Children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies has been updated to reflect gay marriage
In 1989, Lesléa Newman published a children’s book called Heather Has Two Mommies. As indicated by the title, it’s about a girl named Heather whose parents, Kate and Jane, are lesbians. The point of the book is for kids like Heather to have a chance to see a positive depiction of a same-sex couple in picture book-form, and also to help teach other kids that they should be accepting of other kinds of families. Obviously, countless bigoted assholes over the years have been offended by the book’s suggestion that it’s good to treat other people with respect, but all of the bigoted assholes in the world weren’t enough to stop it from becoming a groundbreaking piece of children’s literature.