211 Quotes by Dan Savage

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

the truth is often a mixed message

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.

Relationships are monuments build on lies