#ay

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. ↗

— Dan Savage

#cruelty #each #friends #go #i

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. ↗

— Dan Savage

#allergic #dogs #even #gay #gene

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

#does #drag #dressed #enough #feel

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

#care #gay #gay marriage #marriage #most

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

#dead #even #got #lives #love

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. ↗

— Dan Savage

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing

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

— Dan Savage

#feel #i #i am #know #particularly

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. ↗

— Dan Savage

#canadian #civil #equality #front #full

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. ↗

— Dan Savage

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #eye #gay

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. ↗

— Dan Savage

#gay #how #nothing #obstacles #path