Tag Archives: Dan Savage

“The first adult authority figure that I came out to who wasn’t a member of my family: my pediatrician. I’d been seeing him since I was a child and he was still my doctor. After my third or fourth visit about ‘a small skin blemish,’ he asked me what I was really worried about. I remember what I said to …

Get yours here. (Via – Dan Savage)

“There are gay organizations with multi-million-dollar budgets, and none of them can seem to scrounge up an executive director who can string a few persuasive lines together and win an argument on basic cable. Why is that every time someone from the Human Rights Campaign is on TV, you just know that we already lost the fight? Whatever the argument …

“Thank you for cleaning up the Viagra commercials Fox, but PLEASE what’s with the new tolerance for homosexuals campaign disguised as anti-bullying? Bullying is wrong. It is wrong for any reason. Apparently, American Idol with the help of Woody from Disney’s Toy Story, thinks that my 4th grader needs to be fully aware of the plight of teens who view …

“Children all over the world, including my two children are fans of Toy Story and to see a character like that [Woody] endorsing something that at this point children have no need to know about, it’s disappointing. For organizations like Exodus International, which has thousands of men and women like me who have lived a gay life, it obviously didn’t …

Major whopping props to Google for airing this amazing ad during tonight’s episode of Glee. Somebody hand me a tissue.

Via press release: NYC Pride is excited to announce Dan Savage, Terry Miller, Rev. Pat Bumgardner, and the Imperial Court of New York as Grand Marshals for the 42 Annual LGBT Pride March, which will occur on June 26, 2011. “We are thrilled at the opportunity of hosting such inspiring leaders of LGBT marriage equality, community service, and youth self-assurance.” …

“I do not intend to ‘educate your college students,’ Maggie. Your college students—the offspring of NOM supporters—are being ‘educated’ at Brigham Young, Liberty University, Bob Jones, Seattle Pacific University, and other Christianist madrassas. My college tours typically take me to secular institutions of higher learning where the kids were hooking up and having sex long before my visit to campus. …

Maggie Gallagher puts her hooves to the NOM blog today to declare that Dan Savage’s sexual ethic of valuing honesty over fidelity is going to be a disaster for the viewers of his upcoming MTV show. There was a thoughtful analysis of [Savage’s] sexual ethics in the Washington Monthly recently, for folks who want to get a taste of what …

MTV has committed to ten episodes of Dan Savage’s sex advice show, Savage U. The show will follow Savage as he travels across the country taking personal questions from students while on tour of college campuses. “He could be our Dr. Drew,” Janollari said MTV’s head of programming David Janollari of Savage and the new show. “He’s able to do …

Dan Savage: “It looks like everyone who contributed an essay to It Gets Better can call themselves a NYT bestselling author now—the ones who weren’t already NYT bestselling authors (David Sedaris, Michael Cunningham), of course. Congrats to all!”

“I’m against making people feel uncomfortable or unsafe in their own homes. Even bigots. And staging protests outside people’s homes is a tactic usually employed by rightwing anti-abortion activists and the KKK back in the day. I don’t think this is a tactic that gay rights movement should endorse or adopt. “To bring this down to a personal level: I …

Yesterday Dan Savage appeared on the Gayle King Show to talk about bullying and the It Gets Better book. Savage points out that straight kids are often the victims of anti-gay bullying.

JMG reader Mark S. King reports that Walmart’s website refused his review of the It Gets Better book until he removed the word “gay.” King, who contributed to the book with his openly gay brother, writes us: “My submission was nixed because I used the word ‘gay,’ which the site explained was ‘profanity.’ I felt properly chastised and removed the …

The book ships March 22nd. Pre-order yours here.

“You have to love how Santorum is out there mewling about being the victim here and about civility—this from the man who compared people in stable, loving same-sex relationships to dog fuckers and kiddie rapists, this from a man who would make gay and straight sodomy illegal, ban gay marriage and any other protections for same-sex couples, and prevent loving …

JMG reader Alex writes from Vancouver to share a peek at the It Gets Better book, which features his story in both English and Spanish. Advance copies are going out to the book’s contributors right now and it goes on sale across North America on March 22nd. Proceeds benefit the Trevor Project and the Gay & Lesbian Straight Education Network. …

Former Sen. Rick Santorum’s potential bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination continues to be dogged by Dan Savage’s eight year-old website. Roll Call asked Santorum why he didn’t reach out to Google to try to remedy the problem. He said he never contacted the search giant directly, and his longtime consultant John Brabender dismissed the problem as a matter …