New children’s coloring book showcases family diversity

February 19 17:20 2020

Richmond, VA – February 19, 2020 – Mark Loewen knows what it’s like to look around and not see anyone who feels the way you do. Growing up in Paraguay, he never met anyone who was openly gay; which led him to try everything to change his reality, including undergoing so-called conversion therapy.

The journey brought him to the realization that he couldn’t hide who he was, that he needed to embrace himself and live life as he was meant to. Loewen moved to the US for graduate school and found love. Several years later, he and his partner adopted a baby girl.

“My daughter loved reading about families and little girls like her. While we could find books about LGBTQ families like ours, finding coloring books was a challenge. The pictures usually had mommies and daddies but never two dads or two moms. I wanted my daughter to know that each family was normal, no matter their make-up,” explains Loewen. Loewen’s mission is to empower children to feel fully accepted for who they are and who their family is. In 2018, he published his first picture book, ‘​What Does a Princess Really Look Like,’ an empowering story about a girl with two dads.

Now, Loewen is releasing the​ ‘Celebrating LGBT Families’ coloring books. The series features coloring pages of families with two moms, two dads, single parents, and even childless families. “The parents and children in each coloring page are having fun doing things that all people enjoy, regardless of family make-up,” Loewen explains.

“Growing up, I would have never thought that I could be as happy as I am today. I never thought I’d find lasting love, that I’d live as an openly gay man, that my husband and I would raise a beautiful, intelligent little girl. These were ideas I never thought possible and that’s tragic. I never want another child to feel that they’re alone or that their future can’t be everything they hope for.”

The first volume of the ​‘Celebrating LGBT Families’ coloring book titled ​‘The True Colors Of Family’​ will be released on March 23, 2020 and is available for pre-order everywhere books are sold.

For more information, or to arrange for an interview, please contact:

Mark Loewen

[email protected]

(804) 614-6096

www.markloewenauthor.com​

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