American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, columnist and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such diverse issues as healthcare, gun control, and marriage equality with characteristic straight talk and humor. Dan Savage is famous--and to some, infamous--for many reasons. Toname just a few: he's the author of America's leading sex advicecolumn, the frank and expletive-filled "Savage Love;" co-founder ofthe Emmy Award-winning "It Gets Better Project," a YouTubecampaign aimed at LGBT youth that swept the globe in 2010; and he wrote the groundbreaking 1999 memoir The Kid about adopting a son with his partner (now husband) Terry, which helped inspire same-sex couples nationwide to adopt.Dan has long been an advocate for marriage equality and LGBT rights, and AMERICAN SAVAGE contains some of his most personal and reflective essays on those subjects to date.