We saw Dan Savage speak last night in this small venue in Dallas. It was amazingly fucking cool. He says he does all of his speaking engagements in Q&A format and he's used to speaking at universities, so a small room full of actual adults was neat. Though, I don't think the questions were too terribly different from what you'd get on a university campus.

A lot of the questions he answered were versions of the same questions I've heard him answer on youtube videos, so the answers to them were a version of the same answers I've heard before. He said a couple of new things like I liked a lot.

1. the "gay agenda" is the radical notion that gay people are human beings (stolen from the women's movement like awesomeness)
2. the rising divorce rate correlates with the cultural shift that imposed monogamy on men as well. apparently, the christian right sometimes likes to blame divorce rates on birth control, but really it correlates more with marriage making the shift from a property transaction to an equal partnership where expectations of faithfulness were placed on men for the first time.... ever(?)
3. dicks were designed like plungers, to suck out the cum of the last guy who was up there... monogamy ain't natural
4. adorable stories about his son being straight
5. i'm always amazed at the amount of people who have sexual issues with their partners (he wants to do something i dont want to do, she wont do what i want to do, im sexually bored, i cant talk about X issue with this partner blah blah blah). and the amount of people who are unwilling to try out their partners kink or the amount of people who are scared to tell their partner about their kink. this hurts my heart, we should all indulge each others kinks more often (reasonable, semi-sanitary, not horrifically immoral kinks that makes us want to curl up in a corner and cry that is)
6. there was a gay pastor there from the bright divinity school in fort worth. reverend sprinkle was apparently the first openly gay clergy to make a video for the "it gets better" project so he and a seminary student were Dan's special guests. it was pretty awesome because at first everyone was really super confused about the priests in the audience. especially with the liberal amounts of catholic bashing. i also realized that i totally wanted to fuck this hip young priest. and im usually fairly icked out by the thought of sex with strangers, or with religious people. my friends were relieved because i always get chewed out by them for being so cerebral about doin-its. i get a lot of shit for having sex intellectually.. i should've asked an about my intellectual sex hang ups. which im not even sure is an actual problem. maybe my friends just like dumb people. anyway, i totally hit on a fucking priest last night. i'm going to hell.


Dan was entertained by my question and I was sitting just to his left so we had a hilarious little back and forth about my over-sexed, giant, jack-mormon family. He's nice and funny and witty as hell.

All together it was an awesome way to spend $20 and my friend Ashley and I will continue to argue about the merits of monogamy vs. the merits of random meaningless sex until we're old old ladies. With facelifts and smokers coughs and dead husbands.