All Dan Savage Quotes
- A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who… Boy
- Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it… All
- 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 what… Best
- The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. Cultural
- Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children… Absence
- A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. Among
- I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. Certainly Exploited
- Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they… Actual
- Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Adult
- School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. Conform
- A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay. Certain
- You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. Bullied
- A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. Facebook
- Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. Asks
- I have a thick skin, but I have a heart. Heart
- I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. Adopt
- One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. Blasphemy
- The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Expectation
- Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. Better
- When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a… Assumption
- Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to… Besides
- Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up. Book
- I don't write about my life in my column. Column
- I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. From
- In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. Adoption