To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal? — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay.… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I always kind of divided the gay guys I met up into two groups when I first started coming out. There were… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Savage Copy Share
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — Dan Savage Copy Share
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. — Dan Savage Copy Share
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… — Dan Savage Copy Share
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. — Dan Savage Copy Share
And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home… — Dan Savage Copy Share
I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack… — Dan Savage Copy Share
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do… — Dan Savage Copy Share
There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of… — Dan Savage Copy Share
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. — Dan Savage Copy Share
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out… — Dan Savage Copy Share
“Either way... you've got to tell him--in no uncertain terms--to knock it the fuck off already. Don't be measured, don't wrap it up in… — Dan Savage Copy Share
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. — Dan Savage Copy Share
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