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Queerbook

By Malcolm Mackenzie
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Queerness is everywhere and it always has been. But queer stories, culture and communities have been often hidden … Shortlisted for the SLA Information Book Awards 2025 "Engaging, witty and thoughtful … full of a supportive kindness that LGBTQ+ teens may find indispensable." – Guardian Queerbook... Read More
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Queerness is everywhere and it always has been. But queer stories, culture and communities have been often hidden …

A funny fact-filled new teen non-fiction book on LGBTQ+ culture and history.

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Queerness is everywhere and it always has been. But queer stories, culture and communities have been often hidden …

Shortlisted for the SLA Information Book Awards 2025

"Engaging, witty and thoughtful … full of a supportive kindness that LGBTQ+ teens may find indispensable." – Guardian

Queerbook is an invitation to discover and celebrate queer joy, past and present. It’s a whistlestop tour of all the fun (and serious) queer stuff that the foghorn of straight culture drowns out, and that you deserve to know: heroes and histories, science and stories, art, spaces, music, film, TV, fashion – along with jargon-free breakdowns of terms from sexuality and gender identity, to code-switching, intersectionality, bi-erasure, straightwashing, and much, much more.

You don’t need any specific interests to read Queerbook – all you need is curiosity and a desire to learn more about what it means to be LGBTQ+. So, say no to the Straightrix and enter the technicolour world over the rainbow … Ready? Queer we go!

Cover illustration by Madelén Foss

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008637149

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Red Shed

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Emily A. Foster

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 208

Collections

Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Malcolm Mackenzie Young Adult

About the Author

With two decades experience in entertainment journalism Malcolm Mackenzie knows pop culture. He successfully launched the teen magazine, We Love Pop in 2011, winning a BSME award for best Editor. He also launched Oh My Vlog, a magazine for the YouTube generation and has written for publications including The Guardian, GQ, Grazia and Glamour ... basically anything with a 'G'. He is the author of several books about pop culture.

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