Quotes by Dan Savage

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…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.

Gay

Men

Order

A lot of people think that telling people you’re gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

Gay

People

Thinking

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.

Home

Kids

School

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

Contributing

Faces

Needs

Books are magic: you never know where they’re going to end up.

Book

Ends

Magic

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.

Christmas

Ideas

Real

Don’t mistake being an asshole for being a man.

Men

Mistake

Don’t move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That’s a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.

Growing Up

Moving

Stupid

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there’s no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

Guarantees That

Ice Cream

May

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Asks

Hypothetical

Persons

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Addiction

Adultery

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America

Annoyed

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Baking

Book

Bricks

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Brutes

Care

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Christian

Christmas

Class

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Contributing

Couple

Crazy

Dad

Dentist

Doe

Ends

Ephemeral

Exercise

Expectations

Expecting

Faces

Failing

Fall

Fathers Day

Firsts

Fun

Gay

Gender

Getting Older

Giving

Goes On

Growing Up

Guarantees That

Guy

Happiness

Hate

Heart

Home

House

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Quotes by Dan Savage

Dan Savage

…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.

A lot of people think that telling people you’re gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

Books are magic: you never know where they’re going to end up.

Don’t mistake being an asshole for being a man.

Don’t move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That’s a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there’s no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

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