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.

Interest starts accruing now. His political leanings are primarily liberal with pronounced contrarian and libertarian streaks. "
Savage continued the tradition in 2009 by having his readers vote to define saddlebacking as "the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities" as a protest against the vocal support given to California Proposition 8 by Rick Warren (pastor of Saddleback Church) and President Barack Obama's invitation to Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration.

In 2010 Savage and his husband Terry Miller began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He has also worked as a theater director sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan. He has been particularly vocal in response to Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality.