Stonewall Book Award

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Sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table, The Stonewall Book Awards are the first and most enduring awards for GLBT books. The awards are presented annually to English language works of fiction (Barbara Gittings Literature Award) and non-fiction (Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award). They are announced in January to the winning authors or editors, who are given a plaque and cash stipend.

First awarded in 1971 as the Gay Book Award, over the years the name of the award has changed:

  • 1971-1986 Gay Book Award
  • 1987-1989 Gay and Lesbian Book Award
  • 1994-1998 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award
  • 1999-2001 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award
  • 2002-Now Since 2002, the award has been made under its current name, which derives from the 1969 Stonewall riots

[edit] Stonewall Book Award recipients

1971 Isabel Miller Patience and Sarah
1972 Peter Fisher The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality
1972 Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Lesbian/Woman
1973 No award given.
1974 Jeannette Howard Foster Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey
1975 Jonathan D. Katz, ed. Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature
1976 No award given.
1977 Howard Brown Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today
1978 Ginny Vida, ed. Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book
1979 Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality
1980 Winston Leyland, ed. Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature
1981 John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
1982 Lillian Faderman Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
1982 J.R. Roberts Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
1982 Vito Russo The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
1983 No award given.
1984 John D'Emilio Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
1985 Judy Grahn Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
1986 Cindy Patton Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS
1987 Walter Williams The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
1988 Joan Nestle A Restricted Country
1988 Randy Shilts And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
1989 Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library
1989 Sarah Schulman After Delores
1990 Non-fiction Neil Miller In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change
1990 Literature David B. Feinberg Eighty-Sixed
1991 Non-fiction Wayne Dynes, ed. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality ((William Armstrong Percy)
1991 Literature Minnie Bruce Pratt Crime against Nature
1992 Non-fiction Lillian Faderman Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America
1992 Literature Paul Monette Halfway Home
1993 Non-fiction Eric Marcus Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990
1993 Literature Essex Hemphill Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
1994 Non-fiction Phyllis Burke Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son
1994 Literature Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
1995 Non-fiction Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature
1995 Non-fiction Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
1995 Literature Marion Dane Bauer Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
1996 Non-fiction Urvashi Vaid Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
1996 Literature Jim Grimsley Dream Boy
1997 Non-fiction Fenton Johnson Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
1997 Literature Emma Donoghue Hood (novel)
1998 Non-fiction Adam Mastoon The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
1998 Literature Lucy Jane Bledsoe Working Parts: A Novel
1999 Non-fiction Sarah Schulman Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
1999 Literature Michael Cunningham The Hours
2000 Non-fiction Barrie Jean Borich My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage
2000 Literature Marci Blackman Po Man's Child: A Novel
2001 Non-fiction William N. Eskridge Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
2001 Literature Sarah Waters Affinity
2002 Non-fiction Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
2002 Literature Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project The Laramie Project
2003 Non-fiction Joanne Meyerowitz How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States
2003 Literature Noel Alumit Letters to Montgomery Clift : a Novel
2004 Non-fiction John D'Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
2004 Literature Monique Truong The Book of Salt
2005 Non-fiction Joan Roughgarden Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People
2005 Literature Colm Tóibín The Master
2006 Non-fiction Joshua Gamson The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco
2006 Literature Abha Dawesar Babyji
2007 Non-fiction Alison Bechdel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
2007 Literature Andrew Holleran Grief: A Novel

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