Savage Lovecast Creators & Guests

Dan Savage is an author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community.

John Paul Brammer is a writer and artist. In 2021, he became an opinion columnist at The Washington Post.Brammer writes the queer advice column "¡Hola Papi!," originally published in Grindr's magazine Into and later on Substack. His first book, the memoir: "¡Hola Papi! How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons," was published in 2022.

Host of Solo, The Solo Salon & A Single Insight | Behavioral Economist, Business School Professor & Bachelor | Director of The Humor Research Lab (HuRL)

Dale Corvino is the author of a short story collection and an upcoming memoir, Kept Boy in the Afterlife, from C&R Press. His essays appear in Salon, the Rumpus, and the Gay & Lesbian Review.

Matt Baume is a writer, host and DM of Sewers of Paris.

Debby Herbenick is a tenured professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health and director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion.

Gabrielle Stanley Blair is an online influencer, known for her web site DesignMom.com. She is also a founder of the content creator conference Alt Summit.Before starting her blog, Blair was an art director.Blair's first book, "Design Mom: How to Live with Kids," was published in 2015. Her second book, "Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion," was published in 2023.

Justine Ang Fonte is an Intersectional Health Educator.

M. (formerly Masha) Gessen is a journalist, author, translator, and activist. They are known for their criticism of Russia and of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. They have written several non-fiction books, and their work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, they have been a staff writer for The New Yorker.In 1981, Gessen and their family moved to the United States. As an adult in 1991, they moved to Moscow, where they worked as a journalist. They have been described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist," and they quip that they were probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country for many years. They were on the board of directors of the Moscow LGBT rights organization Triangle. They were openly critical of Russia's ban on "homosexual propaganda" and other anti-LGBT laws, as well as the harassment and beating of journalists.In 2013, a few months after being physically assaulted in the street and worried about reports that the Russian government might take away one of their children because of their sexual orientation, they and their wife and family fled to New York City.

Cheryl Strayed is an author, novelist, and essayist.

Evan Urquhart is a transgender journalist, founder of Assigned Media, Community Manager at Slate. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Politico, NewNowNext, Truthout, and Autostraddle.

Desmond Bishop is a standup comedian.

Michael Hobbes is an American journalist and a former reporter for HuffPost. He is also the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and the former co-host of You're Wrong About

Brian Earp is an interdisciplinary researcher with training in cognitive science, experimental psychology, philosophy, history and sociology medicine, and ethics.

Mike Pesca is an American radio journalist and podcaster based in New York City. He is the host of Slate magazine's daily podcast, The Gist and the editor of Upon Further Review:The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History.

Ashley Ray is a comedian, writer, and podcast host. Based in Chicago, she has contributed as a writer to acclaimed television shows like The AV Club and The New Yorker and is recognized for her stand-up comedy that explores topics ranging from race and identity to mental health with wit and honesty. Ray is also the host of the podcast TV, I Say with Ashley Ray, where she analyzes television trends and interviews industry professionals.

Alice Dreger is a historian, bioethicist, author, and former Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories.