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
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.
Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.
To keep the peace, I do show things to my family before they come out, ... It's like a 'heads up, here's what I'm writing. If you really have a problem with it or you're never going to talk to me again, give me a call.'
At that point, I had 50,000 to 80,000 words written about the house. Instead, it became a sequel to The Kid in a way,
So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.
I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.
I don't like to think about what school was like for me.
I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.
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.
You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.