Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States Audiobook (Free)

A transgender reporter’s ‘powerful, profoundly moving'(NY Times Book Review) narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer neighborhoods sprouting up in red state governments, supplying a vision of a stronger, even more humane America.

Ten years back, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Today she’s a mature Daily Beast reporter gladly married to another woman. A lot in her lifestyle has changed, but what hasn’t changed is normally her deep love of Red Condition America, and of queer individuals who about True Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States stay in so-called ‘flyover country’ instead of moving to the liberal coasts.

In True Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip extending all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley towards the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: ‘Something gay every day.’ Producing pit stops at drag shows, politics rallies, and hubs of queer life over the heartland, she presents us to scores of outstanding LGBT people working for change, from the 1st openly transgender mayor in Texas history towards the manager from the just queer night membership in Bloomington, Indiana, and so many more.

Recording profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected sites and disclosing a national network of selected family fighting for an improved world, Real Queer America is certainly a cherish trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of wish and inspiration in these divided occasions.