Jezebel: Dan Savage

Dan Savage Cordially Invites Herman Cain to Prove That Being Gay is a Choice

Erin Gloria Ryan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:30:00 EDT

Earlier this week, Presidential candidate/inscrutable jokemaker Herman Cain claimed during an interview with Piers Morgan that being gay is a choice because there is no evidence that exists that it is not a choice. Columnist Dan Savage caught wind of what Cain said, and disagrees. Very strongly. More »

Non-Monogamy Doesn't Mean You Get To Be A Dick

Anna North — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:50:00 EDT

Dan Savage's thoughts on monogamy — and the lack thereof — are now well-known. But that hasn't stopped one husband from twisting them into an excuse for cheating. More »

How To Talk About Non-Monogamy Without Losing Your Mind

Anna North — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:30:00 EDT

Discussions of infidelity tend to freak everybody out. But contrary to popular belief, it is possible to talk about monogamy, non-monogamy, sex, and cheating in a rational way. More »

Is Dan Savage Our Ann Landers?

Sadie Stein — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:00:00 EST

Is Dan Savage our generation's Ann Landers? And is that a good thing? More »

The Problem With Dan Savage On MTV

Sadie Stein — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:02:00 EST

Dan Savage is a good sex columnist. He's opinionated, idiosyncratic, and has helped a lot of people. The It Gets Better project is a major achievement. But is he the best one to give advice to high school students? More »

Writer Suggests She Had Lesbian Fling With Rihanna

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST

An upcoming book, Low Down Dirty Shame, alleges that Rihanna likes sexytimes with women.

The 15 Best "It Gets Better" Videos

Anna North — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:58:00 EDT

Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project has generated tons of amazing videos. We've selected 15 of note, from the President, a Marine, Vinny from Jersey Shore — and lots more. More »

Help Us Give Christine O'Donnell The Santorum Treatment

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:05:00 EDT

Now that noted dingbat Christine O'Donnell has thrust her way into our national discourse, she must be stopped. More »

Defending Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" Project

Robin Jacks — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:30:00 EDT

I've spent much of my weekend reading the various responses within the LGBTQ community to Dan Savage's It Gets Better video project — and not all of them are positive. More »

Awesome Video Project Shows Gay Youth "It Gets Better"

Anna North — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:08:00 EDT

Although Dan Savage's "Masturbate to Christine O'Donnell Day" is a questionable idea, we love his It Gets Better Project, in which he reaches out to LGBT kids to "show them what the future may hold in store for them." More »

Dan Savage Wants Us To Get Off To Christine O'Donnell

Irin Carmon — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:40:00 EDT

Dan Savage proposes that "every day between now and November 2...be Masturbate to Christine O'Donnell Day." We have news for Savage: The Tea Party dudes have you beat. So to speak. More »

—Dan Savage

Anna Holmes — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:40:00 EDT

responding to a reader's request that he weigh in on the supposed trend of "vajazzling". [WCP] More »

Prejean Wannabe Not Bible Scholar, Not From Beverly Hills

Anna North — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:20:00 EST

The city of Beverly Hills isn't too happy about being associated with gay-hating beauty queen Lauren Ashley, especially since she's from Pasadena. And Dan Savage says she might want to read what the Bible says about "adorning oneself." [LAT, CrooksAndLiars] More »

Beware The "Turkey Drop": Holiday Dumping Season Is Upon Us

Hortense Smith — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST

If you've ever dumped someone or been dumped right around Thanksgiving, you're apparently not alone: the holiday is responsible for the demise of many a shaky relationship, thanks to the phenomenon known as "the turkey drop." More »

Newsweek Too Hot For National Review Writer

Anna North — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

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Sarah Palin's not the only one pissed off about her Newsweek cover — the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez isn't pleased either. But she says that leggy shot is "tame" compared with the fleshpot that is Newsweek's website. More »

Savage To Take Chastity Belts To TV?

Anna North — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Dan Savage is in talks with HBO about a possible show based on Savage Love. Savage says the show would be "my sex-advice column—but on the teevee!" Potential pilot topic: chastity belts. [Editor & Publisher, SeattlePI] More »

Would Sex Workers Have Saved Sodini's Victims?

Anna North — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:20:00 EDT

Would legalizing sex work have prevented George Sodini's gym rampage? That's the claim Dan Savage makes in his column this week. More »

Advice On Advice: Rating Internet Advice Columns

Anna North — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Advice columns are a little like cats: they may not actually do much, but they're fun to look at. Also like cats, not all advice columns are created equal. After the jump, we grade a few of the major players. More »

Savage Love Commenters Don't Know Assault When They See It

Anna North — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:30:00 EST

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In his newest column, Dan Savage gets it mostly right in his response to DREAD, who was raped by her ex-boyfriend. Some commenters on his site, however, get it oh-so-wrong. More »

Dan Savage Has Stopped Blaming Black Voters For Prop 8

Megan Carpentier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

A week ago, Dan Savage posted a now-invisible (but helpfully-cached) rant about how difficult it was for him to "[pretend that] the handful of racist gay white men out there — and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum — are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans." Dan has apparently changed his mind about whether the black community is to blame for Prop 8's passage in California. He appeared on the Colbert Report last night and said, "I don't feel like we can pin this all on the African-American community." He's now blaming it on old people "and they're dying, which is some comfort." Although he doesn't address his earlier writings at all, he does crack Steven Colbert up, so watch and enjoy his anal sex jokes. More »

Dan Savage: Cool With Drinking Piss, Weird About Bisexuality

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:00 EDT

We've had our issues with Dan Savage. Actually, I've had my issues with Dan Savage, personally. There's certainly a place in America for a columnist who assures you that your kinkiest kinks aren't so bad and you can still be loved for them, so get some therapy and practice safe sex! And, at one point not terribly long ago, I was happy that that person was Dan Savage. But then the more I read of his columns and his "vaginas are terrifying" and his whole "women are double-standard having bitches" thing that he likes to harp on sometimes I am like, wow. And now he has on display some pretty heteronormative thoughts about bisexuality: it's great in girls and most of us do it, but it's virtually non-existent in boys. Gross. More »

That Dear Abby "My Brother Raped My Wife" Thing Actually Happened (And It Was Legal!?)

Moe — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Here's a familiar familial tale! Remember the one about the woman who's fast asleep in her room when suddenly a man she thinks is her husband comes in and they have sex only to at some later point realize that it was actually her husband's perverted brother? Yes, Dear Abby got a query about this a few weeks back, and she didn't believe the story, so we got all ragey about that, and then Dan Savage said he, too, disbelieved the story, and we unleashed some lite venom on him, but by that point our faith in our own instincts was somewhat shaken. So imagine how very gratified we are to report to you now that the media has confirmed it: masquerading as your brother to rape her girl is actually a new trend! It happened — basement apartment and all! — to Marissa Lee-Fuentes. More »

Savage Hate

Anna Holmes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:45:00 EDT

All week, readers have been writing in about advice-giver Dan Savage's latest column, in which Jezebel — specifically our response to that awful 'Dear Abby' feature from last week — gets a negative mention. Personally, I didn't care one way or another about Savage's slam, but Moe sure did! With every email from a reader that came in, she shot off a response to the entire staff. Click on Savage's picture to read her increasingly-irate responses! More »

"Edgy" New New York Press Sex Columnist Stole Incest Question From Dan Savage

Moe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:30:41 EST

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Yesterday a brand-new sex advice column debuted in the New York Press, and an editor at the paper sent me a pitch, wondering if I would link to it. And because it not only featured answers to questions about the sanitary properties of urine and whether it's "gay" to fuck a tranny, but "I came home to find my live-in girlfriend GIVING HER BROTHER A GIANT BONER", I wrote a post wondering just how Claudia Lonow, a former child star best known for her work in Knots Landing, went about the process of finding such shocking, edgy questions without, you know, having an established stream of pervs like Dan Savage. Well, it turned out she just stole them from Dan Savage. After the jump, the evidence — and my rant about what this means. More »