Abigail Garner
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Abigail Garner is an American author
and advocate
for children with LGBT parents
.
Abigail Garner is the creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com, a website for LGBT families. Her writing has appeared in publications throughout the country, including a commentary in Newsweek
that earned her the Excellence in Journalism Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
. She also presents lectures and workshops on LGBT families for colleges, businesses, and conferences. She is a graduate of Minneapolis Public Schools and Wellesley College and currently lives in Minneapolis.
Her book is a complication of interviews from more than 50 children of GLBT parents.
The appearance of her essay, "Like Father, Like Daughter" in the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Girls (Dutton, 2007).
She has received numerous other awards including the “Best Column” award twice from the Minnesota Magazine and Publications Association. She was also the recipient of The Loft’s Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grant to “support her outreach/marketing plan for Families Like Mine to non-traditional audiences.
Her career as an advocate has spawned to multiple national conferences such as Creating Change, Family Week, and Rainbow Families. At the True Colors conference, she gave a defining speech that served as the opening, touching more than 1,000 LGBTA teens, educators, and service providers. She also gave birth to the Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Ally College Conference.
Abigail has been an inspirational leader for the LGBT movement in many ways. In the past Abigail served on the board of the Minnesota/St. Paul chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays). In addition, for six years she was on the board for the Twin Cities chapter of COLAGE. COLAGE published her last article in 2007 from “Spawn Talk”, which was a column that she wrote for Just For Us, a small magazine by and for people with GLBT parents.
To top off all her accomplishments, Abigail has been honored with the Twin Cities International Citizen Award for her persistence to obtaining peace and justice outside the United States and the Rose Rees Peace Award from Minneapolis Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.
Abigail popularized the term "Queerspawn", a term children with gay parents call themselves, coined by Stefan Lynch, first director of COLAGE.
Author
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and advocate
Advocate
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for children with LGBT parents
LGBT parenting
LGBT parenting refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people parenting one or more children. This includes children raised by same-sex couples , children raised by single LGBT parents, and children raised by an opposite-sex couple where at least one partner is LGBT.LGBT people can...
.
Abigail Garner is the creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com, a website for LGBT families. Her writing has appeared in publications throughout the country, including a commentary in Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
that earned her the Excellence in Journalism Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of gay/lesbian issues in the media...
. She also presents lectures and workshops on LGBT families for colleges, businesses, and conferences. She is a graduate of Minneapolis Public Schools and Wellesley College and currently lives in Minneapolis.
Her book is a complication of interviews from more than 50 children of GLBT parents.
The appearance of her essay, "Like Father, Like Daughter" in the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Girls (Dutton, 2007).
She has received numerous other awards including the “Best Column” award twice from the Minnesota Magazine and Publications Association. She was also the recipient of The Loft’s Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grant to “support her outreach/marketing plan for Families Like Mine to non-traditional audiences.
Her career as an advocate has spawned to multiple national conferences such as Creating Change, Family Week, and Rainbow Families. At the True Colors conference, she gave a defining speech that served as the opening, touching more than 1,000 LGBTA teens, educators, and service providers. She also gave birth to the Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Ally College Conference.
Abigail has been an inspirational leader for the LGBT movement in many ways. In the past Abigail served on the board of the Minnesota/St. Paul chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays). In addition, for six years she was on the board for the Twin Cities chapter of COLAGE. COLAGE published her last article in 2007 from “Spawn Talk”, which was a column that she wrote for Just For Us, a small magazine by and for people with GLBT parents.
To top off all her accomplishments, Abigail has been honored with the Twin Cities International Citizen Award for her persistence to obtaining peace and justice outside the United States and the Rose Rees Peace Award from Minneapolis Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.
Abigail popularized the term "Queerspawn", a term children with gay parents call themselves, coined by Stefan Lynch, first director of COLAGE.