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Outlove
By: Julie Rodgers
Narrated by: Julie Rodgers
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
After decades of bouncing between hope and despair, Evangelical, Baptist-raised Julie Rodgers found herself making a powerful public statement that her former self would have never said: "I support same-sex marriage in the church."
When Rodgers came out to her family as a junior in high school, she still believed that God would sanctify her and... Read more
Surrogacy: A Family Frontier
By: Dustin Lance Black
Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist, explores attitudes towards surrogacy. He shares his own journey to have a child, with husband Tom Daley, through surrogacy.
Dustin beautifully and thoroughly explores how the question of surrogacy links to wider societal questions; how much control do women legally have over their... Read more
A Two-Spirit Journey
By: Ma-Nee Chacaby
Narrated by: Marsha Knight
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.... Read more
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Raising LGBTQ Allies
By: Chris Tompkins
Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
No matter who we are or where we come from, we all play on the same playground. There are certain collective societal messages we hear growing up that we either consciously or subconsciously believe. As a result, we develop certain belief systems from which we operate our lives. Chris Tompkins’s Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper,... Read more
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The Savvy Ally
By: Jeannie Gainsburg
Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language; tips for what to say... Read more
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El fin del armario - Abridged
By: Bruno Bimbi
Narrated by: Martín Gopar
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Durante siglos fue el silencio; ahora, muchos buscamos las palabras. Libros como El fin del armario nos ayudan a romper moldes, prejuicios, ignorancias. Y a encontrarlas, a aprender a hablar de estos tiempos en que la sexualidad y los géneros ya se dicen en un plural que crece y crece." — Martín Caparrós Nadie es realmente libre si la libertad... Read more
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Tiff
By: Sherrill Grace
Narrated by: Mary Wall
Length: 24 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
•Findley a well-known author in Canadian literature of the late 20th century. His books have been translated into many languages and sold around the world. See especially The Wars and Famous Last Words. •Twice a winner of the Governor General’s Award: Fiction, The Wars (1977), Drama, Elizabeth Rex (2001) •Findley was ahead of his time in his... Read more
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Queer, 2nd Edition
By: Kathy Belge & Marke Bieschke
Narrated by: Lynn Bradford
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Teen life is hard enough, but for teens who are LGBTQ, it can be even harder.
When do you decide to come out? Will your friends accept you? And how do you meet people to date? Queer is a humorous, engaging, and honest guide that helps LGBTQ teens come out to friends and family, navigate their social life, figure out if a crush is also queer,... Read more
The Natural Mother of the Child
By: Krys Malcolm Belc
Narrated by: Krys Malcolm Belc
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as the natural mother of the child. By considering how the experiences contained... Read more
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The Sacred Band
By: James Romm
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
The story of the Sacred Band, an elite... Read more
We Can Do Better Than This
By: Amelia Abraham
Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Amrou A...
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? 35 extraordinary voices share their stories and visions for the future.
We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people... Read more
The Engagement
By: Sasha Issenberg
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 33 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium
"Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York Times
On June 26, 2015, the U.S.... Read more
Continuum
By: Chella Man
Narrated by: Chella Man
Length: 1 hour 4 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.
"Chella chronicles the value in creating your own mold in order to reclaim your space and to feel represented in this always ever-evolving world, and he inspires others to stretch what it means... Read more
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
By: Martin Padgett
Narrated by: Martin Padgett
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An electric and intimate story of 1970s gay Atlanta through its bedazzling drag clubs and burgeoning rights activism.
Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca—a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom.
Martin Padgett... Read more
I Hear the Black Raven
By: Claire Ishi Ayetoro
Narrated by: Claire Ishi Ayetoro
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
At 31 years of age, Claire Ishi Ayetoro has lived enough lives to fill an ensemble cast. In this, her first memoir, no topic is off-limits as she paints portrait after portrait of her triumphs and her battles with bipolar disorder, religiosity, and that ever elusive cure-all: love. A vividly compassionate depiction of psychosis, Ayetoro weaves... Read more
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On Being Different
By: Merle Miller
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage
Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a... Read more
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
By: Kate Bornstein
Narrated by: Kate Bornstein
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring true story of a nice Jewish boy who left the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today.
In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling... Read more
Going to Trinidad
By: Martin J. Smith
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado, was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protégé... Read more
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Queerly Autistic
By: Erin Ekins
Narrated by: Erin Ekins
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In this empowering and honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens, Erin Ekins gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality. From coming out to friends and family, staying safe in relationships and practicing safe sex, through to self-care and coping with bullying, being out and about in the LGBTQIA+... Read more
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Capote
By: Gerald Clarke
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 25 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award–winning turn.
One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other... Read more
The Madness of Grief
By: Richard Coles
Narrated by: Richard Coles
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the Reverend Richard Coles
Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles's life and work. But when his partner the Reverend David Coles died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise.... Read more
Eleanor in the Village
By: Jan Jarboe Russell
Narrated by: Samantha Desz
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A “riveting and enlightening account” (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt—when she moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America’s First Lady.
Hundreds of books have been written about FDR and Eleanor, both together... Read more
Singled Out
By: Andrew Maraniss
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
*"[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction." --Booklist (starred review)
From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss comes the remarkable true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James... Read more
Black Boy Out of Time
By: Hari Ziyad
Narrated by: Desean Terry
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way.One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their... Read more
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