LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Palimpsest

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters—including the Kennedy family, Marlon... Read more

The Gay Agenda

By: Ashley Molesso & Chessie Needham

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full color illustrations.Compiled and designed by queer power couple and illustrators extraordinaire, Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham, founders of the popular Brooklyn stationery company Ash +... Read more

My Sister

By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.

When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more

Legendary Children

By: Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

Narrated by: Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo

NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick
A New York Times New & Noteworthy book
One of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring"

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A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care

By: Sand C. Chang, PhD, Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LP...

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TNGC) clients have complex mental health concerns, and are more likely than ever to seek out treatment. This comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide you with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat TNGC clients with competent and affirming care.



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Gay Like Me

By: Richie Jackson

Narrated by: Richie Jackson

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Chosen by Town & Country as one of the most anticipated books of the year | Named ""An LGBTQ Book That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020"" by O: The Oprah MagazineIn this poignant and urgent love letter to his son, award-winning Broadway, TV and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experiences as a gay man in America and the... Read more

Alice + Freda Forever

By: Alexis Coe

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Alexis Coe

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance."--Bustle

In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée... Read more

What's Your Pronoun?

By: Dennis Baron

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Contextualizing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular—they.

Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what... Read more

Una vida homosexual

By: Marina Castañeda

Narrated by: Martha Escobar

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

<p style="text-align:center"><strong>«En 1969 yo tenía 13 años y apenas estaba tomando consciencia de mi homosexualidad, aunque no conociera la palabra ni el concepto. Mi vida como lesbiana inició exactamente al mismo tiempo que el movimiento de liberación gay, y ha transcurrido en paralelo a él durante cinco... Read more

The Queering of Corporate America

By: Carlos A. Ball

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement’s achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause.

Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the overlooked story of how LGBTQ activism aimed at corporations since the Stonewall riots helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly... Read more

Why Bowie Matters

By: Will Brooker

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the... Read more

Sí, si es contigo

By: Calle & Poché

Narrated by: Calle & Poché

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sí, si es contigo es una novela de un amor (im)posible". Prólogo de Amalia Andrade Es una novela sobre el primer amor, y todo lo doloroso y maravilloso que eso implica. Read more

Queering the Tarot

By: Cassandra Snow

Narrated by: Leslie Howard

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. Tarot archetypes provide the reader with a window into present circumstances and future potential. But what if that window only opened up on a world that was white, European, and heterosexual? The interpretations of the tarot that have been passed down... Read more

A Wild and Precious Life

By: Edie Windsor

Narrated by: Donna Postel & Joshua Lyon

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. "Mesmerizing." —Rosie O’Donnell Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to... Read more

Poems to Fall in Love With

By: Chris Riddell

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of love from the author of Ottoline, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.

This beautiful collection explores love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal experiences of the heart.

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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 wondered... 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

Unashamed

By: Amber Cantorna

Narrated by: Susan Hanfield

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

On a daily basis, author and LGBTQ advocate Amber Cantorna receives emails asking the same question: How does one reconcile their sexuality with their faith? Depression, despair, and thoughts of suicide often haunt LGBTQ Christians as they feel unable to imagine the possibility of living a happy, fulfilling life as an LGBTQ person of faith.



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People to Be Loved

By: Preston Sprinkle

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Christians who are confused by the homosexuality debate raging in the U.S. are looking for resources that are based solidly on a deep study of what Scripture says about the issue. In People to Be Loved, Preston Sprinkle challenges those on all sides of the debate to consider what the Bible says and how we should approach the topic of... Read more

Oppression and the Body

By: Christine Caldwell & Lucia Bennett Leighton

Narrated by: Julie Slater

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies
 
Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture... Read more

Transgressive

By: Rachel Anne Williams

Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Provocative essays that empower readers, raise awareness and break down misconceptions about trans identities

How do I know I am trans? Is trans feminism real feminism? What is there to say about trans women's male privilege?

This collection of insightful, pithy and passionately argued think pieces from a trans-feminist perspective explores... Read more

Call Him Mine

By: Tim MacGabhann

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of telling just another story. From cartel massacres to corrupt politicians, sifting the dregs of Mexico's drug war, they think they've seen it all. But when they find a body even the police are too scared to look at, what started out as just another reportage becomes the... Read more

Gay Britannia

By: Various

Narrated by: Graham Norton, Susan Calman, Alan Carr, Full Ca...

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of insightful interviews, documentaries and comedy that celebrates LGBTQ+ in Britain, publishing to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewallriots.

The Ben Hunte Interviews: Presenter and journalist Ben Hunte interviews his LGBTQ heroes about their unforgettable gay moments. Guests include Paul O’Grady, Stephen K Amos,... Read more

Out of the Shadows

By: Walt Odets

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It goes without saying that even today, it's not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel doubt, regret, and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say... Read more