Hugging: I'm On #TeamJerry

by Dan Savage
Thank you, Jerry. From all the non-huggers out here, thank you.
I don't like to hug people. I mean, there are certain specific people I will hug I like to hug. My husband, my siblings, my kid (way back when he would hug his parents), my dad, my good friends, our very special guest stars. But I do a job—I give sex advice to strangers at a safe remove—that makes a lot of people want to hug me. People I don't know. In theaters. In restaurants. In airports. Once in a public