LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

And the Category Is.

By: Ricky Tucker

Narrated by: Ricky Tucker

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction

An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection

A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture.

What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an... Read more

Psychedelic Justice

By: Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Clancy Cavnar

Narrated by: Keyonni James & Anthony Cloyd

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and visions for an inclusive and equitable future.
As psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapies explode into the popular consciousness, what does it mean to cultivate and embody a psychedelic renaissance that learns from the past and prepares for the future? 
From cultural... Read more

Animate a ser vos

By: Valentina Godfrid & Sofía Elliot

Narrated by: Valentina Godfrid & Sofía Elliot

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

«Este libro nace del deseo de que nuestra historia pueda ayudar a cualquier persona que sienta que no puede vivir en libertad. Porque creemos que lo más importante de este camino es que sepas que tenés derecho a ser».
Sofi y Valen
Esta es una historia de amor y libertad, y además una historia de resiliencia. Esta es la historia de Sofía y ... Read more

Manifesto

By: Bernardine Evaristo

Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British... Read more

Queer Cosmos

By: Colin Bedell

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Queer Cosmos is a contemporary, fresh look into astrology, personal insight, and relationships for the LGBTQ+ community! Astrologer Colin Bedell from Cosmopolitan and QueerCosmos.com has brought together fifteen years of research, client interviews, and astrological mastery to create a spiritual guide for not only resistance and resilience, but... Read more

Selected Works of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of listeners.



Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of... Read more

Still Time to Care

By: Greg Johnson

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charting the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care—not a cure— for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus.At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham,... Read more

No somos etcétera

By: Elizabeth Castillo

Narrated by: Carolina Yarussi

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Un recuento detallado de lo que ha ocurrido en Colombia con la población LGBT desde finales de los noventa hasta la actualidad. Esta es la historia del movimiento LGBT en Colombia en los últimos veinte años, contada por una de sus protagonistas. Elizabeth Castillo, activista, ha participado en todas las manifestaciones de la comunidad LGBT y... Read more

Tengo que morir todas las noches

By: Guillermo Osorno

Narrated by: Erick Trujillo

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Tengo que morir todas las noches es una crónica excepcional sobre la ciudad de México durante los años ochenta; la cultura gay y los movimientos artísticos, literarios y musicales que se expresaban en los linderos de la sociedad. Tengo que morir todas las noches es una crónica excepcional sobre la ciudad de México durante los años ochenta; la... Read more

Safe Is Not Enough

By: Michael Sadowski

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities.



Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum;... Read more

On Top of Glass

By: Karina Manta

Narrated by: Karina Manta

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete, perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Raisman and Forward by Abby Wambach.

Karina Manta has had a busy few years: Not only did she capture the hearts of many with her fan-favorite performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she also... Read more

Poetry is Queer

By: Kirby

Narrated by: Kirby

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word “queer” for those “who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state,” Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their... Read more

Release the Beast

By: Bimini Bon Boulash

Narrated by: Bimini Bon Boulash

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A hilarious and inspiring guide to transforming your life through lessons from drag, by the UK's favourite drag queen and star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Bimini Bon Boulash.

Bimini Bon Boulash is the nation's sweetheart, capturing hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based breakout star of RuPaul's... Read more

Latinx

By: Paola Ramos

Narrated by: Paola Ramos & Juliette Restrepo

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

El primer paso hacia el cambio es reconocer que nuestro poder nace de nuestra identidad.
 
Los jóvenes latinos en los Estados Unidos están redefiniendo su identidad, rompiendo moldes establecidos, y despertando políticamente de maneras sorprendentes y poderosas. Muchos de ellos—afrolatinos, indígenas, musulmanes, queer e indocumentados tanto en... Read more

(Drag) Queen of Scots

By: Lawrence Chaney

Narrated by: Lawrence Chaney

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The hilarious memoir from everyone's favourite Scottish drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Lawrence Chaaaaaaney.

Lawrence Chaney is a testament to the strength that comes from drag. Lawrence (Drag) Queen of Scots celebrates the little boy learning to sew at age seven and their journey to taking the UK by... Read more

Savage Love from A to Z

By: Dan Savage

Narrated by: Dan Savage

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s premier sex advice columnist takes on edgier-than-ever sex-positive topics with his signature candor in this collection of adults-only essays, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Savage Love column.

Dan Savage has been talking frankly about sex and relationships for 30 years, and has built an international following thanks to... Read more

Transcending

By: Kevin Manders & Elizabeth Marston

Narrated by: Essie Bartosik

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling collection of the many voices and experiences of trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary Buddhists
 
Transcending brings together more than thirty contributors from both the Mahayana and Theravada traditions to present a vision for a truly inclusive trans Buddhist sangha in the twenty-first century. Shining a light on a new generation of... Read more

Confessions of the Other Mother

By: Harlyn Aizley

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, "I'm your new mommy!" While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so how could her partner claim to be their child's mommy?



Many... Read more

Conduct Unbecoming

By: Randy Shilts

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 38 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.

Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct... Read more

We Are Not Broken

By: George M Johnson

Narrated by: George M Johnson

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

George M. Johnson, activist and bestselling author ofAll Boys Aren't Blue, returns with a striking memoir that celebrates Black boyhood and brotherhood in all its glory.

This is the vibrant story of George, Garrett, Rall, and Rasul -- four children raised by Nanny, their fiercely devoted grandmother. The boys hold one another close through early... Read more

Material Girls

By: Kathleen Stock

Narrated by: Kathleen Stock

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard

'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times

Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more

And Then I Danced

By: Mark Segal

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“A jovial yet passionately delivered self-portrait inspiring awareness about LGBT history from one of the movement's true pioneers.”—Kirkus ReviewsOn December 11, 1973, Mark Segal disrupted a live broadcast of the CBS Evening News when he sat on the desk directly between the camera and news anchor Walter Cronkite, yelling, "Gays protest CBS... Read more

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way

By: Nancy Spain

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos

'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express

Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and... Read more

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