One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted to be able to go out and do things as Dan Savage without being recognized the next day, because the column was just in Seattle and it was kind of a sensation and I was beating people up. I was really worried and I didn't want to beat somebody up in a column and have that person know what I look like when I didn't know what they looked like.