Dan Savage

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay. ”

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

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I don't like to think about what school was like for me. ”

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. ”

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. ”

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. ”

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. ”