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
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
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. – 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 past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country