Quotes by Dan Savage

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

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 he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

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 he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.