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Author: Dan Savage
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Dan Savage _ It Gets Better: Coming Out,
I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid.
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Dan Savage _ The Kid: (What Happened After
How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors.
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Dan Savage _ American Savage: Insights,
Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. {...} Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. {...}A lot of straight people move through life following a script that others wrote for them.
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Dan Savage _ The Kid: (What Happened After
For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.
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Dan Savage _ American Savage: Insights,
The proper response to religious opposition to choice or love or death can be reduced to a series of bumper stickers: Don't approve of abortion? Don't have one. Don't approve of gay marriage? Don't have one. Don't approve of physician-assisted suicide? For Christ's sake, don't have one. But don't tell me I can't have one - each and every one - because it offends your God.
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Dan Savage _ American Savage: Insights,
now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?"
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Dan Savage _ American Savage: Insights,
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.
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Dan Savage _ The Kid: (What Happened After
Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told me so. Well, I didn't enjoy washing dishes- I hated it, and I'd told him so-and didn't see why I should have to do something I hated after he got to do something he liked. I mean, that wasn't fair, was it?
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Dan Savage _ The Kid: (What Happened After
Terry gets annoyed when I describe his mother as cold. She isn't cold, he insists, just a little standoffish, and not so gabby as certain members of my family. While Terry's mom doesn't believe in asking intrusive questions, like "How are you?", she's still a warm and loving mom; just quiet and undemonstrative.
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Dan Savage _ American Savage: Insights,
The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay.
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Dan Savage _ American Savage: Insights,
Jesus commanded his followers to clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick. Making health care available to all seems like a no-brainer, Jesus-wise, among the most Christian projects a president, or a nation, could possible undertake.
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Dan Savage _ Skipping Towards Gomorrah
...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want to marry, and gay men who didn't want to leave the priesthood in order to marry.
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