Parenting Resources

Great books, films, and school resources can be found here.

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.

Faith Resources

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

Lesbian Mom's Blog

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

Helpful Web Resources

You may want to make this website available to your children.

We have copies of Gay Parent Magazine free for you at Oklahomans for Equality.

Proud Parenting has lots of relevant and interesting news stories about adoption, insemination, surrogacy and so on.

Also, Oklahoma City Lesbian Mom's webpage is here.

Resources: Books at OkEq

Oklahomans for Equality, located downtown at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, has great resources for you and your children. The Library has books that you can browse and borrow, for free, like these:

• The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself, Tips and Techniques from Conception through Birth by Rachel Pepper (1999)
• Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Live Curves by Andrew R. Gottlieb (2000)
• The Gay and Lesbian Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising our Families by April Martin (1993)
• Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke (1993)
• Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships that Last by Betty Berzon (2004)
• Gay and Lesbian Parents by Frederick Bozett (1987)

Books for Children:

• Molly's Family by Nancy Garden (2004)
• Daddy, Papa and Me by Andrew Aldrich (2003)
• Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman (2000)