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Harvey Milk
By: Lillian Faderman
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time... Read more
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Queer City
By: Peter Ackroyd
Narrated by: Will Watt
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way–through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria (“wolf dens” or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his... Read more
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The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads
By: Eric Rosswood
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, the Chicago Tribune reported that ten to twenty percent of donor eggs went to gay... Read more
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49 Pulses
By: Charlie Minn
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
On June 12, 2016, a gunman walked into a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida and shot 102 people, murdering 49 of them. At 2:00 AM, the Pulse nightclub was winding down its weekly Latino night. The building was dark, crowded, and loud. Patrons were making plans to leave when they were ambushed by a gunman, who began firing in every direction.... Read more
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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
Starving in Search of Me
By: Marissa LaRocca
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The true confessions of an eating disorders survivorThis confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and... Read more
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Nasty Women
By: Kate Harding & Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move... Read more
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A Sinner in Mecca
By: Parvez Sharma
Narrated by: Parvez Sharma
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hajj pilgrimage is a journey every Muslim is commanded by God to go on at least once in a lifetime if they are able and, like millions, Parvez Sharma believes his spiritual salvation lies at Islam's ground zero, Mecca. But unlike the journeys of his fellow Muslims, the consequences of his own could be deadly.
In A Sinner in Mecca, author... Read more
The 57 Bus
By: Dashka Slater
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by... Read more
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Beyond Trans
By: Heath Fogg Davis
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just... Read more
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The ABC's of LGBT+
By: Ashley Mardell
Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The twenty-first century has seen very positive movement for LGBT+ rights. In the last few years the overturning of DOMA, the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Marriage Equality Act, American transgender politicians elected to office, and landmark moments such as Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world under the leadership of an openly... Read more
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Accidental Activists
By: David Collins
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to... Read more
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Born Both
By: Hida Viloria
Narrated by: Hida Viloria
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt... Read more
O Wow
By: Jenny Block
Narrated by: Shana Savage
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An ultimate orgasm is your personal best orgasm. It doesn't leave anything at the table. It doesn't want anything more. It lasts as long as it lasts. It takes as long as it takes. It's as messy and loud or quiet and tidy as you like. It has no room for shame or apology. An ultimate orgasm comes from questioning, exploring, experimenting, with no... Read more
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Anfangen! - Reden von Carolin Emcke (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)
By: Dr. Carolin Emcke
Narrated by: Dr. Carolin Emcke
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Carolin Emcke setzt sich schwierigen Lebensbedingungen aus und beschreibt - vor allem in ihren Essays und ihren Berichten aus Kriegsgebieten - auf sehr persönliche und ungeschützte Weise, wie Gewalt, Hass und Sprachlosigkeit Menschen verändern können. Mit analytischer Empathie appelliert sie an das Vermögen aller Beteiligten, zu Verständigung... Read more
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Soul Serenade
By: Rashod Ollison
Narrated by: C. S. Treadway
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music
Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on... Read more
What Does Queer Mean Anyway?
By: Chris Bartlett
Narrated by: Randal Schaffer
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In this clear and concise text Chris Bartlett provides direct explanations for how to use and interpret vocabulary like "queer", "transgender", and "intersex". Writing to those who are unsure of how to talk about alternative sexualities and gender, the author uses case studies and historical examples to unpack this often misused and... Read more
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Being Jazz
By: Jazz Jennings
Narrated by: Jazz Jennings
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings—named one of “The 25 Most Influential Teens” of the year by Time—shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
“[Jazz’s] touching book serves as a rallying cry for understanding and acceptance.”—Bustle
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Us versus Us
By: Andrew Marin
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Would you believe that 86 percent of LGBT people—from the proud marcher at the Pride Parade to the quiet, closeted teen—spent their childhood in church? More than half of them left those religious communities as adults; three out of four would be happy to come back.
For decades now we have found ourselves caught up in a culture war: us versus... Read more
Out of a Far Country
By: Christopher Yuan
Narrated by: Nancy Wu & Christopher Yuan
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control - and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her.... Read more
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The Gay Revolution
By: Lillian Faderman
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 29 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this... Read more
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Coming Out to Play
By: Robbie Rogers & Eric Marcus
Narrated by: Robbie Rogers
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A history making memoir of the first openly gay professional athlete in North America, now the producer of Fellow Travelers and My Policeman
“Rogers made history.” —Sports Illustrated
Robbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would... Read more
StoryCorps: Outloud
By: David Isay
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
StoryCorps recognizes the profound historical importance of capturing the stories of the LGBTQ community and the urgent need for this work to happen now. StoryCorps OutLoud is a multi-year initiative dedicated to recording and preserving LGBTQ stories across America.
OutLoud honors the stories of those who lived before the 1969 Stonewall... Read more
It's Not Over
By: Michelangelo Signorile
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major-league sports. But as longtime advocate Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory... Read more
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