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1. "One person simply can't be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want." ~ Dan Savage
2. "Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through life following a script that others wrote for them." ~ Dan Savage
3. "Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it's bad, you've never been so miserable, but when it's good you've never been so high." ~ Dan Savage
4. "I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism" ~ Dan Savage
5. "Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity." ~ Dan Savage
6. "Either way... you've got to tell him--in no uncertain terms--to knock it the fuck off already. Don't be measured, don't wrap it up in "I" statements, no mewling about your feelings. Give him both barrels: "If you don't knock it the fuck off... I'm going to kick your ass out, got it?" A strategic blowup or two should occur--scream, yell, smash a few things you're not all that attached to--when he slips up. Repeat until his attitude changes or his address does." ~ Dan Savage
7. "...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want to marry, and gay men who didn't want to leave the priesthood in order to marry." ~ Dan Savage
8. "...the moment you begin to believe you're worthy of the good things in your life - God gets all Old Testament on your ass and does something vicious, something insane, something totally uncalled for. He gives you lupus or He allows Satan to slaughter your children and cattle or He delivers Ohio to George W. Bush." ~ Dan Savage
9. "Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told me so. Well, I didn't enjoy washing dishes- I hated it, and I'd told him so-and didn't see why I should have to do something I hated after he got to do something he liked. I mean, that wasn't fair, was it?" ~ Dan Savage
10. "Terry gets annoyed when I describe his mother as cold. She isn't cold, he insists, just a little standoffish, and not so gabby as certain members of my family. While Terry's mom doesn't believe in asking intrusive questions, like "How are you?", she's still a warm and loving mom; just quiet and undemonstrative." ~ Dan Savage
11. "The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay." ~ Dan Savage
12. "the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it." ~ Dan Savage
13. "A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves." ~ Dan Savage
14. "Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives." ~ Dan Savage
15. "You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied." ~ Dan Savage
16. "A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay." ~ Dan Savage
17. "Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it." ~ Dan Savage
18. "I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene." ~ Dan Savage
19. "I have a thick skin, but I have a heart." ~ Dan Savage
20. "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." ~ Dan Savage
21. "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?" ~ Dan Savage
22. "Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up." ~ Dan Savage
23. "The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H." ~ Dan Savage
24. "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
25. "Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over." ~ Dan Savage
26. "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." ~ Dan Savage
27. "A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied." ~ Dan Savage
28. "The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity." ~ Dan Savage
29. "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
30. "School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender." ~ Dan Savage
31. "Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay." ~ Dan Savage
32. "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?" ~ Dan Savage
33. "How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors." ~ Dan Savage
34. "For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married." ~ Dan Savage
35. "I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid." ~ Dan Savage

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