Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.
From Dan Savage
I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.
When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
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