Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to Lgbtq+ Love, Life and Mental Health

A positive and uplifting book for young people who are queer or curious - and their allies looking to support them.In this empowering and uplifting book, award-winning podcaster Alexis Caught sets out to help queer and curious teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understanding. Alongside the author's personal experiences are first-hand stories from notable LGBTQ+ figures, providing a inclusive account of what it means to grow up queer. With chapters on questioning, coming out, friends and family, love, sex, shame, pride and allyship, this is insightful, thoughtful and reassuring book is essential reading for any questioning teen and their allies looking to support them.

About the author

Alexis Caught is the creator and co-host of the British Podcast Award-winning LGBTQ+ podcast Qmmunity, exploring queer culture, history and identity. He is also a mental health advocate, NHS psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and rugby player with work featured in Attitude magazine and The Mirror along with the best-selling mental health anthology It's Not Okay to Feel Blue. His areas of passion and expertise are mental health and wellness, the millennial struggle, LGBTQ+ community and the therapeutic powers of Kate Bush.

Product details

• Authors: Alexis Caught
• Publisher: Walker Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781406399226
• ISBN: 978-1-4063-9922-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Dating & Sex, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ+, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Family / General, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / LGBTQ+, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / General, Children's & Young Adult: General Non-Fiction