Dan Savage on What to Expect From a Gay Roommate

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  • @rmcdaniel423
    @rmcdaniel423 9 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Back in the dorms, in the 80's as a hetero guy, the best roommate I ever had was a gay guy. He was sensitive to relationship stuff and gave good honest advice. He opened my world to new interesting music. He kept the place clean (not freaky clean, but appropriately clean) and would even make my bed if I forgot. He gave good grooming/style advice (I quickly realized that attractive is attractive, regardless which gender is looking at me). And I NEVER felt threatened, because I knew that even if I WAS gay, I wasn't his type.
    If you're out there Alex, thank you. I'm a better straight guy for having spent a year with you.

    • @dazpatreg
      @dazpatreg 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Man I think you might have friend zoned your mate. Poor dude was probably wishing you'd notice him

    • @judymcfricklesteinbregferg3750
      @judymcfricklesteinbregferg3750 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      rmcdaniel423 "would even make my bed if I forgot"
      He wanted you deep inside him.

    • @littlekiwi9724
      @littlekiwi9724 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      mcdaniel423: That is the nicest TH-cam comment!
      When I told my roommate I was gay he moved out, which hurt at first - but then I realized I had the room to myself!

    • @johniii8147
      @johniii8147 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      dazpatreg Don’t assume that. I had a similar situation with a college roommate. Now on never made his bed but first Str8 guy I could feel totally comfortable around and we really looked out for each other. There was 0 sexual attraction with each other. It would have been like banging your brother

    • @heathersaarela552
      @heathersaarela552 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dazpatreg That attitude is so part of the problem. Just because someone is nice to you - guy or girl- does not mean they want to get in your pants. And assuming that just because a gay guy was nice to a straight guy, he was trying to, is why many straight guys say they're uncomfortable. Just like every girl isn't into you, every gay guy isn't into you either. Stop saying that.

  • @rmcnulty2
    @rmcnulty2 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your "lectures" I wish you were around touring when I was at college :)

  • @Julianakun
    @Julianakun 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dan's adorable. I can't stop watching this clip because of the "fierce, fierce, pose" dance.

  • @beccyjoe
    @beccyjoe 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    of all the people ive never met i love you more than anyone dan savage, so funny and so wise

  • @dragoncomunity
    @dragoncomunity 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    ooh,thank you!:)
    came straight from the heart!

  • @sdarms111
    @sdarms111 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dammit I wish I was as good a public speaker as Dan. He makes his points so well, salted with a ton of humor that keeps the audiences engaged. He's a really bright guy.

  • @saramartins95
    @saramartins95 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    "fierce fierce pose" . i just know im going to have that on my mind for the next few days

  • @heykaybee3
    @heykaybee3 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dan Savage, you're epic.

  • @lilyt99
    @lilyt99 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I agree about Dan's point on voices. My voice has always been somewhat low for a female, and I often make it high pitched when I first meet people or when I am nervous, but naturally my voice is fairly low pitched. Though when I sing, I sing in a higher pitch. It's kinda confusing, but I'm bisexual, so there you go. I always had friends who are male and female, and feel like at both times, they didn't truly get me nor I truly got them. I'm just extra different. Thank goodness for my bi friends.

  • @Ongarukat
    @Ongarukat 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *hugs* This is awesome. Thank you for pointing out how annoying the "flamers" are--if the best someone can do is act out a stereotype, they shouldn't be surprised that everyone else in the room is avoiding them.

  • @anthonyzamacona
    @anthonyzamacona 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you

  • @TrueSoreThumb
    @TrueSoreThumb 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Re-upload with the fixed, re-synchronized audio!! ahhhh!!!

  • @dragoncomunity
    @dragoncomunity 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    he's my new god!
    from now on you'll hear me say "oh my dan!!" get ready people!

  • @bluepinkyellogreen
    @bluepinkyellogreen 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I

  • @leqaf
    @leqaf 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dan looks cute when he does the fierce fierce pose.

  • @h3art5d3struct
    @h3art5d3struct 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    it must be your computers.. audio is synced when i watched.

  • @ErikWithBrain
    @ErikWithBrain 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @welaughindoors91 I think he saw through the question to see that it was really about fear and not just curiosity. "omg what do I do? he's super gay!" not "hey I don't really know many gay people, what sort of things should I expect behaviorwise?"

  • @jessica501skaff
    @jessica501skaff 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dan Savage for president...pretty please?

  • @MegaSK21
    @MegaSK21 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    What Dan slips into the ballot box is his business.

  • @DeadButBreathing
    @DeadButBreathing 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @nosferatudasvampir I disagree. Many valid points he has. Who would you prefer to listen to?

  • @Redst100
    @Redst100 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    FIERCE FIERCE POZ

  • @maarakailet1
    @maarakailet1 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @sillykatz LOL

  • @shockwavecg
    @shockwavecg 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't hit the 'like' button enough for your comment!

  • @lasalle1alpha
    @lasalle1alpha 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    does Dan have any videos about the "Gendering" in homosexual relationships?
    y'know, that instances where people ask "who's the Man" in a gay relationship?

  • @happeningfish77
    @happeningfish77 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    "An inch of gay frosting on a foot-thick straight cake" is my new favourite thing ever.

  • @Roxxi33
    @Roxxi33 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    is it just me or is the audio completely out of sync?

  • @Marquis-Sade
    @Marquis-Sade 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    The word pathetic...he said that with "the gay voice" ^^

  • @ccm800
    @ccm800 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Expect a lot of hair care products with pubic hair on them HAHHAHAAAA"

  • @doobiesmoke15
    @doobiesmoke15 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    LORDY, he has to be the funniest sex expert on the planet!

  • @westlin3
    @westlin3 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had a gay roommate, I didn't realize he was gay until second semester.

  • @BlackJacketJones
    @BlackJacketJones 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    fuck-damn i like this guy

  • @littlekiwi9724
    @littlekiwi9724 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The roommate is young and still finding himself as a gay person. One day he'll look back on it in embarrassment.

  • @MrSeismotronik
    @MrSeismotronik 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Audio synch ruins everything

  • @sillykatz
    @sillykatz 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is true! I mean that. I just came out as lesbian three weeks ago and though I do admit that I'm not super gay ( I would bone Johnny Depp, Sacha Dhawan, David Tennant and Matt Smith, look them up) I am still super duper proud and trying to figure this all out! I'm learning a lot and I really do believe that when ever you come out, no matter what it is, it's like you are going through puberty again! That's how I'm feeling, like I'm going through gay puberty!

  • @weasel945
    @weasel945 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I imagined Scott Pilgrim.

  • @dragoncomunity
    @dragoncomunity 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    true

  • @maarakailet1
    @maarakailet1 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @sillykatz I'm still not sure what I did that made them say that. It could have been just throwing words around to spiteful, because I don't consider myself particularly masculine. That being said, my mother tries *very* hard to make me more feminine. The make-up, the dresses, the girly movies... *shrug* This is what happens with a one-size-fits-all mentality.

  • @rtfirefly0
    @rtfirefly0 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think he was talking about people who came out at 20 but were still acting like they did when they just came out 10 years later, not people who had only just come out when they were 28 and were waving the flag for the first time.

  • @mainerblainer1
    @mainerblainer1 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol thats true.

  • @rocco420
    @rocco420 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @happeningfish77 "queen mary floating in a tub of lube."

  • @CGH2366
    @CGH2366 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love u dan :p

  • @Menagerie_K
    @Menagerie_K 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a woman with a deep voice. I tried to soften it for like a day in high school but it's too deep and people noticed the shift. Oh well, to this day, people still call me sir on the phone.

  • @MiSSAlPACiNO
    @MiSSAlPACiNO 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a female and had a gay male roommate, let me say not all gay men are clean like I assumed. The bathroom was a harsh realization. But I still love my GBF! & was the best roommate I ever had.

  • @castodivo
    @castodivo 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    It not just you. I wish "dansavage" would fix it -- especially with all the gesticulating funness!

  • @skullface1818
    @skullface1818 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    my first roommate was gay, but that wasn't the problem.
    The main problem was that he was a massive neat freak, and he liked to take anything I left in the living roommate and dump it in my room when I didn't lock my door, and when I did he would dump my stuff in front of my door
    I'm not the cleanest dude in the world but this got real old real fast
    He was also massively in the closet and tried to keep it a secret from me tho it was rather obvious that his bf was living in the apt with us :P

  • @Marquis-Sade
    @Marquis-Sade 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hm, funny how he talks about, how some gay man have a high voice, while his voice is totally no-high (even though it's not deep, but just normally man-ish) ^^

  • @johnmmn2
    @johnmmn2 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    obviously. that's why he's speaking so confidently about gay identity.

  • @choam1971
    @choam1971 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Queen Mary floating in a tub of lube. love it!

  • @bobbymuddymud3610
    @bobbymuddymud3610 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had a gay roomate once... it was awful. Not because he was gay, mind you, but because he was a rude, arrogant bitch.
    ...and I was so cool to him. I didn't complain or even flinch when he stayed up late having a tickle-fight with some strange dude... mind you this was a one-room dormitory.

    • @sammypuro9392
      @sammypuro9392 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @mrmadness2699
      @mrmadness2699 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      on behalf of gaydom, I'm really sorry you had a gay shitbag for a roommate.

  • @ahtartersauce101
    @ahtartersauce101 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hes gay very gay. Has a husband. Grew up Catholic. Head of "It gets better" project. Very high-profile type. In the FRC and Tony Perkins face all the time hes serious [serius] black.

  • @skullface1818
    @skullface1818 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Side note: he also missed 3 payments to me for electricity, told the front office that I was a maniac and had to be moved from his apt, and when he asked me to go to a new apt and said he would help me move......well yea...no help
    I was glad to get rid of him in all honesty even tho he really got the better half of that deal
    being gay had nothing to do with it of course. He was just kind an asshole :P

  • @sillykatz
    @sillykatz 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @maarakailet1 people drive me crazy sometimes. I feel that I am a lesbian because I don't want to date a man or be with a man romantically, but I do think some guys are hot. I get hell from my gay friends for that, even they have that one size fits all mentality, so sad!

  • @Ongarukat
    @Ongarukat 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, but there's a huge difference between people who are stereotypically gay because that's who they are, and people who act that way because they think it's how gay people "have" to act. It's important for everyone to evaluate his/her own personality and be him/herself. You can't be yourself if you're hung up on what's "expected" of you. That's what I mean by "act out a stereotype"--they're so focused on the stereotype, they never bothered to discovered their true selves.

  • @sazji
    @sazji 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    He is gay and he is married.

  • @ytlinso
    @ytlinso 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a gay intonation to his voice.

    • @robsgamingchannel2077
      @robsgamingchannel2077 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, he is gay

    • @ytlinso
      @ytlinso 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rob's Gaming Channel No. He's not only gay, but he has an effeminate voice. To be beaten out of him.

    • @alanfournier3071
      @alanfournier3071 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +RogerGT Yea, and I guess you're the "man" to do it. You don't even have the balls to use your own name.

    • @ytlinso
      @ytlinso 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alan Fournier You stupid idiot...

  • @TomCatFromMA
    @TomCatFromMA 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Troll

  • @XiaoGui17
    @XiaoGui17 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @berkati
    Japanese, German, and Indonesian? Seriously, wtf? And what are you rattling on about, anyway?

  • @A3roboy
    @A3roboy 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    out of sync?

  • @tescheurich
    @tescheurich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One could say, this has aged badly. It's good practice to not bother with judgment, to use the historian's skills and ask what's changed and what that means

  • @specialk1988
    @specialk1988 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to say, I tend to think there's nothing wrong with really camp gay guys even if it is an affectation. What is being super macho but an act of a different flavour? It's all an act, all learned behaviour of some sort, and the denigration of camp guys is patently a power play thing.

  • @sillykatz
    @sillykatz 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @maarakailet1 BRING IT ON!!! LOL!!! Just joking, we can take turns with David Tennant!

  • @purplestarfish90
    @purplestarfish90 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @squamish4244 I know what you mean. My sister's new husband is exactly the type of 28-year-old overgrown fratboy Dan is talking about... His only interest (literally) is beer and he has a "man cave" full of pictures from Playboy magazines. He's not attractive either, so no one can understand what she sees in him.

  • @Hakakuno
    @Hakakuno 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    What the fuck?

  • @jboy4023
    @jboy4023 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's not nice.

  • @Lacoux
    @Lacoux 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    : )

  • @drrnfl
    @drrnfl 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    he's married to a man. that's why you see a wedding ring on his hand. looks like we cracked the case, nancy drew.

  • @oxymoronic12
    @oxymoronic12 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow, not funny...

  • @A3roboy
    @A3roboy 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    out of sync?