Today I received this message sent by Alessane:

Vi a matéria da revista Gloss, achei maravilhosa sua atitude, lutar pela causa, e apoiar crianças e adolescentes na mesma cituação pela qual você passou! Não sou gay, mas apoio iniciativas assim com toda certeza! Parabéns!
I don’t speak Portuguese, but knowing Spanish helped me get the main idea. […]

Minnesota Public Radio is airing the second episode of the pilot, “How’s the Family?”
Nanci Oleson of MOMbo fame is expanding her radio conversation to all sorts of family dynamics, not just moms raising children.
Nanci interviewed me for a short report about my professional transition for a segment called “Kitchen Table Newscast.”
Tune in at 2pm […]

HRC has posted Ellen Kahn’s interview with me up on YouTube.

This interview was conducted on April 27, 2007 during my trip to Washington DC to keynote at the conference for Rainbow Families DC.

While I was in Washington DC last week for the Rainbow Families DC conference, I visited HRC headquarters for an interview that aired on The Agenda with Joe Solmonese. (Solmonese is the Executive Director of HRC.)
The interview has been archived, and you can listen to it here.

In the “Best of the Twin Cities” annual edition of City Pages, Rainbow Families was named “Best Place to Meet Other Gay Families.”
Places where parents meet and connect: Potlucks. Bowling parties. Movie screenings. Annual conferences. Yes, conferences, complete with nametags and packets of conference swag. Rainbow Families does all that, hosting three or four events […]

Here’s another great opportunity for my advice column to reach new readers:
Rainbow Rumpus, an online magazine for kids of LGBT parents, has been running reprints of my advice column on their site (with my permission) in a section specifically for parents. This month’s question is about teens adjusting to a newly blended lesbian-parent household.
Minnesota’s new […]

The new issue of Lavender Magazine has a story about the upcoming Rainbow Families Conference where I will be delivering the keynote.
Here’s where you go for information and registration. “Early Bird” registration rates are good until April 6.
Below is a list that was sent out by Rainbow Families in their newsletter yesterday. Note reason […]

The second part of the “Thinking Souls” feature is Shannon Gibney’s interview with me.
She asked just the right questions to get to deeper issues that mainstream media dismiss as “too complicated” for their reporting while they fixate on “what it’s like having two dads.”
Our conversation was a number of months ago, so it was […]

Families Like Mine is reviewed for “Thinking Souls,” a monthly literary series hosted by mnartists.org.
Reviewer Shannon Gibney writes:
Garner leaves no stone unturned, and the result is a multifaceted and multi-layered meditation on the complicated politics of identity. The beauty of Families Like Mine, however, is that it both describes a nascent cultural phenomenon, and also […]

Subscribers to Sirius Satellite radio can hear me tonight on The Derek and Romaine Show, starting at 7:20pm.
On Friday, Romaine Patterson revealed on the show that she is pregnant, due in July. In light of this news, they wanted their show to explore some LGBT family topics this week. That’s where I […]