How pro-LGBTQ+ is Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' vice president pick? His record speaks for itself
The Minnesota governor's LGBTQ+ support started long before his time in politics.
August 7, 2024
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The Running Mate
When Barack Obama tapped Delaware senator Joseph Biden to be his vice president, he made a good move for gay rights.
September 10, 2008
Jill Stein's running mate, Butch Ware, caught in transphobic comments
Ware said he didn't think "biological males should play in female sports."
November 1, 2024
Out Sen. Tammy Baldwin: 'I Certainly Would' Be Biden's Running Mate
Baldwin made the comment in response to a query by Whoopi Goldberg on The View.
June 25, 2020
Biden campaign and LGBTQ+ groups decry Trump’s pick of J.D. Vance as running mate
The Republican U.S. senator from Ohio is an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist.
July 15, 2024
Hillary Clinton's Running Mate Paid Respects at Pulse Memorial
Vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine laid flowers at a memorial surrounding the Orlando, Fla. club, alongside former Rep. Gabby Giffords as well as her husband astronaut Mark Kelly and Sen. Bill Nelson.
September 26, 2016
Kamala Harris reveals why she didn't pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024
He was her "first choice,” but “we were already asking a lot of America,” the former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee wrote.
September 18, 2025
Pete Buttigieg responds to Kamala Harris not choosing him as her running mate because he’s gay
In her upcoming book, Harris says Americans wouldn't have voted for a Black woman and a gay man. Buttigieg says they deserve more credit.
September 18, 2025
Tim Walz's former students rave about lasting ‘love of learning’ Harris's running mate fostered
Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, The Advocate spoke with former students of the Minnesota governor who say he is who he is.
September 30, 2024
Minnesota governor Tim Walz selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate; here’s his LGBTQ+ record
The pair will now embark on a five-day tour of battleground states.
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August 6, 2024
Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality
It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.
October 6, 2025
Rachel Maddow confronts Kamala Harris on not picking Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because he’s gay
"To say that he couldn’t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay. It’s hard to hear,” Maddow told the former vice president.
September 23, 2025
Harris's VP pick? Jared Polis says if she needs ‘a 49-year-old balding gay Jew,’ he’d take the call
Everyone wants to know who her running mate will be.
July 22, 2024
Tim Walz joins HRC and Out for Harris to kick off 10-day LGBTQ+ voter battleground push (exclusive)
Kamala Harris’s running mate has a long history of allyship.
October 10, 2024
Kamala Harris challenges Trump’s VP pick JD Vance to televised debate
She issued the challenge in a voicemail to the newly-appointed Trump running mate.
July 16, 2024
Former students share how Tim Walz allyship to LGBTQ+ teens in the '90s changed the course of their lives
Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate has been a vocal LGBTQ+ ally.
August 31, 2024
Pete Buttigieg ‘excited’ about Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’s VP pick
The transportation secretary was one of several people under consideration to be the 2024 Democratic running mate.
August 6, 2024
Indiana GOP lieutenant governor nominee says he'll fire state workers with email signature pronouns
U.S. Sen. Mike Braun’s running mate made the heavy-handed remark at a campaign event .
October 11, 2024
JD Vance admits to making up crazy stories to get press attention and says he'll continue doing it
Donald Trump’s running mate said he makes stuff up during a CNN interview.
September 16, 2024
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, champion of 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal, dead at 82
Lieberman, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, leaves a largely pro-LGBTQ+ record.
March 27, 2024