Reporting on the California Supreme Court hearing yesterday, NPR reporter Karen Grigsby Bates decided to focus on the people really hurt by Proposition 8, which in her view, means Prop. 8 supporters. She talks with Dave Leatherby, "a devout Roman Catholic father of 10" who runs an ice crea...

Plenty of people are pissed off about a NPR report yesterday that characterized gay activists as conducting a "witch hunt" against donors to Yes On 8. "This seems to be an effort to indiscriminately go after anyone who contributed money, regardless of their position on gay issues," says Frank Schube...

  Often in our tired Monday morning Google news searches for terms like "penis" we come across the most random stories in other countries' newspapers. Mostly they make us 1. proud to be Americans (where at least we know we're free!) and 2. grateful for Dan Savage. Today, in th...

Dan Savage has coined a new word in honor of Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren.  Pastor Warren also garnered attention because he was chosen to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s despite his support of California’s gay marriage ban ‘Proposition 8‘.  Unfortunately fo...

Saddlebacking, a word derived from Saddleback, Pastor Rick Warren's Orange County church. Here's Dan Savage's definition: "Saddlebacking: the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities. After attending the Purity Ball, He...

You probably fondly recall Dan Savage's successful redefinition of former Sen. Rick Santorum's last name, a legacy that will follow Santorum as long as teh interwebs exists. Now Savage is looking to give Rick Warren's Saddleback Church the same treatment. Here are Savage's suggestions; email your vo...

"You're not concerned for his health, REAM, you're concerned for your sex life and what the death of your attraction to him means for this relationship. So give it to him straight: You're not attracted to fatties, which is why you pursued him four years ago, and his weight gain i...

"Momentum is a bitch. It’s probably the hardest thing to maintain in any activist movement. Join The Impact, the new web-based group that organized the remarkable nationwide anti-Prop 8 rallies on November 15th, is learning this hard truth pretty quickly. Their three actions since then – a postc...

I love reading Dan Savage's 'Savage Love' sex column every week - even for an old dog, I've learned new tricks reading it. Or at the very least, it gives me a laugh or two at a reader's expense. That's why it was fun to read a MediaBistro Q & A with Dan Savage this week. He's funny, profane, bitchy,...

According to this thread, some gay protesters against the passage of Proposition 8 have been using the epithet "nigger." Blacks voted overwhelmingly to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Here’s more: (UPDATE Truth Wins Out’s Wayne Besen condemns racial intolerance wi...