
Love and Rage
By: Lama Rod Owens
Narrated by: Lama Rod Owens
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?
White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of... Read more »

How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
Narrated by: Saeed Jones
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The... Read more »

Sorted
By: Jackson Bird
Narrated by: Jackson Bird
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.
When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.
Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often... Read more »

Here for It
By: R. Eric Thomas
Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the creator of Elle’s “Eric Reads the News,” a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.
“Pop culture–obsessed, Sedaris-level... 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 »

The Deviant's War
By: Eric Cervini
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine
A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book
From a young Harvard- and... Read more »

A Year Without a Name
By: Cyrus Grace Dunham
Narrated by: Cyrus Grace Dunham
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A Lambda Literary Award Finalist: from "an extraordinary new voice," a "passionate and clear-eyed and unputdownable" meditation on queerness, family, and desire (Mary Karr).
For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations -- lovable little girl, daughter, sister,... Read more »

Nevertheless, We Persisted
By: Amy Klobuchar & In This Together Media
Narrated by: Amy Klobuchar, Vikas Adam, Jonathan Davis, Ari Fliakos, Sullivan Jones, January LaVoy, Soneela Nankani, Adenrele Ojo, Nancy Wu & Gabra Zackman
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 »
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All Boys Aren't Blue
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first... Read more »

Ace
By: Angela Chen
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more »

Finding Latinx
By: Paola Ramos
Narrated by: Paola Ramos
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost... Read more »
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I Can't Date Jesus
By: Michael Arceneaux
Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media.
From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I’m Judging You, a timely collection... Read more »

I Have Something to Tell You
By: Chasten Buttigieg
Narrated by: Chasten Buttigieg
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America’s future.
Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on... Read more »

We Have Always Been Here
By: Samra Habib
Narrated by: Parmida Vand
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?
Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small,... Read more »

The Pink Line
By: Mark Gevisser
Narrated by: Mark Gevisser & Vikas Adam
Length: 18 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020
This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author
A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today
More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer... Read more »

Real Queer America
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now... 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 »
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Beyond the Gender Binary
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us.
"Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer
"When reading this book, all I feel is... Read more »

A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.
Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From... 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 »

The Book of Pride
By: Mason Funk
Narrated by: Mason Funk, Robin Miles, Eileen Stevens, Kevin R. Free, Charles Constant & Rick Adamson
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or... Read more »
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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 »

No Ashes in the Fire
By: Darnell L Moore
Narrated by: Darnell L Moore
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.
When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It... 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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