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

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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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Featured in The Bookseller's January 2022 previews. -- Fiona Noble * 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 *
a kind-hearted, insightful and wonderfully positive book for teens [] There is so much joy and warmth in these pages, Queer Up, is the coming out and self- acceptance guide we all needed growing up. Thoughtfully compiled and accessibly designed, every school and local library, youth resource centre or group should have this sensitive, supportive and special book on its shelves. * Attitude *
An empathetic and inclusive reference book for young and older adults alike. -- . * The School Librarian *

Author Bio

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.