Author: Dan Savage

Quotes

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

- Dan Savage

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

- Dan Savage

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

- Dan Savage

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.

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.

- Dan Savage

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?

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?

- Dan Savage

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.

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

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

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

- Dan Savage

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

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

- Dan Savage

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