Dan Savage

Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community. He writes Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 October 1964
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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.
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
I don’t understand how real Christians let that little f--ker get away with that.
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
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.