Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s wife discussed sexual orientation in the classroom as a high school teacher, and spoke to at least one student about his sexuality before he had told his parents he identified as gay, the student said during a campaign event aimed at LGBTQ voters.
Jacob Reitan, a former student of Gwen Walz when she taught at Mankato West High School in Minnesota, has said on numerous occasions that Gwen Walz told his entire class “on the very first day” of sophomore year that her class was a safe place for any student that identified as gay or lesbian.
Fifteen-year-old Reitan, like many other students, had never heard a teacher discuss gender in the classroom before. Reiten, who had not yet come out publicly as gay, shared that he had been bullied and accused of being gay since the seventh grade, but did not know anyone who identified as gay, nor…
