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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Abigail in the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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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>Standing Up as the Baby</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2009/06/01/standing-up-as-the-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>

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Today is Blogging for LGBT Families Day, an annual event when LGBT families and our allies post to increase awareness about our families. (That&#8217;s me and my gay dad in 1973.) Thanks to Mombian for her tireless work to develop and run this event which she founded in 2006.
When LGBT families speak out, adult children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa? Really?</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2009/04/09/iowa-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal/Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, really. I imagine equality advocates in Iowa are fatigued by a week of surprised and snarky comments about the culture of their state. Up here in Minnesota, I have overheard many professions of newfound respect for the state along with promises to stop the jokes about our neighbors to our south.
On the national stage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom to Marry Day</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2009/02/13/freedom-to-marry-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal/Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota State Capitol saw a few hundred fair-minded citizens, rallying for marriage equality.  My role these days is to be in the crowd and be counted; very different from what I have done in previous years. 
A counter-demonstrator sat in the front with a sign that said &#8220;Defend Marriage&#8221; with symbols of &#8220;man&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star-Studded Comedy Relief Against Prop 8</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/12/03/prop-8-the-musical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal/Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Abomination?! Obama-nation!
A fabulous line-up of artists mock the hate and rhetoric that allowed Prop 8 to pass in California. It&#8217;s a wonderful bunch of folks and you have to look closely to identify them, since this truly is an ensemble effort. 


Regarding the rhetoric that Prop 8 would mean teaching children about sex, the &#8220;Gays&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From My In-Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queerspawn Voices]]></category>

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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>Guest Post for World AIDS Day</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/12/01/guest-post-alysia-abbott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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The release of the movie &#8220;Milk&#8221; last week &#8212; followed by World AIDS Day today &#8212; brings the past to the front of the minds of many people in the LGBT community, including the children. We live with these memories all the time, of course, but the movie brings a new awareness to our friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Morning!</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/11/05/good-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Come November 5th, let&#8217;s hope we can
wake up feeling like we&#8217;re home again.&#8221;
&#8211; k.d. lang in concert, 10/19/2008
]]></description>
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		<title>Abigail&#8217;s Obvious Endorsement for Obama</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/11/03/abigails-obvious-endorsement-for-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/11/03/abigails-obvious-endorsement-for-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal/Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You Can Participate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lgbt families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama for President]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t voted already, tomorrow is the big Election Day. I am sooooo looking forward to having the elections over with&#8230;and I hope to delight in seeing President Obama sworn in next January. 
But before then, people have to actually vote, and nothing can be taken for granted. Talk to your friends and family. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review at Book Dads</title>
		<link>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/09/22/book-dads/</link>
		<comments>http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2008/09/22/book-dads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Families Like Mine (My Book)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abigail Garner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Dads &#8212; a website for &#8220;fathers that read&#8221; &#8212; has published a review of Families Like Mine. 
Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
Garner also discusses other issues that are not immediately obvious, such as the differing experiences of growing up gay (“Second Generation”) or straight (“Culturally Queer, Erotically Straight’) in a GLBT family, and what that means [...]]]></description>
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