Stonewall Book Award

For the awards presented by the British charity, see Stonewall Awards.

Stonewall Book Award
Stonewall Book Award seal
Awarded for	"exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience"
Country	United States
Presented by	the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
First awarded	1971
Website	ala.org/rt/rrt/award/stonewall and two "homepages"

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards, since 1986 as the single Gay Book Award.

The three award categories are fiction and nonfiction in books for adults, distinguished in 1990, and books for children or young adults, from 2010. The awards are named for Barbara Gittings, Israel Fishman, and (jointly) Mike Morgan and Larry Romans. In full they are the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.

Finalists have been designated from 1990, and termed "Honor Books" from 2001. Currently a panel of librarians selects five finalists in each award category and subsequently selects one winner. The winners are announced in January and each receives a plaque and $1000 cash prize during the ALA Annual Conference in June or July. Winners are expected to attend and to give acceptance speeches.

The ALA solicits book suggestions each to be accompanied by a brief statement in favor of the book. Anyone may suggest a title for consideration. However, the publisher of a proposed title, agents or representatives of the author, or anyone else who may stand to gain directly from the nomination of the book should disclose this information via the online form.

Eligible books should be original works published in the U.S. and Canada during the preceding year, including "substantially changed new editions" and "English-language translations of foreign-language books".

History

The Gay Book Award was inaugurated in 1971 at the ALA annual meeting in Dallas, by the newly created Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL) The ceremony, attended by only 9 people, recognized Patience and Sarah, a historical novel by Alma Routsong (writing as Isabel Miller), which had been self-published by Routsong in 1969. A "grassroots acknowledgment" of GLBT publishing, there were "only a handful" of books to consider annually. The ALA officially started granting the award in 1986, and by 1995, there were more than 800 books considered for the award.

In 2002, the awards, then two, were jointly named after the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots as well as two of the founding members of the TFGL, Barbara Gittings and Israel Fishman.

Award name and categories

• 1971–1986 Gay Book Award
• 1987–1989 Gay and Lesbian Book Award
• 1990–1993 Gay and Lesbian Book Award (nonfiction and literature categories)
• 1994–1998 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award (nonfiction and literature)
• 1999–2001 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award (nonfiction and literature)
• 2002–2010 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.
• 2010–present Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.

From 1986, the Gay Book Award and its descendants have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards.

Recipients

Stonewall Book Awards Winners

Year	Category	Recipient	Title	Citation
1971		Isabel Miller	Patience and Sarah	Winner
1972		Peter Fisher	The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality	Winner
		Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon	Lesbian/Woman	Winner
1974		Jeannette Howard Foster	Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey	Winner
1975		Jonathan Ned Katz (ed.)	Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature	Winner
1977		Howard Brown	Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today	Winner
1978		Ginny Vida (ed.)	Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book	Winner
1979		Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward	Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality	Winner
1980		Winston Leyland (ed.)	Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature	Winner
1981		John Boswell	Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century	Winner
1982		Lillian Faderman	Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present	Winner
		J. R. Roberts	Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography	Winner
		Vito Russo	The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies	Winner
1984		John D'Emilio	Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970	Winner
1985		Judy Grahn	Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds	Winner
1986		Cindy Patton	Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS	Winner
1987		Walter Williams	The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture	Winner
1988		Joan Nestle	A Restricted Country	Winner
		Randy Shilts	And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic	Winner
1989		Alan Hollinghurst	The Swimming Pool Library	Winner
		Sarah Schulman	After Delores	Winner
1990	Non-fiction	Neil Miller	In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change	Winner
		Susan and Daniel Cohen	When Someone You Know is Gay	Finalist
		Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. (eds.)	Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
		Lesbian History Group	Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985
		John Preston (ed.)	Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS
	Literature	David B. Feinberg	Eighty-Sixed	Winner
		Christopher Bram	In Memory of Angel Clare	Finalist
		Edith Konecky	A Place at the Table
		David Leavitt	Equal Affections
		Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn (eds.)	In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers
1991	Non-fiction	Wayne Dynes (ed.)	Encyclopedia of Homosexuality	Winner
		Allan Berube	Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two	Finalist
		Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt (eds.)	Gay and Lesbian Library Service
		Bret Hinch	Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
		Mary Ann Humphrey	My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present
		Janice E. Rench	Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends
		Stuart Timmons	The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement
		Bonnie Zimmerman	The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989
	Literature	Minnie Bruce Pratt	Crime Against Nature	Winner
		Michael Cunningham	A Home at the End of the World	Finalist
		John Gilgun	Music I Never Dreamed of
		David Leavitt	A Place I've Never Been
		Paula Martinac	Out of Time
		Matthew Stadler	Landscape: Memory
1992	Non-fiction	Lillian Faderman	Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America	Winner
		Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum	Cancer in Two Voices	Finalist
		Gary David Comstock	Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men
		Martin Duberman	Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey
		Will Roscoe	The Zuni Man-Woman
		Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt	Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe
	Literature	Paul Monette	Halfway Home	Winner
		Sara Levi Calderon	The Two Mujeres	Finalist
		Essex Hemphill (ed.)	Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men
		Karen Lee Osborne (ed.)	Hawkwings
		Jacquelyn Holt Park	A Stone Gone Mad
		Adrienne Rich	An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
		Assoto Saint (ed.)	The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets
		Makeda Silvera (ed.)	Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology
		Tom Spanbauer (ed.)	The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
1993	Non-fiction	Eric Marcus	Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990	Winner
		Betty Berzon	Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life	Finalist
		Jeanne DuPrau	The Earth House
		Paul Monette	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
		Rictor Norton	Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830
		John Preston (ed.)	A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write about Their Families
	Literature	Essex Hemphill	Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry	Winner
		Christopher Bram	Almost History	Finalist
		Stephen McCauley	The Easy Way Out
		Karen Kringle	Vital Ties
		Jeanette Winterson	Written on the Body
1994	Non-fiction	Phyllis Burke	Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son	Winner
		Martin Duberman	Stonewall	Finalist
		Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe (eds.)	Lesbian Culture: An Anthology
		April Martin	The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families
		William B. Rubenstein	Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law
	Literature	Leslie Feinberg	Stone Butch Blues	Winner
		Claudia Allen	She's Always Liked the Girls Best	Finalist
		Fenton Johnson	Scissors, Paper, Rock
		Cherrie Moraga	The Last Generation
		Bennett L. Singer (ed.)	Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology
1995	Non-fiction	Dorothy Allison	Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature	Winner
		Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein	Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
		George Chauncey	Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940	Finalist
		Raymond Murray	Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video
		Joan Nestle and John Preston (eds.)	Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together
	Literature	Marion Dane Bauer	Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence	Winner
		Rafael Campo	The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World	Finalist
		Lillian Faderman (ed.)	Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
		Ellen Galford	The Dyke and Dybbuk
		Marilyn Hacker	Winter Numbers: Poems
1996	Non-fiction	Urvashi Vaid	Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation	Winner
		Linnea Due	Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s	Finalist
		Jonathan Ned Katz	The Invention of Heterosexuality
		Minnie Bruce Pratt	S/HE
		Claude J. Summers (ed.)	The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage
	Literature	Jim Grimsley	Dream Boy	Winner
		Dorothy Allison	Two or Three Things I Know for Sure	Finalist
		Francesca Lia Block	Baby Be-Bop
		Howard Cruse	Stuck Rubber Baby
		Reynolds Price	The Promise of Rest
1997	Non-fiction	Fenton Johnson	Geography of the Heart	Winner
		Edward Alwood	Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media	Finalist
		Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman	Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies
		Mark Doty	Heaven's Coast
		David Tuller	Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia
	Literature	Emma Donoghue	Hood	Winner
		Andrew Holleran	The Beauty of Men	Finalist
		Shyam Selvadurai	Funny Boy
		Sarah Van Arsdale	Toward Amnesia
		Terry Wolverton	Bailey's Beads
1998	Non-fiction	Adam Mastoon	The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People	Winner
		Amy Hoffman	Hospital Time	Finalist
		Susan Raffo	Queerly Classed
		James T. Sears	Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968
		Arlene Stein	Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation
	Literature	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	Working Parts	Winner
		Persimmon Blackbridge	Prozac Highway	Finalist
		Elana Dykewomon	Beyond the Pale
		Scott Heim	In Awe
		Judith Katz	The Escape Artist
1999	Non-fiction	Sarah Schulman	Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America	Winner
		Pat Griffin	Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport	Finalist
		John Loughery	The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History
		Joan Nestle	A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings
		Barbara Smith	The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
	Literature	Michael Cunningham	The Hours	Winner
		Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel	Science Fiction	Finalist
		Carol Guess	Switch
		Mark Merlis	An Arrow's Flight
		Pamela Sneed	Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems
2000	Non-fiction	Barrie Jean Borich	My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage	Winner
		John-Manuel Andriote	Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America	Finalist
		Bruce Bagemihl	Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
		Mark Doty	Firebird
		Leslie Stainton	Lorca: A Dream of Life
	Literature	Marci Blackman	Po Man's Child	Winner
		Jim Grimsley	Comfort & Joy	Finalist
		Robin Lippincott	Mr. Dallowayla
		Paul Lisicky	Lawnboy
		Marvin K. White	Last Rights: Poems
2001	Non-fiction	William N. Eskridge	Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet	Winner
		Frances Ann Day	Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults	Honor
		Beth Loffreda	Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder
		William Murray	Janet, My Mother, and Me of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray
		Judd Winick	Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
	Literature	Sarah Waters	Affinity	Winner
		Michael Downing	Breakfast with Scot	Honor
		David Ebershoff	The Danish Girl
		Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou (eds.)	The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology
		Armistead Maupin	The Night Listener: A Novel
2002	Non-fiction	Barry Werth	The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal	Winner
		Louise A. Blum	You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America	Honor
		Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price	Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
		Kirk Read	How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story
		Arlene Stein	The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
		Edmund White with The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS (eds.)	Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS
	Literature	Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project	The Laramie Project	Winner
		Sylvia Brownrigg	Pages for You	Honor
		Bernard Cooper	Guess Again: Short Stories
		John Sam Jones	Welsh Boys Too
		JT LeRoy	The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2003	Non-fiction	Joanne Meyerowitz	How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States	Winner
		Noelle Howey	Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's and Mine	Honor
		Neil Miller	Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s
		Carmen L. Oliveria, translated by Niel K. Besner	Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares
		Jerry Roscoe	Glenway Wescott Personally
	Literature	Noel Alumit	Letters to Montgomery Clift	Winner
		Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex	Honor
		Ronald Frame	The Lantern Bearers
		Jamie O'Neill	At Swim, Two Boys
		Sarah Waters	Fingersmith
2004	Non-fiction	John D'Emilio	Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin	Winner
		Andrew Wilson	Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith	Honor
		Vern L. Bullough (ed.)	Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context
		Lois W. Banner	Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their Circle
		David Kaufman	Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam
	Literature	Monique Truong	The Book of Salt	Winner
		Louise Welsh	Cutting Room	Honor
		Julie Anne Peters	Keeping You a Secret
		Christopher Bram	Lives of the Circus Animals
		Nina Revoyr	Southland
2005	Non-fiction	Joan Roughgarden	Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People	Winner
		Patrick Moore	Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality	Honor
		Douglas Crase	Both: a Portrait in Two Parts
		David Sedaris	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
		Alexis De Veaux	Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
	Literature	Colm Tóibín	The Master	Winner
		Doug Wright	I Am My Own Wife	Honor
		Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty
		Julie Anne Peters	Luna
		Stacey D'Erasmo	A Seahorse Year
2006	Non-fiction	Joshua Gamson	The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco	Winner
		Tania Katan	My One-Night Stand with Cancer	Honor
		Matt Houlbrook	Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
		Neil McKenna	The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
		Larry Kramer	The Tragedy of Today's Gays
	Literature	Abha Dawesar	Babyji	Winner
		Keith McDermott	Acqua Calda	Honor
		Barry McCrea	The First Verse
		Richard McCann	Mother of Sorrows
		Sam D'Allesandro, edited by Kevin Killian	The Wild Creatures: Collected Stories of Sam D'Allesandro
2007	Non-fiction	Alison Bechdel	Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic	Winner
		Kenji Yoshino	Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights	Honor
		David Eisenbach	Gay Power: An American Revolution
		William Benemann	Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships
		Kevin Jennings	Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
	Literature	Andrew Holleran	Grief	Winner
		Christian Burch	The Manny Files	Honor
		Sarah Waters	The Night Watch
		Michelle Tea	Rose of No Man's Land
		Martin Hyatt	A Scarecrow's Bible
2008	Non-fiction	Mark Doty	Dog Years	Winner
		Cris Beam	Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers	Honor
		Stephen Pascal (ed.)	The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman
		Janet Malcolm	Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
		Kevin Sessums	Mississippi Sissy
	Literature	Ellis Avery	The Teahouse Fire	Winner
		Ivan E. Coyote	Bow Grip	Honor
		Samuel R. Delany	Dark Reflections
		David Leavitt	The Indian Clerk: A Novel
		Ali Liebegott	The IHOP Papers
2009	Non-fiction	William N. Eskridge	Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003	Winner
		Bob Morris	Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad	Honor
		Joanne Passet	Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
		E. Patrick Johnson	Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
		Joel Derfner	Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
	Literature	Evan Fallenberg	Light Fell	Winner
		Joseph Olshan	The Conversions	Honor
		Alain Claude Sulzer	A Perfect Waiter
		Emma Donoghue	The Sealed Letter
2010	Non-fiction	Nathaniel Frank	Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America	Winner
		Stuart E. Weisberg	Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman	Honor
		Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde	Black Bull, Ancestors and Me
		James Davidson	The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
		Rudolph P. Byrd (ed.)	I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
	Literature	David Francis	Stray Dog Winter	Winner
		James Hannaham	God Says No	Honor
		Mario Bellatin	Beauty Salono
	Children's & Young Adult	Nick Burd	The Vast Fields of Ordinary	Winner
		Marcus Ewert	10,000 Dresses	Honor
		Lesléa Newman	Daddy, Papa, and Me
		Linas Alsenas	Gay America: Struggle for Equality
		Lesléa Newman	Mommy, Mama, and Me
		Dale Peck	Sprout
2011	Non-fiction	Emma Donoghue	Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature	Winner
		Stuart Biegel	The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools	Honor
		Wendy Moffat	A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
		Patti Smith	Just Kids
		Justin Spring	Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
	Literature	Barb Johnson	More of This World or Maybe Another	Winner
		Tom Mendicino	Probation	Honor
		Michael Sledge	The More I Owe You
		Zoe Whittall	Holding Still for as Long as Possible
	Children's & Young Adult	Brian Katcher	Almost Perfect	Winner
		John Green and David Levithan	Will Grayson, Will Grayson	Honor
		Davida Wills Hurwin	Freaks and Revelations
		James Klise	Love Drugged
		David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake	The Boy in the Dress
2012	Non-fiction	Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward	Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture	Winner
		Michael Bronski	A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History)
		Nick Krieger	Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender	Honor
		Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman (eds.)	Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
		Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer	Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
		Oscar Wilde and Nicholas Frankel (ed.)	The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
	Literature	Wayne Hoffman	Sweet Like Sugar	Winner
		Jon Marans	The Temperamentals: A New Play	Honor
		Bob Smith	Remembrance of Things I Forgot
		Kathleen Winter	Annabel
		Oscar Wilde and Nicholas Frankel (ed.)	The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
	Children's & Young Adult	Bil Wright	Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy	Winner
		Lili Wilkinson	Pink	Honor
		Brian Farrey	With or Without You
		Ilike Merey	a + e 4ever
		Paul Yee	Money Boy
2013	Non-fiction	Keith Boykin	For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home	Winner
		Christopher Bram	Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America	Honor
		Jeanne Cordova	When We Were Outlaws of Love & Revolution
		Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.)	Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
		Jeanette Winterson	Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
	Literature	Ellis Avery	The Last Nude	Winner
		John Boyne	The Absolutist	Honor
		Madeline Miller	The Song of Achilles
		Charles Rice-Gonzalez	Chulito
		Paul Russell	The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
	Children's & Young Adult	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	Winner
		Raina Telgemeier	Drama	Honor
		Hannah Moskowitz	Gone, Gone, Gone
		Lesléa Newman	October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
		S. J. Adams	Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie
2014	Non-fiction	Lori Duron	Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son	Winner
		David McConnell	American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men
		R.B. Parkinson	A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World	Honor
		Alysia Abbott	Fairyland of my Father
	Literature	Hilary Sloin	Art on Fire	Winner
		Jon Marans	A Strange and Separate People	Honor
		Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
		William Klaber	The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
	Children's & Young Adult	Kirstin Cronn-Mills	Beautiful Music for Ugly Children	Winner
		e.E. Charlton-Trujillo	Fat Angie
		Tim Federle	Better Nate Than Ever	Honor
		Ken Setterington	Branded by the Pink Triangle
		David Levithan	Two Boys Kissing
2015	Non-fiction	Scott Kugle	Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims	Winner
		Robert Beachy	Gay Berlin	Honor
		Janet Mock	Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
		Martin Duberman	Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
		Rachel Hope Cleves	Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
	Literature	Saeed Jones	Prelude to Bruise	Winner
		Tatamkhulu Afrika	Bitter Eden	Honor
		Emma Donoghue	Frog Music
		David Leavitt	The Two Hotel Francforts
		Jo Walton	My Real Children
	Children's & Young Adult	Gayle E. Pitman	This Day in June	Winner
		Susan Kuklin	Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out	Honor
		Jandy Nelson	I'll Give You the Sun
		Christine Baldacchio, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant	Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
2016	Non-fiction	Kenji Yoshino	Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial	Winner
		Amy Ellis Nutt	Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family	Honor
		Lillian Faderman	The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
		Michael Helquist	Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions
		Doug Meyer	Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
	Literature	Carolina de Robertis	The Gods of Tango	Winner
		Virginie Despentes	Apocalypse Baby	Honor
		Leah Horlick	For Your Own Good
		LaShonda Katrice Barnett	Jam On The Vine
		Libby Ware	Lum
	Children's & Young Adults	Alex Gino	Melissa	Winner
		Bill Konigsberg	The Porcupine of Truth
		Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth	Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU	Honor
		Christopher Barzak	Wonders of the Invisible World
2017	Non-fiction	David France	How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS	Winner
		Kevin J. Mumford	Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis	Honor
		Michael Schreiber	One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin
		Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, et al. (eds.)	Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
		Ivan E. Coyote	Tomboy Survival Guide
	Literature	Chris McCormick	Desert Boys	Winner
		Martin Hyatt	Beautiful Gravity	Honor
		Bryan Borland	Dig
		Saleem Haddad	Guapa
		Matthew Griffin	Hide
	Children's & Young Adult	Rick Riordan	Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor	Winner
		Meredith Russo	If I Was Your Girl
		Anna-Marie McLemore	When the Moon Was Ours	Honor
		Jenny Downham	Unbecoming
		Robin Stevenson	Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community
2018	Non-fiction	John Chaich and Todd Oldham	Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community	Winner
		C. Riley Snorton	Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity	Honor
		Andrew Evans	The Black Penguin
		Bennett Singer and David Deschamps	LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers
	Literature	Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (eds.)	Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers	Winner
		SJ Sindu	Marriage of a Thousand Lies	Honor
		Kai Cheng Thom	A Place Called No Homeland
		Rivers Solomon	An Unkindness of Ghosts
		Chen Chen	When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities
	Children's & Young Adult	Dashka Slater	The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives	Winner
		Brandy Colbert	Little & Lion
		Melanie Gillman	As the Crow Flies	Honor
		Mackenzi Lee	The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
2019	Literature	Rebecca Makkai	The Great Believers	Winner
		Lisa Maas	Forward	Honor
		Carole Maurel, adapted by Mariko Tamaki	Luisa: Now and Then
		Uzodinma Iweala	Speak No Evil
		Amy Bloom	White Houses
	Non-fiction	Michael Amherst	Go the Way Your Blood Beats	Winner
		E. Patrick Johnson	Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History	Honor
		Eric and Stephani Lohman	Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and Intersex Child
		Robert W. Fieseler	Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
		Isaac Butler and Dan Kois	The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in AmericaThe World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
	Children's & Young Adult	Jessica Love	Julian is a Mermaid	Winner
		Kacen Callender	Hurricane Child
		Ashley Herring Blake	Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World	Honor
		Kelly Loy Gilbert	Picture Us in the Light
2020	Non-fiction	Saeed Jones	How We Fight for Our Lives	Winner
		Maia Kobabe	Gender Queer	Honor
		Kai Cheng Thom	I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
		Carmen Maria Machado	In the Dream House
		Robyn Ryle	She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters
	Literature	Carolina de Robertis	Cantoras	Winner
		Bryan Washington	Lot: Stories	Honor
		Ocean Vuong	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
		Nicole Dennis-Benn	Patsy
		Hasan Namir	War/Torn
	Children's & Young Adult	Kyle Lukoff	When Aidan Became a Brother	Winner
		Dean Atta	The Black Flamingo
		Akwaeke Emezi	Pet	Honor
		Abdi Nazemian	Like a Love Story
		Maulik Pancholy	The Best At It
2021	Non-fiction	Bonnie Ruberg	Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games	Winner
		Jenn Shapland	My Autobiography of Carson McCullers	Honor
		Molly Wizenberg	The Fixed Stars: A Memoir
		Jeffrey H. Jackson	Paper Bullets
		Kimberly M. Zieselman	XOXY
	Literature	Zeyn Joukhadar	The Thirty Names of Night	Winner
		Akwaeke Emezi	The Death of Vivek Oji	Honor
		Bryan Washington	Memorial
		Kay Ulanday Barrett	More Than Organs
		Natalie Diaz	Postcolonial Love Poem
	Children's & Young Adult	Archaa Shrivastav	We Are Little Feminists: Families	Winner
		Aliza Layne	Beetle & The Hollowbones	Honor
		Adib Khorram	Darius the Great Deserves Better
		Kacen Callender	Felix Ever After
		Leah Johnson	You Should See Me in a Crown
2022	Non-fiction	Akwaeke Emezi	Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir	Winner
		Zoe Playdon	The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience	Honor
		Laura Lee	A History of Scars
		Sarah Schulman	Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
		Brian Broome	Punch Me Up to the Gods
	Literature	Rivers Solomon	Sorrowland	Winner
		Ryka Aoki	Light From Uncommon Stars	Honor
		Becky Chambers	A Psalm for the Wild-Built
		Lee Lai	Stone Fruit
		Jasmine Mans	Black Girl, Call Home
	Children's & Young Adult	Kyle Lukoff	Too Bright to See	Winner
		Malinda Lo	Last Night at the Telegraph Club
		Jake Maia Arlow	Almost Flying	Honor
		Eliot Schrefer	The Darkness Outside Us
		Harry Woodgate	Grandad's Camper
2023	Non-fiction	Cecilia Gentili	Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist	Winner
		Hugh Ryan	The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
		Sherronda J. Brown	Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture	Honor
		Edgar Gomez	High-Risk Homosexual
		Lars Horn	Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
	Literature	Rachel M. Harper	The Other Mother	Winner
		Rachel Wiley	Revenge Body
		SJ Sindu	Dominant Genes	Honor
		KB Brookins	How to Identify Yourself with a Wound
		Isaac Fellman	Dead Collections
	Children's	Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Charlene Chua	Love, Violet	Winner
		Mariama J. Lockington	In the Key of Us	Honor
		Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa	Kapaemahu
		Rachel Elliott	The Real Riley Mayes
		Rob Kearney, Eric Rosswood, and Nidhi Chanani	Strong
	Young Adult	Sacha Lamb	When the Angels Left the Old Country	Winner
		Casey McQuiston	I Kissed Shara Wheeler	Honor
		R. Eric Thomas	Kings of B'more
		Cory McCarthy	Man o' War
		Jen Ferguson	The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
2024	Non-fiction	Lamya H	Hijab Butch Blues	Winner
		Curtis Chin	Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant	Honor
		Elyssa Maxx Goodman	Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
		Matt Baume	Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
		Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy	Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
	Literature	KB Brookins	Freedom House	Winner
		A. Light Zachary	More Sure	Honor
		Sarah Cypher	The Skin and Its Girl
		Sebastian Merrill	Ghost::Seeds
		Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.	Gay Poems for Red States
	Children's	Nora Dåsnes	Cross My Heart and Never Lie	Winner
		Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Svabhu Kohli (illust.)	Desert Queen	Honor
		Jessica Walton and Aśka (illust.)	Stars in Their Eyes
		Justine Pucella Winans	The Otherwoods
		A.M. Wild and Kah Yangni (illust.)	Not He or She, I'm Me
	Young Adult	Abdi Nazemian	Only This Beautiful Moment	Winner
		Andrew Joseph White	The Spirit Bares Its Teeth	Honor
		Becky Albertalli	Imogen, Obviously
		James Acker	The Long Run
		Johnny Garza Villa	Ander & Santi Were Here

See also

• LGBT literature
• Libraries and the LGBT community

External links

• Stonewall Book Awards List Archived July 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
• American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table (RRT)