The Metropolis

Dan Savage, our agony uncle, has a musical opening in NY based on his book

Darren Atwater | Wednesday 19 May, 2010 12:39

Dan Savage, agony uncle in the Savage Love column at the back of Snipe, wrote a book several years ago detailing the trials he and husband Terry Miller went through to adopt their son, DJ.

Savage sold musical rights to The Kid without telling Miller, assuming the concept would never get off the ground. They’d already run the gauntlet of three projects based on The Kid—two films and a TV series. Negotiations over an HBO show, meant to air in the prime years of Sex and the City (“They needed two series about sex columnists,” Savage deadpans), were a “horrifying” experience. The TV writers once proposed that, during a scene in which Savage and Miller take DJ’s birth mom out for steak, the Terry character should sneak off for a bathroom quickie with the waiter. Savage countered, “If you wanted to do something really true to gay life, have it come out that I know and I don’t give a shit, because we’re not psycho like straight people are about that shit.”

NY Magazine has the story here.

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