Today, World AIDS Day, I dedicate my post to children around the world who have lost parents to AIDS. The disease is certainly not exclusive to the gay community, but as children of gay parents, AIDS is part of our history and heritage.
This week, inspired by an article I read about Ana Matronic, [...]

While I am no longer writing new material for Answers from Abigail, the advice section continues to grow and deepen as people discover the blog and leave their opinions/reflections in the comment section.
Writing advice in response to a particular situation occurs at a moment that becomes frozen in time: a family eternally documented [...]

According to Guardian Unlimited, Scissor Sisters bandmember Ana Lynch (aka Ana Matronic) had a gay dad who died of AIDS.
Her experience of his death, the cover up, and the lack of support is all-too-familiar to people whose parents contracted the disease:
…when she was 15, she learnt that her father had Aids. She and [...]

From a college student in Virginia:
I have recently been given an opinion paper assignment on gay-marriage.
I have one question, that I could not locate in your website. How do most LGBT individuals identify religiously? I realize that there is a world of struggle for “marriage” rights and equality, and as I’ve understood it, marriage [...]

It would be great to get some queerspawn voices in here. Whip up your 300-word abstract and help smash the seemingly-eternal, oh-so-convenient myth that the “children” are not yet old enough to contribute to the public discourse about our families.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on
QUEER PARENTING
Publication Date: Fall, [...]

COLAGE’s latest issue of Just For Us is out, and the theme is school. Here’s my contribution:
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Queerspawn Visibility Still Lacking on “Friendly” Campuses
by Abigail Garner
Each time I am scheduled to speak about LGBT families on a college campus, I call in advance to interview a few students and faculty. I ask them questions about the [...]

My tips for starting a group for teens with LGBT parents.

Election Day. No excuses.
Call 866-OUR-VOTE with questions about where or how to vote, or to report a problem.
If your polling place offers that little “I voted” sticker, wear it. It works. On primary day my sticker sent at least two people off to vote, and it was my most passive activism ever — I [...]

I was just notified by a reader of The Wake that the weekly alternative newspaper published this article about my presentation at the University of Minnesota for National Coming Out Day.
I was not familiar with the paper, nor did I know a reporter was in the room. Rachel Drewelow wrote a solid, [...]

If you have friends or family in any of these states:

Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Virginia
Wisconsin
Please “Phone Home” today. It is easy, fast, and could make all the difference in reaching the “Movable Middle.”
Read the tips I wrote in a previous post on how to send an effective message to your loved ones.