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Camp Lavender Hill:  offers a week-long summer camp in the scenic foothills of Sierra Mountains of northern California for children ages 9-14 of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families.  Web: http://www.camplavenderhill.org

Family Net: the Human Rights Campaign’s web site for GLBT parents and their families. Includes lots of helpful information, legal issues, schools, and more: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Family 

Family Equality Council (formerly Family Pride): National organization with local chapters. They offer legal information and written resources to dispel common myths. Phone: 202-331-5015; Web site: http://www.familyequality.org/ 

• How to Talk to Children About Our Families:  by Margie Brickley and Aimee Gelnaw for the Family Equality Council (formerly Family Pride). http://www.familyequality.org/resources/publications/talkingtoourchildren.pdf  (pdf format)

• Back to School Tool: Building Family Equality in Every Classroom: Family Pride developed this tool to arm LGBT parents with information and easy-to-follow strategies to ensure their children’s success in school. http://www.familyequality.org/resources/publications/backtoschooltool.pdf  (pdf format)

• The Pride Guide to Talking to Our Children About Political Attacks on Our Families: created to help families meet the needs of their children while facing statewide and federal level attacks on our relationships and our families. http://www.familyequality.org/resources/publications/prideguide.pdf  (pdf format)

• More in the FPC Materials & Publications Library: links to divided into seven sections: the basics, making schools inclusive, intersections with our families, politicizing our families, telling our families' stories, expanding the family circle and tools for parents groups. http://www.familyequality.org/resources/publications.html 

• OUTSpoken Families: this groundbreaking storytelling training program is the national speakers bureau for Family Equality trains parents and allies to speak about family equality. LGBTQ parents, extended family members and caring allies have all committed to being a part of this groundbreaking and very powerful ensemble. Over 1000 people in 39 states, the District of Columbia, 1 US territory and 3 countries have signed on to be OUTSpoken. Website: http://www.familyequality.org/OUTSpoken/

• Project Harmony: an initiative of Family Equality Council, is proud to present A Dialogue with LGBTQ Families of Color, is part of their Listening Tour Series. This series looks to collects stories, experiences, issues and concerns of LGBTQ-headed families of color and mixed-race families as we move to create “The State of LGBTQ Families of Color” and use the information to shape the programs and policies of Family Equality Council. For more information, contact Lisbeth Melendez Rivera at 202.520.1817. Website: http://www.familyequality.org/harmony/

How Many Of Us Are There?: A one page fact sheet by Beth Reis. How many children are growing up with gay or lesbian parents? http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/HowManyOfUsAreThere.pdf (pdf format)

Listserv for Transgender Parents: To subscribe, send email to: TSParenting-subscribe@egroups.com

Love Makes a Family: Love Makes A Family was founded when a racially diverse group of sexual minorities in Oregon and Southwest Washington came together to oppose anti-gay Ballot Measure Nine. Today they have parents and kids' groups, a middle school transitions project, and public speaking and opening hearts and minds programs. Web: http://www.lmfamily.org More information: Bonnie Tinker, 503-228-3892; Info@LMfamily.org.

Our Families ~ Our Children - The Lesbian and Gay Child Care Task Force Report on Quality Child Care: A report documenting the very best in child care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents and their children, offering hope and direction to enhance the quality of child care for children and families. http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/ocof/ofoc_cover.html 

Proud Parents: Colors Northwest, a magazine dedicated to exploring the interests and experiences of people of color, interviewed Nancy Sapiro of the Northwest Women's Law Center, gay dads Frank Fuoco and Benjamin Liu, lesbian moms Sarah and Olivia, Kimberly Mutcherson of Rutger’s University's School of Law, lesbian single mother of twins Bookda Gheisar, and gay dads Alex Cury and Jim MaClean for its June 2007 feature story on LGBTQ parenting. See the article here: http://www.colorsnw.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=101&z=35 - and the 8-minute documentary on same-sex parenting for families of color, on YouTube here:

TheRainbowBabies.com: Provides a central area for general information on the many aspects of GLBT pregnancies and parenting and space for parents or would-be parents to share their stories about their respective paths to parenthood. http://therainbowbabies.com

Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: provides opportunities for GLBT families to get together to support each other and form community. We host monthly fun family activities that provide parents and children with a chance to spend time with other families with GLBT parents. We also host an informal listserve for resource and idea exchanges, and playgroups for families with young children. Mailing address: P.O. Box 30031, Seattle, WA 98103; Website: http://www.rainbowfamiliesps.org;  Email: rainbowfamilies@familieslikeours.org 

Too High A Price: The Case Against Restricting Gay Parenting from the ACLU:  http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/parenting/27496pub20061113.html  

Also see Youth w / LGBT Parents.

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