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Dan Savage


American
October 7, 1964
Writer
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Straight people are everywhere!


Dan Savage
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Men were never expected to be monogamous.


Dan Savage
Tags: Men Never Were
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.


Dan Savage
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Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.


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


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Tags: About Life Write
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
Dan Savage
Tags: You Want Them
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
Dan Savage
Tags: Well Right Does
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.
Dan Savage
Tags: Who Because Get
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.
Dan Savage
Tags: Teacher Me Out
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.
Dan Savage
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.
Dan Savage
Tags: Dad Sad People
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.
Dan Savage
Tags: People Some Were
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.
Dan Savage