Hi, I'm Dan Savage, and I am the author of Savage Love, and this is a little experiment, a podcast, where people call in with their questions instead of emailing them.

I'm always the last to get around to new technologies.

I am not an early adapter.

I'm a late adapter.

Adopter, is it?

Adapter?

Adopter.

So I was the last, probably the last advice column in North America, if not the world,

to accept questions by email.

I held out for snail mail for a long time, and I'm sure I'm the last advice columnist

in North America to begin doing a podcast.

But here we are, and I'm going to try.

And the benefit of doing a podcast is I can swear, use profanity,

use the language we use in the column, as opposed to a radio show where you have to worry about the FCC slitting your throat in the middle of the night. So hence the podcast, hence the phoned in questions, and we're just going to give this a go, and I'm going to stop hemming and wharring. We're going to play these questions now. Questions I've not yet heard.

Just to keep it all spontaneous, like a real radio show. go and I'm going to stop hemming and whying. We're going to play these questions now. Questions I've not yet heard.

Just to keep it all spontaneous, like a real radio show, sort of.

Anyhow, here we go.

Hi, Dan.

I have a little problem with my current boyfriend.

We both have an anger management problem,

and we recently have had difficulty getting along with each other. I was at his family's house for dinner and his father is a little, well, I mean, a lot

homophobic. And he started calling me, you know, fissie inag, and being really rude and mouthing off.

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