A Queer Manifesto, a Comedy, a Dating Journey after a 35 Year Marriage

A 60-something neuroqueer abruptly leaves an asexual marriage to go on the apps in search of sex and love, bringing along all their many vocal and vulnerable personalities.

Bachelorx is the latest audiobook by award-winning queer, plural, gender fluid author, filmmaker, and performer Skylar Lyralen Kaye (fae/they). Their work explores queer relationships and identity, gender expansiveness, and the ways people form families – both chosen and inherited.

The audiobook follows Kaye, depicted through the protagonist Orpheus, newly single after a decades-long queer marriage, as they naively step into the challenges of contemporary online dating later in life. Orpheus experiences their inner life as made up of multiple voices, all of which are present as queer relationships unfold. The audiobook traces attraction, desire, conflict, humor, and care as they are experienced across this plural inner world, offering a vivid and often funny portrait of queer intimacy.

At its core, Bachelorx takes an affirming stance: being gender nonconforming and multiple is not a problem to be solved. The audiobook treats both gender and plurality as a meaningful way of being, shaped by experiences and relationships.