![]() ![]() ![]() Mother Jones: Now that the initial buzz surrounding “It Gets Better” has died down, how are you going to keep up the momentum?ĭan Savage: Our goal isn’t to maintain that kind of fever pitch. I got Savage on the line to chat about his efforts to make life better for gay kids-and how he’s feeling about Santorum‘s recent surge in the GOP primaries. ![]() Savage also famously turned Rick Santorum’s last name into a sexual neologism/ Google bomb after Santorum compared gay sex to “man on dog” sex. And starting March 27, Savage-who edits the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger and pens the popular syndicated sex column “Savage Love”-will host a new weekly MTV series called Savage U, wherein he dispenses advice on the topic to university students all over America. everywhere), he and his husband, Terry Miller, narrate an hourlong special of the same name. To help it along, he’s expanded the enterprise with a recent book, It Gets Better, which includes contributions from David Sedaris and Michael Cunningham. Internet memes come and go, but journalist Dan Savage wants the “ It Gets Better Project“- his viral video campaign to reassure distraught gay and lesbian young people-to stick around forever. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]()
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