On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign,
columnist and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such
diverse issues as healthcare, gun control, and marriage
equality with characteristic straight talk and humor.
Dan Savage is famous--and to some, infamous--for many
reasons. To name just a few: he's the author of America's
leading sex advice column, the frank and expletive-filled
"Savage Love;" co-founder of the Emmy Award-winning "It Gets
Better Project," a YouTube campaign aimed at LGBT youth that
swept the globe in 2010; and he wrote the groundbreaking
1999 memoir The Kid about adopting a son with his partner
(now husband) Terry, which helped inspire same-sex couples
nationwide to adopt. Dan has long been an advocate for
marriage equality and LGBT rights, and AMERICAN SAVAGE
contains some of his most personal and reflective essays on
those subjects to date. He also explains, with his trademark
humor and honesty:
- Why assault weapons should be
banned, but why guns should be allowed in the U.S.
capitol - Why Obamacare, as good as it is, is "still
kinda evil" - Why straight people should have straight
'pride' parades too - Why feminists are wrong about
Halloween - Why the Bible is "only as good and decent as
the person reading it" - Why public school sex-ed is
more like "sex dread" - Why the gay marriage debate
isn't a zero sum game: nothing has been taken from
straight couples in states where all couples can
marry
In a chapter called "Bigot Christmas," Dan
also tells the behind-the-scenes story of his famous recent
family dinner and marriage equality debate with Brian Brown,
head of the National Organization for Marriage.
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