LGBTQIA+ Authors
Listen to audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors.
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
Darling Days
By: iO Tillett Wright
Narrated by: iO Tillett Wright
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than... Read more
View audiobookIn the Darkroom
By: Susan Faludi
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age.“In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance... Read more
View audiobookRedefining Realness
By: Janet Mock
Narrated by: Janet Mock
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though undoubtedly an account of one woman’s... Read more
View audiobookTipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Length: 19 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester... Read more
View audiobookIf You Could Be Mine
By: Sara Farizan
Narrated by: Negin Farsad
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.
So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin’s parents... Read more
Fruit
By: Brian Francis
Narrated by: Brian Francis
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, add a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe and throw in a couple of talking nipples? One of the most laugh-out-loud books you’ll read all year.Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates’ ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week... Read more
View audiobookThe Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Ernest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in this classic radio recording from 1951. Performance styles may have changed, but this is an unmatched production bearing all the hallmarks of outstanding audio drama featuring some of the finest... Read more
View audiobookLady Windermere’s Fan
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Oscar Wilde’s first play confronts the hypocrisy of public ‘morality’ compared with genuine, private kindness. When it opened in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan was an instant success and now, a century later, it continues to be revived frequently. The reasons for its popularity are not difficult to identify the play’s witty dialogue contains many... Read more
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