Quotes by Dan Savage

About Dan Savage:

Daniel Keenan is an American gay activist, author, media pundit, and journalist. 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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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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the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

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Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through l...

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

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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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I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

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

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

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

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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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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 consta...

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

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No, I'm not good looking.

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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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I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

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If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameDan Savage
  • DescriptionAmerican sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner
  • BornOctober 7, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award; Humanist Of The Year