I dont think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. – 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
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
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. – Dan Savage
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden