LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Legendary Children

By: Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

Narrated by: Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo

NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick
A New York Times New & Noteworthy book
One of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring"

From the singular voices... Read more

The Pink Line

By: Mark Gevisser

Narrated by: Mark Gevisser & Vikas Adam

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020

This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author

A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today

More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer... Read more

Sí, si es contigo

By: Calle y Poché

Narrated by: Calle & Poché

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sí, si es contigo es una novela de un amor (im)posible". Prólogo de Amalia Andrade Es una novela sobre el primer amor, y todo lo doloroso y maravilloso que eso implica. Read more

Una vida homosexual

By: Marina Castañeda

Narrated by: Martha Escobar

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

<p style="text-align:center"><strong>«En 1969 yo tenía 13 años y apenas estaba tomando consciencia de mi homosexualidad, aunque no conociera la palabra ni el concepto. Mi vida como lesbiana inició exactamente al mismo tiempo que el movimiento de liberación gay, y ha transcurrido en paralelo a él durante cinco... Read more

My Sister

By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.

When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more

The End of Gender

By: Debra Soh

Narrated by: Debra Soh

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that “is not only eminently reasonable and beautifully-written, it is brave and vital” (Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

Is our gender something we’re born with,... Read more

Finding Latinx

By: Paola Ramos

Narrated by: Paola Ramos

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million... 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

Sexing the Body

By: Anne Fausto-Sterling

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the... Read more

Branded by the Pink Triangle

By: Ken Setterington

Narrated by: Bill Marchant

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution.... 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

Outrages

By: Naomi Wolf

Narrated by: Amy Gordon

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced. Newly updated, first North American edition--a paperback original
In 1857, Britain codified a new civil divorce... Read more

A Wild and Precious Life

By: Edie Windsor

Narrated by: Donna Postel & Joshua Lyon

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. "Mesmerizing." —Rosie O’Donnell Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to... 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

Never a Girl, Always a Boy

By: Jo Ivester

Narrated by: Jo Ivester, Jeremy Ivester, Jenn Ivester, Jon I...

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child, he preferred the toys and clothing our society views as masculine. In his mid-twenties, he had top surgery and began taking the hormones that would lower his voice and give him a beard, and he... 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

Paper Bullets

By: Jeffrey H. Jackson

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground

"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot 

A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction
Longlisted... Read more

Coming Out, Moving Forward: Wisconsin’s Recent Gay History

By: R. Richard Wagner

Narrated by: Vance Bastian

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming Out, Moving Forward, the second volume in R. Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin, outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000. During this era, Wisconsin made history as the first state... 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

The Other Mothers

By: Jennifer Berney

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of fertility, feminism, and family.



Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood—it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a... Read more

The Storm

By: Christopher Zyda

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It all begins in early 1984, when Chris, a twenty-one-year-old UCLA English literature major, risks ostracism when he comes out of the closet to his fraternity brothers just as the AIDS pandemic is beginning to explode in gay communities across the United States. Soon afterward, Chris meets and falls in love with Stephen, a graduate of Yale... 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

Secret City

By: James Kirchick

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 26 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.”
—George Stephanopoulos

Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City.

For decades, the specter of... 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