LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
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
View audiobookThe Home For Wayward Parrots
By: Darusha Wehm
Narrated by: Darusha Wehm
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian “Gumbo” Guillemot’s teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. After years without a lead, when he finally finds his birth mother, Kim, he’s unprepared for the boisterous instant family that comes with her.
No one, besides Kim, knows anything about Gumbo's birth father. With Kim refusing to... 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
View audiobookAmateur
By: Thomas Page McBee
Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
*Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award
*Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize
One of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018
A “no-holds-barred examination... 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
View audiobookConfessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
Narrated by: Aden Hakimi
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story—his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.
Dated 1724,... Read more
We Were Witches
By: Ariel Gore
Narrated by: Ariel Gore
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she’s there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag’s pyramid to analyze life.So Ariel turns to a rich... Read more
View audiobookThe Trauma Cleaner
By: Sarah Krasnostein
Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.A woman who sleeps among... Read more
View audiobookThe Old Deep and Dark
By: Ellen Hart
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In award-winning author Ellen Hart's next riveting Jane Lawless mystery, Jane and Cordelia discover a body buried in the wall of a historic theater Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the... Read more
View audiobookInvisible
By: Michele Lent Hirsch
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut
This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses
Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did.
Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab... 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
View audiobookQueers Destroy Science Fiction!
By: Seanan McGuire, Sigrid Ellis, Steve Berman & Ga...
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Ca...
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Lightspeed was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction and that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people, and queer people, no matter how they identify, are a big part of that. They always have been. They’re just sometimes harder to see. So, in the interests of visibility, Queers... Read more
View audiobookA Sinner in Mecca
By: Parvez Sharma
Narrated by: Parvez Sharma
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hajj pilgrimage is a journey every Muslim is commanded by God to go on at least once in a lifetime if they are able and, like millions, Parvez Sharma believes his spiritual salvation lies at Islam's ground zero, Mecca. But unlike the journeys of his fellow Muslims, the consequences of his own could be deadly.
In A Sinner in Mecca, author 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
View audiobookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Greg Wise
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Oscar Wilde’s enduring masterpiece, this fable of innocence and corruption, purity and decay has become a true classic. The beautiful, narcissistic Dorian Gray, torn between the influence of cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wotton and tortured artist Basil Hallward, sells the beauty of his soul in exchange for external perfection. Ultimately, he... Read more
View audiobookStrays
By: Britt Collins
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other. Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night,... Read more
View audiobookHello Forever
By: Sarina Bowen
Narrated by: Dake Bliss & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
When they were only teenagers, Axel and Caxton were caught making out in the woods at church camp. And afterward, Cax had disappeared from all the youth group activities.Six years later, Axel is astonished to spot his first love’s face in the crowd of a college basketball game he’s watching on television—at a school that has just offered him a... Read more
View audiobookThis Book Is Gay
By: Juno Dawson
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for you.
There's a long-running joke that, after "coming out," a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership card and... Read more
Surpassing Certainty
By: Janet Mock
Narrated by: Janet Mock
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“A defining chronicle of strength and spirit” (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world—without a road map to guide her. This memoir “should be required reading for your 20s” (Cosmopolitan).
A few months before her twentieth birthday, Janet Mock is adjusting to her days... Read more
Leading Lady
By: Stephen Galloway
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, sharing behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms.
When Sherry Lansing became the first woman ever to be named president of a major studio, the... Read more
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A palmist’s prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic woman’s lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short... Read more
View audiobookBorn Both
By: Hida Viloria
Narrated by: Hida Viloria
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt... Read more
When We Rise
By: Cleve Jones
Narrated by: Cleve Jones
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering... Read more
View audiobookTranny
By: Laura Jane Grace
Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic... Read more
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