Dan Savage Quotes

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Dan Savage

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 7, 1964

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.

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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.

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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

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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.

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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

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One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

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