The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant - Dan Savage

Written by Dan Savage
Read by Dan Savage
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Dan Savage — America’s most irreverent, taboo-busting, flat-out funny sex-advice columnist and podcaster — shares his revelatory misadventures in adopting a baby.

Welcome to Dan Savage’s world: He’s gay, dispenses sex advice to “breeders” (straight people), and at age thirty-two, finds himself in a long-term relationship. He decides he wants a baby in the house, his boyfriend agrees, and so they set out to make a family. Unfortunately, this also makes him a target of oppressive rhetoric among certain conservative groups and a sellout to his gay friends. But all he can think about are the joys of parenthood— i f only the birth mother weren’t homeless and admitting to drinking and drugging during the pregnancy; if only people would stop asking “Why do you want a kid?”; and if only Dan could stop offending all the infertile straight couples at the adoption agency. The Kid is a no-holds-barred attack on conservative “values” and also a celebration of family and the lengths some people — gay and straight — will go to in order to create one of their own.

Date of release: 2000 (book), 2013 (audio)
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes