Dan Savage
Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community. He writes Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 October 1964
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.
I don't like to think about what school was like for me.
If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.
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.
You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.
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?
It would be as if a print advertiser said 'Gee, The Wall Street Journal reaches all business people in the U.S., so why do I need to advertise in other business publications?' But the truth is it does work to advertise elsewhere.
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 whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.
Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.
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.
To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.