Quotes By Dan Savage

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

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

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

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

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.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

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.

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.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

No, I'm not good looking.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

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.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

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

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.