Dan Savage
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Savage, Dan (7 October 1964 - )
Savage writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love” in Village Voice and other alternative weeklies. The column's attention-getting salutation used to be "Hey, faggot" but no longer is.
He graduated with a B. A. in theatre from the University of Illinois. He has written that he grew up in "a loud, argumentative, and very Catholic" family."
Writing an op-ed column in The New York Times (5 Sep 2001), he laments the fact that bigotry in Florida keeps some children from loving homes, for those very children are victims who cannot “pick up and move to states that do not exclude perfectly fit single people and loving couples from pools of potential adoptive parents.”
In 2003, when Republican Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania said he didn't hate homosexuals so long as they didn't act on their "deviant" desires, that laws against cocksucking protect the fabric of society, and that there's no Constitutional right to privace in one's own home, he concluded:
- If the Supreme Court says that you have a right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.
Continuing that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, "not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be," the congressman inspired Savage to invite suggestions from his readers to describe the congressman. The word chosen and now used in the subculture is santorum, defined as "the frothy mix of lube and fecal mattr thatis sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
Typical of his hilarious but rational advice is what he responded to a gay man who, when he was with another man, said he felt as if he was “being watched . . . by God or angels in the room.” Advised Savage,
- Let me walk you through this: If there were such things as angels - which there are not - and if there were such a thing as God - which there is not - God and his heavenly host would have more important things to do than stand at the foot of your bed and watch you get fucked in the ass.
Savage is the author of Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins And The Pursuit Of Happiness In America, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant, and in 2005 The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family. The latter tells how Savage and his companion, Terry, adopted their son from his willing mother, a "spare-changing gutter punk."
