In an interview with Playboy, Dan Savage has attacked “tormented closet case” Marcus Bachmann for promoting “ex-gay” therapy
In an interview with Playboy, Dan Savage has attacked “tormented closet case” Marcus Bachmann for promoting “ex-gay” therapy.
Bachmann, the husband of Republican supreme wingnut Michele Bachmann, is probably Minnesota's best-known practitioner of the harmful practice. An attempt earlier this year to ban conversion therapy in the state failed. In one of her viler outbursts of the year, Mrs Bachmann said that gay people want laws changed "so that adults will be able to freely prey on little children sexually."
In the interview, Savage says “anybody who has gaydar—anybody who has eyes” looks at Bachmann and “sees a tormented closet case who has externalized his internal conflict and is abusing other people, doing his reparative-therapy bullshit.”
He continues:
“It's so sad and pathetic. A lot of the self-destructive behaviors gay people are prone to drifting into are directed inward, and then you have these shitbags like Marcus Bachmann for whom it's all directed outward.
"Marcus Bachmann is the photo negative of the guy on the last bar stool in the gay bar, drinking and smoking himself to death, except instead of destroying himself, he's destroying other vulnerable queer people in an effort to destroy the queer inside himself.”
Savage also opens up about coming out to his mother when he was 18 and the It Gets Better project.
On the issue of bullying faced by LGBT youth, Savage says:
“It hasn't quite sunk into the thick skulls of high school administrators and teachers that they can't abuse queer kids with impunity anymore, because the families are likely to be on the kids' side. We've got lawyers now and we will come after you. We're winning and we're not going to sit idly by anymore. You can't just beat up a queer kid at a high school in Mississippi and have it be a local story. We will jump down your fucking throat.”
Read Savage's full interview with Playboy here.
There is some hope for Marucs – last month John Smid, a former "ex-gay"activist and Exodus International board member, married his same-sex partner.
Watch a video in support "the gay husband of ghastly gay-bashing anti-american religio-psychotic kook and incompetent Michele Bachmann, AFTER THE JUMP…
