Gwen Walz, wife of Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, delivered a passionate speech at a dinner for the Human Rights Campaign in Minneapolis, criticizing former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance. She urged them to “mind their own business” and emphasized her husband’s support for the LGBTQ+ community, including initiatives to protect gender affirming care and ban conversion therapy. Walz recounted her own experience as an educator advocating for LGBTQ+ students and highlighted her husband’s long history of supporting the community, dating back to his role as a high school faculty adviser for a gay-straight alliance group. She also addressed recent controversial comments made by Trump and Vance regarding school shootings and LGBTQ+ issues. Walz pledged that if her husband was elected, he and Harris would continue to be strong advocates for the LGBTQ+ community. She criticized Republican efforts to ban books with LGBTQ+ content in schools and stressed the importance of children’s safety. The event drew attention to the importance of the upcoming election and the need to continue fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.
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