Dan Savage weighs in on topics ranging from marriage, parenting, and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and sex education.

Dan Savage is famous--and to some, infamous--for many reasons. To  name just a few: he’s the author of America’s leading sex advice  column, the frank and expletive-filled “Savage Love;” co-founder of  the Emmy Award-winning “It Gets Better Project,” a YouTube  campaign 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.

His new book American Savage contains some of his most personal and reflective essays yet. He explains, with his trademark humor and honesty:

• Why assault weapons should be banned, but why guns should be allowed in the U.S. capitol

• Why Obamacare, as good as it is, is “still kinda evil”

• Why straight people should have straight ‘pride’ parades too

• Why feminists are wrong about Halloween

• Why the Bible is “only as good and decent as the person reading it”

• Why public school sex-ed is more like “sex dread”

• Why the gay marriage debate isn’t a zero sum game: nothing has been taken from straight couples in states where all couples can marry

And in a chapter called “Bigot Christmas,” Dan tells the behind-the-scenes story of  his famous recent family dinner and marriage equality debate with Brian Brown,  head of the National Organization for Marriage.

Dan Savage is someone whose opinions about our culture, politics, and society should not only be listened to but taken seriously.

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Dan Savage is an author, journalist, and activist widely known and appreciated for his mordant wit, political commentary, and commonsensical approach to all manner of sexual issues. He is the author of the internationally syndicated column “Savage Love” and the editorial director of The Stranger, a weekly newspaper in Seattle. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Salon.com, Nest, Rolling Stone, The Onion, and many other publications. He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his husband Terry Miller.