LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

And Don't F&%k It Up

By: Maria Elena Fernandez

Narrated by: Alec Mapa

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first decade, from a Burbank basement set all the way to the Emmy's, and every weave in-between,  as told by its stars, producers and fans.

Told over the first ten years, And Don't F&%k It Up tells a cultural history through the stories of the people... Read more

We Can Be Heroes

By: Paul Burston

Narrated by: Paul Burston

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"This memoir is brutally honest… Wonderful!" – Russell T. DaviesActivist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride.Paul Burston wasn’t always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London that he is today. Paul came out in the mid-1980s, when ‘gay’ still felt like a dirty word, especially in the small Welsh town where he grew up. He... Read more

House of Our Queer

By: Bex Mui

Narrated by: Bex Mui

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Queerness is a blessing. Reclaim your spiritual practice.In House Of Our Queer, activist and organizer, Bex Mui M. Ed., takes readers on a winding path through her spiritual journey. Raised Catholic— with Buddhist influences from her father and his family— Bex shares the complexities that arise from being queer in religious spaces and shares her... Read more

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

By: Matt Baume

Narrated by: Matt Baume

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from... Read more

On Your Terms

By: Dr. Natalia P Zhikhareva

Narrated by: Gwyn Clark

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Can I tell you something? It’s possible to live dysphoria free. To be seen. To no longer feel afraid. To look in the mirror and feel alive, free, confident…and not 20 years from now!This book will help to empower you to own who you are, even if you feel afraid. To reclaim yourself. To own your identity unapologetically. To heal and to grow.This... Read more

I Have Something to Tell You—For Young Adults

By: Chasten Buttigieg

Narrated by: Chasten Buttigieg

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH A FOREWORD WRITTEN AND READ BY ARIANA DEBOSE!

An instant New York Times bestseller!
“A perfect juxtaposition of ordinary and extraordinary, told with humor, compassion, and unshakeable hope.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

The young adult adaptation of the “hopeful” (Kirkus Reviews)... Read more

From Here

By: Luma Mufleh

Narrated by: Luma Mufleh

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.

With no word for “gay” in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well enough to keep... Read more

Resistencias queer

By: Andrea Natzahuatza & Luis Ruiz

Narrated by: Andrea Natzahuatza & Luis Ruiz

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Frente a quienes insisten en ver a las personas LGBTQ+ como un peligro, nuestra rebeldía es ser felices, libres y ruidosxs . Hay muchos libros sobre salir del clóset. Este no es uno de ellos. Preferimos, en cambio, preguntarnos cómo podemos construir una sociedad en la que los clósets no existan. Hay que dejar de pensar lo heterosexual y lo... Read more

What Needs to be Said

By: Alex Reegan

Narrated by: Alex Reegan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Reegan's incredible story of healing and growth is your call to look within and live as your most authentic self.As a trans man born into an evangelical Christian family that prevented his true identity from emerging, Alex spent years struggling with depression, anxiety, and addiction, trying to break free of the oppressive beliefs that... Read more

Rising

By: Graci Harkema

Narrated by: Graci Harkema

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

An identity that spans the globe.

In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in... Read more

Queer Power!

By: Dom&Ink

Narrated by: Mx. Nicky Endres

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring, expansive anthology that celebrates some of the LGBTQIA+ community’s trailblazers, champions, and icons from across the rainbow.

In a follow-up to Free to Be Me, DOM&INK returns with a collection of essays that highlight modern-day LGBTQIA+ pioneers who have changed the world -- from well-known public figures and allies to... Read more

The Big Reveal

By: Sasha Velour

Narrated by: Sasha Velour

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.” –Sasha VelourThis book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history... 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

Plague Years

By: Ross A. Slotten, MD

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his... Read more

Grandes maricas de la historia

By: Álvaro J. Sanjuán (@Otto_Mas)

Narrated by: Álvaro J. Sanjuán (@Otto_Mas)

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Nunca es tarde, amigos, para sacar del armario a un Gran Marica de la Historia Machos, heterosexuales, viriles... ¿Solo ese tipo de hombres han hecho historia? ¿Alguien puede creérselo? Más allá de la historiografía tradicional, nos encontramos con grandes poetas, intelectuales o cientí ficos homosexuales cuyos deseos han sido borrados. Es... Read more

V

By: Florence Schechter

Narrated by: Florence Schechter

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The journey towards celebrating your vagina can be a long one. But once you set off, you'll never look back.

Are you ready to begin this all-important adventure, and reach a place of confidence and admiration for your vagina, vulva and incredible body? By the end of this book, you will be ready to talk about the vulva... Read more

The Transgender Issue

By: Shon Faye

Narrated by: Shon Faye

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive case for trans justice from a powerful new voice



In this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.



So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a "side issue,"... Read more

Bending the Binary

By: Deborah Lipp

Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A Groundbreaking New Perspective on Polarity Magic



Break polarity free from outmoded ideas of gender and heteronormativity while still celebrating its energy. This pioneering book explores polarity from many angles, examining its evolution throughout history, why it's important in the occult, and how it relates to identity and sexual orientation.... Read more

Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?

By: Craig Seligman

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Doris Fish

In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared... Read more

Detransition

By: Max Robinson

Narrated by: Claire Ryan

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

I experienced my transition as a form of resistance, but in reality it only affirmed the same stereotypes that had done me harm to begin with. Trying to prevent myself from committing suicide by becoming less recognizably female was an attempt at resistance that, politically, functioned in many ways as a form of capitulation.Many feminists are... Read more

Queer Career

By: Margot Canaday

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow provides a masterful history of the LGBT workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an... Read more

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend

By: Dan Jones

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.

Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more

Neuroqueer Heresies

By: Nick Walker

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.



Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.



This book is essential for... Read more

Beyond Survival

By: Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by: Ejeris Dixon & Esteban Kelly

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often... Read more