Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
Dan Savage
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
Author
Journalist
Podcaster
Sex Educator
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Daniel Keenan Savage
Middle
High
Help
Helping
Kids
School
Bullied
Gay
Reach
More quotes by Dan Savage
every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't
Dan Savage
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Dan Savage
You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.
Dan Savage
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.
Dan Savage
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Dan Savage
I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
Dan Savage
Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.
Dan Savage
the truth is often a mixed message
Dan Savage
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
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.
Dan Savage
Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.
Dan Savage
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
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 gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
Dan Savage
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
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
Dan Savage
...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want to marry, and gay men who didn't want to leave the priesthood in order to marry.
Dan Savage
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
To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
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