Dan Savage

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

— Dan Savage

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

— Dan Savage

Straight people are everywhere!

— Dan Savage

the truth is often a mixed message

— Dan Savage

I'm an agnosto-theist.

— Dan Savage

Relationships are monuments build on lies

— Dan Savage

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

— Dan Savage

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

— Dan Savage

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

— Dan Savage

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

— Dan Savage

I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

— Dan Savage

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

— Dan Savage

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

— Dan Savage

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

— Dan Savage

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

— Dan Savage

I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

— Dan Savage

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be…

— Dan Savage

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

— Dan Savage

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

— Dan Savage

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

— Dan Savage

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

— Dan Savage

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

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

“For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like…

— Dan Savage

“Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices…

— Dan Savage

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,…

— 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…

— Dan Savage

Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all…

— Dan Savage

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls,…

— Dan Savage

“Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told…

— Dan Savage

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're…

— Dan Savage

I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and…

— Dan Savage

I always kind of divided the gay guys I met up into two groups when I first started coming out. There were…

— Dan Savage

A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's…

— Dan Savage

I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted…

— Dan Savage

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are…

— Dan Savage

“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…

— Dan Savage

First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that…

— Dan Savage

My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born…

— Dan Savage