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Tamara Bump In The Night Deeay
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Autistic. Policy wonk. Live in south London with hubby and trans teen daughter. Likes: singing, 📖,🚶🏼‍♀️‍➡️and eating. Most likely to be found doing genealogy or under a 🐈‍⬛
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For context, because of Section 28 this would have been illegal in the UK in 1999. Teachers were not allowed to “promote” homosexuality. This was law was on the books from 1988 to 2003 (2000 in Scotland). #FuckTheTories

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While Gov. Walz’s choice to sponsor his school’s gay-straight alliance may not seem like a big deal now, things were *very* different in 1999. This kind of allyship, a year after Matthew Shephard’s murder and 4 years before Lawrence v Texas, was extremely meaningful for gay people of my generation.

Tim Walz was an enlisted soldier in the Minnesota National Guard in 1999 and defensive coordinator of the Mankato West High School football team. A student at the school, where Walz taught geography, wanted to start a gay-straight alliance. This was three years after the president, a Democrat, signed a law forbidding same-sex marriage. Soldiers suspected of being gay in Walz's own unit could be discharged from the military. But Walz, now Minnesota's Democratic candidate for governor, had seen the bullying some students endured and agreed to be the group's faculty adviser. "It really needed to be the football coach, who was the soldier and was straight and was married," Walz said. In other words, he would be a symbol that disparate worlds could coexist peacefully.
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Tamara Bump In The Night Deeay
@moiness.bsky.social
Autistic. Policy wonk. Live in south London with hubby and trans teen daughter. Likes: singing, 📖,🚶🏼‍♀️‍➡️and eating. Most likely to be found doing genealogy or under a 🐈‍⬛
648 followers1k following5.8k posts
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