LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks

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

Who Needs Gay Bars?

By: Greggor Mattson, PhD

Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting... Read more

Married Women Who Love Women

By: Carren Strock

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written in the 1990s, this book remains a key resource for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality.



Celebrating twenty-five years since first publication, this book shares the author's personal story, as well as the descriptive experience of others, to provide... Read more

Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership

By: Chaya M. Milchtein

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau & Chaya M. Milchtein

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive guide to car ownership and maintenance intended for anyone—regardless of age, gender or experience.

When did you last pick up a book about cars? Typically written for men, particularly automotive enthusiasts and mechanics, these books rarely appeal to the everyday car owner. Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership is... Read more

Gender: Your Guide

By: Lee Airton, PhD

Narrated by: Lee Airton, PhD

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The days of two genders—male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink—are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender people are coming out as neither men nor women, instead living... Read more

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

By: Craig Olsen

Narrated by: Tony Casey (The Established, Shanda Leer)

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour

Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing

In the 1950s, as now, queer people were attracted to the Big Apple because they were able to find work as drag performers and female impersonators in a small number of Lower East Side clubs.

Decades before Stonewall, they occupied... Read more

Somacultural Liberation

By: Roger Kuhn, PhD

Narrated by: Roger Kuhn, PhD

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-Spirit Indigiqueer psychotherapist and cultural theorist Dr. Roger Kuhn illuminates the ways our bodies offer portals to our own liberation.

Experience somacultural liberation: A revolutionary ideology to explore how our bodies offer portals to personal and collective freedom.

What role does dominant culture play in how we experience the... 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

An Open Secret

By: Nicholas L. Syrett

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the “richest bachelor in Chicago”—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to... Read more

How the Clinic Made Gender

By: Sandra Eder

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. 

Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday lives. Its formulation, however, is... Read more

Gossip Men

By: Christopher M. Elias

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will... Read more

Swole

By: Michael Andor Brodeur

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Washington Post critic and self-described meathead, a witty, incisive, poignant exploration of male body image, from the history of the gym to the politics of superheroes to the world of manfluencers

Michael Andor Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity—a concept in which... Read more

My Body Is Distant

By: Paige Maylott

Narrated by: Paige Maylott

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances... Read more

Breathe

By: Maia Kobabe & Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD

Narrated by: Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD, Kieran Todd, Blair Baker...

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A graphic guide to chest binding, adapted for audio, with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling Gender Queer author MAIA KOBABE and University of Michigan professor SARAH PEITZMEIER.

Breathe arose from the need for a resource for folks considering chest binding as gender-affirming care. Dr. Peitzmeier interviewed... Read more

Confesiones de una diva

By: La Divaza

Narrated by: La Divaza & La Jose

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Te invito a que conozcas mi camino, una historia sin filtros contada por mí misma, y que capítulo a capítulo veas que ningún sueño es imposible cuando llevas una diva por dentro. De una diva se dice todo, se especula desde su origen hasta sus amores; se le puede amar u odiar, pero nunca ser indiferente a su presencia. ¿Tú crees que una diva nace... Read more

Queer Villains of Myth and Legend

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 4 hours 52 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

Begin Transmission

By: Tilly Bridges

Narrated by: Tilly Bridges

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Trans woman and screenwriter Tilly Bridges takes you through the trans allegories of the Matrix franchise, with deep dives into The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Animatrix, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Matrix Resurrections, tracking one person’s transition journey—from Thomas Anderson, to Neo… to Trinity.Each movie’s allegory is deeply... Read more

Why Are People Into That?

By: Tina Horn

Narrated by: Tina Horn

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a #1 Apple podcast host, Lambda Literary fellow, and dominatrix comes a sex-positive, judgment-free cultural deep-dive into the world of kink.
 

When celebrated BDSM educator Tina Horn first launched Why Are People Into That?!, publications from Vice to Buzzfeed heralded it as one of the best sex podcasts around. Each episode centered... Read more

Movimento LGBTI+

By: Renan Quinalha

Narrated by: Renan Quinalha

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sem a pretensão de escrever um manual exaustivo, o autor nos oferece um panorama da constituição moderna do movimento LGBTI+ como movimento político que reivindica direitos, equidade e respeito, a partir de um recorte geográfico ocidental." Erika Hilton "Cada uma das partes que compõem este livro faz com que avancemos numa compreensão de... Read more

Radical Tarot

By: Charlie Claire Burgess

Narrated by: Charlie Claire Burgess

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Radical Tarot meets the tarot in a space of evolution, deconstruction, and creation, using the historical and common meanings of the cards as a launchpad for digging into limiting beliefs and societal conditioning and unlocking the personal truths beneath. The Fool's Journey is re-envisioned as a journey to non-binary thinking, the gender... Read more

The Risk it Takes to Bloom

By: Raquel Willis

Narrated by: Raquel Willis

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.
In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the... Read more

Park Cruising

By: Marcus McCann

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex.



Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his... Read more

Black, Gay & Underage

By: Wil Roach

Narrated by: Wil Roach

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Wil Roach writes about living within a Caribbean culture in the heart of London, as a child of the ’60s through to the ’80s. Born on the island of Trinidad and brought to the UK as a baby, Wil grew up as a * black boy in the frosty capital of Britain, learning by degrees about cultural and sexual diversity. Wil Roach on writing memoir Writing... Read more

Affirmations for Queer People

By: Jess Vosseteig

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate your resilience and bravery in the face of discrimination and empower yourself and your community with these 100+ affirmations for queer people that celebrate being LGBTQIA+.

Queer people are essential members of society—trailblazing for positive change and building up a stronger and more vibrant community every day. It’s time to affirm... Read more