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A Queer and Pleasant Danger
By: Kate Bornstein
Narrated by: Kate Bornstein
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring true story of a nice Jewish boy who left the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today.
In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling... Read more
Going to Trinidad
By: Martin J. Smith
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado, was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protégé... Read more
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Queerly Autistic
By: Erin Ekins
Narrated by: Erin Ekins
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In this empowering and honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens, Erin Ekins gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality. From coming out to friends and family, staying safe in relationships and practicing safe sex, through to self-care and coping with bullying, being out and about in the LGBTQIA+... Read more
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Capote
By: Gerald Clarke
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 25 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award–winning turn.
One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other... 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
Eleanor in the Village
By: Jan Jarboe Russell
Narrated by: Samantha Desz
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A “riveting and enlightening account” (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt—when she moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America’s First Lady.
Hundreds of books have been written about FDR and Eleanor, both together... Read more
Singled Out
By: Andrew Maraniss
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
*"[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction." --Booklist (starred review)
From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss comes the remarkable true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James... Read more
Black Boy Out of Time
By: Hari Ziyad
Narrated by: Desean Terry
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way.One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their... Read more
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Soar, Adam, Soar
By: Rick Prashaw
Narrated by: John Dickhout
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Coming out. Coming in. Coming home.
Adam Prashaw's life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as "Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw" before coming to terms with being a transgender man. Adam captured hearts with his humor, compassion, and... Read more
Understanding Gender Dysphoria
By: Mark A. Yarhouse
Narrated by: Sebastian Crook
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Few topics are more contested today than gender identity. In the fog of the culture war, complex issues like gender dysphoria are reduced to slogans and sound bites. And while the war rages over language, institutions and political allegiances, transgender individuals are the ones who end up being the casualties. Mark Yarhouse, an expert in... Read more
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The Other Mothers
By: Jennifer Berney
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A story of fertility, feminism, and family.
Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood—it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a... Read more
Live at Jackson Station
By: Daniel M. Harrison
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm and Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life who gathered to listen to the live music of high-energy performers. Housed in a Reconstruction-era railway... Read more
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The Storm
By: Christopher Zyda
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
It all begins in early 1984, when Chris, a twenty-one-year-old UCLA English literature major, risks ostracism when he comes out of the closet to his fraternity brothers just as the AIDS pandemic is beginning to explode in gay communities across the United States. Soon afterward, Chris meets and falls in love with Stephen, a graduate of Yale... Read more
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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
The Book of Matt
By: Stephen Jimenez
Narrated by: Paul Fleschner
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs.” — Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew Shepard's killers
On the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was... Read more
Paper Bullets
By: Jeffrey H. Jackson
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot
A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction
Longlisted... Read more
Out!
By: Miles McKenna
Narrated by: Miles McKenna
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The ultimate coming out survival guide by queer and trans activist—and social media superstar—Miles McKenna
Activist Miles McKenna came out on his YouTube channel in 2017, documenting his transition to help other teens navigate their identities and take charge of their own coming-out stories. From that wisdom comes Out!, the ultimate... Read more
Finding Latinx
By: Paola Ramos
Narrated by: Paola Ramos
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million... Read more
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Coming Out, Moving Forward: Wisconsin’s Recent Gay History
By: R. Richard Wagner
Narrated by: Vance Bastian
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Coming Out, Moving Forward, the second volume in R. Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin, outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000. During this era, Wisconsin made history as the first state... Read more
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Outrages
By: Naomi Wolf
Narrated by: Amy Gordon
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced.
Newly updated, first North American edition--a paperback original
In 1857, Britain codified a new civil divorce... Read more
Never a Girl, Always a Boy
By: Jo Ivester
Narrated by: Jo Ivester, Jeremy Ivester, Jenn Ivester, Jon I...
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child, he preferred the toys and clothing our society views as masculine. In his mid-twenties, he had top surgery and began taking the hormones that would lower his voice and give him a beard, and he... Read more
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Jane Crow
By: Rosalind Rosenberg
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 18 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of Pauli Murray, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements.
A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s.... 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
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