LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

The Little Book of LGBTQ+

By: Harriet Dyer

Narrated by: Amy Deuchler

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Feel confident in the ABCs of LGBTQ+



Language is a key path to awareness, acceptance, and empowerment. It's central to understanding the world and the communities we live in, but it can often be tricky to keep up with correct and ever evolving terminology.



This easy-to-use dictionary introduces the most essential vocabulary surrounding LGBTQ+... Read more

In Transit

By: Dianna E. Anderson

Narrated by: Dianna E. Anderson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve... Read more

Bi

By: Julia Shaw

Narrated by: Julia Shaw

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and eye-opening book on the science and history of bisexuality

Significant strides have been made in recent years in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. After years of feeling the crushing dearth of information on bisexuality, psychological
scientist and bestselling... Read more

Los diez pasos hacia Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

Narrated by: Gwendolyne Flores

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah Gadsby desvela los momentos que definieron su vida y la llevaron a subir al escenario con toda la verdad por delante. Tan dura como divertida, Los diez pasos hacia Nanette es una «autobiografía incómoda» que, siguiendo la costumbre de su autora de jugar con las expectativas y las reglas de la comedia, nos acerca a una de las voces más... Read more

The Sex Lives of African Women

By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Narrated by: Iesha Nyree, Adenrele Ojo, Deanna Anthony, Step...

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a mellifluous chorus celebrating the liberation, individuality, and joy of African women’s multifaceted sexualityThanks to her blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to... Read more

México se escribe con J

By: Miguel Capistrán & Michael K. Schuessler

Narrated by: narrator, Alex Toledo, "Rojstar" Gerardo Nuño &...

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"La publicación de este libro es digna de celebrarse con entusiasmo, no sólo por parte de quienes colaboramos en él, sino también por el público lector: México se escribe con J viene a llenar el gran vacío que existía en torno a la cultura gay en nuestro país" Luis Zapata, autor de El vampiro de la colonia Roma En esta nueva edición, corregida y... Read more

Ciudad de odios

By: Fernando del Collado

Narrated by: Héctor Mena

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El odio es un habitante más de la Ciudad de México, uno poderoso y omnipresente. Viaja en metro, se mete en la vida privada, quema y destroza. Se ensaña con lo diverso, con lo diferente. En esta obra se compendian decenas de crímenes de odio. Producto de una década de investigación, Fernando del Collado reconstruye, con ternura y valentía,... 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

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

The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook

By: Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community, and embrace your true self.



Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health and wellness. It's what gives people the psychological strength to cope with stress and setbacks. But if you are queer... Read more

Out of a Far Country

By: Christopher Yuan

Narrated by: Nancy Wu & Christopher Yuan

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control - and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her.... Read more

Captive Genders

By: Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith

Narrated by: Adi Cabral

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing... Read more

Still Stace

By: Stacey Chomiak

Narrated by: Stacey Chomiak

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Stacey Chomiak's tender prose captures the heartache of growing up gay in a disapproving Christian home, while her delightful illustrations convey the irrepressible of joy of ultimately finding peace and love." --Alex Sanchez, author of Rainbow Boys and You Brought Me the Ocean The first book for young adults about the LGBTQ+ experience of... 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

49 Pulses

By: Charlie Minn

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 12, 2016, a gunman walked into a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida and shot 102 people, murdering 49 of them. At 2:00 AM, the Pulse nightclub was winding down its weekly Latino night. The building was dark, crowded, and loud. Patrons were making plans to leave when they were ambushed by a gunman, who began firing in every direction.... Read more

O Wow

By: Jenny Block

Narrated by: Shana Savage

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An ultimate orgasm is your personal best orgasm. It doesn't leave anything at the table. It doesn't want anything more. It lasts as long as it lasts. It takes as long as it takes. It's as messy and loud or quiet and tidy as you like. It has no room for shame or apology. An ultimate orgasm comes from questioning, exploring, experimenting, with no... 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

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

Don't Look Away

By: Danielle Laidley

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's an inspiring, disarming, and deeply moving book, and it deserves to be widely read.' Craig SilveyNow a Stan Original Documentary.
Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising.This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach Danielle Laidley.Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain.This is how Danielle felt for most of her life.For the best... Read more

Siempre estuve ahí

By: Oliver Nash

Narrated by: Oliver Nash

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver no se dio cuenta de quién era hasta que fue adulto. Ocupó un rol impuesto por un cuerpo que no era suyo y aprendió a fingir. Sufrió bullying, discriminación, miedo y dolor. Mientras tanto, algo en su interior luchaba por salir. Con confusión, pero determinado, comenzó a vivir como lo que siempre fue: un varón.
«Estaba a tiempo de... Read more

What's the T?

By: Juno Dawson

Narrated by: Juno Dawson

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this candid and funny guide for teens from the bestselling author of This Book Is Gay.

In What’s the T? Stonewall ambassador and bestselling author Juno Dawson is back again, this time with everything you’ve wanted to know about labels and... Read more

Black Trans Feminism

By: Marquis Bey

Narrated by: Marquis Bey

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a... Read more

Feminism is Queer

By: Mimi Marinucci

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Feminism is Queer, Mimi Marinucci provides a valuable introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory, and develops the innovative concept of queer feminism, which treats queer theory as being continuous with feminist theory. While there were significant conceptual tensions between second-wave feminism and... Read more

Side Affects

By: Hil Malatino

Narrated by: Hil Malatino

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Some days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and... Read more