Quotes By Dan Savage

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

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.

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.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

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.

No, I'm not good looking.

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.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

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.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

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.

I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

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?

See, I'm a subverter at heart.