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
One mans blasphemy doesnt override other peoples free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. – 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
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
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. – Anne Lamott