Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade… — 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
We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who… — 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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