American - Writer | October 7, 1964 -
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.
Dan Savage
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.
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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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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.
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When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
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I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
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To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.
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If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.
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In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
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