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	<title>Damn Straight &#187; Media Monitoring</title>
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	<description>Culturally Queer News and Views from Abigail Garner</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Gayby Boom&#8221; on CNN.com</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2009/06/28/gayby-boom-on-cnn-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recognition of the 40-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, CNN.com covers the perspective of the children growing up with gay parents. The article includes mention of my book Families Like Mine, as I talk about how children of gay parents &#8220;turn out.&#8221; 
Excerpt:
[Garner] says her interviews with other children of gay or lesbian parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Equality: Melding Personal and Private Worlds</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/06/19/ashley-harness-commentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Minneapolis StarTribune published a vivid commentary about marriage equality, identity and family by Ashley Harness, a twentysomething daughter of lesbian mothers.
Read it here:
A love that, today, may dare to speak its name
by Ashley Harness
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted June 18, 2008
In addition to expressing her joy about California&#8217;s ruling, she also provides the backstory of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Reform Begins with Me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/06/05/ncmr2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and change happens when underrepresented and misrepresented communities have access to media to tell their own stories for themselves.
I&#8217;ll be recharging my batteries this weekend at The National Conference for Media Reform. No, not presenting. Just being.
It&#8217;s in Minneapolis this year. 
Reason 1,348 I love my hometown.
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		<title>If not you, then who?</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/05/20/if-not-you-then-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Father John Bauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father Michael O'Connell. Basilica of St. Mary]]></category>
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Yesterday Minnesota Public Radio&#8217;s MidMorning dedicated an hour to Father Michael O&#8217;Connell, rector at St. Mary&#8217;s Basilica who is leaving to work in a parish in North Minneapolis. 
Father O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s careful response to Kerri Miller&#8217;s questions about LGBT issues in the Catholic Church was an awkward navigation through a public relations land mine. Miller did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My amazing gay moms</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/01/31/my-amazing-gay-moms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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High school senior Jessica Cohn-Kleinberg wrote a column about waiting for the chance to testify in Florida to address the law that bans gay people from adopting. 
&#8220;My amazing gay moms made me a good person&#8221;
By Jessica Cohn-Kleinberg
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Express Gay News (Florida)
Unfortunately, she didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to speak:
I had my story all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I have a good life. I just want peace.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/12/24/i-have-a-good-life-i-just-want-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Journal Inquirer in North Central Connecticut published a profile on Rebecca Lazarus, a 13-year-old who continues to find opportunities to advocate on behalf of her family and other children who have two moms or two dads.
Excerpt:
Because Lazarus, who is her biological father, and Charette [her father's partner] aren&#8217;t legally married, if something were to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Queerspawn&#8221; etymology revisited.</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/11/18/queerspawn-etymology-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/11/18/queerspawn-etymology-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since writing Families Like Mine, I have been occasionally schooled by individuals who point out that I did not coin the phrase &#8220;queerspawn.&#8221; I can&#8217;t argue with them: I did not, nor have I ever claimed that I did. 
The person who did come up with it is Stefan Lynch. I say so in Families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;More accepted&#8230;&#8221; but &#8220;it&#8217;s still there.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/10/31/more-accepted-but-its-still-there/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/10/31/more-accepted-but-its-still-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8221; being homophobia mixed in with racism.
San Francisco Chronicle has a good article about diversity within LGBT families, as well as a reminder that even in &#8220;accepting&#8221; cities and states, these families still face discrimination and prejudice. One family profiled in the article clearly illustrates the impact of inequality:
Jadallah, 43, and Karraa, 45, felt those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Esera and Partner split, gossip columnist reports</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/29/esera-and-partner-split-gossip-columnist-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/29/esera-and-partner-split-gossip-columnist-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, the StarTribune&#8217;s gossip columnist C.J. is not just passing along a rumor. Her column today includes confirmation from Esera Tuaolo&#8217;s partner Mitchell Wherley that they are indeed no longer a couple. &#8220;I think we just grew apart,&#8221; says Wherley.
The kids are all right in Tuaolo-Wherley breakup
By C.J., Star Tribune
My heart goes out to these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Father, Like Son</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/24/like-father-like-son/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2007/07/24/like-father-like-son/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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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