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

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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
Author
Journalist
Podcaster
Sex Educator
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Chicago
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Daniel Keenan Savage
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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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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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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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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.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't
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I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
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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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I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun
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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.
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the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
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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.
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the truth is often a mixed message
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Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
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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.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous. . . . There are times — certain set and limited circumstances — when it is permissible for us to have sex with others.
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