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. – Dan Savage
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits – a floor, not a ceiling. It’s enforceable. – Dan Savage
To be a straight person and discover you’re infertile is almost like discovering you’re not a straight person. – Dan Savage
You know, my problem is I can’t say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things. – Dan Savage
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir’s discourse. There’s a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. – Dan Savage
I wouldn’t say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they’re certainly exploited and mined by them. – Dan Savage
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. – Dan Savage
When you’re young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. – Dan Savage
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. – Dan Savage
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. – Dan Savage
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. – Dan Savage
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay. – Dan Savage
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. – Dan Savage
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? – Dan Savage
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. – Dan Savage
