Quote

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

Dan Savage

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
Author
Journalist
Podcaster
Sex Educator
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Daniel Keenan Savage
Column
Columns
Write
Writing
Life

More quotes by Dan Savage

Image
Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun
Dan Savage
Image
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
Image
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.
Dan Savage
Image
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
Dan Savage
Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.
Dan Savage
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 what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
Dan Savage
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 it well and triumphs.
Dan Savage
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
Dan Savage
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
Image
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.
Dan Savage
Image
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.
Dan Savage
Image
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage
Image
If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.
Dan Savage
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
Image
But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
Dan Savage
Image
every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't
Dan Savage
Image
You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.
Dan Savage
Image
I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
Dan Savage