Music & the City at Night Friday, August 12, 2011 A crowd waited at the Iowa State Fair for 90 minutes to hear Michele Bachmann speak. She showed up, spoke for all of three minutes, and then quickly left -- pissing off supporters who wanted an autograph -- after a 17-year-old gay rights activist confronted Michele and Marcus for their anti-gay bigotry. The Des Moine Register : She said she was going to shake hands but left the makeshift stage quickly when 17-year-old civil rights advocate Gabe Aderhold of Edina, Minn., loudly questioned her husband Marcus about his counseling techniques to "pray the gay away." Earlier in the day Gabe let Tim Pawlenty have it too . Right fucking on, Gabe. One day soon these bigoted Republican pols are going to realize that we're not their punching bags anymore. They're ours. Via Towleroad . I applaud Gabe, but truth be told, the Bachmann duo seriously brought their A game diva mode to Des Moines showing up almost 40 minutes late, giving a three minute pep rally devoid of anything, then making a quick and hasty escape to a pre-positioned golf cart only to be whisked out of the gates of the Iowa State Fair(even skipping the obligatory Iowa Pork Producers BBQ grill station, a total diss)... Hot damn. Back in the early 1970s, when Faygele ben Miriam, Chris Billey, Patrick Haggerty, Chuck Strago, Rae Larson, Tom Weaver, Shan Ottey, Fran Patrick, and all the rest of us rabble rousers from