Dan Savage coming to Vermont on May 31!
RU12? is thrilled to announce that Dan Savage will be this year's Annual Community Dinner Speaker on Saturday, May 31st. Doors will open at 6pm at the Sheraton Hotel in South Burlington. Please visit the Annual Dinner page for more information and check back regularly for event updates.
Dan Savage has been writing
Savage Love an internationally syndicated sex advice column, for more than ten years. The column originates in The Stranger and runs in The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, The San Francisco Weekly, and in papers in Los Angeles, Toronto, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and more than fifty other cities in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Canada.
In addition to the column, Dan is the editor of the groundbreaking Seattle alt-weekly, The Stranger. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Salon, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, and on the New York Times Op-Ed pages. Dan has been featured on CNN, "Politically Incorrect," "ABC News" The FOX News Channel, and on NPR's "Fresh Air." He is a regular contributor to NPR's "This American Life."
Savage is also the author of four books: "Savage Love," a collection of his advice columns (Plume 1998); "The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant" (Dutton, 1999), an award-winning memoir about adoption PEN USA West Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction); "Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America" (Dutton, 2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award for non-fiction; and "The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family" (Dutton 2005). Savage has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Colbert Report, ABC's 20/20, MTV, VH1, and other television and cable programs.
Dan Savage is a notorious biphobe - and his attitudes/writings on bisexuals, if directed at gays or lesbians, would have barred him from being invited to speak before a supposedly inclusive LGBTQ audience. A bitter arrogant media queen.
Posted by: aleXander | May 29, 2008 at 05:59 PM
I support RU12? and have been an enthusiastic RU12? Dinner attendee for the last 7 years. This year however, I will not attend because of Dan Savage's known negativity towards bisexuality. I hope that next year's speaker will be as exciting for ALL the various parts of our queer community.
Posted by: Kate | May 29, 2008 at 08:48 PM
I am disgusted with the choice of Dan Savage as the speaker at this event. His attitudes toward women, the female body and bisexuals are terribly offensive. I am sorry that there was not more thought put into this choice by RU12. it seems that inclusion does not go very deep.
Posted by: Battle Axe | May 29, 2008 at 09:05 PM
worth your time.
please read!
http://www.melted-dreams.net/definition/2006/04/26/dan-savage-cant-count/
Posted by: battle Axe | May 29, 2008 at 09:32 PM