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

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

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

Visibility Interrupted

By: Carly Thomsen

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in... 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

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

Queer Qabala

By: Enfys J. Book

Narrated by: Adi Cabral

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Branch Out from Antiquated Interpretations of the Tree of Life



The Hermetic Qabala is a rich framework for understanding ourselves, our magickal workings, and the universe, but outdated descriptions often obscure its intrinsically queer and nonbinary nature. With updated, affirming metaphors and word choices, this guide makes it easy for any... Read more

How You Get Famous

By: Nicole Pasulka

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A “funny, poignant, dishy, and even enlightening” adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art, mayhem, and dreaming of making it big, this book is “the story of America now” (Alexander Chee, The New York Times).

In How You Get Famous, journalist Nicole Pasulka raucously documents the rebirth of the New York drag scene,... 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

Sexed Up

By: Julia Serano

Narrated by: Julia Serano

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized–then offers a bold path for resistance Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive problem, as it’s... 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

The Women's House of Detention

By: Hugh Ryan

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich... Read more

All But Invisible

By: Nate Collins

Narrated by: David Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be gay and a Christian? Beginning with how the Bible describes the Church, author Nate Collins outlines a vision for community life that challenges Christians to examine obstacles that inhibit spiritual unity.This new vision calls straight and non-straight believers alike to patterns of Christian obedience that respect and... Read more

Unruly Desires

By: William Benemann

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the nineteenth century US Navy and the commercial maritime industry welcomed eccentrics, criminals, outcasts, and misfits into a community of the marginalized, one that held very different values and expectations than the towns and villages from which... Read more

A Queer Dharma

By: Jacoby Ballard

Narrated by: Phil Corin & Jacoby Ballard

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice.

Jacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks.

Part I deconstructs the ways mainstream yoga perpetuates queer- and... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Bootsy Greenwood

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This modern version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic was created to reach a larger and more contemporary audience. The work has been edited to appeal to a wider range of experience and expression. The book is so full of wisdom but we simply don't speak the same way anymore. This book has been upgraded to better reflect a more current vernacular... Read more

LGBTQ

By: Kelly Madrone

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Fully revised and updated guide with frank, sensitive information for LGBTQ teens, their families, and their allies.



LGBTQ is the indispensable resource for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning teens—and their allies. This fully revised and updated third edition includes current information on LGBTQ terminology, evolving... Read more

Teoría King Kong

By: Virginie Despentes

Narrated by: Rossy de Palma

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Teoría King Kong es uno de los grandes libros de referencia del feminismo y de la teoría de género, un incisivo ensayo en el que Despentes comparte su propia experiencia para hablarnos sin tapujos ni concesiones sobre la prostitución, la violación, la represión del deseo, la maternidad y la pornografía, y para contribuir al derrumbe de los... 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

Unconditional

By: Telaina Eriksen

Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child provides parents of a LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning) child with a framework for helping their LGBTQ child navigate a world that isn't always welcoming.



Tips from a mother with experience. Author Telaina Eriksen, a professor at Michigan State University... Read more

Sanctify Them in Truth

By: Fr. Jeffrey Kirby S.T.D.

Narrated by: Mike Romano

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in a world that has become secularized, marked by ideology and partisanship. In such a world, how are we supposed to know what is right and wrong? As Christians, how are we supposed to approach the social issues of our day? With conflicting voices surrounding us, how can we hear and know the voice of Jesus Christ and receive His... Read more

The Lonely Letters

By: Ashon T. Crawley

Narrated by: Benjamin Charles

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: "Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding."



But alongside joy, A admits to Moth,... Read more

Please Miss

By: Grace Lavery

Narrated by: Grace Lavery, Daniel Lavery & Marc Vietor

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria MachadoGrace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a... Read more

The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens

By: Jerry Torre & Tony Maietta

Narrated by: Tony Maietta

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is Jerry Torre's touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of Grey Gardens, the now-celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary Grey Gardens and two feature-length films. The book, co-written with film historian Tony Maietta, is a behind-the-scenes look at "Big Edie" and... Read more