Abigail Garner

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name = Abigail Garner


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birthplace = Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with same sex parents.

Abigail Garner is the creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com, a website for LGBT families. Her writing has appeared in publications throughout the country, including a commentary in "Newsweek" that earned her the Excellence in Journalism Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She also presents lectures and workshops on LGBT families for colleges, businesses, and conferences. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and currently lives in Minneapolis.

Garner is also a speaker, author and educator who is dedicated to a future of equality for LGBT families and communities. She speaks from her own experience of having a gay father who came out to her when she was five years old. Bringing voice to a population of children that is often overlooked, Abigail has been featured on CNN, ABC World News Tonight, and National Public Radio. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist "Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is" (HarperCollins, 2004).

Abigail popularized the term "Queerspawn", a term children with gay parents call themselves, coined by Stefan Lynch, first director of COLAGE.cite book
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authorlink = Abigail Garner
title = Families Like Mine
publisher = HarperCollins
date = 2005
pages = 11 ]

External links

* [http://www.familieslikemine.com/ Families Like Mine]
* [http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Betty_DeGeneres&CONTENTID=19039&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm/HRC Interview with Abigail Garner]
* [http://www.Colage.org/ COLAGE]

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