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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
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 Rankine
From a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more
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 Book
The 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
All Boys Aren't Blue
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 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 his 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
... Read more
Better Living Through Birding
By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World
Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more
Love and Rage
By: Lama Rod Owens
Narrated by: Lama Rod Owens
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?
White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In Love and... Read more
A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
Narrated by: Vikas Adams
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima... 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
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Beyond the Gender Binary
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award
"When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter
"Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer
"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers... Read more
Selected Works of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of listeners.
Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of... Read more
Care Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
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Beyond Survival
By: Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Ejeris Dixon & Esteban Kelly
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often... Read more
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Merciless Saviors
By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The stunning conclusion to the Ouroboros series, a contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world.
That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr, who had... Read more
Camp!
By: Paul Baker
Narrated by: Paul Baker
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. The term possibly derives from the French se camper, meaning to pose in a bold, provocative, or exaggerated fashion. Frequently used to define or deride young heterosexual men, the upper classes, Black people, older women, and gay men,... Read more
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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
Sister Outsider
By: Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more
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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 Trans illuminates... Read more
He/She/They
By: Schuyler Bailar
Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity and how we talk about it.
Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare, school... Read more
Moby Dyke
By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.
Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987,... Read more
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
By: Tony Keith, Jr.
Narrated by: Tony Keith, Jr.
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, George M. Johnson,... Read more
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Missing from the Village
By: Justin Ling
Narrated by: Justin Ling
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards
In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more
Dear Cisgender People
By: Kenny Ethan Jones
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans?
In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal memoir, Kenny Ethan Jones, trans activist and writer, offers an... Read more
Why Are People Into That?
By: Tina Horn
Narrated by: Tina Horn
Length: TBA
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
Pretty
By: KB Brookins
Narrated by: KB Brookins
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
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 perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for... Read more