Dan Savage Quotes

• The truly revolutionary promise of our nation’s founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

  Dan Savage

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Promise, Happiness

• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they’re being bullied.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Gay, Help

• You know, my problem is I can’t say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

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  Tags in Problem

• Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where’s that going to get ’em? Besides divorce court?

  Dan Savage

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Women, Divorce, School

• When you’re young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

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  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Young

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Gay

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kid

• Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.

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  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in School

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proud, Place

• To be a straight person and discover you’re infertile is almost like discovering you’re not a straight person.

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  Tags in Person

• There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

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  Tags in Problems

• The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

  Dan Savage

  Topics in Success

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality

• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

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  Topics in Mistake

• The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, Important, Infidelity

• 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.

  Dan Savage

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Home, School

• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Slave

• Straight people are everywhere!

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• 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.

  Dan Savage

  Topics in Children

• Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn’t, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ In every possible sense.

  Dan Savage

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart

Dan Savage (53)

Birth:	7th October, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Dan Savage is a gay American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage writes the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. In 2010, Savage and his husband Terry Miller began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan.

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