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Dan Savage
Dan Savage
American Writer
Born: Oct 7, 1964
Gay Me People School Think You
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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. Dan Savage
Love Day You Mother Valentines Day Will Valentine Our Relatively Our Lives Torment Tormented Some Point Dead Got Your Lucky Even Lives
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
Argument Preaching Triumphs Well Arms Does Discourse Choir Reason Actually Right
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city. Dan Savage
Be Happy Happy Big Rich Live Think Kids City Had Big City Famous Want
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. Dan Savage
Life Death Better School High High School Oblivion Still Ultimately Than Disease
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. Dan Savage
Marriage Important Expectation More Cultural Than Infidelity Fidelity Should
But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. Dan Savage
You Matter Matters How Doing
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. Dan Savage
Freedom Man Rights People Thought Publish Other Blasphemy Override
Straight people are everywhere! Dan Savage
People Everywhere Straight Straight People
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court? Dan Savage
Man Women Pretending Dream Besides Marrying Some Husbands Divorce Court Boyfriend Go Get Going
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. Dan Savage
Every Everyone Hypothetical Question Person Ask Who
I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant. Dan Savage
Brilliant Think Guys Park South South Park
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. Dan Savage
School Gender First Kindergarten Very Goes Conforming Conformist Preschool
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. Dan Savage
Happiness Same Thing Think Pursuing Sin Same Thing Necessarily
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
Happiness You Made Somebody First Tell Promise Somehow Pursuing How Very America American Whose
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
Home Experience School Parents Kid About Open He Support Freely Talk Cry Go Bullied Go Home His Up Goes Being Straight Shoulder Why
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. Dan Savage
Gay People Fear Own Young Paranoia Part Huge Huge Part Young People Capacity Themselves Among
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. Dan Savage
Corporations Say Holidays Them Exploited Certainly
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
Teacher Me Class Too Musicals Out Picked Bake Liked Baking Got Lot Mocked Front Listen Teachers Whole Even Found
I don't like to think about what school was like for me. Dan Savage
Me School Think About Like
I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family. Dan Savage
Family Responsibility Think Gays Lesbians Reinvent
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. Dan Savage
Gay You Natural People Long Before Own Enough Our Marrying Dressed Remake Take Had Generations Feel Like Does Up Getting Going Getting Dressed Straight Things Start Drag
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. Dan Savage
Gay You School Kids High High School Reach Bullied Middle Being Want Middle School Them Help
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
Sad Gay People Desperate Met Corpses Neighborhood Neighborhoods Out Run City Only He Him Came Were Mob Places Depressing Dad Cop Homicide
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Dan Savage
Mistake People Made Men Expectation Never Were Imposing Expected Straight Straight People Monogamous
You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things. Dan Savage
Me You People Problem Say Write Checks Know Want Who Things
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. Dan Savage
Alone Gay People Equality Lesbian Our Way Civil Only Leave Issues Off Canadian Get Front Newspapers Pages Full Grant
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