LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Finding Stevie

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: Denica Fairman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been... Read more

Ike’s Mystery Man

By: Peter Shinkle

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man’s intimate diary. Ike’s Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable... Read more

The Sex Toy Party Threesome

By: Conner Hayden

Narrated by: Jessica Howard

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman arranges a lingerie and sex toy party at her apartment. Two of her friends get a little tipsy and accept her offer to stay for the night and the three of them end up trying out the toys they bought on each other.
This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are fictional and are... Read more

Blackmailed

By: Kelly Sanders

Narrated by: Jessica Howard

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An unsatisfied, mature lesbian woman in her late 30s tires of her distant, workaholic partner and begins an affair with an old flame from college, which lasts for several weeks. Then, one morning she is horrified to discover an envelope on her doorstep, containing damning evidence of her indiscretions. Included in the package is a mysterious... Read more

A Handy Tutorial

By: Kelly Sanders

Narrated by: Jessica Howard

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A timid young woman sneaks into a sex shop during her lunch break to buy a vibrator, after having curiously lusted for one for years. The hot girl on the till notices her perplexed expression as she inspects a particular model, and offers her a demonstration to show her how to use it.
This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and... Read more

Nevertheless, We Persisted

By: In This Together Media

Narrated by: Amy Klobuchar, Vikas Adam, Jonathan Davis, Ari ...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm, and many, many more, each writing about a time in their youth when they were held back because of their race,... Read more

Transforming

By: Austen Hartke

Narrated by: Austen Hartke

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached "the transgender tipping point," suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many people—even many LGBTQ allies—still lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender experience. Into this void, Austen Hartke offers a biblically... Read more

The Lesbian Threesome

By: Kelly Sanders

Narrated by: Jessica Howard

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When a horny MILF spots her neighbour's daughter and her two hot friends drinking and cavorting around their back garden, she decides to have some fun with them and blackmails the slutty girls into performing sordid acts on each other, and then her.
This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All... Read more

Lesbian fun at the office

By: Kelly Sanders

Narrated by: T. K. Love

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two young interns begin a work placement in a busy office, however the small cubicle layout of the large office floor space allows them enough privacy to flirt with each other, and when casual teasing is no longer enough to satiate their desires, they must think up some inventive ways to pleasure each other.
This story is a work of fiction and... Read more

Where the Millennials Will Take Us

By: Barbara J. Risman

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how... Read more

UnClobber

By: Colby Martin

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude toward the LGBTQ community. Armed with only six passages in the Bible—often known as the "clobber passages"—the traditional Christian position has been one that stands against the full inclusion of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. Unclobber... Read more

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

By: Ben Barres

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments—from his childhood as a precocious math... Read more

I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

Narrated by: Vivek Shraya

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book by: The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, Writers’ Trust of Canada, Autostraddle, Bitch, and BookRiot.

Finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction
Nominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award
Winner of the... Read more

Gender Outlaw

By: Kate Bornstein

Narrated by: Kate Bornstein

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"I know I'm not a man . . . and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either . . . The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers listeners on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level,... Read more

Listen, We Need to Talk

By: Brian F. Harrison & Melissa R. Michelson

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle might temporarily affect the public's mood on contentious issues like abortion, the death penalty, or gun control, public opinion toward these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. There are notable exceptions, however, particularly with regard to divisive issues... Read more

Trans Like Me

By: C.N. Lester

Narrated by: CN Lester

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes listeners on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really are in terms of progress. From the impact of the media's wording in covering trans people and issues, to... Read more

A Queer History of the United States

By: Michael Bronski

Narrated by: Vikas Adams

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction

The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.

In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima... Read more

Unbound

By: Arlene Stein

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate portrait of a new generation of transmasculine individuals as they undergo gender transitions

Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon’s office, having traveled to Florida from across the United States in order to masculinize their chests.... Read more

Queer City

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Will Watt

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way–through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria (“wolf dens” or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his... Read more

The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads

By: Eric Rosswood

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, the Chicago Tribune reported that ten to twenty percent of donor eggs went to gay... Read more

49 Pulses

By: Charlie Minn

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 12, 2016, a gunman walked into a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida and shot 102 people, murdering 49 of them. At 2:00 AM, the Pulse nightclub was winding down its weekly Latino night. The building was dark, crowded, and loud. Patrons were making plans to leave when they were ambushed by a gunman, who began firing in every direction.... Read more

Straight Jacket

By: Matthew Todd

Narrated by: Matthew Todd

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audio edition of Straight Jacket, written and read by Matthew Todd.

WINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017

Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the... Read more

Starving in Search of Me

By: Marissa LaRocca

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confessions of an eating disorders survivorThis confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and... Read more

Transgender History, second edition

By: Susan Stryker

Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans... Read more