Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Walker Books
Age 14+
Personal & Social Issues: Sexuality & Relationships Children's & Young Adult: General Non-Fiction
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.
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Creators
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.
Reviews
Featured in The Bookseller’s January 2022 previews.
The Bookseller
For those that want to learn more or seeking a little bit of friendly guidance, this is the book for you.
Gay Times
Included in list of most anticipated LGBTQ+ books of 2022
Gay Times
If you’re looking for a queer self-help book that’s both heart-warming and full of love… This is for you! This was a quick and lovely read, the kind of book that presents itself as both a hug and an encouragement. The author introduces themselves as not a mentor or a teacher, but as a friend. Your older queer sibling. They’re also a therapist so the book was filled with a lot of self-love reminders and grounding techniques and reminders to breathe and remember you are loved. When you read this book, you get such a strong sense of community. It’s full of snippets and perspectives and stories from other queer people from all walks of life, so it just felt like a group of your queer elders coming together to tell you everything’s going to be okay.
Paper Fury
Thoughtfully compiled, this book has the right mix of sensitivity and honesty – the mental health aspects are inclusive, supportive and useful for all readers, from any walk of life.
ReadPlus
