#gh

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

— Dan Savage

#freedom #man #other #override #people

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

#being #bullied #cry #experience #freely

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

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

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

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

#children #compulsory #couples #defines #does

Straight people are everywhere! ↗

— Dan Savage

#people #straight #straight people

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 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