liberal areas and among groups that weren’t outwardly homophobic. We have come a long way in a relatively short period of time.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Oh yeah? Well JD Vance protected some living room furniture from dying alone having never experienced the joy of repeated penetration.

    Good old Jorkin DePeanus Vance

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Dude, where the fuck did they find this guy? I never heard of him and BAM…dude is saintlier than most of the Catholic Church.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        He’s been amazing as our governor. Go check out all the things that were passed in the past two years with a one vote majority.

    • norimee@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Its because he just seriously did his job. And apparently thats super rare in todays america. He did politics and good policy without it being a media circus. He didn’t do it for attention and visibility. No scandals, no media stunts.

      This is what politics shoud be. Not that media circus it is in the US with the goal being to have the most headlines and the most press attention not to make good politics.