Dan Savage

American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1964 · age 62

Daniel Keenan Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBTQ community activist. He writes Savage Love, a relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth.

Dan Savage is read about 361 times a day, in 15 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 110 days, one point a day.

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2017“There is a strain of the left that is really invested in show trials and purity testing and virtue signaling...”In their words3 August 2017Vox interviewRead the whole statement

2016“There's nothing the rightwing loves more than a black person willing to say black people are the real racists or a queer person willing to say queer people are the real threat.”In their words15 November 2016"Milo Yiannopoulos: Girls Are In Danger When Adult Trans Women Use Public Toilets But 13-Year-Old Boys Can Benefit From Giving Head ToRead the whole statement

2013Emperor Has No Clothes AwardAwardHumanist of the YearAward2010The Sidney AwardAward2006“One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.”In their words9 February 2006Come to the Bash, Savage Love column, The StrangerRead the whole statement

2002“But just because we're conditioned to view some things as disgusting and immoral doesn't mean that some things aren't, in actual point of fact, disgusting and immoral.”In their words1 August 2002Incestathon, Savage Love column, The StrangerRead the whole statement

“My proof that homosexuality is not a choice?”In their wordsp. 79Read the whole statement

“I wasn't going to argue with a German about the psychology of a forced march - not even a guiltless German.”In their wordsp. 203Read the whole statement

1964Born7 October 1964

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Speaking at Illinois Wesleyan University, 2007

Dan Savage and Terry Miller's wedding at Seattle City Hall attended by Mayor Mike McGinn on December 9, 2012, the first day of same-sex marriage in Washington.

Savage speaking at Google about the It Gets Better Project

Savage at the 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards, 2006

Dan Savage discussing sex education with his brother, Bill Savage, Northwestern University Senior Lecturer in English (2010)

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Dan Savage

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Who's more reputable than Dan Savage? I can think of a few hundred million people on the North American continent alone.
15 November 2016 · Savage Love, “Donkey See, Donkey Do”, Own words
Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't.
28 March 2008 · Interview on Zulkey.com, Own words
The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
27 June 2002 · Butting In, Savage Love column, The Stranger, Own words