Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964 in Chicago ) is an American journalist and author .
He gained national fame through his sex advisor column Savage Love , which appears weekly in several dozen newspapers. Savage is openly gay and active in the US lesbian and gay movement . He lives in Seattle with his husband ; the couple are married under Canadian law and have adopted a son . He wrote The Kid about his experience as an adoptive father .
Savage Love
The advice column Savage Love first appeared in 1991 in the Seattle free newspaper The Stranger , where Savage still works today. With its unusually explicit style and savage's pronounced advocacy of sexual freedom and recognition of deviant sexual practices (within the framework of the principle of “ Safe, Sane, Consensual ” ), the column quickly achieved great popularity and is now featured in numerous newspapers in the USA, Canada, Europe and Asia printed. In North America, Savage coined a number of sexual neologisms through the column . A weekly podcast has also been published since 2006 .
It gets better
In 2010 Savage started the It gets better project . Video messages are collected there that encourage homosexual young people. In this way, the high suicide rate should be reduced.
Awards
- In 2003 he received the Lambda Literary Award in the humor category for Skipping Towards Gomorrah .
- In 2013 he was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association and received the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).
Books
- Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist . Plume, New York 1998, ISBN 0-452-27815-5 .
- The kid . Dutton, New York 1999, ISBN 0-525-94525-3 .
- Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America . Plume, New York 2002, ISBN 0-452-28416-3 .
- The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family . Dutton, New York 2005, ISBN 0-525-94907-0 .
Web links
- Dan Savage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Archive of "Savage Love" from February 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. July 10, 2003, accessed March 27, 2019 .
- ^ Dan Savage - Freedom From Religion Foundation . In: fff.org .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Savage, Dan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Savage, Daniel Keenan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois, USA |