Homosexuality Quotes by Dan Savage

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

— Dan Savage

Straight people are everywhere!

— Dan Savage

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

— Dan Savage

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

— Dan Savage

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

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

— 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

You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.

— Dan Savage

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

— Dan Savage

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

— Dan Savage

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay…

— Dan Savage

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay.…

— Dan Savage

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

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

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

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our…

— Dan Savage

You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming…

— 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

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

— Dan Savage

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture…

— Dan Savage

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

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

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