Abigail Garner
Abigail Garner is an American author and advocate for children with LGBT parents.Biography
Garner is the author of Families Like Mine, a compilation of interviews from more than 50 children of LGBT parents, and discusses a breadth of issues including AIDS, divorce and homophobia. She is the creator of a companion website to the book, FamiliesLikeMine.com, a resource for LGBT families. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications including a commentary in Newsweek.
Garner served on the board of the Minnesota/St. Paul chapter of PFLAG. In addition, for six years she was on the board for the Twin Cities chapter of COLAGE.
Garner popularized the term "Queerspawn", a term children with gay parents call themselves, coined by Stefan Lynch, first director of COLAGE. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Garner identifies as heterosexual, her father came out as gay when she was five years old.
