Dan Savage

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. ”

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. ”

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done. ”

I don't write about my life in my column. ”

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

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. ”

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. ”

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. ”

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. ”

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. ”