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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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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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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I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

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

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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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See, I'm a subverter at heart.

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I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

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So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

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I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

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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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I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

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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 ...

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

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

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I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

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Men were never expected to be monogamous.

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

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Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

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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