Words matter. These are the best Dan Savage Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think the ‘South Park’ guys are brilliant.
I get letters every year from women who think Valentine’s Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir’s discourse. There’s a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
No, I’m not good looking.
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Books are magic: you never know where they’re going to end up.
It’s going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven’t had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you’re getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.
A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.
If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.
Straight people are everywhere!
The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he’s being bullied. I couldn’t go home and open up to my parents.
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits – a floor, not a ceiling. It’s enforceable.
To be a straight person and discover you’re infertile is almost like discovering you’re not a straight person.
I don’t like to think about what school was like for me.
I don’t think it’s the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they’re being bullied.
Most Americans don’t care about gay marriage.
Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
I believe it’s in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
Mother’s Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine’s Day is a torment if you don’t got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine’s Day even if we’re relatively lucky in love.
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that’s worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they’ll be joining a life that’s already really good.
To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It’s in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
Straight couples don’t have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn’t compulsory and its absence doesn’t invalidate a marriage.
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America – as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.
The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It’s often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
I don’t write about my life in my column.
But it doesn’t matter what you’re doing, it matters how you’re doing it.
