LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks
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Love in a F*cked-Up World
By:
Dean Spade
Narrated by:
Dean Spade
Length:
7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged:
No
In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections. Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and... Read more about Love in a F*cked-Up World
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Ace
By:
Angela Chen
Narrated by:
Natalie Naudus
Length:
7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged:
No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more about Ace
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Gender Queer
By:
Maia Kobabe
Narrated by:
Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, ...
Length:
1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged:
No
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor BookThe ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio. In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only... Read more about Gender Queer
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
By:
Judith Butler
Narrated by:
Judith Butler
Length:
11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged:
No
This program is read by the author.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them."A profoundly urgent intervention.” —Naomi Klein "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.” —Claudia RankineFrom a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more about Who's Afraid of Gender?
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Queer Enlightenments
By:
Anthony Delaney
Narrated by:
Anthony Delaney
Length:
9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged:
No
A ground-breaking history delivered in a refreshing new voice, Queer Enlightenments details eleven overlooked stories of eighteenth-century queer people who lived extraordinary lives of resistance and joyQueer people have always existed. In an era when this basic truth faces undue scrutiny, here is a dazzling work of restorative history that... Read more about Queer Enlightenments
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So Many Stars
By:
Caro De Robertis
Narrated by:
Caro De Robertis
Length:
11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged:
No
From the acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color—from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens—who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance.So Many Stars knits together the... Read more about So Many Stars
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Nasty Work
By:
Ericka Hart
Narrated by:
Ericka Hart
Length:
TBA
Abridged:
No
An award-winning sexuality educator takes down society’s deeply entrenched colonial views on sex and gender throughout history in this accessible, candid, and revolutionary exploration of how we can—and should—reclaim our minds and bodies for a more pleasurable existence for all.When you think about sex ed, your mind likely goes back to those... Read more about Nasty Work
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The Queer Thing About Sin
By:
Harry Tanner
Narrated by:
Harry Tanner
Length:
8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged:
No
Bloomsbury presents The Queer Thing About Sin, written and read by Harry Tanner'BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' TOM HOLLAND'MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS NEEDED. HISTORY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE ALIVE...' RUSSELL T DAVIESA gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love.In... Read more about The Queer Thing About Sin
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All Boys Aren't Blue
By:
George M. Johnson
Narrated by:
George M. Johnson
Length:
5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged:
No
This program is read by the author.In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.A New York Times Bestseller!Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories From... Read more about All Boys Aren't Blue
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Refusing Compulsory Sexuality
By:
Sherronda J. Brown
Narrated by:
Yu-Li Alice Shen
Length:
6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged:
No
For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is... Read more about Refusing Compulsory Sexuality
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The Deviant's War
By:
Eric Cervini
Narrated by:
Vikas Adam
Length:
15 hours 34 minutes
Abridged:
No
"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring bookFrom a young Harvard- and... Read more about The Deviant's War
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Before We Were Trans
By:
Dr. Kit Heyam
Narrated by:
Dr. Kit Heyam
Length:
8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged:
No
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were... Read more about Before We Were Trans
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Enemy Feminisms
By:
Sophie Lewis
Narrated by:
Helen Phillips
Length:
11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged:
No
In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what... Read more about Enemy Feminisms
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Gender Euphoria
By:
Laura Kate Dale
Narrated by:
Laura Kate Dale
Length:
8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged:
No
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more about Gender Euphoria
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Pretty
By:
KB Brookins
Narrated by:
KB Brookins
Length:
6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged:
No
Winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award • By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender... Read more about Pretty
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My Child is Trans, Now What?
By:
Ben V. Greene
Narrated by:
Ben V. Greene
Length:
6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged:
No
A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a “warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of readers” and Publishers Weekly says is “a pragmatic program for parenting beyond the gender binary.”As a full-time public speaker specializing in spreading awareness and understanding of the transgender... Read more about My Child is Trans, Now What?
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The Fire Inside
By:
Rima Vesely-Flad, Ph.D.
Narrated by:
Heni Zoutomou
Length:
6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged:
No
Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde Includes meditation exercisesThe Fire Inside explores the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin through a Dharmic lens, revealing for the first time how two of America’s greatest literary voices... Read more about The Fire Inside
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By:
Audre Lorde
Narrated by:
Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins
Length:
12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged:
No
Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft... Read more about Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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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 about Why Are People Into That?
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Transland
By:
Mx. Sly
Narrated by:
Sebastian Marziali
Length:
8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged:
No
A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as... Read more about Transland
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A Two-Spirit Journey
By:
Ma-Nee Chacaby
Narrated by:
Marsha Knight
Length:
11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.... Read more about A Two-Spirit Journey
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Real Queer America
By:
Samantha Allen
Narrated by:
Samantha Allen
Length:
7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged:
No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTA transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more about Real Queer America
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Before Gender
By:
Eli Erlick
Narrated by:
Sena Bryer
Length:
8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender historyHighlighting influential individuals from 1850-1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares 30 remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder. These narratives chronicle the grit, joy, and... Read more about Before Gender
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The Sacred Band
By:
James Romm
Narrated by:
Vivienne Leheny
Length:
9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.The story of the Sacred Band, an elite... Read more about The Sacred Band
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