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Dan Savage Quotes

Dan Savage quotes about people

American Writer October 7, 1964

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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
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
For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married. Dan Savage
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. Dan Savage
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. Dan Savage
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
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
How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors. Dan Savage
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. Dan Savage
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Dan Savage
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay. Dan Savage
Dan Savage quote: "One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's..."
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. Dan Savage
Dan Savage quote: "A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is..."
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. Dan Savage
Dan Savage quote: "A lot of people are living their lives online in much more..."
A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. Dan Savage
Dan Savage quote: "You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially..."
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

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