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• Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

  Dan Savage

  Pride, Gay, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Gay, Bully

  "Psssssst! Hey, You! You There, Reading Slog at Work on Monday Morning! Wanna See an Anti-Gay Republican Senator's Butthole? Sure Ya Do..." by Dan Savage, www.thestranger.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Husband, Unimportant Things

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• 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.

  Dan Savage

  Home, School, Kids

  "Dan Savage: For Gay Teens, Life 'Gets Better'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 23, 2011.

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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.

  Dan Savage

  Religious, Heart, People

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• Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

  Dan Savage

  Should, Brutal, Brutes

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• I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

  Dan Savage

  Thinking, Years, Abortion

  "From the Festival of Dangerous Ideas". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, November 4, 2013.

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• 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.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, People, Worry

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• There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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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.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Couple, Doe

  Dan Savage (2005). “The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family”, p.79, Penguin

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• I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

  Dan Savage

  Happiness, Thinking, Sin

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• I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.

  Dan Savage

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

  Dan Savage

  Degrees, Fidelity, Obsessed

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• 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.

  Dan Savage

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  "Dan Savage Explores College Relationships on his New MTV Show" by Sierra Tishgart, www.teenvogue.com. April 2, 2012.

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• For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, People, Giving

  Dan Savage (2000). “The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant”, p.18, Penguin

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• I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

  Dan Savage

  Airplane, Sick, Praying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Gay, America

  "Gay Marriage: The Dan Savage Interview". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2006.

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

  Dan Savage

  Holiday, Corporations

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

  Dan Savage

  Mistake, Men, People

  "Dan Savage Savages the Bible Over Homosexuality" by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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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.

  Dan Savage

  Triumph, Doe, Arms

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• 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.

  Dan Savage

  Christmas, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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

  Dan Savage

  Needs, Faces, Contributing

  "Bisexuals: You Need to Come Out to Your Friends and Spouses - Now" by Dan Savage, www.thestranger.com. June 22, 2011.

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

  Dan Savage

  Ice Cream, Guarantees That, May

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.125, Penguin

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

  Dan Savage

  Hypothetical, Persons, Asks

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.

  Dan Savage

  Religious, Home, Gay

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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