I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big… — 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
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
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
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never… — 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
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
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
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 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
If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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 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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