Dan Savage Quotes

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Dan Savage

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 7, 1964

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

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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.

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I don't write about my life in my column.

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I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

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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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I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

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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.

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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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Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

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

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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

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Straight people are everywhere!

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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.

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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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I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

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

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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?

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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

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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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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.

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