American - Writer | October 7, 1964 -
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
Dan Savage
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There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.
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Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.
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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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Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
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One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
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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. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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