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