LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

By: Sherronda J. Brown

Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.

Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.

The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is... Read more

The LGBTQ + History Book

By: DK

Narrated by: Willow Heath

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.

Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments,... Read more

The Deviant's War

By: Eric Cervini

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine

A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book

From a young Harvard- and... Read more

Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

Narrated by: Laura Kate Dale

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more

Missing from the Village

By: Justin Ling

Narrated by: Justin Ling

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
 
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards



In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more

Pretty

By: KB Brookins

Narrated by: KB Brookins

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award • By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and... Read more

Brave Face

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

Narrated by: Shaun David Hutchinson

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A YALSA 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection

“[P]rofound…a triumph—a full-throated howl to the moon to remind us why we choose to survive and thrive.” —Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of Tradition

“Razor-sharp, deeply revealing, and brutally honest…emotionally raw and deeply insightful.” —Booklist (starred review)
... 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

Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In)

By: Anne Choma

Narrated by: Eva Pope & Erin Shanager

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones

In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. This is her remarkable, true story.

Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her... Read more

What Does Queer Mean Anyway?

By: Chris Bartlett

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this clear and concise text Chris Bartlett provides direct explanations for how to use and interpret vocabulary like "queer", "transgender", and "intersex". Writing to those who are unsure of how to talk about alternative sexualities and gender, the author uses case studies and historical examples to unpack this often misused and... 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

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

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

Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner

Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Deni...

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.

In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National... 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

Indecent Advances

By: James Polchin

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. Stories of murder have never been just about killers and victims. Instead, crime stories take the shape of their times and reflect cultural notions and... Read more

Out In Time

By: Perry N. Halkitis

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The civil rights of LGBTQ people have slowly yet steadily strengthened since the Stonewall Riots of June, 1969. Despite enormous opposition from some political segments and the catastrophic effects of the AIDS crisis, the last five decades have witnessed improvement in the conditions of the lives of LGBTQ individuals in the United States. As... Read more

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

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

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

The Economic Case for LGBT Equality

By: M. V. Lee Badgett

Narrated by: Samantha Desz

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An economist demonstrates how LGBT equality and inclusion within organizations increases their bottom line and allows for countries’ economies to flourish

We know that homophobia harms LGBT individuals in many ways, but economist M. V. Lee Badgett argues that in addition to moral and human rights reasons for equality, we can now also make a... 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

The New Queer Conscience

By: Adam Eli

Narrated by: Adam Eli

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2021 Sydney Taylor Notable Book

"The new manifesto for how we as queer people could and should navigate the world. It's the holding hand I never had--but wish I did."--Troye Sivan, Golden Globe nominated-singer, songwriter, and actor

"With the persistence of queerphobia all around the world, this book is absolutely necessary, even... Read more

Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award
 
"When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter
 
"Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer

"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers... Read more