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Tag: Dan Savage

Dan Savage | happiness

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

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Dan Savage | happiness

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?

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Dan Savage freedom

Dan Savage | freedom

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

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Dan Savage Fear

Dan Savage | fear

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

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Dan Savage Famous

Dan Savage | famous

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

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Dan Savage family

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, ’cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you’re always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

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Dan Savage experience

Dan Savage | experience

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.

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Dan Savage equality

Dan Savage | equality

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.

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Dan Savage Death

Dan Savage | death

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.

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Dad Dan Savage

Dan Savage | dad

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.

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