I don't know if i'm just doing it wrong or if it is a bug but for some reason when I click "A gift" button in diplomacy nothing shows up. Please tell me truthfully if i'm just being stupid or not.

Have you given them a gift recently? There's a delay of a year or so between gifts.

No I just found them and I want to try to make them an ally because they have stone and copper and I can't find any.

I just relized that I am just stupid you can only give things they need it saying "gift" was misleading I thought I could give anything my bad.