Gov. Tim Walz to headline HRC National Dinner
Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz will be the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on Saturday, the organization announced on X.
Tickets are still available for the event. HRC is also hosting an Equality Convention this week, “a destination for trailblazers in politics, culture, and business who are igniting change and driving LGBTQ+ equality forward.” When Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic 2024 presidential nominee, announced Walz as her running mate on Aug.
6, HRC President Kelley Robinson said her pick “sends a message that a Harris-Walz Administration will be committed to advancing equality and justice for all.” The group wrote in a press release: “Governor Walz is a career-long champion for LGBTQ+ people.
In 1999, as a history teacher and football coach, Walz sponsored the school’s first gay straight alliance student group. “He opposed efforts to ban same-sex marriage in the Minnesota Constitution.
