LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

ניידים ונייחים

By: גדי טאוב

Narrated by: גבי ינון

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"הגיע הזמן להפוך את השולחנות התיאורטיים, ולחייב את יריבי הלאומיות לתת דין וחשבון על ניסיונם לרוקן את הדמוקרטיה מתוכן ולגזול מהמוני האזרחים את מה שהשיגו בדי עמל: את ריבונותם על גורלם." קו השבר ברור: מצד אחד ניצבת אליטה בעלת כושר ניידות ואוריינטציה בינלאומית, שחבריה יכולים להרגיש בבית כמעט בכל פינה ברחבי העולם; מצד שני ניצבים המוני האזרחים הנייחים... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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, and... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Voices,... 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

Soar, Adam, Soar

By: Rick Prashaw

Narrated by: John Dickhout

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming out. Coming in. Coming home.

Adam Prashaw's life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as "Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw" before coming to terms with being a transgender man. Adam captured hearts with his humor, compassion, and... Read more