Dan Savage
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 has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Colbert Report, ABC’s 20/20, MTV, VH1, and other television and cable programs.
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 (which won a 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).
Dan is writing a new book, tentatively titled A New Birth of Freedom: Sex in America Today (Dutton/Penguin 2012) which will take readers on a road trip across America, documenting how Americans create, define, and understand their sexualities today.
The Kid, The Musical will be previewing this spring, with an Opening date set for late May 2010. Broadway star Christopher Sieber, seen in Spamalot and Shrek the Musical, will play Dan Savage in the musical.