Quote

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

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
People
Fool
Hair
Respect
Live
Wells
Well
Treated
Done
Dignity
Going
Places

More quotes by Dan Savage

Image
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.
Dan Savage
Image
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
Image
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
Dan Savage
Image
If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.
Dan Savage
Image
I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.
Dan Savage
Image
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
Dan Savage
Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.
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
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
I don't write about my life in my column.
Dan Savage
Image
But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
Dan Savage
Image
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Dan Savage
Image
I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.
Dan Savage
Image
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
Image
...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
Image
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
Dan Savage
Image
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Dan Savage
Image
I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
Dan Savage
Image
You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.
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