Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBT community activist from the United States. He is the author of the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Daniel Keenan and his husband, Terry Miller, founded the It Gets Better Project in 2010 to help prevent LGBT youth suicide. He has also worked as a theatre director under the name Savage Hollahan. Born in Chicago to Roman Catholic parents, Daniel Keenan earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, after living in West Berlin from 1988 to 1990, where he met Tim Keck, co-founder of The Onion.
When Keck relocated to Seattle, Washington, Daniel Keenan Savage followed to work as an advice columnist for The Stranger, which Keck founded; Keck offered Daniel Keenan Savage the position after he wrote a sample column that impressed him. Since then, Daniel Keenan Savage has become a sex columnist and a vocal advocate for LGBT rights in the United States, voicing his support through his column, Savage Love, and a podcast version of his column, the Savage Lovecast. Daniel Keenan Savage has advocated for progressive politics and the rights of LGBT youth to prevent suicide in the community outside of his writings and podcasts. He has spoken out against laws that restrict pornography.