Tim Walz is a massive ally to LGBTQ+ folks, and he’s been proving it since the ‘90s. Before Walz was a politician, he was a high school teacher and football coach, and when queer students at his school wanted to start a Gay Straight Alliance, Walz stepped up to lead the club.

“It really needed to be the football coach, who was the soldier and was straight and was married,” Walz explained to the Star Tribune during his campaign for governor in 2018.

Walz’s support for LGBTQ+ students seems almost impossible to spin in a negative way, but leave it to right-wingers to paint it in a bad light. 

A new article in The Federalist, a right-wing media outlet, critiques Walz’s track record on education (which mostly consists of ensuring students’ gender identities are respected in classroom settings). It also mentions his time as a teacher — or, as the article put it, “a high school social studies teacher who sponsored a student queer sex club in 1999.”

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Now, are a GSA and a “student queer sex club” actually synonymous? No, not in the slightest — and anyone who’s ever set foot inside a GSA would laugh at the idea such an infamously unsexy club had any horny undertones.

The gay internet was quick to point out the discrepancy. Not only are GSAs sterile as can be, but speculating on high schoolers’ sex lives is indescribably creepy, far creepier than anything they’re shaming Walz for. All he did by leading the GSA was help students feel safe and comfortable — an example conservatives could do well to follow.

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