Stonewall Book Awards List

The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

The 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 and Young Adult Literature Award are presented to English language works published the year prior to the announcement date. The award is announced in January and presented to the winning authors or editors at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June or July.

Winners for: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971.

2024

Barbara Gittings Literature & POETRY Award

"Freedom House” by KB Brookins (Deep Vellum)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

“Hijab Butch Blues” by Lamya H (The Dial Press)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• “Cross My Heart and Never Lie” by Nora Dåsnes and translated by Matt Bagguley (Hippo Park, Astra Books)
• “Only This Beautiful Moment” by Abdi Nazemian (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins)

Stonewall Honor Books Literature

• “More Sure” by A. Light Zachary (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• “GHOST :: SEEDS” by Sebastian Merrill (Texas Review Press)
• “Gay Poems for Red States”, by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. (University Press of Kentucky)
• "The Skin and Its Girl", by Sarah Cypher (Ballantine Books)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” by Curtis Chin (Little, Brown, and Company)
• “Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary” by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (Verso)
• “Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture” by Matt Baume (Smart Pop)
• "Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City", by Elyssa Maxx Goodman (Hanover Square Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• “Desert Queen” by Jyoti Rajan Gopal, illustrated by Svabhu Kolhi (Levine Querido)
• “Not He or She, I'm Me” by A.M. Wild, illustrated by Kah Yangni (Henry Holt and Co.)
• “The Otherwoods”, by Justine Pucella Winans (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
• “Stars in Their Eyes” by Jessica Walton, illustrated by Aśka (Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic)
• “Ander & Santi Were Here” by Jonny Garza Villa (Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing)
• “Imogen, Obviously” by Becky Albertalli (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins)
• “The Long Run” by James Acker (Inkyard Press)
• “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth” by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing)

2023

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

“The Other Mother” by Rachel M. Harper (Counterpoint Press)

Inaugural Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry

“Revenge Body” by Rachel Wiley (Button Poetry)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

• “The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison” by Hugh Ryan (Bold Type Books)
• “Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist” by Cecilia Gentili (Little Puss Press)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• “Love, Violet” by Charlotte Sullivan Wilde and illustrated by Charlene Chua (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
• “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido)

Stonewall Honor Books Literature

• “Dead Collections” by Isaac Fellman (Penguin Books)
• “Dominant Genes” by SJ Sindu (Black Lawrence Press)
• “How to Identify Yourself with a Wound”, b KB Brookins (Kallisto Gaia Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• “Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture” by Sherronda J. Brown (North Atlantic Books)
• “High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir” by Edgar Gomez (Soft Skull Press)
• “Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay” by Lars Horn (Graywolf Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• “In the Key of Us” by Mariama J. Lockington (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
• “Kapaemahu” by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
• “The Real Riley Mayes” written and illustrated by Rachel Elliott (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, and HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
• “Strong” by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)
• “I Kissed Shara Wheeler” by Casey McQuiston (Wednesday Books)
• “Kings of B’More” by R. Eric Thomas (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
• “Man o’War” by Cory McCarthy (Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
• “The Summer of Bitter and Sweet” by Jen Ferguson (Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

2022

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

"Sorrowland" by Rivers Solomon (MCDxFSG)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

"Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir" by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• “Too Bright to See” by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
• “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo (Dutton Books, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• “Light From Uncommon Stars” by Ryka Aoki (Tor Books)
• “Black Girl, Call Home” by Jasmine Mans (Berkley)
• “Stone Fruit” by Lee Lai (Fantagraphic Books)
• “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers (Tor Books)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• "Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience" by Zoë Playdon (Scribner)
• "A History of Scars" by Laura Lee (Atria Paperback)
• "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993" by Sarah Schulman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• "Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• “Almost Flying,” written by Jake Maia Arlow (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
• The Darkness Outside Us,'' written by Eliot Schrefer (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
• “Grandad’s Camper,” illustrated and written by Harry Woodgate (Little Bee Books)

2021

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

"The Thirty Names of Night" by Zeyn Joukhadar (Atria Books)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

"Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games" by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them) (Duke University Press)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

“We Are Little Feminists: Families” designed by Lindsey Blakely, written by Archaa Shrivastav (Little Feminist)

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi, (Riverhead Books)
• “Memorial” by Bryan Washington, (Riverhead Books)
• “More Than Organs” by Kay Ulanday Barrett, (Sibling Rivalry Press)
• “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz, (Graywolf Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature Shortlist

• "Boys of Alabama" by Genevieve Hudson, (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
• "Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel" by Emily M. Danforth & Sara Lautman, ( William Morrow and Company)
• "The Pull of the Stars" by Emma Donoghue, (Little, Brown and Company)
• "The Subtweet" by Vivek Shraya, ( ECW Press)
• "Too Much Lip" by Melissa Lucashenko, (HarperVia)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" by Jenn Shapland, (Tin House Books)
• "The Fixed Stars: A Memoir" by Molly Wizenberg, (Abrams Press, an imprint of ABRAMS)
• "Paper Bullets" by Jeffrey H. Jackson, (Algonquin Books, a division of Workman Publishing)
• "XOXY: A Memoir" by Kimberly M. Zieselman, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• “Beetle & The Hollowbones,” illustrated and written by Aliza Layne (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)
• “Darius the Great Deserves Better,'' written by Adib Khorram (Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
• “Felix Ever After” written by Kacen Callender (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
• “You Should See Me in a Crown,” written by Leah Johnson (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.)

2020

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House); ISBN 9780525521693

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster); ISBN 9781501132735

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (Lee & Low Books Inc.); ISBN 9781620148372
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta with illustrations by Anshika Khullar (Hodder Children’s Books, an imprint of Hachette Children’s Group, part of Hodder and Stoughton); ISBN 9781444948592

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House); ISBN 9780525533689
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House); ISBN 9780525562023
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company); ISBN 9781631497896
• War/Torn by Hasan Namir (Book*hug Press); ISBN 9781771664936

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (Lion Forge, an imprint of Oni Press); ISBN 9781549304002
• I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp Press); ISBN 9781551527758
• In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press); ISBN 9781644450031
• She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle (Sourcebooks); ISBN 9781492666943

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC); ISBN 9780525647072
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers); ISBN 9780062839367
• The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers); ISBN 9780062866417

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2019

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Thorndike Prss); ISBN 9781432859701

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst (London: Repeater Press); ISBN 9781910924716

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (London: Walker Books and Subsidiaries); ISBN 9781406386424
• Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender (New York: Scholastic Press); ISBN 9781338129311

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Forward by Lisa Maas (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press); ISBN 9781551527222
• Luisa: Now and Then by Carole Maurel, adapted by Mariko Tamaki, translated from French by Nanette McGuinness (Los Angeles: Life Drawn); ISBN 9781594656439
• Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (Harper); ISBN 9780719523908
• White Houses by Amy Bloom (Random House); ISBN 9781783781744

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press); ISBN 9781469641096
• Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and Intersex Child by Eric and Stephani Lohman (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers); ISBN 9781784506520
• Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler (Liveright); ISBN 9781631495953
• The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois (Bloomsbury USA); ISBN 9781635572988

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake (Little, Brown); ISBN 9780316515474
• Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert (Disney Hyperion Press); ISBN 9781484734117

2018

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (New York: Topside Press); ISBN 9781627290180

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (Los Angeles: Ammo Books); ISBN 9781623261054

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux); ISBN 9780374303235
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (New York: Little, Brown and Company); ISBN 9780316349000

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Marriage of a Thousand Lies By SJ Sindu (New York: Soho Press); ISBN 9781616957902
• A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press); ISBN 9781551526805
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (New York: Akashic Books); ISBN 9781617755996
• When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen (Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd.); ISBN 9781942683339

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press); ISBN 9781517901738
• The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press); ISBN 9780299311407
• LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Bennett Singer and David Deschamps (New York: The New Press); ISBN 9781620972441

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• As the Crow Flies written and illustrated by Melanie Gillman (Chicago: Iron Circus Comics); ISBN 9781945820069
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (New York: Katherine Tegen Books); ISBN 9780062382818

2017

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Desert Boys, by Chris McCormick (New York: Picador); ISBN: 9781250075505

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor, by Rick Riordan (Los Angeles: Disney-Hyperion); ISBN: 9781423160922
• If I Was Your Girl, by Meredith Russo (New York: Flatiron Books); ISBN: 9781250078407

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Beautiful gravity: a novel, by Martin Hyatt (New York: ANTIBOOKCLUB); ISBN: 9780997592306
• Dig, by Bryan Borland (Fairfax, Virginia: Stillhouse Press); ISBN: 9780990516989
• Guapa, by Saleem Haddad (New York: Other Press); ISBN: 9781590517697
• Hide: a novel, by Matthew Griffin (New York: Bloomsbury USA); ISBN: 9781632863386

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Not straight, not white: black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis, by Kevin J. Mumford (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press); ISBN: 9781469626840
• One-man show: the life and art of Bernard Perlin, by Michael Schreiber (Berlin: Bruno Gmünder GmbH); ISBN: 9783959850186
• Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality, edited by Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, et. al. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Rethinking Schools); ISBN: 9780942961591
• Tomboy Survival Guide, by Ivan E Coyote (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press); ISBN: 9781551526560

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin); ISBN: 9781250058669
• Unbecoming, by Jenny Downham (New York: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc.); ISBN: 9780545907170
• Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community, by Robin Stevenson (Victoria, British Columbia: Orca Book Publishers); ISBN: 9781459809932

2016

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Gods of Tango, by Carolina De Robertis (New York: Alfred A. Knopf); ISBN: 9781101874493

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, by Kenji Yoshino (New York: Crown Publishers); ISBN: 9780385348805

Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

• Children's Award: George by Alex Gino (New York: Scholastic Press); ISBN: 9780545812542
• Young Adult Award: The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg, (New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.); ISBN: 9780545648936

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Apocalypse Baby, by Virginie Despentes (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY); ISBN: 9781558618916
• For Your Own Good, by Leah Horlick (Halfmoon Bay, BC, Canada: Caitlin Press); ISBN: 9781927575673
• Jam On The Vine, by LaShonda Katrice Barnett (New York: Grove Press); ISBN: 9780802123343
• Lum: a novel, by Libby Ware (Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press); ISBN: 9781631520037

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, by Amy Ellis Nutt (New York: Random House); ISBN: 9780812995411
• The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, by Lillian Faderman (New York: Simon & Schuster); ISBN: 9781451694116
• Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions, by Michael Helquist (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press); ISBN: 9780870715952
• Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination, by Doug Meyer (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press); ISBN: 9780813573168

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU, by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth (New York, NY : Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press); ISBN: 9781609806064
• Wonders of the Invisible World, by Christopher Barzak (New York: Alfred A. Knopf); ISBN: 9780385392792

2015

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Prelude to Bruise, by Saeed Jones (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press); ISBN: 9781566893749

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle (New York: New York University Press); ISBN: 9781479894673

Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

This Day in June, by Gayle E. Pitman (Washington, D.C.: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association); ISBN: 9781433816581

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Bitter Eden, by Tatamkhulu Afrika (New York: Picador USA); ISBN: 9781250043665
• Frog Music, by Emma Donoghue (New York: Little, Brown and Company); ISBN: 9780316324687
• The Two Hotel Francforts, by David Leavitt (New York: Bloomsbury); ISBN: 9781596910423
• My Real Children, by Jo Walton (New York: Tor Book); ISBN: 9780765332653

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Gay Berlin, by Robert Beachy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf); ISBN: 9780307272102
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock (New York: Atria Books); ISBN: 9781476709123
• Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS, by Martin Duberman (New York: The New Press); ISBN: 9781595589453
• Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, by Rachel Hope Cleves (New York: Oxford University Press); ISBN: 9780199335428

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

• Beyond Magenta: Transgender teens speak out, by Susan Kuklin (Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press); ISBN: 9780763656119
• I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson (New York: Dial Books, published by the Penguin Group); ISBN: 9780803734968
• Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchio, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant (Berkley, CA: Groundwood Books, an imprint of House of Anansi Press); ISBN: 9781554983476

2014

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

2013

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

2012

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

2011

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson, (Harper Perennial) ISBN: 978-0061732270

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf) ISBN: 978-0307270948

Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte Press) ISBN: 978-0385736640

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Probation by Tom Mendicino, (Kensington) ISBN: 978-0758238788
• The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge, (Counterpoint) ISBN: 978-1582435763
• Holding Still for As Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall, (House of Anansi) ISBN: 978-0887842344

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• The Right To Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools by Stuart Biegel, (University of Minnesota Press) ISBN: 978-0816674572
• A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffat, (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) ISBN: 978-0374166786
• Just Kids by Patti Smith, (Ecco) ISBN: 978-0066211312
• Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring, (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) ISBN: 978-0374281342

Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan, (Dutton (Penguin)) ISBN: 978-0525421580
• Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin, (Little, Brown & Co) ISBN: 978-0316049962
• Love Drugged by James Klise, (Flux) ISBN: 978-0738721750
• The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake, (Razorbill (Penguin)) ISBN: 978-1595142993

2010

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Stray Dog Winter: A Novel by David Francis, (MacAdam/Cage) ISBN: 9781596923157

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN: 9780312373481

Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd, (Penguin Group) ISBN: 9780803733404

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• God Says No by James Hannaham, (McSweeney's) ISBN: 9781934781401
• Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin, (City Lights Publishers) ISBN: 9780872864733

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman By Stuart E. Weisberg, (University of Massachusetts Press) ISBN: 9781558497214
• Black Bull, Ancestors and Me by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde, (Femela) ISBN: 9781920196066
• The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) ISBN: 9780297819974
• I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, (Oxford University Press) ISBN: 9780195341485

Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature

• 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert, (Seven Stories Press) ISBN: 9781583228500
• Daddy, Papa, and Me by Lesléa Newman, (Tricycle Press) ISBN: 9781582462622
• Gay America: Struggle for Equality by Linas Alsenas, (Amulet/Abrams) ISBN: 9780810994874
• Mommy, Mama, and Me by Lesléa Newman, (Tricycle Press) ISBN: 9781582462639
• Sprout by Dale Peck, (Bloomsbury) ISBN: 9781599901602

2009

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg, (Soho Press) ISBN: 9781569474679

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr., (Viking) ISBN: 9780670018628

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• The Conversion , by Joseph Olshan, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN: 9780312373917
• A Perfect Waiter: A Novel by Alain Claude Sulzer, (Bloomsbury) ISBN: 9780747590231
• The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue, (Harcourt) ISBN: 9780151015498

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad by Bob Morris, (Harper) ISBN: 9780061374128
• Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster by Joanne Ellen Passet, (Da Capo Press) ISBN: 9780786718221
• Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson, (University of North Carolina Press) ISBN: 9780807832097
• Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever by Joel Derfner, (Broadway Books) ISBN: 9780767924306

2008

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery, (Riverhead Books) ISBN: 9781594489303

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780061171000

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote, (Arsenal Pulp Press) ISBN: 9781551522135
• Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany, (Carroll & Graf Publishers) ISBN: 9780786719471
• The Indian Clerk: A Novel by David Leavitt, (Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers) ISBN: 9781596910416
• The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott, (Carroll & Graf Publishers) ISBN: 9780786717941

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam, (Harcourt) ISBN: 9780151011964
• The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman edited by Stephen Pascal, (Alfred A. Knopf) ISBN: 9781400044399
• Two lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm, (Yale University Press) ISBN: 9780300125511
• Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN: 9780312341015

2007

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Grief by Andrew Holleran, (Hyperion) ISBN: 9781401302504

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, (Houghton Mifflin) ISBN: 9780618477944

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• The Manny Files by Christian Burch, (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) ISBN: 9781416900399
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, (Riverhead Books) ISBN: 9781594489051
• Rose of No Man's Land: A Novel by Michelle Tea, (MacAdam/Cage Publishing) ISBN: 9781596921603
• A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt, (Suspect Thoughts Press) ISBN: 9780976341147

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino, (Random House) ISBN: 9780375508202
• Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach, (Carroll & Graf) ISBN: 9780786716333
• Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships by William Benemann, (Harrington Park Press) ISBN: 9781560233442
• Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir by Kevin Jennings, (Beacon Press) ISBN: 9780807071465

2006

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Babyji: a novel by Abha Dawesar, (Anchor Books) ISBN: 9781400034567

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

The fabulous Sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson, (H. Holt) ISBN: 9780805072501

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Acqua calda by Keith McDermott, (Carroll & Graf Publishers) ISBN: 9780786715084
• The first verse: a novel by Barry McCrea, (Carroll & Graf Publishers) ISBN: 9780786715138
• Mother of sorrows by Richard McCann, (Pantheon Books) ISBN: 9780679411765
• The wild creatures: collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro by Sam D'Allesandro; edited by Kevin Killian, (Suspect Thoughts Press) ISBN: 9780976341116

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• My one-night stand with cancer by Tania Katan, (Alyson Books) ISBN: 9781555838904
• Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook, (University of Chicago Press) ISBN: 9780226354606
• The secret life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna, (Basic Books) ISBN: 9780465044382
• The tragedy of today's gays by Larry Kramer, (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) ISBN: 9781585424276

2005

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín, (Scribner) ISBN: 9780743250405

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden, (University of California Press) ISBN: 9780520240735

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• I Am My Own Wife: a Play by Doug Wright, (Faber & Faber) ISBN: 9780571211746
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, (Bloomsbury) ISBN: 9781582345086
• Luna: a Novel by Julie Anne Peters, (Megan Tingley Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company) ISBN: 9780316733694
• A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo, (Houghton Mifflin) ISBN: 9780618439232

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality by Patrick Moore, (Beacon Press) ISBN: 9780807079560
• Both: a Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas Crase, (Pantheon) ISBN: 9780375422669
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, (Little, Brown and Company) ISBN: 9780316143462
• Warrior Poet: a Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux, (W. W. Norton) ISBN: 9780393019544

2004

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong, (Houghton Mifflin Company) ISBN: 9780618304004

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio, (Free Press) ISBN: 9780684827803

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Cutting Room by Louise Welsh, (Canongate) ISBN: 9781841954042
• Keeping you a Secret by Julie Ann Peters, (Little, Brown & Co.) ISBN: 9780316702751
• Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel by Christopher Bram, (William Morrow) ISBN: 9780060542535
• Southland by Nina Revoyr, (Akashic Books) ISBN: 9781888451412

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson, (Bloomsbury) ISBN: 9781582341989
• Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context edited by Vern L. Bullough, R.N., Ph.D., (Harrington Park Press) ISBN: 9781560231929
• Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead,Ruth Benedict, and their Circle by Lois W. Banner, (Knopf) ISBN: 9780679454359
• Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman, (Applause Books)ISBN: 9781557835888

2003

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Letters to Montgomery Clift: a Novel by Noel Alumit, (MacAdam/Cage Pub) ISBN: 1931561028

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz, ( Harvard University Press) ISBN: 0674009258

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenidies, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) ISBN: 0374199698
• Lantern Bearers: Novel by Ronald Frame, (Counterpoint) ISBN: 1582431558
• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neil, (Scribner) ISBN: 0743222946
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, (Riverhead Books) ISBN: 1573222038

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's and Mine by Noelle Howey, (Picador USA) ISBN: 0312269218, ISBN:031242258X
• Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950's by Neil Miller, (Alyson Books) ISBN: 1555836593
• Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveria, translated by Niel K. Besner, (Rutgers University Press) ISBN: 0813530334
• Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography by Jerry Roscoe, (Univ of Wisconsin Press) ISBN: 0299177300

2002

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project, (Vintage Books) ISBN 0375727191

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth, (Nan A. Talese) ISBN 0385494688

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ISBN 0374228590
• Guess Again: Short Stories by Bernard Cooper, (Simon & Schuster) ISBN 0684865866
• Welsh Boys Too by John Sam Jones, (Parthian Books) ISBN 1902638115
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy, (Bloomsbury) ISBN 1582341427

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America by Louise A. Blum, (University of Wisconsin Press) ISBN 029917090X; ISBN 0299170942
• Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, (Basic Books) ISBN 0465015131
• How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story by Kirk Read, (Hill Street Press) ISBN 1588180395
• The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights by Arlene Stein, (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807079529
• Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS edited by Edmund White with The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, (University of Wisconsin Press) ISBN 0299170705

2001

Literature Award

Affinity by Sarah Waters, (Riverhead Books) ISBN 1573221562

Non-Fiction Award

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge, (Harvard University Press) ISBN 0674341619

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• Breakfast with Scot: A Novel by Michael Downing, (Counterpoint) ISBN 1582430276
• The Danish Girl: A Novel by David Ebershoff, (Viking) ISBN 0670888087
• The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312209436
• The Night Listener: A Novel by Armistead Maupin, (HarperCollins) ISBN 006017143X

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults by Frances Ann Day, (Greenwood Press) ISBN 0313311625
• Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder by Beth Loffreda, (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231118589
• Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William Murray, (Simon & Schuster) ISBN 0684809664
• Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick, (Henry Holt) ISBN 0805064036; ISBN 080506379X

2000

Literature Award

Po Man's Child: A Novel by Marci Blackman, (Manic D Press) ISBN 0916397599

Non-Fiction Award

My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich, (Greywolf Press) ISBN 1555972926

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• Comfort & Joy: A Novel by Jim Grimsley, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) ISBN 156512250X
• Mr. Dalloway: A Novella by Robin Lippincott, (Sarabande Books) ISBN 1889330280; ISBN 1889330299
• Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky, (Turtle Point Press) ISBN 1885983409
• Last Rights: Poems by Marvin K. White, (Alyson Books) ISBN 1555835104

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel.Andriote, (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 0226020495
• Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312192398
• Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060193743
• Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) ISBN 0374190976

1999

Literature Award

The Hours by Michael Cunningham, (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux) ISBN 0374172897

Non-Fiction Award

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman, (Duke University Press) ISBN 0822321327; ISBN 0822322641

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• Science Fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, (Overlook Press) ISBN 0879518561
• Switch by Carol Guess, (Calyx Books) ISBN 0934971617; ISBN 0934971609
• An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312186754
• Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems by Pamela Sneed, (Henry Holt) ISBN 0805054731; ISBN 080505474X

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport by Pat Griffin, (Human Kinetics) ISBN 088011729X
• The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History by John Loughery, (Henry Holt) ISBN 0805038965
• A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings by Joan Nestle, (Cleis Press) ISBN 157344040X
• The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by Barbara Smith, (Rutgers University Press) ISBN 081352573X

1998

Literature Award

Working Parts: A Novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe, (Seal Press) ISBN 187806794X

Non-Fiction Award

The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon, (William Morrow and Co./Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books) ISBN 0688149316

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• Prozac Highway: A Novel by Persimmon Blackbridge, (Press Gang Publishers) ISBN 088974078X
• Beyond the Pale: A Novel by Elana Dykewomon, (Press Gang Publishers) ISBN 0889740747
• In Awe by Scott Heim, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060186879
• The Escape Artist: A Novel by Judith Katz, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 1563410850; ISBN 1563410842

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Hospital Time by Amy Hoffman, (Duke University Press) ISBN 0822319276; ISBN 0822319209
• Queerly Classed edited by Susan Raffo, (South End Press) ISBN 0896085627; ISBN 0896085619
• Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 by James T. Sears, (Westview Press) ISBN 0813324742
• Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation by Arlene Stein, (University of California Press) ISBN 0520202570; ISBN 0520206746

1997

Literature Award

Hood by Emma Donoghue, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060171103

Non-Fiction Award

Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson, (Scribner) ISBN 068481417X

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran, (Morrow) ISBN 0688048579
• Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai, (Morrow) ISBN 0688145957
• Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale,(Riverhead Books) ISBN 1573220175
• Bailey's Beads by Terry Wolverton, (Faber and Faber) ISBN 0571198910

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media by Edward Alwood, (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231084366
• Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman, (HarperPerennial) ISBN 0060951044
• Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty (HarperCollins) ISBN 006017210X
• Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia by David Tuller, (Faber and Faber) ISBN 0571198902

1996

Literature Award

Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) ISBN 1565121066

Non-Fiction Award

Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, (Anchor Books) ISBN 0385472986

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison, (Dutton) ISBN 0525939210
• Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060248793
• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse, (Paradox Press) ISBN 1563892162
• The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price, (Scribner) ISBN 0684801493

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s Linnea Due, (Anchor Books) ISBN 0385475004
• The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz, (Dutton) ISBN 0525938451
• S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 1563410591
• The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage edited by Claude J. Summers, (J. Holt) ISBN 0805027165

1995

Literature Award

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060242531; ISBN 006024254X

Non-Fiction Award

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature Dorothy Allison, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 1563410451; ISBN 1563410443

Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein, (Fletcher Press) ISBN 0964177900

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo, (Arte Publico Press) ISBN 1558851208; ISBN 1558851119
• Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present edited by Lillian Faderman, (Viking Penguin) ISBN 0670846384
• The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel by Ellen Galford, (Seal Press) ISBN 1878067516
• Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker, (W.W. Norton) ISBN 039303674X

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey, (Basic Books) ISBN 0465026338
• Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond Murray, (TLA Publications) ISBN 1880707012
• Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston, (HarperSanFrancisco) ISBN 006251055X; ISBN 0062510568

1994

Literature Award

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg,(Firebrand Books) ISBN 156341029X

Non-Fiction Award

Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke, (Random House) ISBN 0679421882

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• She's Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen, (Third Side Press) ISBN 1879427117
• Scissors, Paper, Rock by Johnson, Fenton Johnson, (Pocket Books) ISBN 0671795414
• The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga, (South End Press) ISBN 0896084663
• Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology edited by Bennett L. Singer, (New Press) ISBN 1565841026

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Stonewall by Martin B. Duberman, (Dutton) ISBN 0525936025
• Lesbian Culture: An Anthology edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe, eds. (Crossing Press) ISBN 0895945916
• The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families by April Martin, (HarperPerennial) ISBN 0060969296
• Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law by William B. Rubenstein, (New Press) ISBN 1565840372

1993

Literature Award

Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill, (Plume) ISBN 0452268176

Non-Fiction Award

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060167084

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• Almost History by Christopher Bram, (Donald I. Fine) ISBN 1556112319
• The Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley, (Simon & Schuster) ISBN 0671708184
• Vital Ties by Karen Kringle, (Spinsters) ISBN 0933216904
• Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, (Jonathan Cape) ISBN 0224035878

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life by Betty Berzon, (Celestial Arts) ISBN 0890876762
• The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrau, (New Chapter Press) ISBN 0942257324
• Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) ISBN 0151115192
• Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton, (GMP) ISBN 0854491880
• A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write about Their Families edited by John Preston, (Dutton) ISBN 0525935495

1992

Literature Award

Halfway Home by Paul Monette, (Crown) ISBN 0517583291

Non-Fiction Award

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman, (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231074883

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon, (Aunt Lute) ISBN 187996001X
• Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill, (Alyson Publications) ISBN 155583146X
• Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne, (Third Side Press) ISBN 1879427001
• A Stone Gone Mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park, (Random House) ISBN 0394558618
• An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich, (W.W. Norton) ISBN 0393308316
• The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets edited by Assoto Saint, (Galiens Press) ISBN 0962167517
• Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology edited by Makeda Silvera, (Sister Vision Press) ISBN 0920813658
• The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer, (Atlantic Monthly Press) ISBN 0871134683

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum, (Spinsters) ISBN 093321684X
• Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men by Gary David Comstock, (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231073305
• Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey by Martin Duberman, (Dutton) ISBN 0525249559
• The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe, (University of New Mexico Press) ISBN 0826312535
• Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt, (Random House) ISBN 0679735992

1991

Literature Award

Crime against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 0932379729

Non-Fiction Award

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes, (Garland) ISBN 0824065441

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN 0374172501
• Music I Never Dreamed of by John Gilgun,(Amethyst Press) ISBN 0927200023
• A Place I've Never Been by David Leavitt, (Viking) ISBN 0670821969
• Out of Time by Paula Martinac, (Seal Press) ISBN 0931188911
• Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler, (Scribner's) ISBN 0684191857

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Berube, (Free Press) ISBN 0029031001
• Gay and Lesbian Library Service edited by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt, (McFarland) ISBN 089950535X
• Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret Hinch, (University of California Press) ISBN 0520067207
• My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present by Mary Ann Humphrey, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060164468
• Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends by Janice E. Rench, (Lerner Publications) ISBN 0822500442
• The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement . by Stuart Timmons, (Alyson Publications) ISBN 1555831753
• The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman, (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807079049

1990

Literature Award

Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg, (Viking) ISBN 0670823155

Non-Fiction Award

In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller, (Atlantic Monthly Press) ISBN 0871133040

Stonewall Literature Finalists

• In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram, (Donald I. Fine) ISBN 155611138X
• A Place at the Table by Edith Konecky, (Random House) ISBN 0394575229
• Equal Affections by David Leavitt, (Penguin) ISBN 0140109587
• In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers edited by Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn, (Clothespin Fever Press) ISBN 0961657251

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

• When Someone You Know is Gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen, (M. Evans) ISBN 087131567X
• Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., (New American Library) ISBN 0453006892
• Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group, (The Women's Press (London)) ISBN 0704341751
• Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS edited by John Preston, (St. Martin Press) ISBN 0312034121

1989

The Swimming-Pool Library by Andrew Hollinghurst, (Random House) ISBN 0394570251

After Delores by Sarah Schulman, (Dutton) ISBN 052524641X

1988

A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 0932379370

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312009941

1987

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams, (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807046027

1986

Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton, (South End Press) ISBN 0896082598

1985

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn, (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807067164

1984

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio, (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 02226142655

1983

No award given.

1982

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman, (Morrow) ISBN 0688003966

Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts, (Naiad Press) ISBN 0930044215

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo, (Harper & Row) ISBN 0060908718

1981

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, (Spinsters, Ink) ISBN 0933216033

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell, (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 0226067106

1980

Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature edited by Winston Leyland, (Gay Sunshine Press) ISBN 0917342674

1979

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) ISBN 0151677077

1978

Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book edited by Ginny Vida, (Prentice-Hall) ISBN 0136444016

1977

Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) ISBN 0156301202

1976

No award given.

1975

Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature edited by Jonathan Katz, (Arno Press) [Series of historically significant reprints]

Series Title: Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature

• Documents of the homosexual rights movement in Germany, 1836-1927. New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 9780405073670
• Eros: an anthology of friendship. edited by Alistair Sutherland and Patrick Anderson, New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 9780405073939
• Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon. by Miss Mary Ann Woods and Miss Jane Pirie; Lady Helen Cumming Gordon; Allan Manconochie and Lord Meadowbank, New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 9780405074035

1974

Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)

• FULL TEXT of: Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)
• Printed Copies of: Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)

1973

No award given.

1972

The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher, (Stein & Day) ISBN 0812814312

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Glide Publications) ISBN: 9780912078205

1971

A Place for Us by Isabel Miller, (published in October, 1971 by McGraw Hill as Patience and Sarah ) ISBN: 9780070420359