At a book signing in South Carolina, Michele Bachmann, a U.S. Representative and a contender for the GOP presidential nomination next year, was approached by an eight-year-old boy who whispered to her, “My Mom is gay and she doesn’t need fixing.” 

Michele certainly didn’t seem too pleased to get the message. And for good reason, she’s an anti-gay bigot, and she was being exposed by an eight-year-old whose mother was going to deliver the message but lacked the guts. 

Way to go, kid. Next time, say it louder so that the whole state of South Carolina hears it. And add these words, “you’re a hateful bigot, Michele Bachmann.” 

Then there’s our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who gave a pretty strong gay rights speech to the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Human Rights Day. It came in the wake of President Obama’s executive memo to federal agencies, directing them to “promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons.”

“Today,” Clinton said, uttering words that her hubbie never said when he occupied the White House, “I want to talk about the work we have left to do to protect one group of people whose human rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today. In many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed. Many are treated with contempt and violence by their fellow citizens while authorities empowered to protect them look the other way or, too often, even join in the abuse. They are denied opportunities to work and learn, driven from their homes and countries, and forced to suppress or deny who they are to protect themselves from harm. I am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, human beings born free and given bestowed equality and dignity,who have a right to claim that, which is now one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time.”

Of course, it remains to be seen exactly how this new-found gay pride on the part of the prez and the secretary of state will play out in world politics, especially in parts of the world where they use queers for target practice. Not that they don’t still do that in the good ol’ USA. 

Finally, there’s news that, according to a study done with measuring devices attached to the dicks of male subjects, researchers have found that homophobic men are actually turned on by videos of gay male sex. The men may protest that they don’t like gay men or gay porn, but their dicks don’t lie, and, the study says, the growing circumference of their organs testified to their delight at seeing two men go at it. 

Is anyone really surprised? 

Next time, they should use one of the Republican Ricks, Santorum or Perry, in the study.