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I've been reading you for seventeen years, Dan; you've been a part of my life longer than Mrs. Fnarf. That's mildly terrifying.
Sigh.
Always amazed me that no radio stations around here wanted to attempt to get an advice show off the ground with a built in audience in other markets, e.g. my readers in other cities where the column runs.
Doing the podcast now, doing fine, their loss.
Pizza.
Eggplant can be found there.
So many great memories. My friend came out to you (and me, inadvertently) on your radio show back in, oh, early 1995 or so. I also have a partial recording of Blammo the Drunken Clown in a box somewhere.
I think I've been reading Dan since around 1995 or so. 15 years of reading/hearing about other peoples' sex lives has really shaped my own - in a good way. Thanks, Dan!
So, next year will be 20 years of Savage Love!?! Holy crap!
Yes, a youngster kids you. I love reading the archives from 1999 (kind of along the lines of how I enjoy classic Straight Dope letters from 1977 when people couldn't just Wiki their shit. "Really? He asked THAT? A-duh!").
I guess I've been reading since ... 2003? Ish? The end of high school. I used to pick it up from my local weekly, but discovering you were from a whole paper (!) changed my world.
It'll be fun to be able to say what others are saying here, in the future. Here's to that.
Thankfully you were in syndication by the time I made it out of grad school, so I've been a faithful reader since the beginning (although I'm a recent convert to Slog).
All I can say is: here's to another couple of decades!
Word here is that one of the local pastors listed you as someone he wanted to meet before he dies. I don't attend that church, learned about it from a friend and don't know what his context was. Still, if you ever decide to attend his mega-ish church and satisfy his request, then let me know if you want company in the crowd.
The one column that sticks out in my mind from that time was from someone who was a medical fetishist who was the domme in a BDSM relationship who wanted to know if it was OK to keep her sub tied to a bed for an entire weekend and catheterize him, even though she didn't have an actual medical background. I think my eyes bugged out and my jaw dropped audibly on the bus that day.
All the advice in the world tends to go out the window once the clothes come off. But its always an entertaining read!
I still think "Dear Faggot" was a better title, but I guess we can't be super-militant our whole lives.
'Twas awesome then; is awesome now.
Viva la podcast!
Wow - I have been reading Dan for almost half of my life! Thanks for helping me develop the tools to learn what I want and ask for it.
And for what it's worth, I think you are way hotter than that Branden crush of yours. But then I do have a thing for smug, superior fags. Keep it up, Dan.
I wish I'd been around for the "Dear Faggot" days or the radio show. The column and podcast are both entertaining and educational.
I hope my sixteen-year-old daughter is reading/listening to you, too, but I think it is better if I not direct her your way ("honey, I want you to listen to this sex-advice columnist").
I'll check back in in 2020, and sound like an old veteran.
Although I'm not the product of ridiculous abstinence-only education, I've definitely learned a lot, both about relationships and sex. I'm sure that I'll have a much better life as a result :D
Then Willamette Week starting syndicating SL, but dropped it in less than a month after they got too many outraged letters from easily outraged WW-reading prudes. That's when I realized WW's "edgy" stance was nothing but BS. And then Portland was a SL desert for a while unless you made a trip to Ozone Records to pick up last week's copy of The Stranger, until the Portland Mercury came along. Meanwhile PDXS folded, presumably since nobody wanted to read it now that they didn't run SL anymore.
Sorry for taking you on this stroll down 90s memory lane, but the story must be told!!
Boo age wrangling. Dan, you look excellent & have achieved much. Own your age, you vain man, you. ;)
Fuck you, Dan, for briefly making me think you're younger than I. :) Thank you, wiki. By the way, you still look lots younger than I do.
plz?
as a gift to your loyal blog readers? occasionally? yaknow, when you don't feel like blogging?
I am very curious about what sex was really like in 1991 versus what I thought it was like when I was 8 years old (in 1991).
Friends have thanked me for getting them into Savage Love the column, and more recently the podcast. It's sex so it's entertaining and we can make light of it, but for 20 years you've been cutting through bullshit, exposing hypocrisy, clearing up misconceptions, educating people, and giving them permission to be themselves. The loony Christians must be jealous; I bet you've saved more than a few souls.
I started reading Dan in 2003 a month after turning 13. I found "The Kid" while wandering around my local library and thought "Dan and Terry? I wonder which one is the girl." To be naive and in the Midwest. I loved the book and only thought it was slightly odd that there were two guys. I looked Dan up online a week later...I've lurked on The Stranger since then.
Dan gets the credit for making me see gays and lesbians as other people and not as "Others". He gets about half the credit for turning me into a lib'rul, my atheist, hippie dad gets the other half.