Dan Savage quotes

No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer. (Dan Savage)
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens. View quote
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. View quote
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One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. View quote
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So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns. View quote
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Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas. View quote
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School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. View quote
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. View quote
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Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Dan Savage)
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. View quote
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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. View quote
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay. View quote
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Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it's bad, you've never been so miserable, but when it's good you've never been so high. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other. View quote
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. (Dan Savage)
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. View quote
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Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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