Quote of the Day

"The reason gay marriage makes some social conservatives uncomfortable is because it forces them to admit that straight marriage has changed—and that it was straight people who redefined marriage, not gay people."

--Dan Savage, getting to the heart of the matter, as usual.  

Dan Savage on Book of Mormon, Tony Perkins

In this terrific interview, Dan Savage talks to Keith Olbermann about The Book of Mormon and offers his body to Tony Perkins.  NSFW, but a well worth a viewing:

It Gets Better on Glee

Google aired this amazing spot for Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign last night during Glee.  I got choked up.  Watch:


Thank you Google!

Coming Soon: It Gets Better, The Book

New Favorite Site

Fuck Yeah Dudes Kissing.  Not safe for work, although not exactly porn, either. 

Via Dan Savage.

Quote of the Day

"So here's where we're at: everyone who cares about gay issues is mad at the Democrats. The homophobes are angry because the Democrats suggested that they might do something about gay rights; gays and lesbians are furious with the Democrats for failing to do something—failing to do anything—about gay rights. Since doing nothing pisses off the gay haters just as much as doing something, perhaps the Dems should've have done something and won the enthusiastic support of someone."


--Dan Savage on his lack of enthusiasm for Democrats this year.  Read it all here.

Keith Olbermann, Dan Savage, Mike Rogers, and Stephanie Miller on Mehlman

Watch Keith Olbermann explain newly-out Ken Mehlman's complicity in all those damnable constitutional amendments in 2004.  He's joined by Dan Savage who takes apart Mehlman's claim that gays ought to be Republicans:

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Then watch Mike Rogers and newly-out and proud Stephanie Miller discuss Mehlman's non-apology for all the damage he has caused:

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Doctor Treating Women with Experimental Drug to Prevent Lesbians

Dan Savage is reporting that a doctor in Florida is treating women with an experiemental and potentially quite dangerous drug called dexamethasone or dex, in an effort to:

"prevent the births of girls who display an "abnormal" disinterest in babies, don't want to play with girls' toys or become mothers, and whose "career preferences" are deemed to "masculine."

Other scientists are conducting research into preventing congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) which can cause ambiguous genitalia in baby girls, but Maria New of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University is reportedly taking it a step further by trying to prevent lesbianism. 

"In a previous Bioethics Forum post, Alice Dreger noted an instance of a prospective father using knowledge of the fraternal birth order effect to try to avoid having a gay son by a surrogate pregnancy. There may be other individualized instances of parents trying to ensure heterosexual children before birth. But the use of prenatal dexamethasone treatments for CAH represents, to our knowledge, the first systematic medical effort attached to a “paradigm” of attempting in utero to reduce rates of homosexuality, bisexuality, and “low maternal interest.”

Has Twilight of the Golds come true?  As Dan Savage put it:

"So no more Elena Kagans, no more Donna Shalalas, no more Martina Navratilovas, no more k.d. langs, no more Constance McMillens—because all women must grow up to suck dick, crank out babies, and do women's work. And the existence of adult women who are not interested in "becoming someone's wife" and "making babies" constitutes a medical emergency that requires women who are currently pregnant to be treated with an experimental hormone. Otherwise their daughters could grow up to, um, be nominated to sit on the Supreme Court, serve as cabinet secretaries, take 18 Grand Slam singles titles, win Grammies, or take their girlfriends to prom."

Is science trying to destroy us? 

Olfaction Satisfaction

Dan Savage has discovered the ultimate gift for the lesbian in your life.  This video is probably not safe for work. 

Dan Savage on Gay Outcasts

Dan Savage posted a letter from a lesbian high school kid who wrote him about the bullying she gets at school.  She has been made to feel like an outcast in her little southern town.  Savage gave her brilliant advice.  Here's an excerpt:

"And while you're talking to yourself in the mornings, TALI, tell yourself this, too: "Fuck my school, fuck my classmates, and fuck this town." The shits conspiring to make you miserable, TALI, are unlikely to have lives anywhere near as interesting as the one on which you're about to embark. Your classmates are making you miserable now because they know, deep down in their little black hearts, that their lives are going to be duller than day-old douche water compared to yours. Their lives aren't going to be dull because they're straight, TALI, but because the value they place on conformity—that's the reason they feel they have a right to abuse you now—is a prison they've constructed around themselves.


Right now they're making you feel like an outcast, TALI, and the malice stings. But what exactly are they casting you out of? Your high school? Their asshole cliques? That shit town? You haven't been cast out, TALI; you've been liberated. Freed. Sprung."

Damn, I wish somebody had told me that when I was 16. 

Read the rest here. 

Dan Savage on the History of Marriage

Hot + funny + smart = Dan Savage. Here he is debunking the myth of "traditional marriage."



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