Archive for the 'Families Like Mine (My Book)' Category

Abigail Garner

Tracking the Cameron Media Ripple

A summary of how Cameron’s misleading press release is moving through the World Wide Web thus far.

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Bound to Happen

A press release from the Christian Newswire brags about Cameron’s study (based in part on my book) declaring one third of children with homosexual parents turn out to be homosexual.

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Families Like Mine accessible to blind people

HarperCollins did not release a recorded version of Families Like Mine, but Minnesota State Services for the Blind did. The recording is now available to any blind American who qualifies.
For more information about getting Families Like Mine and other recorded books on loan, go to this database.
Or click here to go directly to the page [...]

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My review of Cameron’s juvenile article that distorts my research and — incredibly — was published by Cambridge University Press. Plus, two things I need to say upfront to respond to the biggest pieces of criticism I anticipate.

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This post includes a copy of the email I sent to the Journal of Biosocial Science to alert them about Cameron’s baseless claims and offer to provide them with any information they needed to learn the truth before publishing the article. (I didn’t get a reply and the article was published.)

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Abigail Garner

Sheryl Crow, No. Queer Families, Okay.

I just found out that my paperback is available at, um, Walmart. I am amused.
(I can’t bring myself to link to Walmart. So take my word for it, or search to verify.)
Walmart has a history of banning “unwholesome” CDs, refusing to carry Plan B contraception, and — according to readers of “Savage Love” [...]

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~~The conclusion to yesterday’s post~~
Probably if we changed the subject after I thank someone for telling me he loved my book, his bluff would succesfully pass. But usually the person keeps going, and shows his cards without knowing it. A very common example: “Oh, and it’s so great that you are heterosexual!” this [...]

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I have a request: If we’re meeting for the first time and you bring up my book, it’s perfectly fine for you to disclose you haven’t read it.
It would be unrealistic — not to mention incredibly vain — for me to expect that everyone I meet has read it. Go ahead and say so. No [...]

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Abigail Garner

Gay Boys, Golden Girls

My book gets a mention in “Move over, Cher, TV’s “Golden Girls” become gay icons” by Jaime Buerger, Columbia News Service.

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Abigail Garner

How is Paul Cameron able to sleep at night?

This post includes: How I learned about Cameron’s article that defiled my book, and what I told the editors of the Journal of Pediatrics after they asked me to peer-review the article for potential publication in their journal. Pediatrics rejected the piece of junk. Cambridge University Press did not. Read the entire post for more…

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