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Dan Savage is an influential American author, sex advisor, and activist, born on October 7, 1964. He is known for his 'Savage Love' column, which has been published in 'The Stranger' magazine since 1991, providing practical sex advice. Savage is admired for his candid and humorous style, and his work has had a profound impact on sex education and LGBTQ+ rights.

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“One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.”

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“I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'”

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“Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.”

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

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

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

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“Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?”

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“...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want to marry, and gay men who didn't want to leave the priesthood in order to marry.”

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Book:Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah

“I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.”

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Born: October 7, 1964
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Skipping Towards GomorrahRelated source material

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