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.
From Booklist
“America’s most popular sex columnist” has been giving frank advice to gay and straight adults via his popular syndicated column “Savage Love” for more than two decades, but his public profile was elevated significantly after cofounding the It Gets Better Project in 2010. Aimed at LGBT youth struggling with bullying and suicide, the award-winning YouTube campaign sparked the world’s attention when everyone from Ellen DeGeneres to President Obama recorded video messages of support, turning the spotlight on an important problem. Through books, podcasts, newspaper articles, speaking engagements, and frequent talk-show appearances, Savage has shrewdly parlayed his outspokenness into a lucrative and successful brand—regularly drawing the ire of religious conservatives and even other gay-rights advocates. With his latest collection of essays on “faith, sex, love, and politics,” he takes on gun control, Obamacare, sex education in public schools, and gay marriage, among other hot-button topics. His provocative points are sharply made but repetitively rephrased. Fans of Savage’s in-your-face rhetoric are sure to rally around his liberal pulpit, but new converts may be harder to come by. --Chris Keech
Review
"America's most in-your-face sex columnist and gay-rights activist comes out swinging in these pugnacious, hilarious essays." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
"... An extraordinarily personal, deeply felt book about traditional marriage, authentic and healthy religion and a traditional sex life." - Washington Post
Description:
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:
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.
From Booklist
“America’s most popular sex columnist” has been giving frank advice to gay and straight adults via his popular syndicated column “Savage Love” for more than two decades, but his public profile was elevated significantly after cofounding the It Gets Better Project in 2010. Aimed at LGBT youth struggling with bullying and suicide, the award-winning YouTube campaign sparked the world’s attention when everyone from Ellen DeGeneres to President Obama recorded video messages of support, turning the spotlight on an important problem. Through books, podcasts, newspaper articles, speaking engagements, and frequent talk-show appearances, Savage has shrewdly parlayed his outspokenness into a lucrative and successful brand—regularly drawing the ire of religious conservatives and even other gay-rights advocates. With his latest collection of essays on “faith, sex, love, and politics,” he takes on gun control, Obamacare, sex education in public schools, and gay marriage, among other hot-button topics. His provocative points are sharply made but repetitively rephrased. Fans of Savage’s in-your-face rhetoric are sure to rally around his liberal pulpit, but new converts may be harder to come by. --Chris Keech
Review
"America's most in-your-face sex columnist and gay-rights activist comes out swinging in these pugnacious, hilarious essays." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
"... An extraordinarily personal, deeply felt book about traditional marriage, authentic and healthy religion and a traditional sex life." - Washington Post