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Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
Author
Journalist
Podcaster
Sex Educator
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Daniel Keenan Savage
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...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.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.
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And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. [...] And I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
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A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.
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I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.
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You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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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 violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun
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