Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But wheres that going to get em? Besides divorce court? – Dan Savage
Really, when it comes to gay rights, theres two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. – Dan Savage
Straight couples dont have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isnt compulsory and its absence doesnt invalidate a marriage. – Dan Savage
Most Americans dont care about gay marriage. – Dan Savage
The cultural expectation should be if theres infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. – Dan Savage
I dont think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. – Dan Savage
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that theyre somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? – Dan Savage
One mans blasphemy doesnt override other peoples free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. – Dan Savage
I didnt want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city. – Dan Savage
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 hes being bullied. I couldnt go home and open up to my parents. – Dan Savage
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. Its still better than high school. – Dan Savage
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people hed met when I came out to him were corpses. – Dan Savage
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life thats worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, theyll be joining a life thats already really good. – Dan Savage
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. – Dan Savage
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. – Dan Savage
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. – Dan Savage
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. – Dan Savage
