While hawking her autobiography at a recent book signing, GOP presidential hopeful Michelle Bachmann, found herself face-to-face with yet another LGBT rights activist — but this time he was just 8 years-old. The boy, Elijah, though showing some reluctance, likely out of shyness, whispered in the uber conservative and notoriously anti-gay Republican's ear, "Miss Bachmann, my mommy's gay but she doesn't need fixing." Bachmann pulled back from the child and gave the mother an icy glare.
This comes on the heels of a 16-year-old challenging Bachmann on gay marriage and the protection of LGBT students at a campaign event in Iowa.
This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2011.