Dan Savage Quotes

• The truly revolutionary promise of our nation’s founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

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• 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?

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

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• If what you want is a life where your homos*xuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

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  Topics in Life

• In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits – a floor, not a ceiling. It’s enforceable.

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• It’s going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven’t had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you’re getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

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• 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.

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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.

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  Tags in Parents

• Mother’s Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine’s Day is a torment if you don’t got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine’s Day even if we’re relatively lucky in love.

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  Topics in Love, Mother

• Most Americans don’t care about gay marriage.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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  Topics in Children

• Straight people are everywhere!

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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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• The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

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  Tags in Marriage, Important, Infidelity

• 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.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Home, School

• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

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Dan Savage (53)

Birth:	7th October, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Dan Savage is a gay American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage writes the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. 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.

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