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

— Dan Savage

#civil #civil war #document #heads #justified

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. ↗

— Dan Savage

#expected #imposing #made #men #mistake

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 a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person. ↗

— Dan Savage

#discover #discovering #like #person #straight

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

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

— Dan Savage

#death #disease #high #high school #life

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. ↗

— Dan Savage

#chicago #could #eyes #fringe #gay

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. ↗

— Dan Savage

#end #enemy #peers #place #queer

I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself. ↗

— Fred Savage

#bed #before #bring #dress #glass