Gay audio stories

I often struggled to find myself reflected in books when I was younger—an experience that so many people distribute, for so many different reasons. These days, as I listen my way through dozens and dozens of homosexual books every year, I sometimes assume about the reader I was as a teenager and how amazed she would have been by the sheer amount of Queer titles available now. Some of my favorite books to read now are the ones I affectionately call “Everybody’s Gay!” books. These are books with not one, not two, not three, but many gender non-conforming characters. Everybody might not be male lover, but almost everybody is. Whenever I find a brand-new one, it feels like a minute bit of magic. And 2022 was a banner year for them! These are a several of my favorites.

Lev AC Rosen’s marvelous historical murder mystery, LAVENDER HOUSE, put in 1950s San Francisco, features a cast of homosexual characters who are funny, petty, egoistic, loving, dramatic, faithful, and vindictive. In other words: They’re all messy, flawed humans. Vikas Adam captures every ethics with vivid, separate voices. But it’s the way Adam voices the first-person narrator, Andy, that makes his show truly shine. Andy is an ex-cop who’s been fired from the