Gay activist Dan Savage slammed
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Family Research Council President
Tony Perkins during a speech to college students.
In addressing students at Winona State
University, Savage, the editor of Seattle alternative The Stranger
and a co-founder of the It Gets Better Project, Savage denounced
Perkins, saying that “every dead gay kid is a victory for the
Family Research Council.”
Perkins “sits on a pile of dead kids
every day when he goes to work – and he calls himself a Christian”
and “tells the parents of queer kids to do what Tony Perkins damn
well knows drives those kids to suicide – doubles their already
quadruple risk of suicide.”
On Bachmann, who lost the GOP
presidential nomination to Mitt Romney, Savage said, “We will
always have ignorant dicks like Michele Bachmann and her fag
husband.” (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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Savage was referring to Marcus
Bachmann, whose Minnesota-based clinics attempt
to “cure” gay folks with reparative therapy.
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