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	<title>Damn Straight</title>
	<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net</link>
	<description>Culturally Queer News and Views from Abigail Garner</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 01:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Queerspawn sighting: The Pine-Sol Lady!</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/05/14/queerspawn-sighting-the-pine-sol-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 01:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[POC Representation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Diane Amos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pine-Sol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Comedienne and cleaning spokesperson Diane Amos recently spoke to the San Francisco Bay Times about drawing from her life experience for material for her stand-up.
She says that talking about coming from a gay-parented family in her comedy worked to her advantage because other comedians couldn&#8217;t steal her material!  Good point.
Excerpt:
 Bay Times: How did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library Journal says I know whereof I speak.</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/03/31/library-journal-says-i-know-whereof-i-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Families Like Mine (My Book)]]></category>

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Library Journal has a round up of books that libraries should order to build their gay and lesbian parenting collection. Under the category &#8220;by, for and about kids,&#8221; Families Like Mine is listed and starred, meaning it&#8217;s &#8220;essential for all collections.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the review:
Numerous books have been written by gay and lesbian parents, but this one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Can&#8217;t-Miss Events</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/03/17/two-cant-miss-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Legal/Political]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[You Can Participate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota rocks when it comes to setting the standard for LGBT organizing across the country.
April 12, 2008
13th Annual Rainbow Families Conference
Urvashi Vaid will be giving the keynote.
Note to adult queerspawn: COLAGE will be providing the programming for the kids and needs more volunteers. How about you? Seriously: there&#8217;s nothing like this event anywhere.  
April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tretter Collection</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/03/16/tretter-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Alison Bechdel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Bechdel has posted a cool photo of herself in the University of Minnesota Library archives during her tour of the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. 
Here&#8217;s Alison&#8217;s photo.
Here&#8217;s me in the same spot.
I&#8217;m intrigued by how differently these images can be interpreted based on the self&#8217;s relationship to a backdrop that rivals the closing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dina to Silda: &#8220;Stand By Yourself&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/03/12/dina-to-silda-stand-by-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Parent Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw Silda Wall Spitzer standing next to her husband at at the podium, I couldn&#8217;t help thinking of Dina McGreevey in the same situation when her husband resigned from his post as governor of New Jersey in 2004.  I remember hearing the question many times (and wondering myself) about why she literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your Mama Don&#8217;t Dance&#8221;&#8230;but Your (Gay) Daddy Do.</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/03/01/your-mama-dont-dancebut-your-gay-daddy-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Celia Merendi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gay dad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silvano Merendi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Your mama don't dance]]></category>

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The Lifetime Network has poached Ian Ziering from his success on &#8220;Dancing with the Stars&#8221; and added their own &#8220;twist&#8221; for a new dance competition. (There&#8217;s always a twist, isn&#8217;t there?) 
The premise of the show, &#8220;Your Mama Don&#8217;t Dance&#8221; is ten professional dancers having their Fame-like shot at proving their talent to the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you say &#8220;welcome to my blog&#8221; in Portuguese?</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/02/21/how-do-you-say-welcome-in-portuguese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Abigail in the Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t speak Portuguese, but knowing Spanish helped me get the main idea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queerspawn Creating Space at Creating Change.</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/02/05/queerspawn-creating-space-at-creating-change/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/02/05/queerspawn-creating-space-at-creating-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[You Can Participate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[COLAGE]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[creating change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NGLTF]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[queerspawn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Task Force]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I won&#8217;t be at Creating Change.  But if you will be &#8212; and you have one or more LGBT parents &#8212; be sure to go to the caucus on Friday night, &#8220;Queerspawn Making a Difference.&#8221; I know for sure you will meet Monica, and if other people let me know they will be [...]]]></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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Legal/Political]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media Monitoring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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>The Ever-Quotable Sol</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/01/27/the-ever-quotable-sol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Point Foundation provides scholarships to queer students who otherwise would not be able to attend college. The Foundation&#8217;s educational and outreach campaign focuses on the scholars&#8217; stories, in particular, the barriers they have faced because of the sexual orientation or gender identity. For many of these students, their homo-hostile parents were part, or sometimes, [...]]]></description>
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