Tag Archives: Dan Savage

Activists React To Obama’s Speech

Last night Lt. Dan Choi, Dan Savage, Michelangelo Signorile, and Hilary Rosen appeared on CNN to give their reactions to President Obama’s speech. Dan Savage was mostly unimpressed. Signorile said he heard “nothing new.”

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Photo Of The Day

(Via- Dan Savage)

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Dan Savage Taping HBO Pilot

Dan Savage reports that he’s in LA taping a pilot for HBO. “Savage Love,” the (potential) teevee show, “will focus on current events and cultural trends with sex as the filter.” I’m hoping to bring a new kind of conversation to TV about sex—an honest conversation, one that’s informed without being (too) wonky, funny without being (too) cruel, sexy without …

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“That Faggot Had It Coming”

The above is Dan Savage’s translation of the Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead’s defense of his officers in the beating of Chad Gibson during a raid of the Rainbow Lounge on Saturday. Halstead: “You’re touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that’s offensive. I’m happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that.” …

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Olbermann: Obama Stonewalling On DADT

Dan Savage appeared on Olbermann last night to say that he found it “shocking” that Obama received “polite applause” at the White House LGBT cocktail party, when everybody in the room knew he could end the discharges immediately if he wanted to.

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Dan Savage Has A Different Idea About LGBT Civil Disobedience

Dan Savage isn’t for or against the March On Washington, saying, “I’m officially agnostic: if people want to march, they can march.” But he offers up an additional or alternate idea for a protest that he thinks could have a great impact – and it would only require 730 people. Here’s the idea: one gay or lesbian couple—a couple currently …

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Dan Savage Gives Obama An “F”

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Real Or Fake?

Equality California sent out the above photo with its latest donations pitch yesterday, saying this sign was displayed at the Supreme Court hearings in SF last week. But Dan Savage has some questions: Who took the picture? Where? When? Is the person holding the sign standing inside a building? Weren’t the demonstrations outside? And who is holding the sign? Why …

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NPR: Gays Conducting Witch Hunt

Plenty of people are pissed off about a NPR report yesterday that characterized gay activists as conducting a “witch hunt” against donors to Yes On 8. “This seems to be an effort to indiscriminately go after anyone who contributed money, regardless of their position on gay issues,” says Frank Schubert, spokesman for the Yes on 8 campaign. He says the …

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Saddlebacking

The results are in.

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Portland Rallies For Sam Adams

Several hundred supporters of Portland mayor Sam Adams gathered on Friday night to call on Adams to stay in office. Sex advice columnist Dan Savage was among the speakers and he has photos from the event here.

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Redefining Saddleback

You probably fondly recall Dan Savage’s successful redefinition of former Sen. Rick Santorum’s last name, a legacy that will follow Santorum as long as teh interwebs exists. Now Savage is looking to give Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church the same treatment. Here are Savage’s suggestions; email your vote to him at [email protected]. (1) “Logically, if ‘barebacking’ means having butt sex with …

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Seattle Bars Lively Despite Threat

Seattle gay bars were jumping this weekend as a nightlife fans organized a pub crawl to support the businesses who received last week’s terrorist threat of ricin poisoning. Dan Savage is convinced the threat was sent by a self-loathing gay person because the letters didn’t contain the usual language our opponents use. (Via – Towleroad)

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HomoQuotable – Peter Staley

“Momentum is a bitch. It’s probably the hardest thing to maintain in any activist movement. Join The Impact, the new web-based group that organized the remarkable nationwide anti-Prop 8 rallies on November 15th, is learning this hard truth pretty quickly. Their three actions since then – a postcard campaign, “Day Without A Gay”, and Saturday night’s nationwide “Light Up The …

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CNN: Dan Savage Takes On Family Research Council Over Prop 8

Another winning performance from Dan Savage as he rips Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. I’m really sorry that I missed seeing Dan at the protest last night. We link each other all the time, but I’ve never met him in person.

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Dan Savage On Colbert

Stephen Colbert hits on the same issue that Bill O’Reilly does further down this page, but does it much funnier, bringing Dan Savage in for extra hilarity. Check out how Savage makes the usually unflappable Colbert break up.

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HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“African American voters in California voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, writing anti-gay discrimination into California’s constitution and banning same-sex marriage in that state. Seventy percent of African American voters approved Prop 8, according to exit polls, compared to 53% of Latino voters, 49% of white voters, 49% of Asian voters. “I’m not sure what to do with this. I’m thrilled …

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McCain Backpedals On Gay Adoption

John McCain has softened his stance on gay adoption. Via his Director of Communications, Jill Hazelbaker: “McCain could have been clearer in the interview in stating that his position on gay adoption is that it is a state issue, just as he made it clear in the interview that marriage is a state issue. He was not endorsing any federal …

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Cooper, Savage, Idiot Spar On Marriage

Anderson Cooper hosted Dan Savage and Family Research Council spokes-twat Tony Perkins to spar over gay marriage. Cooper lets Dan Savage get the final word.

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S&M Club Patron On Life Support

New York’s tabloids are having a field day with this story: A leather-loving submissive was clinging to life yesterday after a freak accident at a Midtown bondage club cut off oxygen to his brain, law-enforcement sources said. A dominatrix at The Nutcracker Suite on East 33rd Street called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. after finding the hooded man turning blue …

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