American - Writer | October 7, 1964 -
I don't write about my life in my column.
Dan Savage
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I don't like to think about what school was like for me.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
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It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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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 Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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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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Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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