Dan Savage Quotes

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

  Dan Savage

  Needs   Faces   Contributing  

  "Bisexuals: You Need to Come Out to Your Friends and Spouses - Now" by Dan Savage, www.thestranger.com. June 22, 2011.

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• TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle wave, like you'll have a blissed-out, really wonderful day or two, and then, you know, then you'll have an issue. And what parenting is, is kind of earthquake.

  Dan Savage

  Good Day   Bad Day   Earthquakes  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

  Dan Savage

  Children   Gay   America  

  "Gay Marriage: The Dan Savage Interview". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2006.

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• You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming you must be gay - that was literally the last place many people went.

  Dan Savage

  Kids   Gay   People  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

  Dan Savage

  Religious   Mistake   Talking  

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

  Dan Savage

  Religious   Years   Age  

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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

  Dan Savage

  Holiday   Corporations  

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

  Dan Savage

  Growing Up   Book   Writing  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.

  Dan Savage

  Texas   Natural  

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.190, Penguin

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• I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted to be able to go out and do things as Dan Savage without being recognized the next day, because the column was just in Seattle and it was kind of a sensation and I was beating people up. I was really worried and I didn't want to beat somebody up in a column and have that person know what I look like when I didn't know what they looked like.

  Dan Savage

  Next Day   People   Savages  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

  Dan Savage

  School   Goes On   Firsts  

  "Dan Savage on 'The Commitment'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2005.

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• I don't write about my life in my column.

  Dan Savage

  Writing   Columns  

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• I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

  Dan Savage

  Happiness   Thinking   Sin  

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

  Dan Savage

  People   House  

  "Stranger To Stranger: Dan Savage". Interview with Christopher Frizzelle, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2012.

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• So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.

  Dan Savage

  Gun   Gun Owners   Owners  

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.185, Penguin

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• I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

  Dan Savage

  Teacher   Class   Baking  

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• There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where you'd have to be a fool to live, .. So, there will be places where people can get their hair done well and places where they can't.

  Dan Savage

  Hair   People   Done  

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

  Dan Savage

  Men   Rights   People  

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• I don’t understand how real Christians let that little f--ker get away with that.

  Dan Savage

  Christian   Real   Littles  

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• Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

  Dan Savage

  Hypothetical   Persons   Asks  

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

  Dan Savage

  Gay   Long   People  

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  Dan Savage

  Men   Poetic   Ecstasy  

  "Come to the Bash". Savage Love Column, www.thestranger.com. February 09, 2006.

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• I always kind of divided the gay guys I met up into two groups when I first started coming out. There were the guys who thought there was something fundamentally wrong with them and hated themselves and were so burdened with shame and internalized homophobia. It just really paralyzed and shredded them. And then there were guys like me who thought, "I'm fine, everybody else is crazy. My church is sick and the family's crazy, but me? I'm fine."

  Dan Savage

  Crazy   Gay   Sick  

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

  Dan Savage

  Pollyanna   Type  

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• I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'

  Dan Savage

  Baby   Husband   Men  

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• 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 been so high.

  Dan Savage

  Kids   Addiction   Littles  

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• I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me

  Dan Savage

  Thinking   Astrology   Bullshit  

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• 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 [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

  Dan Savage

  Christian   Crazy   Teenager  

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

  Dan Savage

  Heart   Skins   Thick Skin  

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• Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

  Dan Savage

  Gun   White   America  

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.180, Penguin

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