Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with LGBT parents.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.[citation needed] She also presents lectures and workshops on LGBT families for colleges, businesses, and conferences. Her book is a complication of interviews from more than 50 children of GLBT parents.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 was a keynote speaker at the 2001 Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Ally College Conference.[citation needed]Garner 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.Garner received 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.Garner popularized the term "Queerspawn", a term children with gay parents call themselves, coined by Stefan Lynch, first director of COLAGE. She identifies as heterosexual.. }
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- Abigail_Garner abstract "Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with LGBT parents.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.[citation needed] She also presents lectures and workshops on LGBT families for colleges, businesses, and conferences. Her book is a complication of interviews from more than 50 children of GLBT parents.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 was a keynote speaker at the 2001 Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Ally College Conference.[citation needed]Garner 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.Garner received 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.Garner popularized the term "Queerspawn", a term children with gay parents call themselves, coined by Stefan Lynch, first director of COLAGE. She identifies as heterosexual.".