You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. But it matters very much to the knuckle-draggers and Christianists and whack jobs in Bush's… — 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
I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like… — 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
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
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million… — 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
I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other end of… — 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
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run… — 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
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
It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least… — 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
...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because… — 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 Image
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — 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 over. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 and Jack… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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 Image
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