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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 291

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2012

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dan advises a recovering alcoholic on how to let people know why he's drinking ginger ale in the bar without causing the date to come to a screeching halt. Is it better to admit that you've been dumped or keep on circling around trying to seek "closure"? Hey, cute, flirty straight boys! Why do you have to tease your homo buddies so hard? And more.  Can you stand it?  206-201-2720 This episode is brought to you by . Enter the code “Savage” and get 20 percent off your entire order.   Today's episode is brought to you by . Get 50 percent off almost any item when you enter "Savage" at checkout.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to a stranger podcast, www.w.com.

0:06.0

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

0:15.9

while there's nothing you can't last on the Savage Mubcast.

0:24.4

Hey, we're going to begin this week's show with a clip from somebody else's show.

0:28.8

But those of you who are tuning in because you love to hear the sounds of a homosexual

0:32.8

speaking into your earbuds, speaking to you through your earbuds, you just have to have

0:36.7

some gay in your brain. Won't be disappointed because I'm just going to give you some other gay for a minute to pack into your brain. Here we go. The Barack Obama administration has been very, very, very, very pro-gay rights. They have pursued at every level policies to improve the lives of gay Americans and to further gay rights. It's not just repealing, don't ask, don't tell. It's expanding federal benefits for the same-sex partners of people who work in the executive branch. It's signing the hate crimes act into law. It's clearing the way for hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. It's lifting the travel and immigration ban for people living with HIV. It's ordering the federal housing authority to not consider the sexual orientation of people who apply for housing loans.

1:14.8

I'm going to cut Rachel off there. She goes on. There's more, including the Obama administration

1:18.7

deciding to stop defending the indefensible and discriminatory and unconstitutional on its face,

1:25.7

defensive marriage act, which is huge.

1:29.6

The Obama administration slow out of the gate that came in for a lot of pressure from

1:34.0

activists and organizations and get equal.

1:37.0

Even in the end, the human rights campaign began to slap the Obama administration around.

1:42.0

The docile and mainstream human rights campaign began to slap the Obama administration around. The docile and mainstream human rights campaign began to

1:45.4

slop the Obama administration around for how it had been defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

1:50.5

But the Obama administration has really come through for the LGBT community in so many ways

1:57.5

that it takes Rachel Maddo probably two and a half minutes to list them all.

2:01.4

And we're not going to play you that full two and a half minutes because, you know, copyright

2:05.3

and whatever. But I want to play you one more little clip from Rachel Maddo's comments last

2:11.6

Tuesday night. If you are in favor of gay rights, the Barack Obama administration has been

2:16.5

great on the issue of gay rights,

2:18.9

while before today, never saying what the president's personal view is on same-sex couples getting married.

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