Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. [1] [2] Savage is known for penning the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love . Its tone is frank in its discussion of sexuality, often humorous, and frequently hostile to social conservatives, as in the Santorum controversy. Savage, who is openly gay, has often been the subject of controversy regarding some of his opinions that pointedly clash with both those of traditional conservatives and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment". He has also worked as a theater director, both under his real name and under the name Keenan Hollahan , using his middle name and his grandmother's maiden name. [3]

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Early life and college

Dan Savage was born to William and Judy Savage in Chicago, Illinois. ^[4] He is of Irish ancestry. ^[5] The third of four children, Savage was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary North, which he has described as "a Catholic high school in Chicago for boys thinking of becoming priests." ^[6] Though Savage has stated that he is now "a wishy-washy agnostic" and an atheist, ^{[7] [8]} he has said that he still considers himself "culturally Catholic." ^[9]

Savage attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied theater and history. As a theater director, Savage (working under the name "Keenan Hollahan") was a founder of Seattle's Greek Active Theater. Much of the group's work has been queer recontextualizations of classic works, such as a tragicomic Macbeth with both the title character and Lady Macbeth played by performers of the opposite sex. In March 2001, he directed his own Egguus at Consolidated Works, a parody of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play Equus which exchanged a fixation on horses for a fixation on chickens. Savage has not directed, produced, or performed in any productions since a 2003 production of "Letters from the Earth", also at Consolidated Works, his trimmed version of Mark Twain's "The Diary of Adam and Eve", which received scathing reviews, including one from his own paper ("My boss's show stinks." ^[10]).

Savage Love

In 1991, Savage was living in Madison, Wisconsin, and working as a manager at a local video store that specialized in independent film titles. There, Savage befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of The Onion , who announced that he was moving to Seattle to help start an alternative weekly newspaper titled The Stranger . Savage "made the offhand comment that forever altered [his] life: 'Make sure your paper has an advice column—everybody claims to hate 'em, but everybody seems to read 'em'." ^[11] Savage typed up a sample column, and to Savage's surprise Keck offered him the job. ^{[12] [13]}

Savage stated in a February 2006 interview in ''The Onion'''s ''The A.V. Club|A.V. Club'' (which publishes his column) that he began the column with the express purpose of providing mocking advice to heterosexuals. |} Savage wanted to call the column "Hey Faggot (slang)|Faggot!" His editors at the time refused his choice of column name, but for the first several years of the column, he attached "Hey Faggot!" at the beginning of each printed letter as a salutation. According to Savage:

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“	When I started writing this column in 1991, there was a debate raging in hellish homosexual circles about words like faggot. The idea was that if we used these words ourselves—Queer Nation, Dyke March, "Hey, Faggot" — straights couldn't use them as hate words anymore. I chose "Hey, Faggot" as my salutation in joking reference to this lively debate about reclaimed word	”