Dan Savage is an advice lumnist who spawned a worldwi movement after hearg one too many tim about anguished gay teens mtg suici. Savage and his hband, Terry Miller, talk about their "It Gets Better" project, which now has over 10,000 vio submissns.
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DAN SAVAGE: FOR GAY TEENS, LIFE 'GETS BETTER'
Savage has a new book celebratg 30 years wrg his sex advice lumn "Savage Love." He talked wh NPR about where he's been wrong, what's changed and why gay people know more about sex. * savage podcast gay *
" Savage talked about what he has been wrong about over the years, how wrg has changed and why he thks gay people give better sex advice than straight people.
It was 1990 when we started talkg about the lumn and gay people didn't give sex advice to straight people. And so the joke was I was gog to treat straight people wh the same ntempt that straight advice lumnists had always treated gay people who wrote them letters.
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I thk what my rears get and what a lot of straight people sort of tuively get is that your gay iends know a ltle b more about sex than you do, and maybe are a ltle better at than you are.
You n't be gay if you n't talk about difficult sexual issu, you know, you n't e out to your fay whout nontg a difficult sexual issue. That's why 's such a cliché for straight people to go to their gay iends wh their sex problems or sex qutns.