Dan Savage Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.”

“School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.”

“If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.”

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

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

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

“A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.”

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

“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.”