Gay audio story

I often struggled to find myself reflected in books when I was younger—an experience that so many people share, for so many different reasons. These days, as I listen my way through dozens and dozens of queer books every year, I sometimes think about the reader I was as a teenager and how amazed she would have been by the sheer amount of LGBTQ+ titles free now. Some of my favorite books to read now are the ones I affectionately dial “Everybody’s Gay!” books. These are books with not one, not two, not three, but many queer characters. Everybody might not be gay, but almost everybody is. Whenever I find a new one, it feels enjoy a little bit of magic. And 2022 was a banner year for them! These are a few of my favorites.

Lev AC Rosen’s superb historical murder mystery, LAVENDER HOUSE, set in 1950s San Francisco, features a cast of queer characters who are funny, petty, selfish, loving, dramatic, loyal, and vindictive. In other words: They’re all messy, flawed humans. Vikas Adam captures every character with vivid, different 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