Dan Savage Quotes
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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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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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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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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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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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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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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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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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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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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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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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I don't write about my life in my column.
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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 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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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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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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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
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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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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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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.