LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

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

Becoming a Visible Man

By: Jamison Green

Narrated by: Jamison Green & Aaron H. Devor

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies.

Since the first edition's publication, author Jamison Green's writings and advocacy among business and governmental... 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

Your Right to Self-Identify, My Right to Disagree

By: Kenny Bomer

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s world, a new social contagion is being spread by provocateurs and social media influencers who are determined to pressure people into accepting falsehood over truth. Battle lines have been drawn on both sides of the debate regarding “Transgenderism” and the mental health effects of Gender Dysphoria. As the battle rages, First... Read more

A Short History of Queer Women

By: Kirsty Loehr

Narrated by: Ellie Gossage

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Queer women have always existed—let's put them back in the history books



No, they weren't "just friends!"



Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. "But historians famously care about women!," said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe... Read more

Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Narrated by: Angela Juarez

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on numerous contemporary issues—including the September 11... 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 America Workplaces 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

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

Brown and Gay in LA

By: Anthony Christian Ocampo

Narrated by: Grayson Villanueva

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship... Read more

El ABC del género

By: Mariana Gabarrot

Narrated by: Yunnuen Hidalgo

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre sexo y género? ¿Son biológicas o culturales? ¿Qué queremos decir cuando hablamos de feminismo? ¿Existe el patriarcado? ¿Cómo detectamos el machismo? ¿Por qué tanto debate sobre el lenguaje incluyente? ¿Qué significan y para que utilizamos las siglas lgbtttiq+? ¿Qué es el acoso y la violencia de género? ¿Cómo... Read more

Mask Off

By: JJ Bola

Narrated by: Eloka Ivo

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, with deadly gun violence, male suicide rates and incels on Reddit, masculinity is perceived to be 'toxic', 'fragile' and 'in crisis'.

In this audiobook, beautifully narrated by the author, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into. Using examples of... 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

I Hear the Black Raven

By: Claire Ishi Ayetoro

Narrated by: Claire Ishi Ayetoro

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

At 31 years of age, Claire Ishi Ayetoro has lived enough lives to fill an ensemble cast. In this, her first memoir, no topic is off-limits as she paints portrait after portrait of her triumphs and her battles with bipolar disorder, religiosity, and that ever elusive cure-all: love. A vividly compassionate depiction of psychosis, Ayetoro weaves... 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

Glitter and Concrete

By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Natalie Duke

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*
*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*

"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York

An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... 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

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

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

README.txt – Meine Geschichte (ungekürzt)

By: Chelsea Manning

Narrated by: Daniela Thuar

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Die persönlichen, aufschlussreichen Erinnerungen einer der wichtigsten Aktivistinnen unserer Zeit Im Jahr 2010 veröffentlichte Chelsea Manning geheime Militärdokumente, die sie als Geheimdienstanalystin für die US-Armee im Irak auf der Speicherkarte ihrer Digitalkamera herausgeschmuggelt hatte. Die Armee klagte sie in zweiundzwanzig Punkten im... Read more

Release the Beast

By: Bimini Bon Boulash

Narrated by: Bimini Bon Boulash

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A hilarious and inspiring guide to transforming your life through lessons from drag, by the UK's favourite drag queen and star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Bimini Bon Boulash.

Bimini Bon Boulash is the nation's sweetheart, capturing hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based breakout star of RuPaul's... 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

Surrogacy: A Family Frontier

By: Dustin Lance Black

Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist, explores attitudes towards surrogacy. He shares his own journey to have a child, with husband Tom Daley, through surrogacy.


Dustin beautifully and thoroughly explores how the question of surrogacy links to wider societal questions; how much control do women legally have over their... Read more

We Can Do Better Than This

By: Amelia Abraham

Narrated by: Amelia Abraham, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Amrou A...

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? 35 extraordinary voices share their stories and visions for the future.

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people... Read more

Go the Way Your Blood Beats

By: Emmett de Monterey

Narrated by: Mateo Oxley

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON

When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.

Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s,... Read more