Who is Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBT community activist. He writes Savage Love, an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan.Born in Chicago to Roman Catholic parents, Savage attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. After living in West Berlin from 1988 to 1990, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of The Onion. When Keck moved to Seattle, Washington, Savage moved as well to become an a...
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
- 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.
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Steely_dan_bot: i can't be no savage i can't be no highwayman show me where you are you and i will spend this dayDan_wilkes: farewell to gay icon and philanthropist paul o'grady and his 'evil' twin comedienne ms lily savage. to be visible at a time when people hated us was powerful, and i have no doubt changed gay lives for the better. this has me in tears of laughter every time
Tomrade_: as lily savage in the 80s and 90s paul o’grady was a really important performer and activist in the fight against aids and inadequate aids healthcare. lily savage did numerous benefit gigs that most people will never know about, including 2 in belfast. drag queens for life.
Brummy_dan: for a generation, he was a guy who presented a (really good!) show about dogs. for a previous generation, its impossible to overestimate the impact paul o’grady had on normalising drag culture. without lily savage there’s every chance drag race wouldn’t be mainstream tv.
Generoajeno: whatever happened to glitterbombing dan savage for transphobia and playing into reactionary shit?
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