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Logical Family
By: Armistead Maupin
Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us."—Neil Gaiman
"I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his... Read More »
Becoming Nicole
By: Amy Ellis Nutt
Narrated by: Amy Ellis Nutt
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.
Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl
When Wayne... Read More »
The Velvet Rage
By: Alan Downs, PhD
Narrated by: Alan Downs
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The most important issue in a gay man’s life is not “coming out,” but coming to terms with the invalidating past. Despite the progress made in recent years, many gay men still wonder, “Are we better off?” The byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, rejection, and anger—a toxic cocktail that... Read More »
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How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
Narrated by: Saeed Jones
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019
One of the best books of the year as selected by The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; Kirkus Reviews; Publishers Weekly; BuzzFeed; Goodreads; School Library Journal; and many more.
“A... Read More »
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Out East
By: John Glynn
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of May 2019 A TIME Magazine Best Book of May 2019
A Cosmopolitan Best Book of May 2019 An Oprah Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019
A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house--a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family.
They call Montauk... Read More »
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Mama's Boy
By: Dustin Lance Black
Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal.
Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as... Read More »
High School
By: Sara Quin & Tegan Quin
Narrated by: Sara Quin & Tegan Quin
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tegan and Sara Quin’s joint memoir is perfect in audiobook form....Knowing and loving Tegan and Sara the musicians will obviously make this listen extra special, but it’s by no means a prerequisite to entry. High School, very literally, is for everyone." -- Paste, best audiobooks of 2019
This program is read by the authors and features bonus... Read More »
Theft by Finding
By: David Sedaris & Gary Carpenter
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot
An NPR Best Book of 2017 An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017 A Goodreads Choice Awards nominee
David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the... Read More »
Sissy
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read More »
She's Not There
By: Jennifer Finney Boylan, Deirdre Finney Boylan & Richard Russo
Narrated by: Jennifer Finney Boylan, Deirdre Finney Boylan & Richard Russo
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by the author with two afterwords: one written and read by Deirdre Finney Boylan, and one written and read by Richard Russo
The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between... Read More »
Sontag
By: Benjamin Moser
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.
No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud... Read More »
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Becoming a Man
By: P. Carl
Narrated by: P. Carl
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
“A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written” (Claudia Rankine), Becoming a Man explores one man’s gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.
Becoming a Man is the striking memoir of P. Carl’s journey to become the man he always knew himself to be. For fifty years, he lived as a girl and a queer... Read More »
Jimmy Neurosis
By: James Oseland
Narrated by: James Oseland
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From a celebrated figure of the food world comes a poignant, provocative memoir about being young and gay during the 1970s punk revolution in America
Long before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the pre–Silicon Valley, California, suburbs, yearning for a taste of something wild. Diving headfirst... Read More »
Looking for Lorraine
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: LisaGay Hamilton
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction
Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet... Read More »
Tranny
By: Laura Jane Grace & Dan Ozzi
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 »
Beautiful on the Outside
By: Adam Rippon
Narrated by: Adam Rippon
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Olympic figure skater and self-professed America's Sweetheart Adam Rippon shares his underdog journey from beautiful mess to outrageous success in this hilarious, big-hearted memoir that the Washington Post calls "comedic gold."
Your mom probably told you it's what on the inside that counts. Well, then she was never a competitive figure... Read More »
The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library & Edmund White
Narrated by: Various
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winner
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and... Read More »
Love Wins
By: Debbie Cenziper & Jim Obergefell
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage.
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as... Read More »
Space Between
By: Nico Tortorella
Narrated by: Nico Tortorella
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Younger star and LGBTQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella investigates love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through their personal story and the lens of their nonbinary identity
“Nico Tortorella embodies the twenty-first-century human.”—RuPaul
Nico Tortorella is a seeker. Raised on a steady regimen of Ram Dass and raw food, they have... Read More »
Love Lives Here
By: Amanda Jette Knox
Narrated by: Amanda Jette Knox
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes... Read More »
She Wants It
By: Jill Soloway
Narrated by: Jill Soloway
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Editors’ Choice
In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill’s parent came out as transgender, Jill pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create the groundbreaking and award-winning Amazon TV... Read More »
Cruising Utopia
By: Jose Esteban Munoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o & Ann Pellegrini
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz... Read More »
What We Will Become
By: Mimi Lemay
Narrated by: Mimi Lemay
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A mother’s memoir of her transgender child’s odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.
From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born “Em,” adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she... Read More »
Stonewall
By: David Carter
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with... Read More »
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