Savage Love

:Savage/Love is also the title of a short play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard.

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Pulitzer Prize - Sam Shepard

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Savage Love is a syndicated sex-advice column by Dan Savage, appearing weekly in several dozen newspapers, mainly free city papers in the U.S. and Canada, but also newspapers in Europe and Asia. It started in 1991 with the first issue of the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger. It can also be found on The Onion AV Club (http://www.theonionavclub.com/savagelove/).

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Sex - Dan Savage - U.S. - Canada - Europe - Asia - 1991 - Seattle - The Stranger - The Onion

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The openly gay author uses the column as a forum for his strong opinions that often flout "family values"; he often encourages advice-seekers to pursue their fetishes. The tone of the column is humorous, and Savage does not shy away from using words like "fuck." He is strongly opposed to both bestiality and incest. Though Savage encourages sexual experimentation, he does not encourage carelessness. He frequently makes use of his position ? that of a columnist with a large and loyal audience ? to spread AIDS awareness and to promote safe sex. In political matters, Savage occasionally shows a libertarian bent. He does however vote Democratic because he believes that voting for minority parties gives votes to the Republicans.

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Gay - Family values - Fetishes - Fuck - Bestiality - Incest - Libertarian - Democratic - Minority parties - Republicans

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For the first six years of the column, Savage had his readers address him with "Hey faggot," as a comment on previous efforts to recapture offensive words. He was admonished for this by some gay activists.

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