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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

Topics: America American First Happiness How Made Promise Pursuing Somebody Somehow Tell Very Whose You

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

~Dan Savage

Topics: Blasphemy Freedom Man Other People Publish Rights Thought

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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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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

Topics: Day Dead Even Got Lives Love Lucky Mother Our Our Lives Point Relatively Some Torment Tormented Valentine Valentine's Day Will You Your

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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.

~Dan Savage

Topics: Boyfriend Day Empty Every Exercise Forget Get Ironically Letters Neglect Pretty Think Valentine Valentine's Day Who Women Year

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I don't write about my life in my column.

~Dan Savage

Topics: About Column Life My Life Write

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I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

~Dan Savage

Topics: About Like Me School Think

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I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

~Dan Savage

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It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

~Dan Savage

Topics: Before Does Drag Dressed Enough Feel Gay Generations Getting Getting Dressed Going Had Like Long Marrying Natural Our Own People Remake Start Straight Take Things Up You

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1964

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