Maleak and Jaeqwan set out to find a stud within their community. Unfortunately, none of the studs resemble his mom. He is left bewildered and confused. With the assistance of you and your child, the two boys find answers. This book is designed for families with children that seek a non-threatening way to address the use of various labels used within the LGBTQ community. You are afforded the opportunity to positively influence your child's self-worth by improving writing skills, exercising creativity, and increasing their knowledge and acceptance of alternative lifestyles. Family interaction...

Have you ever wondered how children view the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, how they make sense of it? Jaeqwan is very insightful for an 8 year old, but occasionally he has to seek assistance in understanding the world around him, and Maleak can become quite emotional at times. We encourage readers and facilitators to create space for experiencing emotions, especially sadness. This is particularly important with males. In this volume, Maleak decides the closet is the safest place to live. Jaeqwan attempts to coach Maleak out, but to no avail. It will take...

In this volume, Maleak and Jaeqwan stumble upon a tent revival where they learn for the first time that "same sex" relationships are considered inappropriate from a religious perspective. Maleak shows anger as refuses to accept the demise of his family who demonstrates love for all. Understanding that people have different beliefs, the adults decide to meet a spiritual guru to address the matter. While gaining information about religion and spirituality, one of the adults shocks everyone with a surprising request. Read on to learn what happened with Maleak, Jaeqwan and the surprise request....

Everyone expresses pride differently. In this volume Maleak and Jaeqwan learn about pride. They learn that pride is not given or something you just find on the streets. They learn what it means to have pride in self, culture, family, community, and globally. They especially explore pride in the lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA) community. Maxim's planned a ceremonial week in recognition of Pride, but it did not go as planned. There were many last minute changes and cancellations. We pulled this volume together to include one segment of the weekend to depict it as...