We here at the office prefer to refer to him as "Gay Jesus," but Mark Oppenheimer's take on Salon (and in an e-book) is all right:
Dan Savage is a public-radio personality, a leading anti-bullying activist, a star of MTV and a prominent tormentor of Republicans. But in the beginning he was a sex columnist. His column āSavage Loveā made its debut in the first issue of the Stranger, the Seattle alt-weekly, on Sept. 23, 1991, and soon would change the world of sex adviceāa world dominated, at the time, by the relatively timid Dr. Ruth and the once-popular āAsk Isadora.ā Now that āSavage Loveā is over 20 years old, itās worth looking back at what the self-described āfaggot from Seattleā has wrought.
āAt the beginning, it was going to be a joke,ā Savage tells me...