Quotes from Dan Savage

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

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.

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

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

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

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.

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

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

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

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

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?

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

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

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.

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

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.