LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Freunde lieben. Die Revolte in unseren engsten Beziehungen (ungekürzt)

By: Ole Liebl

Narrated by: Dominic Kolb

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum wir Freundschaft neu denken müssen Freundschaft und Sex passen nicht zusammen. So behaupten es zahllose Beziehungsratgeber, romantische Filme und oft auch das eigene Umfeld. Dennoch suchen immer mehr Menschen nach friends with benefits. Traditionelle Familienbilder und das Ideal der einen großen Liebe scheinen mit Erwartungen und... Read more

Bi - Vielfältige Liebe entdecken (Ungekürzt)

By: Julia Shaw

Narrated by: Bille Dau & Julia Shaw

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich möchte die vielfältige Welt der Bisexualität aus dem Schatten holen." - Julia Shaw eröffnet neue Wege, über die eigene sexuelle Identität nachzudenken und sie zu finden. Viele Menschen fühlen sich zu mehr als einem Geschlecht hingezogen. Und trotzdem bekennt sich kaum jemand dazu. Julia Shaw widmet sich in ihrem neuen Buch der größten... Read more

Transsexual Apostate

By: Debbie Hayton

Narrated by: Debbie Hayton

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2016, Debbie Hayton underwent gender reassignment surgery. Fast forward to today, and Hayton's refusal to validate the standard gender identity orthodoxy has led to excommunication by the trans activist community. What happened?

Transsexual Apostate weaves an intimate account of Debbie's story into a forensic critique of trans ideology.... Read more

Deep Care

By: Angela Hume

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment that can be easily bought and assembled at home. This "self-help" movement grew into a robust national... Read more

Long Live Queer Nightlife

By: Amin Ghaziani

Narrated by: Amin El Gamal

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but this audiobook narrated by Amin El Gamal reveals why it's definitely not the last dance In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution... Read more

On Sex and Gender

By: Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening account on what we get wrong about sex and gender and a “formidable challenge to our politics, on both the right and the left…informed by science, law, and personal experience” (Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School professor)—and how we can be a thoughtful, sex-smart society.

On Sex and Gender focuses on three sequential and... Read more

Die Zukunft ist nicht binär (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Lydia Meyer

Narrated by: Lydia Meyer

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Es gibt nur zwei Geschlechter? Von wegen! Menschen sind mehr als entweder oder. Dennoch sind unsere Sprache, unsere Medien, unser Alltag von der Annahme geprägt, es gebe nur zwei Geschlechter, die einander binär gegenüberstehen. Werbung, Spielzeug, Kleidung und Geschichten, Er- und Beziehungsmodelle, sogar Algorithmen und die Wissenschaften -... Read more

Anfangen! - Reden von Carolin Emcke (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Dr. Carolin Emcke

Narrated by: Dr. Carolin Emcke

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Carolin Emcke setzt sich schwierigen Lebensbedingungen aus und beschreibt - vor allem in ihren Essays und ihren Berichten aus Kriegsgebieten - auf sehr persönliche und ungeschützte Weise, wie Gewalt, Hass und Sprachlosigkeit Menschen verändern können. Mit analytischer Empathie appelliert sie an das Vermögen aller Beteiligten, zu Verständigung... Read more

Conundrum

By: Jan Morris

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable memoir is the classic account of the transgender journey. It is all the more extraordinary because it is the life story of a figure who, it seemed, seamlessly and publicly charted a course through the English establishment - James Morris, outstanding journalist, historian and travel writer, famed for a peerless writing style. But... Read more

None of the Above

By: Travis Alabanza

Narrated by: Travis Alabanza

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrases—some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some celebratory—have fundamentally shaped Alabanza, both for better and for worse. But these phrases also... Read more

One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman

By: Abi Maxwell

Narrated by: Abi Maxwell

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars

        Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside... Read more

Homebody

By: Theo Parish

Narrated by: Roly Botha, Anabel Baldwin & George Naylor

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In their debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school,... Read more

Embracing Queer Family

By: Nia Chiaramonte & Katie J. Chiaramonte

Narrated by: Patricia Shade

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Nia Chiaramonte came out as a trans woman to her wife Katie, she knew she would be met with a loving response. But she was less sure where this would leave their relationship, their marriage, and their family. Even murkier was what would happen when they began to bring their extended family, friends, and broader community alongside them on... Read more

The Road Unpaved

By: Risa August

Narrated by: Risa August & Peggy MacArthur

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease, and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa's life has fallen far from picture-perfect. Recovering from brain surgery and desperate to get back to her former self, she signs up for the bike tour of a lifetime-six weeks from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Coast Highway.The old... Read more

Gay Shame

By: Gareth Roberts

Narrated by: Gareth Roberts

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly dying out. Mission accomplished, right?

Wrong, argues Gareth Roberts. Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of 'gender identity'. The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to... Read more

Dear Cisgender People

By: Kenny Ethan Jones

Narrated by: Kenny Ethan Jones

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans?
In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal memoir, Kenny Ethan Jones, trans activist and writer, offers an... Read more

The Queer Parent

By: Lotte Jeffs & Stu Oakley

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

LGBTQ+ people have more options than ever before when it comes to starting a family, but a lack of both focused information and mainstream representation can leave parents, prospective parents, friends, and relatives in the dark.



Authors Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley spoke to dozens of experts and queer families, and this hugely needed book is the... Read more

Queering Contemplation

By: Cassidy Hall

Narrated by: Cassidy Hall

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The world of contemplative Christianity has yielded to the same voices for far too long, many of whom are from centuries before our time, with lives unlike our own, and often from experiences disconnected from marginalization, oppression, and what it feels like to be an outsider.



Cassidy Hall, an LGBTQIA+ Christian contemplative scholar and... Read more

Road Home

By: Rex Ogle

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

One hot summer afternoon, Rex Ogle’s sexuality is found out and his father gives him an ultimatum: you can be gay, or you can live here, but not both—and you have twenty-four hours to decide. Rex desperately hopes for a reprieve that doesn’t come, and the following day, he leaves. With no place to go, he drives to New Orleans, where he has the... Read more

Her Name Is Alice

By: Caroline Litman

Narrated by: Caroline Litman

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.' Sofie Hagen ‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard Beard 'An intimate,... Read more

Sublimate

By: J. M. Tolcher

Narrated by: J. M. Tolcher

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The famous author Honoré de Balzac used to say after sex “there goes another novel!”Taking it literally, J. M. Tolcher sets out to write an entire book without ejaculating—an experiment in sublimation, desire, and control. In just over a month, he attempts to channel his libido into art, diving into the ancient alchemical process—nigredo,... Read more

It Gets Better

By: Dan Savage & Terry Miller

Narrated by: Richard Powers & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Every story can change a life.Growing up isn’t easy. Many young people face daily tormenting and bullying, making them feel like they have nowhere to turn. This is especially true for LGBT kids and teens who often hide their sexuality for fear of being bullied. Without other openly gay adults and mentors in their lives, they can’t imagine what... Read more

Forcing the Spring

By: Jo Becker

Narrated by: Jamie Leonhart

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8—which removed the right of gay men and women to marry—passed alongside Barack Obama’s stunning victory.

Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage... Read more

Coming Out to Play

By: Robbie Rogers & Eric Marcus

Narrated by: Robbie Rogers

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A history making memoir of the first openly gay professional athlete in North America, now the producer of Fellow Travelers and My Policeman

“Rogers made history.” —Sports Illustrated

Robbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would... Read more