Tag Archives: Dan Savage

Dan Savage Vs Kirsten Powers

Dan Savage and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers got into it today over Dan’s book review this weekend in the New York Times. Hit the first link for their back-and-forth. And of course, Chris Barron felt the need to jump in with his usual style.

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HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“My father was a Catholic deacon, my mother was a lay minister and I thought about becoming a priest. I was in church every Sunday for the first 15 years of my life. Now I spend my Sundays on my bike, on my snowboard or on my husband. I haven’t spent my post-Catholic decades in a sulk, wishing the church …

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Dan Savage On Margaret Thatcher

“I was living in London—waiting tables, seeing plays, stealing silver, pining after British boys—when Section 28 was being debated. The law prompted Ian McKellen to come out of the closet and it prompted some righteous lesbian parents to tag Thatcher billboard with “Lesbians Mums Aren’t Pretending.” Coming at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Section 28 instilled panic. It felt …

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Dan Savage On Sex & Sexuality

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Dan Savage On Ben Cohen

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Tweet Of The Day: Dan Savage

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Bill Donohue Vs Dan Savage

“Unable to mount a rational critique of Pope Benedict XVI, he [Dan Savage] settled for writing a headline that was almost as long as his ‘story.’ It reads, ‘That Motherf***ing Power-Hungry, Self-Aggrandized Bigot In the Stupid F***ing Hat Announces His Retirement.’ Savage has a long history of trashing Catholicism, and he not only does it with impunity, he is rewarded …

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Dan Savage On Gay Adoption

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Dan Savage On Joel Burns

In his latest Take Part clip, Dan Savage revisits the story of openly gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns (JMG reader!), whose emotional 2010 speech on bullying went viral, prompting Burns to take the lead in getting Texas to pass a statewide bill against bullying.

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49ers Anti-Gay Flap Widens

Yesterday Dan Savage removed the It Gets Better anti-bullying clip recorded by the San Francisco 49ers after two of the players that appeared in the clip denied having taken part. Though Culliver has since apologized for the controversial statements, the backlash seems unlikely to dissipate now that a new wrinkle has emerged. The 49ers’ linebacker Ahmad Brooks and nose tackle …

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Dan Savage On Being Different

Clip description: “Dan Savage discusses Merle Miller’s 40 year old essay ‘On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual,’ the impetus of the LGBT activist movement, and what ‘being different’ means today.”

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Dan Savage On Legalized Pot

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New From Breitbart’s Editor

Today Breitbart is promoting the new book by its editor, Ben Shapiro, who includes Dan Savage in his list of “leftist bullies.”  Shapiro writes in today’s Breitbart puff piece: In March 2011, President Obama led a White House conference on the supposed scourge of bullying plaguing America. There hadn’t been an uptick in childhood bullying by any available measure; in …

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Dan Savage Thanks Straight Allies

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Porno Pete Vs Dan Savage

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Dan Savage On The Christian Left

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Dan Savage Tweets: “This Happened”

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Dan Savage On “Normal” Sex

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Photo Of The Day

Shortly after midnight last night, Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller were among the first Washington state couples to receive to their marriage licenses.  Savage and Miller first married in Canada in 2005. Hundreds of couples lined up in downtown Seattle Wednesday night for the state’s first batch of same-sex marriage licenses, in a historic, jubilant event that began …

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SEATTLE: 140 Gay Couples To Marry At City Hall On December 9th

Dan Savage is thrilled: More than 140 couples have registered to marry at City Hall on December 9, the first day that all couples will be free to legally marry in Washington state. All the available slots did book up quickly. Mayor McGinn and his team and the judges who are donating their time—all of whom have been wonderful—extended the …

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