Celebrate PRIDE 2022

Explore inspirational, funny and brave LGBTQIA+ stories on xigxag

xigxag invites you to lend your ears and your hearts to the voices of LGBTQIA+ authors and narrators sharing inspirational stories, romances, heartache and hardships through the powerful and intimate medium of audiobooks. 

There is no better way to experience any story than to listen to the author tell it in their own voice, allowing listeners to feel, understand and respect the journeys of the LGBTQIA+ communities and become allies of this much wider movement for love, equality and acceptance for all. 

Pride is celebrated every June, in tribute to those involved in the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969. The riots are considered a transformational moment for gay rights, broadening awareness of the challenges faced by gay people and elevating the cause to the national agenda in the US and around the world.

This Pride month, xigxag celebrates the stories of people coming together in love and friendship and acknowledges just how far LGBTQIA+ rights have come since Stonewall – while also admitting there is still so much work to be done.

x-book® – beyond the audiobook

xigxag is an innovative new audiobook concept and UK alternative to big tech. We’ve developed an exclusive new x-book® format that combines the audiobook and ebook into a brilliant, single integrated format. For the first time, users can switch seamlessly between listening and reading, or read along, without paying twice. It also allows listeners to search, take notes, share quotes, see illustrations and look up words as they listen without having to pause (or download a pdf).

The xigxag app is available on Android and iOS, so you can install it on any phone or tablet, and buy as many titles as you can listen to!

LGBTQIA+ Audiobook Recommendations

Below, you’ll find xigxag’s top 20 audiobook and x-book® titles to promote and celebrate the amazing authors representing the LGBTQIA+ communities – allowing everyone to listen, read and respect! 

The Queer Bible, edited by Jack Guinness, read by Jack Guinness and a full cast on xigxag

The Book of Queer Prophets, edited by Ruth Hunt, Read by Raj Ghatak, Kristin Atherton, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Jarel Robinson-Brown, Michael Segalov, Jay Hulme, Ruth Hunt, Amrou Al-Kadhi and Garry Rutter, and read by various narrators on xigxag

Family of Liars written by E. Lockhart and read by Kimberly Farr on xigxag

Straight Jacket written and read by Matthew Todd on xigxag

I Kissed Shara Wheeler written by Casey McQuiston and read by Natalie Naudus on xigxag

Detransition, Baby written by Torrey Peters and read by Renata Friedman on xigxag

Young Mungo written by Douglas Stuart and read by Chris Reilly on xigxag

Nick and Charlie written by Alice Oseman and read by Huw Parmenter and Sam Newton on xigxag

The Black Flamingo written by Dean Atta and read by Dean Atta on xigxag

Continental Divide written by Alex Myers and read by Scott Turner Schofield on xigxag

Vagabonds! written by Eloghosa Osunde and read by Eloghosa Osunde on xigxag

We Do What We Do in the Dark written by Michelle Hart and read by Barrie Kreinik on xigxag

Chainbreaker written by Tara Sim and read by Gary Furlong on xigxag

When You Get the Chance written by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson and read by Emily Lawrence and Vikas Adam on xigxag

Carefree Black Girls written by Zeba Blay and read by Zeba Blay and Clara Amfo on xigxag

The Brightsiders written by Jen Wilde, narrated by Katherine Littrell on xigxag

Starving in Search of Me written by Marissa LaRocca and read by Emily Woo Zeller on xigxag

Gay Britannia written and read by various authors on xigxag

Gentleman Jack written by Anne Lister, Sally Wainwright and Anne Choma and read by Eva Pope, Erin Shanagher on xigxag

Camp written by L.C. Rosen and read by Drew Caiden on xigxag