The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth

Young. Tech wizard. Possibly in grave danger. And helping @fakedansavage take your calls on the Savage Lovecast.

[The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth @LovecastTSARY]

@fakedansavage Dan told us we could play around on Twitter! But we're not allowed to follow anyone except him...

[The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth @LovecastTSARY]

@fakedansavage is hosting an AMA at 12:00n Pacific! You don't need an account to post, and you can ask Dad--sorry DAN any question. We have a few ourselves... https://t.co/vnYEklwdRa

[The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth @LovecastTSARY]

SAVAGE LOVE LIVE begins at noon Pacific / 3:00pm Eastern! @fakedansavage will be answering your Qs LIVE!

Magnum Subs -- check your e-mails or https://t.co/4HdVdWzrK8 for the Zoom link.

And record your question now here! https://t.co/J8zbRE84Sv

[The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth @LovecastTSARY]

@heatheroopla Hey Heather, thanks so much for being a Sub. The $25 promo is for gifting subs, so intended for you to give to another as a holiday treat.

[The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth @LovecastTSARY]

@fakedansavage @GianmarcoSoresi Savage Lovecast is our only credit. Are we sad, too?

[Mary Jurgens @MaryJurgens]

Lol uhhh... This seems excessive... 😂
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[The Tech-Savvy At-Risk Youth @LovecastTSARY]

@RobinsonSarah_ @fakedansavage A login/password isn't compatible with our current system, unfortunately. Once you're logged in via the e-mail link, it should remain active on your browser for months, without a need to re-login.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

What can Willem Arondeus, a Dutch resistance fighter in the 1940s against the Nazis, teach us about the horrific attack at Club Q in Colorado Springs? I discuss it in my intro to this week’s Lovecast. Listen here: https://t.co/Rxo5AgegsK

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

So we will fight until we're safe everywhere.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

And we're going to keep fighting. Because if we're not safe behind the closed doors of a gay bar — if they can't let us have even that — then we're not safe anywhere.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

We fought back then. We fought back last night.

"The 22-year-old suspect... immediately began shooting at people once he entered Club Q and at least two people 'confronted and fought' with him, stopping him from harming others, officials said."

https://t.co/d5gDi9Uqf9

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

Behind closed doors was never enough. They knocked down those doors and arrested us in bedrooms and evicted us from our apartments and fired us from our jobs and made something that's already hard to do—loving another human being—almost impossible.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

Into the streets.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

They used to say there was something wrong with us because we only gathered in seedy bars. But that was where they herded us. That was the only space we were allowed. And when they attacked us in a gay bar one time too many... we poured out of not just that bar, but all of them.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

The raid on the Stonewall Inn was state-sponsored violence. The attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs last night... well, we're waiting on the full details. But it looks like GOP-sponsored violence. Not just the logical result of the "groomer" blood libel, but the goal.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

That was a chant heard during the Stonewall Riots. The modern LGBT civil rights movement began with an attack on a bunch of queer people—gay men, drag queens, trans women, butch dykes—being themselves behind closed doors.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

"Out of the bars and into the streets!"

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

So, if we're not safe in there... behind closed doors... where they say they want us... we have no choice but to fight to make it safe everywhere, for all LGBT people.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

An attack like this says "not even here." Behind closed doors isn't good enough for *them.* It's not that they want us to exist out of sight. They don't want us to exist at all.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

And behind those doors... is a place we can forget *they* exist. Not straight people. There are straight people in gay bars and clubs. Our friends. But behind those doors we can forget — we can suspend our disbelief — and pretend the haters don't exist. Just for a few hours.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

People who hate queer people want us to keep it private. Behind closed doors. Someplace they don't have to see it. And the doors of a gay bar are doors we keep it behind. A place we can go and be together and not bother *them* with the fact of our existence.