POSTPONED Queer Up - an evening with Alexis Caught

Written to help queer and questioning teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understanding, Queer Up is an insightful and empowering guide which takes young people by the hand, and offers uplifting advice and activities to help readers through life’s challenges and instil them with confidence and pride. The book provides an inclusive account of what it means to grow up queer, with chapters on questioning, coming out, friends and family, love and relationships, sex, shame, pride, being transgender and/or non-binary and allyship, with a key focus on positive mental health strategies. 

Queer Up features personal stories from notable LGBTQ+ figures and allies, including award-winning transgender activist Charlie Craggs, author and journalist Kuchenga, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, writer and producer Russell T Davies, and writer and activist Scarlett Curtis.

“This books is like a big, queer hug, every bit of advice is a lesson in how to be confidently LGBTQ+ and happy.” – Dr Ranj Singh


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, qualified psychotherapist, writer, speaker, model and rugby player. His writing has been featured in Attitude magazine and The Mirror along with the best-selling anthology It's Not Okay to Feel Blue. His areas of passion and expertise are mental health, wellness and the queer community. On talking about the book, Alexis said this is the book that he “so desperately needed when [he] was 14.”

Char Binns (she/her) is a queer activist, community organiser and writer. Char joined Homotopia - the UK's longest running LGBTQIA arts and cultural festival - in August 2017 and was appointed as Festival Director in February 2020. Char has led Homotopia through 5 successful festivals and grown the organisation's year-round programme, together with a brilliant, small staff team. Char’s interest in people led her to study sociology and anthropology and she has an MA in the Study of Religions from SOAS, University of London. Char spends her spare time running a really long way and is currently training for her second 50-mile race.