International Gay Parenting

This is an interesting article about Israel's baby boom in the gay community.

Prop 8 in California

Given the California's Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban on gay marriage (for the NYTimes story, click here), the Family Equality Council has a really great response with resources families can use: click here. For example, their response has resources for how to talk to your children about the Prop 8 decision.

Great Books

This library resource has a great list of resource books (scroll down to the bottom). If you see one that you think the Equality Center should have, leave a comment, and we'll see if we can acquire it.

Toronto Queer Film Festival Debuts Family Films

Here are a few movies to put on your Netflicks queue: Baby Love and Half Life. To see the reviews, click here.

Faith Resources

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has a new resource for families and religious organizations. Their faith resources are quite extensive.

Alert: Camp Cuteness!

Camp Ten Trees is a summer camp in the Pacific Northwest for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning & Allied Youth and Children of LGBTQ families.
We will have applications available at Oklahomans for Equality-- you can pick them up at the informational brochure shelves in the Sue Welsh Hall.

Parenting and Feminism

Can the two meet? An interesting article on the topic from The Nation, here.

Tulsa Day Care Statistics

What's your favorite Tulsa day care? The Tulsa World reports on three high performers; the story is here. The three day care centers with three stars with no complaints or violations were:

*Good Shepherd Early Childhood Education Center, 8730 E. Skelly Drive
*Happy Hearts Academy, 1010 N. Yale Ave.
*Bethany Community School, 6730 S. Sheridan Road

The article reports, "among the 37 three-star centers, about 400 inspection violations were found and 23 confirmed complaints."

Maine to offer same-sex marriage

See the article, here!

Lesbian Mom's Blog

Here's an early Mother's Day gift; a blog for lesbian moms.

Great Parenting Resource

The Center, an LGBT Resource Center in NYC, has great parenting resources.  Click here to see their families page. They have a super informative "Ask the Experts" page, here. 

Their website explains the many services they offer:

"Center Kids programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination, adoption, surrogacy and nontraditional cooperative parenting arrangements; forums on issues such as custody when LGBT parents separate or financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.)." (citation here)

Of these, which do you think are the most important for us to think about in Oklahoma?