He has also worked as a theater director, sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan. When Keck moved to Seattle , Washington, Savage moved as well to become an advice columnist for The Stranger , which Keck founded; he had offered Savage the position after Savage wrote a sample column which impressed him. Savage has since become a sex columnist and a vocal proponent of LGBT rights in the United States , voicing his advocacy through his column, Savage Love , and a podcast version of his column, the Savage Lovecast.
In , Savage and his readership coined the term pegging to describe a woman anally penetrating a man with a strap-on dildo. Outside of his writings and podcasts, Savage has advocated for progressive politics and advancing the rights of LGBT youth to prevent suicide in the community. He has opposed laws restricting pornography and the sale of sex toys , and founded the It Gets Better Project with his husband Terry Miller, whom he married in Savage has been featured on numerous television programs and news outlets, including Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Anderson Cooper Savage has attracted controversy over his comments and actions related to LGBT issues.
He coined the term santorum to define a by-product of sex after former senator Rick Santorum made anti-LGBT comments in , and condemned the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its support of California Proposition 8 , which banned same-sex marriage in California. His activism and public speaking has brought praise from celebrities and politicians, including former president Barack Obama.
In , Savage was living in Madison, Wisconsin , and working as a night manager at Four Star Fiction and Video now Four Star Video Cooperative , a local video store that specialized in independent film titles.
Savage stated in a February interview in The Onion ' s A. Club which published his column until [ 21 ] that he began the column with the express purpose of providing mocking advice to heterosexuals, since most straight advice columnists were "clueless" when responding to letters from gay people.
