Unlike his previous podcast, which featured folks calling in wanting advice on subjects including STIs and navigating polyamory, this podcast focuses on more fleshed-out stories. “When someone approaches me with more work to do, my answer is always yes.” With one uber-successful podcast, Savage Lovecast, what made him decide to try for another? “Well, I’m a workaholic,” Savage said an interview. Now, he’s expanding his empire with a new podcast, Hot Mic, which showcases true stories about sex and relationships from an array of live storytellers. In that sense, Savage has always been an outlier among the mainstream and a trailblazer within the LGBTQ community. He’s also been a proudly out gay men since the column’s inception, having come out in 1979, a time when being an out gay person wasn’t just rare - it was downright scary.
Dan Savage has been a household name for nearly all of the 26 years that his column “Savage Love” has been in existence, since launching in 1991 in the very first issue of the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger.
