Gay rights activist, author and
syndicated columnist Dan Savage has figuratively invited Mike
Huckabee to suck his d**k.
Savage, a co-founder of the It Gets
Better campaign, also criticizes Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil in an
interview with Playboy that arrives on newsstands Friday.
“Dr. Laura is a vile piece of shit,”
he said of
Laura Schlessinger, the 67-year-old socially conservative radio
host.
On Dr. Phil: “He's part of the
advice-industrial Oprah complex. I'm not a big fan of telling women
that when their husband looks at porn it's a form of cheating.
That's what you say if you want to drive the divorce rate up even
higher than it is.”
Savage also went after former Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and vocal opponent
of gay rights.
“F**k you and f**k your pity, Mike
Huckabee,” Savage said. “Suck my f**king d**k. I don't need
your pity, and I also didn't need your approval.”
He added: “I never said to Mike
Huckabee, 'Suck my dick' [in person]. There is a long list of people
I've invited to suck my d**k, though, figuratively.”
Savage described the It Gets Better
campaign as bringing the support group to LGBT youth.
“I had been going around the country
just gutted reading about Lucas (Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old who
committed suicide after classmates bullied him for being gay),” he
said. “I went from college to college but was thinking I should be
going from high school to high school. But I would never get an
invitation to speak at a high school, and I would never get
permission to talk to a kid who needs to hear from a gay adult,
because his parents are homophobic. Then it occurred to me: I don’t
need anyone’s permission anymore. I don’t need an invitation. I
have YouTube. I have Twitter. I have Facebook. I can bring the gay
support group to that kid, whether his parents like it or not. We,
LGBT adults, are going to talk to your LGBT kids whether you like it
or not. We’re going to reach into their computers and their
phones, and we’re going to speak to them. You can’t isolate your
kids the way you used to. You can’t terrorize your kids.”
He also weighed in on parents who try
to “fix” their children whom they suspect are gay: “You can't
beat the gay out of a kid, but you can kill that gay kid trying.”