The 1969 Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in America, and was largely started and led by queer Black men and women. But queer Black Americans still live at the intersection of racism, homophobia, and transphobia, and face the most risk and discrimination within the LGBTQIA+ community. These stories highlight some of the many inequalities faced by queer Black folks, while simultaneously and acknowledging and celebrating the diversity of the queer Black experience.
"Have you ever noticed how life’s highs and lows always tend to go hand-in-hand? Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy explores that very concept through the bizarre comedy, love, and heartfelt moments of humanity found amid grief and healing. Starring Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary), Alex Newell (Glee), Sharon Washington (Feeding the Dragon), and the one and only Oprah, alongside Domingo himself, the casting alone makes this a can’t-miss listening experience. It’s a hard-hitting comedy about family, our own expectations, and love, but it’s also a moving reminder that good things often come out of horrible situations, and that fairy tale endings always seem to happen when we’re least expecting them."—Michael C.
"Just as food is always on my mind, I know that Bryan Washington’s extensive catalog, which is ripe with mouthwatering culinary essays as well as stellar works of fiction, always delivers. His latest novel, Family Meal makes no exception, as it serves up a story that is just as savory as it is vulnerable. Listening to this audiobook, tenderly performed by AndréSantana, Jake Choi, and Washington himself, feels exactly like sharing dinner with a long-lost friend—equipped with pregnant pauses, nods to unspoken conversation, and, above all else, the warm tastes of nostalgia, which bubble up alongside each and every mouthwatering aroma that Washington reproduces so poetically and precisely with his prose. It truly is a story to return to for second helpings." —Haley H.
In this classic novel by literary great James Baldwin, David is a young American man living in Paris whose girlfriend has just left for Spain, where she plans to contemplate whether or not she wants to marry him. Meanwhile, David takes up an affair with an Italian man named Giovanni, and must reckon with his attraction to both sexes and his personal history while navigating his own desires and his family’s expectations for him. Giovanni's Room is a classic LGBTQIA+ novel, with a sensitive performance by narrator Dan Butler.
Two elven sisters become imprisoned in the intoxicating world of the fae, where danger and love lie in wait. Faebound is the first book in an enchanting new trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife.
Juleesa Jones makes great money dancing the early shift and spends most evenings with her son, her Sanity family or at Cyn’s house. Relationships are not high on the priority list—until she’s forced to admit that maybe friendship isn’t the only thing she wants from her bestie.
In this moving memoir, award-winning poet Saeed Jones tells of his childhood in the South and his coming of age as a gay Black man. Full of vignettes from his life, this memoir covers everything from his contentious relationship with his mother to his travels across the country. At its heart, Jones’s personal story is about the lengths we go to discover who we really are and then fight to be ourselves. Jones narrates his memoir, which is only appropriate—it’s powerful to hear his words in his own voice.