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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 193

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2010

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes spring-winter romances just can't work. Like when he is 19 years old, and she is 11. Dan helps a very confused bisexual woman and a virgin Muslim homo to come out—at least to themselves. After their third child is born, a man is no longer attracted to his wife. And he feels like a big jerk. And more. 206-302-2064 Today's episode is brought to you by Smitten Kitten. Get 20 percent off your order when you enter "Savage" at checkout: http://j.mp/SavageKitten

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0:00.0

You're listening to a Stranger podcast, www.com.

0:05.0

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

0:13.0

while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.

0:24.6

There's been a lot of Sturman Drang as all you all know if you've been following the podcast and the national news about proms, about gay and lesbian kids wanting to take same-sex dates to their proms and being allowed or disallowed, going, being

0:38.5

suspended so they can't go to prom, being some of them kicked out of their homes by their

0:42.4

parents after their kids made the news.

0:46.5

And I just wanted to point to a positive story, a little upbeat story.

0:50.3

A couple of seniors at Hudson High School in Hudson, New York, ran for prom king and queen, and one,

0:57.8

and the school crowned them.

1:00.0

And there was no problem.

1:03.0

It's progress.

1:04.5

Not only did the kids get the most votes, but their victories were so overwhelming that there were no runners up.

1:11.9

The entire student body at Hudson High School in upstate New York voted for these two guys

1:16.9

to be their prom, king and queen.

1:18.9

They're not boyfriends, their best friends, and they had a little bickering at the end to figure

1:23.4

out who would wear the tiara and who would wear the crown.

1:26.5

And an angle that I really love, just two years ago in 2008, another kid at that same

1:34.2

school ran for prom queen and won.

1:37.2

And the school administration barred him from being crowned.

1:40.5

So just in two years, this one high school in America went from disallowing a

1:45.6

gay prom queen to kind of, I think, throwing their hands up and saying, you know what, it's a

1:51.8

brave new world, is a whole new world. Clearly the kids at this school don't have a problem

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