Dan Savage is the closest thing the gay community—if that term still registers in our diffuse era—has to an ambassador. Part of the columnist’s prominence can be credited to a certain vacuum: Many out-of-the-closet public figures have avoided becoming poster children for gay rights. (Think of Anderson Cooper’s matter-of-fact coming-out last summer, or Jodie Foster’s tortured Golden Globe speech.) In the meantime, Savage happily and openly crusades against bullying and for marriage equality; he lashes out at conservative pundits and politicians in a stream of blog posts, columns, podcasts, tweets, and media interviews. (I have interviewed him briefly for The New York Observer and Salon.)
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