LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Queer Villains of Myth and Legend

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.

Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more

Park Cruising

By: Marcus McCann

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex.



Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his... Read more

Menschensgender - muss das sein? - Die deutsche Sprache kommt meist ohne Genderzeichen aus (ungekürzt)

By: Anna Engers

Narrated by: Julia Conte

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Gendern polarisiert. Es ist sogar aktuell das "Aufreger-Thema" schlechthin. Für viele Menschen bedeutet gendern, ein Genderzeichen benutzen zu müssen. Doch es gibt viele andere Möglichkeiten, eine genderinklusive Sprache anzuwenden, um alle Menschen unserer Gesellschaft sichtbar zu machen. Read more

Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

Narrated by: Laura Kate Dale

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more

Straight White Male

By: Chris Furr

Narrated by: Christopher Grove, Ruby Fay Harris, Bill Andrew...

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As the cultural conversation around race, gender, and sexuality has evolved, straight, white men are becoming increasingly aware of their privilege. But many may be left thinking, "OK, what am I supposed to do about it?" "We need a way forward beyond feelings of guilt, overwhelmingness, anger, and denial." "We are looking for transformative... Read more

Begin Transmission

By: Tilly Bridges

Narrated by: Tilly Bridges

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Trans woman and screenwriter Tilly Bridges takes you through the trans allegories of the Matrix franchise, with deep dives into The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Animatrix, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Matrix Resurrections, tracking one person’s transition journey—from Thomas Anderson, to Neo… to Trinity.Each movie’s allegory is deeply... Read more

Una homosexualidad propia

By: Inés Martín Rodrigo

Narrated by: Inés Martín Rodrigo

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Un testimonio valiente y decidido de lo nunca contado. El relato del descubrimiento de la orientación sexual propia. «Este es el texto que hubiera querido leer antes de juzgarme sin conocerme.»  Con estas palabras describe su autora este testimonio valiente, fruto del compromiso y la responsabilidad, en el que relata el descubrimiento de su... Read more

Gender: Your Guide

By: Lee Airton, PhD

Narrated by: Lee Airton, PhD

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The days of two genders—male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink—are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender people are coming out as neither men nor women, instead living... Read more

He/She/They

By: Schuyler Bailar

Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity and how we talk about it.

Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare, school... Read more

My Body Is Distant

By: Paige Maylott

Narrated by: Paige Maylott

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances... Read more

Glitter and Concrete

By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Natalie Duke

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*
*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*

"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York

An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... Read more

Camp!

By: Paul Baker

Narrated by: Paul Baker

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. The term possibly derives from the French se camper, meaning to pose in a bold, provocative, or exaggerated fashion. Frequently used to define or deride young heterosexual men, the upper classes, Black people, older women, and gay men,... Read more

Selbstliebe – Über Herkunft und Gerechtigkeit (ungekürzt)

By: bell hooks

Narrated by: Luise Georgi

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

What's Love Got to Do with It? – Warum Liebe(n) eine gesellschaftliche Notwendigkeit ist   »Dieses Buch, das sich mit der aktuellen Bedeutung der Liebe im Leben der Schwarzen befasst und eine Vorlage für das Überleben und die Selbstbestimmung der Schwarzen bieten soll, führt uns kühn zum Kern der Sache. Uns selbst mit Liebe zu begegnen, unser... Read more

Gossip Men

By: Christopher M. Elias

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will... Read more

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

By: Craig Olsen

Narrated by: Tony Casey (The Established, Shanda Leer)

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour

Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing

In the 1950s, as now, queer people were attracted to the Big Apple because they were able to find work as drag performers and female impersonators in a small number of Lower East Side clubs.

Decades before Stonewall, they occupied... Read more

How the Clinic Made Gender

By: Sandra Eder

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. 

Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is... Read more

An Open Secret

By: Nicholas L. Syrett

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to... Read more

Movimento LGBTI+

By: Renan Quinalha

Narrated by: Renan Quinalha

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sem a pretensão de escrever um manual exaustivo, o autor nos oferece um panorama da constituição moderna do movimento LGBTI+ como movimento político que reivindica direitos, equidade e respeito, a partir de um recorte geográfico ocidental." Erika Hilton "Cada uma das partes que compõem este livro faz com que avancemos numa compreensão de... Read more

Who Needs Gay Bars?

By: Greggor Mattson, PhD

Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting... Read more

Happy Together

By: Ellen D. B. Riggle, PhD & Sharon S. Rostosky, PhD

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with positive, life-affirming stories and coping strategies, this resource will help same-sex couples deal effectively with the daily challenges and stresses of homophobia within their family, workplace, and community.

Many same-sex couples are stigmatized because of their relationship and experience significant stress. In every life... Read more

Go the Way Your Blood Beats

By: Emmett de Monterey

Narrated by: Mateo Oxley

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON

When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.

Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s,... Read more

Becoming Us

By: Jake Graf & Hannah Graf

Narrated by: Jake Graf & Sara Dunham

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'The UK's most influential LGBT Power Couple' - Guardian

This is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, doing jobs they love and expecting their second child. But their journey there has been an extraordinary one.

Becoming Us is the inspiring and at times... Read more

Confesiones de una diva

By: La Divaza

Narrated by: La Divaza & La Jose

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Te invito a que conozcas mi camino, una historia sin filtros contada por mí misma, y que capítulo a capítulo veas que ningún sueño es imposible cuando llevas una diva por dentro. De una diva se dice todo, se especula desde su origen hasta sus amores; se le puede amar u odiar, pero nunca ser indiferente a su presencia. ¿Tú crees que una diva nace... Read more

And Don't F&%k It Up

By: Maria Elena Fernandez

Narrated by: Alec Mapa

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between,  as told by its stars, producers and fans.

Told over the first ten years, And Don't F&%k It Up tells a cultural history through the stories of the people... Read more