LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

Out In The World A Global Gay History

By: Richard Coles

Narrated by: Richard Coles

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Coles examines same sex desire through the ages, in a journey reaching from the UK to India, Egypt, Greece and Native America. In episode one, his quest takes him to Saqqara, Egypt and the contested tomb of two men, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Were the men lovers or brothers? He explores the ideas of the 'sexologists' and tells the story... Read more

Straight Jacket

By: Matthew Todd

Narrated by: Matthew Todd

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audio edition of Straight Jacket, written and read by Matthew Todd.

WINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017

Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the... Read more

(Drag) Queen of Scots

By: Lawrence Chaney

Narrated by: Lawrence Chaney

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The hilarious memoir from everyone's favourite Scottish drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Lawrence Chaaaaaaney.

Lawrence Chaney is a testament to the strength that comes from drag. Lawrence (Drag) Queen of Scots celebrates the little boy learning to sew at age seven and their journey to taking the UK by... Read more

Gay Britannia

By: Various

Narrated by: Graham Norton, Susan Calman, Alan Carr, Full Ca...

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of insightful interviews, documentaries and comedy that celebrates LGBTQ+ in Britain, publishing to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewallriots.

The Ben Hunte Interviews: Presenter and journalist Ben Hunte interviews his LGBTQ heroes about their unforgettable gay moments. Guests include Paul O’Grady, Stephen K Amos,... Read more

Such Sweet Possession: The Life and Loves of “Gentleman Jack”, Anne Lister

By: Mary Cooper

Narrated by: Deborah McAndrew, Helen Schlesinger & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Anne Lister, the 18th Century landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. This is her story...

Anne was different from society’s expectations of a woman at the time: she not only did not wish to marry, but she also did not want to conform. Anne was only interested in women and had ‘marriage’ ceremonies with Mariana Lawton... Read more

Queer Intentions

By: Amelia Abraham

Narrated by: Amelia Abraham

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020

‘Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.’ Owen Jones

Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But... Read more

Poems to Fall in Love With

By: Chris Riddell

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of love from the author of Ottoline, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.

This beautiful collection explores love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal experiences of the heart.

Poems... Read more

SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It's time to reclaim poetry.

Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life... Read more

These Are the Words

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautiful poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger.

Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words.

Taking you on a journey through the seasons of... Read more

To be a Gay Man

By: Will Young

Narrated by: Will Young

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In To Be a Gay Man, Will Young speaks out about gay shame, revealing the impact it had on his own life, how he learned to deal with it, and how he can now truthfully say he is gay and happy.

We know Will as a multi-platinum recording artist, Olivier-nominee, and the first winner of the Idol franchise. But his story began... 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

Becoming Us

By: Jake Graf & Hannah Graf

Narrated by: Jake Graf & Sara Dunham

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'The UK's most influential LGBT Power Couple' - Guardian

This is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, doing jobs they love and expecting their second child. But their journey there has been an extraordinary one.

Becoming Us is the inspiring and at times... Read more

Material Girls

By: Kathleen Stock

Narrated by: Kathleen Stock

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard

'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times

Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way

By: Nancy Spain

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos

'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express

Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and... Read more

The Madness of Grief

By: Richard Coles

Narrated by: Richard Coles

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the Reverend Richard Coles

Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles's life and work. But when his partner the Reverend David Coles died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise.... 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

Communists in Closets

By: Bettina Aptheker

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as "degenerates." It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both... Read more

Countless Sleepless Nights

By: Carina Maggar

Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad, Cloud Quinn, Davis Brooks, Debra M...

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

'I'm sorry I can't say this to your face, but words fail me every time I try, even though I know you would be fine (and knowing you, you might have already guessed).'

A moving, inspiring and thought-provoking collection of coming-out stories from around the world. From the good, the sad, the surprising and the funny, no two stories are the same,... Read more

Call Him Mine

By: Tim MacGabhann

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of telling just another story. From cartel massacres to corrupt politicians, sifting the dregs of Mexico's drug war, they think they've seen it all. But when they find a body even the police are too scared to look at, what started out as just another reportage becomes the... Read more

Transgressive

By: Rachel Anne Williams

Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Provocative essays that empower readers, raise awareness and break down misconceptions about trans identities

How do I know I am trans? Is trans feminism real feminism? What is there to say about trans women's male privilege?

This collection of insightful, pithy and passionately argued think pieces from a trans-feminist perspective explores... Read more

Eat, Gay, Love

By: Calum McSwiggan

Narrated by: Calum McSwiggan

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 2012, Calum finds himself single again after his relationship of six years comes to an end.

Heartbroken, unhappy and unsure of what to do next, he leaves the hometown he has been in all his life to embark on a journey that takes him all around the world, from teaching in a school on the outskirts of Rome to exploring the sex... Read more

How to be Nowhere

By: Tim MacGabhann

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is finally on the right track for reporter and recovering addict Andrew: he is slowly coming to terms with the murder of his photographer boyfriend Carlos, pursuing sobriety and building a new home with a new partner.

Andrew has almost forgotten about the story that ruined his life - but that story hasn't forgotten about him, and a series... Read more

Bless the Blood

By: Walela Nehanda

Narrated by: Walela Nehanda

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into... Read more

Selbstliebe – Über Herkunft und Gerechtigkeit (ungekürzt)

By: bell hooks

Narrated by: Luise Georgi

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

What's Love Got to Do with It? – Warum Liebe(n) eine gesellschaftliche Notwendigkeit ist   »Dieses Buch, das sich mit der aktuellen Bedeutung der Liebe im Leben der Schwarzen befasst und eine Vorlage für das Überleben und die Selbstbestimmung der Schwarzen bieten soll, führt uns kühn zum Kern der Sache. Uns selbst mit Liebe zu begegnen, unser... Read more