This is episode 115 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast. We are going to talk about queer politics.
- Voting for a presidential candidate.
- Joseph Biden drops out.
- Kamala Harris officially secures nomination for president.
- Harris was California’s attorney general when she declined to defend Proposition 8.
- That time when Kamala Harris stood up for queer lives… right in front of the president of Ghana.
- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was discussed as a long-shot possibility for vice-president.
- Kamala Harris selected Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate.
- Governor Walz has been a steadfast ally and advocate for the queer community.
- Walz signed a ban on conversion therapy into law.
- Supported trans affirming care, bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom.
- He made a House floor speech supporting the repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell".
- He helped the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
- He also signed legislation that stops libraries in the state from removing books.
- Walz was a high school teacher and coach.
- When Republicans in Minnesota introduced a bill that would ban transgender athletes from playing sports, Walz said that he would veto it.
- Walz consistently attended Pride.
- While a teacher at Mankato West High School in the 1990s Walz was adviser to the school's first gay-straight alliance.
- Kansas Governor Laura Kelly will chair the Democratic Governors Association to complete the term of Walz.
- Donald Trump specifically listed Walz's support for queer people as a reason to oppose him, despite appointing Walz to the Council of Governors.
- If Pete Buttigieg were heterosexual, he would be Tim Walz.
