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Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community. He writes Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan.

In his writing and public appearances, Savage has clashed with both social conservatives and the LGBT establishment. He has opposed Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality. He has made several controversial public statements in various media, often lambasting people with whom he disagrees.

✵ 7. October 1964
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah
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Famous Dan Savage Quotes

“The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.”

Dan Savage

Butting In http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11125, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 27 June 2002

“Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.”

Dan Savage

“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”

Dan Savage

Source: American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

“every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't”

Dan Savage

“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.”

Dan Savage

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

“I wasn't going to argue with a German about the psychology of a forced march – not even a guiltless German.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 203

Dan Savage Quotes

“No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 216

“The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 299

“So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 249

“But just because we're conditioned to view some things as disgusting and immoral doesn't mean that some things aren't, in actual point of fact, disgusting and immoral. Human sacrifice, for instance. Or cannibalism. Or Ann Coulter.”

Dan Savage

Incestathon http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11500, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 1 August 2002

“One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.”

Dan Savage

Come to the Bash http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=30513, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 9 February 2006

“There is a Karmic Rule of Kink (KROK), and it goes something like this: "Dump the honest foot fetishist and you will marry the dishonest necrophiliac." Break up with a guy over his relatively tame fetish — and a foot fetish is about as tame as they get — and KROK will make sure your next boyfriend is some lying corpsefucker who tells you only what you want to hear. ("Honestly, honey, I only like live girls!") Only after you've married the corpsefucker and had a few kids — once extricating yourself from the marriage becomes a hugely complicated ordeal — will he ask you to lie in a tub of ice until you're good and cold. And when you're lying in that tub of ice — and odds are you will, because you won't want to put your poor kids through a divorce — you'll remember that sweet, harmless foot fetishist whose heart you broke back in college, the man you could have married.”

Dan Savage

Mary's Uterus http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=118733, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 14 December 2006

“Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris… it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.”

Dan Savage

Interview on Zulkey.com, 28 March 2008

“Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 256

“Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 165

“My proof that homosexuality is not a choice? A question for my straight male readers: Is there anything I could do or say or write that would convince you to willingly, happily, eagerly, anxiously, deliriously, lustfully put my dick in your mouth and leave it there until I had an orgasm? I rest my case.”

Dan Savage book Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 79

“Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.”

Dan Savage

Disagreeable Advice" http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=29405, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 2 February 2006

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