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	<title>Damn Straight &#187; Coming Out</title>
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		<title>Secrets and Truth: An adult daughter&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/12/02/secrets-and-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This message was sent to me a while back, but I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do with it. I realize I don&#8217;t have to &#8220;do&#8221; anything with it, except share it with you.
 She signed her message &#8220;Always Going to Wonder.&#8221;
The writer so clearly wants to tell her story. And I think she would appreciate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy National Coming Out Day!</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/10/11/happy-national-coming-out-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two of my favorite coming-out stories I&#8217;ve heard about lately.

The Mayor of San Diego, Jerry Sanders, came out about his daughter the way most people come out the first time: trembling and determined. That is when you know you are doing the right thing: when you have weighed all the risks, yet none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Father, Like Son</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/24/like-father-like-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media Monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Magnus Mortensen of Bonita Springs, FL, whose letter to the Advocate pointed out a second generation article that I had missed.
In the August 14, 2007 issue, Mortenson wrote:

[Advocate] had a very interesting and heartwarming story about a father and son who came out to each other&#8230;Beautiful!
His letter caused me to pull the old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming out to your mail carrier</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/20/coming-out-to-your-mail-carrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I wrote about how my copies of Out and Advocate arrive at my home wrapped in opaque plastic whether or not I want such discretion.
The most recent issue of Advocate announced that subscribers now have a choice. If you don&#8217;t want the plastic wrap, go to this page and enter your subscription [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming out, more and more</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/09/coming-out-more-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POC Representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I first came across Two World Collision 18 months ago, it was a very different blog than it is today. It was about a Christian man trying to reconcile his same-sex attraction &#8212; a man, who it turns out, also had a father who was gay (married and closeted). While our life experiences and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Worth / Net-Worth</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/02/27/self-worth-net-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new snappy comeback for young lesbians whose parents don&#8217;t take the news very well.
Freaked-Out Parent:  You&#8217;re a lesbian?!!! You&#8230;you can&#8217;t be&#8230;what about your future&#8230;You&#8217;ll never amount to anything.
Just-Out-of-Closet Daughter: Tell that to Suze Orman.  So far, she has amounted to $25 million and counting.

Coming soon, to an Advocate cover near you.
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		<title>The Well-Known Secret</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/12/18/the-well-known-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an interview in Salon with second gen queerspawn Alison Bechdel:
Salon: Have any more notable facts or documents about your father&#8217;s life come to light since you finished the book [Fun Home]?
Bechdel: No, but I&#8217;ve heard from a bunch of people who knew my dad &#8212; students, friends, family members &#8212; that they either knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alison Bechdel Offers Soul Candy for Queerspawn</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/06/08/bechdel-offers-soul-candy/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/06/08/bechdel-offers-soul-candy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You'll love Alison Bechdel's new book, Fun Home, her graphic memoir about her childhood with a closeted gay dad.]]></description>
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		<title>Fortunately, my mom asked my dad to move out when I was five.</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/03/07/fortunately-my-mom-asked-my-dad-to-move-out-when-i-was-five/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/03/07/fortunately-my-mom-asked-my-dad-to-move-out-when-i-was-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Monitoring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times reporter Katy Butler writes about women who stay married to gay men in &#8220;Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of &#8216;Brokeback&#8217; Marriages.&#8221; 
At one of my stops on my book tour two years ago, I was asked if I would write a companion book to Families Like Mine about &#8220;the other experience.&#8221; What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll be on Madison Radio Saturday Morning</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/01/13/ill-be-on-madison-radio-saturday-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2006/01/13/ill-be-on-madison-radio-saturday-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abigail in the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prompted by the hype, praise, and criticisms around &#8220;Brokeback Mountain,&#8221; 92.1 The Mic &#8211; Madison&#8217;s  Air America  affiliate will be spending an hour talking about the impact of a spouse coming out. I have been invited to join the conversation, along with Amity Pierce Buxton, my colleague and oft-time collaborator, and author of [...]]]></description>
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