34 Facts About Dan Savage

Daniel Keenan Savage was born on October 7,1964 and is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBT community activist.

Dan Savage has worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan.

Outside of his writings and podcasts, Dan Savage has advocated for progressive politics and advancing the rights of LGBT youth to prevent suicide in the community.

Dan Savage has been featured on numerous television programs and news outlets, including Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Anderson Cooper 360.

Dan Savage has attracted controversy over his comments and actions related to LGBT issues.

Dan Savage was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Judith "Judy", who worked at Loyola University, and William Savage Sr.

Dan Savage lived in West Berlin from late-1988 to 1990.

In 1991, Dan Savage was living in Madison, Wisconsin, and working as a night manager at Four Star Fiction and Video, a local video store that specialized in independent film titles.

Dan Savage befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of The Onion, who announced that he was moving to Seattle to help start an alternative weekly newspaper titled The Stranger.

Dan Savage has written in a number of columns about "straight rights" concerns, such as the HPV vaccine and the morning-after pill.

Dan Savage is the editorial director of the weekly Seattle newspaper The Stranger, a promotion from his former position as The Strangers editor-in-chief.

Dan Savage has made multiple appearances on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, to discuss LGBT political issues, such as same-sex marriage and Don't Ask Don't Tell.

The Dan Savage Lovecast is a weekly audio podcast based on the column Dan Savage Love, available via iTunes and at the Strangers website for free download.

Dan Savage chronicled the experience of adopting their son in his 1999 book The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant.

Dan Savage publicly destroys the submissions after conclusion of the festival.

Dan Savage set up a website to publicize this application of the term.

In 2010, Dan Savage offered to take down his website if Rick Santorum would agree to donate US$5 million to a gay rights group.

Dan Savage responded by further denouncing Santorum and accused him of propagating discrimination against the LGBT community through his viewpoints.

When Dan Savage vowed to boycott Utah due to strong Mormon support for Proposition 8, the Salt Lake City Weekly dropped Dan Savage's column.

Dan Savage tends toward liberal political views, with pronounced contrarian and libertarian streaks.

Dan Savage said that if Romanelli, who had been disqualified from appearing on the general election ballot, was allowed back on the ballot, "someone should run him over with a truck".

In January 2000, Dan Savage traveled to Iowa to write about the state's presidential caucuses for Salon.

Dan Savage claimed to have licked numerous items in the campaign office, including doorknobs, office supplies, and coffee cups, and later covered a pen in his saliva before handing it to Bauer.

Dan Savage later said that the article was exaggerated for comedic effect, stating that the anecdote about "licking doorknobs" was fictitious, and that he was "no longer contagious" by the time he joined the campaign team.

Dan Savage reported registering and participating in the Iowa Republican caucus, which was illegal, as he was not an Iowa resident.

Dan Savage pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fraudulent voting in a caucus, and was sentenced to a year's probation, 50 hours of community service, and a $750 fine.

However, one week before the war began, Savage spoke against it, citing the inability of President George W Bush to form a convincing case and sway the UN and NATO allies.

Dan Savage has expressed skepticism of "simplistic" views of monogamy.

Dan Savage opposes the tactics of the War on Drugs, and opposes the prohibition of certain controlled substances.

In 2006, Dan Savage said that outing is "brutal and it should be reserved for brutes", writing it should not be done outside of particular circumstances, such as a closeted person publicly advocating against gay rights.

Dan Savage responded that there is "no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child".

Dan Savage has been glitter bombed three times, twice in 2011 and once in 2012, by protesters who alleged that he is transphobic, among other accusations.

In 2014, during a seminar at the University of Chicago on social media, Dan Savage discussed his past use of the word "tranny".

Dan Savage objected to a student's request that he use the phrase "T-slur" instead, and gave examples of other slurs.