Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.
Dan SavageReally, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
Dan SavageA huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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