Pride Power

Written for readers aged 11 and up, this guide offers a first introduction to Pride and the LGBTQIA+ community. For some, Pride is a movement fighting for equal rights for everyone. For others, it is a chance to honour the diversity of identities, or a route into a network of people who welcome you exactly as you are. The book approaches the community as something to be proud of, and gives young readers a clear grounding in the language of gender and sexuality, including how pronouns work and what the key terms mean.

Alongside that groundwork, the guide traces how Pride began and how queer life has developed since. It turns the spotlight on people who changed the course of the movement and on those whose contributions have gone largely unrecognised, from Marsha P. Johnson to Nick and Charlie in Heartstopper.

Later sections explain what Pride is and why people celebrate it, follow a timeline of queer history around the world, and survey classic queer works in art, literature, music, television and film. The book finishes by showing readers how they can support Pride and the values behind it, and it closes by noting that the future is not limited to two categories and that this is an exciting prospect.