Stonewall Book Award

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2018
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Meanwhile, elsewhere : science fiction and fantasy from transgender writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Queer threads : crafting identity and community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
The 57 bus by Dashka Slater; Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Marriage of a thousand lies By SJ Sindu
A place called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
An unkindness of ghosts by Rivers Solomon
When I grow up, I want to be a list of further possibilities by Chen Chen
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
The black penguin by Andrew Evans
LGBTQ stats : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people by the numbers by Bennett Singer and David Deschamps
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature
As the crow flies, written and illustrated by Melanie Gillman
The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee

2017
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Desert boys by Chris McCormick
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: How to survive a plague : the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
Children's Award: Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard : the hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
Young Adult Award: If I was your girl by Meredith Russo
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Beautiful gravity: a novel by Martin Hyatt
Dig by Bryan Borland
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Hide: a novel by Matthew Griffin
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
One-man show: the life and art of Bernard Perlin
Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality, edited by Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, et. al
Tomboy survival guide by Ivan E. Coyote
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature
When the moon was ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Pride : celebrating diversity & community by Robin Stevenson

2016
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The gods of tango : a novel by Carolina De Robertis
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Speak now : marriage equality on trial : the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry by Kenji Yoshino
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
Children's Award: George by Alex Gino
Young Adult Award: The porcupine of truth by Bill Konigsberg
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Apocalypse baby by Virginie Despentes; translated by Siân Reynolds
For your own good by Leah Horlick
Jam on the vine : a novel by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Lum: a novel by Libby Ware
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family by Amy Ellis Nutt
The gay revolution : the story of the struggle by Lillian Faderman
Marie Equi : radical politics and outlaw passions by Michael Helquist
Violence against queer people : race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination by Doug Meyer
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sex is a funny word by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
Wonders of the invisible world by Christopher Barzak

2015
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Prelude to bruise by Saeed Jones
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Living out Islam : voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: This day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Bitter Eden by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Frog music : a novel by Emma Donoghue
The two Hotel Francforts : a novel by David Leavitt
My real children by Jo Walton
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Gay Berlin : birthplace of a modern identity by Robert Beachy
Redefining realness : my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more by Janet Mock
Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out by Susan Kuklin
I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress by Christine Baldacchio ; illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant

2014
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Art on fire by Hilary Sloin
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: American honor killings : desire and rage among men by David McConnell; Raising my rainbow : adventures in raising a fabulous, gender creative son by Lori Duron
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Beautiful music for ugly children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills;
Fat Angie by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
A strange and separate people by Jon Marans
Everything begins & ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
A little gay history : desire and diversity across the world by R. B. Parkinson
Fairyland : a memoir of my father by Alysia Abbott
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Better Nate than ever by Tim Federle
Branded by the pink triangle by Ken Setterington
Two boys kissing by David Levithan

2013
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The last nude by Ellis Avery
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: For colored boys who have considered suicide when the rainbow is still not enough : coming of age, coming out, and coming home, edited by Keith Boykin
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The absolutist by John Boyne
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Chulito by Charles Rice-González
The unreal life of Sergey Nabokov : a novel by Paul Russell
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America by Christopher Bram
When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution by Jeanne Córdova
Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? : flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification, and the desire to conform, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Drama, written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Gone, gone, gone by Hannah Moskowitz
October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
Sparks : the epic, completely true blue, (almost) holy quest of Debbie by S. J. Adams

2012
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Sweet like sugar by Wayne Hoffman
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Hide/Seek : difference and desire in American portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward; and A queer history of the United States by Michael Bronski
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Putting makeup on the fat boy by Bil Wright
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The temperamentals : a new play by Jon Marans
Remembrance of things I forgot : a novel by Bob Smith
Annabel : a novel by Kathleen Winter
The picture of Dorian Gray : an annotated, uncensored edition by Oscar Wilde ; edited by Nicholas Frankel
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Nina here nor there : my journey beyond gender by Nick Krieger
Persistence : all ways butch and femme, edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman
Seeing Gertrude Stein : five stories by Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer
The picture of Dorian Gray : an annotated, uncensored edition by Oscar Wilde ; edited by Nicholas Frankel
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
With or without you by Brian Farrey
A + E 4ever : a graphic novel, drawn and written by Ilike Merey
Money boy by Paul Yee

2011
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: More of this world or maybe another by Barb Johnson
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Inseparable : desire between women in literature by Emma Donoghue
Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Almost perfect by Brian Katcher
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Probation by Tom Mendicino
The more I owe you : a novel by Michael Sledge
Holding still for as long as possible by Zoe Whittall
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
The right to be out : sexual orientation and gender identity in America's public schools by Stuart Biegel
A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffa
Just kids by Patti Smith
Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade by Justin Spring
Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Freaks and revelations : a novel by Davida Wills Hurwin
Love drugged by James Klise
The boy in the dress by David Walliams ; illustrated by Quentin Blake

2010
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Stray dog winter : a novel by David Francis
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Unfriendly fire : how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America by Nathaniel Frank
Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: The vast fields of ordinary by Nick Burd
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
God says no by James Hannaham
Beauty salon by Mario Bellatin
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Barney Frank : the story of America's only left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg
Black bull, ancestors and me : my life as a lesbian sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
The Greeks and Greek love : a radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson
I am your sister : collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd
Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature:
10,000 dresses by Marcus Ewert
Daddy, papa, and me by Lesléa Newman
Gay America : struggle for equality by Linas Alsenas
Mommy, mama, and me by Lesléa Newman
Sprout by Dale Peck

2009
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Light fell by Evan Fallenberg
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Dishonorable passions : sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The conversion by Joseph Olshan
A perfect waiter : a novel by Alain Claude Sulzer
The sealed letter by Emma Donoghue
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Assisted loving : true tales of double dating with my dad by Bob Morris
Sex variant woman : the life of Jeannette Howard Foster by Joanne Ellen Passet
Sweet tea : Black gay men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
Swish : my quest to become the gayest person ever by Joel Derfner

2008
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The teahouse fire by Ellis Avery
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Dog years : a memoir by Mark Doty
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Bow grip by Ivan E. Coyote
Dark reflections by Samuel R. Delany
The Indian clerk : a novel by David Leavitt
The IHOP papers by Ali Liebegott
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Transparent : love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers by Cris Beam
The grand surprise : the journals of Leo Lerman, edited by Stephen Pascal
Two lives : Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Mississippi sissy by Kevin Sessums

2007
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Grief by Andrew Holleran
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Fun Home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The Manny files by Christian Burch
The night watch by Sarah Waters
Rose of No Man's Land : a novel by Michelle Tea
A scarecrow's bible by Martin Hyatt
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Covering : the hidden assault on our civil rights by Kenji Yoshino
Gay power : an American revolution by David Eisenbach
Male-male intimacy in early America : beyond romantic friendships by William Benemann
Mama's boy, preacher's son : a memoir by Kevin Jennings

2006
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Babyji : a novel by Abha Dawesar
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: The fabulous Sylvester : the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Acqua calda by Keith McDermott
The first verse : a novel by Barry McCrea
Mother of sorrows by Richard McCann
The wild creatures : collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro by Sam D'Allesandro; edited by Kevin Killian
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
My one-night stand with cancer by Tania Katan
Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
The secret life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna
The tragedy of today's gays by Larry Kramer

2005
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The master : a novel by Colm Tóibín
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people by Joan Roughgarden
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
I am my own wife : a play by Doug Wright
The line of beauty : a novel by Alan Hollinghurst
Luna : a novel by Julie Anne Peters
A seahorse year by Stacey D'Erasmo
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Beyond shame : reclaiming the abandoned history of radical gay sexuality by Patrick Moore
Both : a portrait in two parts by Douglas Crase
Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris
Warrior poet : a biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux

2004
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The book of salt by Monique Truong
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Lost prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Cutting room by Louise Welsh
Keeping you a secret by Julie Ann Peters
Lives of the circus animals : a novel by Christopher Bram
Southland by Nina Revoyr
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Beautiful shadow : a life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
Before Stonewall : activists for gay and lesbian rights in historical context, edited by Vern L. Bullough
Intertwined lives : Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their circle by Lois W. Banner
Ridiculous! : the theatrical life and times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman

2003
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Letters to Montgomery Clift : a novel by Noel Alumit
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: How sex changed : a history of transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Lantern bearers : a novel by Ronald Frame
At swim, two boys : a novel by Jamie O'Neil
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Dress codes : of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine by Noelle Howey
Sex-crime panic : a journey to the paranoid heart of the 1950s by Neil Miller
Rare and commonplace flowers : the story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveria, translated by Niel K. Besner
Glenway Wescott personally : a biography by Jerry Roscoe

2002
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: The scarlet professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal by Barry Werth
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Pages for you by Sylvia Brownrigg
Guess again : short stories by Bernard Cooper
Welsh boys too by John Sam Jones
The heart Is deceitful above all things by J. T. LeRoy
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
You're not from around here, are you? : a lesbian in small-town America by Louise A. Blum
Courting justice : gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
How I learned to snap : a small-town coming-out and coming-of-age story by Kirk Read
The stranger next door : the story of a small community's battle over sex, faith, and civil rights by Arlene Stein
Loss within loss : artists in the age of AIDS, edited by Edmund White with The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS

2001
Literature Award: Affinity by Sarah Waters
Non-Fiction Award: Gaylaw : challenging the apartheid of the closet by William N. Eskridge
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Breakfast with Scot : a novel by Michael Downing
The Danish girl : a novel by David Ebershoff
The world in us : lesbian and gay poetry of the next wave : an anthology, edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
The night listener : a novel by Armistead Maupin
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
Losing Matt Shepard : life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder by Beth Loffreda
Janet, my mother, and me : a memoir of growing up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William Murray
Pedro and me : friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick

2000
Literature Award: Po man's child : a novel by Marci Blackman
Non-Fiction Award: My lesbian husband : landscape of a marriage by Barrie Jean Borich
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Comfort & joy : a novel by Jim Grimsley
Mr. Dalloway : a novella by Robin Lippincott
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Last rights : poems by Marvin K. White
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Victory deferred : how AIDS changed gay life in America by John-Manuel Andriote
Biological exuberance : animal homosexuality and natural diversity by Bruce Bagemihl
Firebird : a memoir by Mark Doty
Lorca : a dream of life by Leslie Stainton

1999
Literature Award: The hours by Michael Cunningham
Non-Fiction Award: Stagestruck : theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America by Sarah Schulman
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Science fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Switch by Carol Guess
An arrow's flight by Mark Merlis
Imagine being more afraid of freedom than slavery : poems by Pamela Sneed
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Strong women, deep closets : lesbians and homophobia in sport by Pat Griffin
The other side of silence : men's lives and gay identities : a twentieth century history by John Loughery
A fragile union : new & selected writings by Joan Nestle
The truth that never hurts : writings on race, gender, and freedom by Barbara Smith

1998
Literature Award: Working parts : a novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Non-Fiction Award: The shared heart : portraits and stories celebrating lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people by Adam Mastoon
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Prozac highw@y : a novel by Persimmon Blackbridge
Beyond the pale : a novel by Elana Dykewomon
In awe by Scott Heim
The escape artist : a novel by Judith Katz
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Hospital time by Amy Hoffman
Queerly classed, edited by Susan Raffo
Lonely hunters : an oral history of lesbian and gay southern life, 1948-1968 by James T. Sears
Sex and sensibility : stories of a lesbian generation by Arlene Stein

1997
Literature Award: Hood by Emma Donoghue
Non-Fiction Award: Geography of the heart : a memoir by Fenton Johnson
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
The beauty of men : a novel by Andrew Holleran
Funny boy : a novel by Shyam Selvadurai
Toward amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's beads by Terry Wolverton
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Straight news : gays, lesbians, and the news media by Edward Alwood
Free your mind : the book for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth--and their allies by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman
Heaven's coast : a memoir by Mark Doty
Cracks in the iron closet : travels in gay and lesbian Russia by David Tuller

1996
Literature Award: Dream boy by Jim Grimsley
Non-Fiction Award: Virtual equality : the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian liberation by Urvashi Vaid
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison
Baby be-bop by Francesca Lia Block
Stuck rubber baby by Howard Cruse
The promise of rest by Reynolds Price
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
S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt
The gay and lesbian literary heritage, edited by Claude J. Summers

1995
Literature Award: Am I blue? : coming out from the silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer
Non-Fiction Award: Skin : talking about sex, class & literature by Dorothy Allison; Uncommon heroes : a celebration of heroes and role models for gay and lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
The other man was me : a voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo
Chloe plus Olivia : an anthology of lesbian literature from the seventeenth century to the present, edited by Lillian Faderman
The dyke and dybbuk : a novel by Ellen Galford
Winter numbers : poems by Marilyn Hacker
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
Images in the dark : an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video by Raymond Murray
Sister & brother : lesbians & gay men write about their lives together, edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston

1994
Literature Award: Stone butch blues : a novel by Leslie Feinberg
Non-Fiction Award: Family values : two moms and their son by Phyllis Burke
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
She's always liked the girls best : lesbian plays by Claudia Allen
Scissors, paper, rock by Fenton Johnson
The last generation by Cherrie Moraga
Growing up gay : a literary anthology, edited by Bennett L. Singer
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Stonewall by Martin B. Duberman
Lesbian culture : an anthology : the lives, work, ideas, art and visions of lesbians past and present, edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe
The lesbian and gay parenting handbook : creating and raising our families by April Martin
Lesbians, gay men, and the law by William B. Rubenstein

1993
Literature Award: Ceremonies : prose and poetry by Essex Hemphill
Non-Fiction Award: Making history : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 : an oral history by Eric Marcus
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Almost history : a novel by Christopher Bram
The easy way out by Stephen McCauley
Vital ties : a novel by Karen Kringle
Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Positively gay : new approaches to lesbian and gay life by Betty Berzon
The earth house by Jeanne DuPrau
Becoming a man : half a life story by Paul Monette
Mother Clap's molly house : the gay subculture in England, 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton
A Member of the family : gay men write about their families, edited by John Preston

1992
Literature Award: Halfway home by Paul Monette
Non-Fiction Award: Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Lillian Faderman
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
The two mujeres by Sara Levi Calderón
Brother to brother : new writings by black gay men, edited by Essex Hemphill
Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne
A stone gone mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park
An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
The road before us : 100 gay black poets, edited by Assoto Saint
Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology, edited by Makeda Silvera
The man who fell in love with the moon : a novel by Tom Spanbauer
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Cancer in two voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
Violence against lesbians and gay men by Gary David Comstock
Cures : a gay man's odyssey by Martin Duberman
The Zuni man-woman by Will Roscoe
Are you two ... together? : a gay and lesbian travel guide to Europe by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt

1991
Literature Award: Crime against nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Non-Fiction Award: Encyclopedia of homosexuality, edited by Wayne Dynes
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
A home at the end of the world by Michael Cunningham
Music I never dreamed of by John Gilgun
A place I've never been by David Leavitt
Out of time by Paula Martinac
Landscape : memory by Matthew Stadler
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War Two by Allan Berube
Gay and lesbian library service, edited by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt
Passions of the cut sleeve : the male homosexual tradition in China by Bret Hinch
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
Understanding sexual identity : a book for gay teens and their friends by Janice E. Rench
The trouble with Harry Hay : founder of the modern gay movement by Stuart Timmons
The safe sea of women : lesbian fiction, 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman

1990
Literature Award: Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg
Non-Fiction Award: In search of gay America : women and men in a time of change by Neil Miller
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
In memory of Angel Clare : a novel by Christopher Bram
A place at the table by Edith Konecky
Equal affections : a novel by David Leavitt
In a different light : an anthology of lesbian writers, edited by Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
When someone you know is gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen
Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past, edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr.
Not a passing phase : reclaiming lesbians in history, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group
Personal dispatches : writers confront AIDS, edited by John Preston

1989
The swimming-pool library by Andrew Hollinghurst
After Delores by Sarah Schulman

1988
A restricted country by Joan Nestle
And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic by Randy Shilts

1987
The spirit and the flesh : sexual diversity in American Indian culture by Walter Williams

1986
Sex and germs : the politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton

1985
Another mother tongue : gay words, gay worlds by Judy Grahn

1984
Sexual politics, sexual communities : the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio

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
Black lesbians : an annotated bibliography by J. R. Roberts
The celluloid closet : homosexuality in the movies by Vito Russo

1981
The cancer journals by Audre Lorde
Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century by John Boswell

1980
Now the volcano : an anthology of Latin American gay literature, edited by Winston Leyland

1979
Now that you know : what every parent should know about homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward

1978
Our right to love : a lesbian resource book, edited by Ginny Vida

1977
Familiar faces, hidden lives : the story of homosexual men in America today by Howard Brown

1976
No award given

1975
Homosexuality : lesbians and gay men in society, history, and literature, edited by Jonathan Katz
Documents of the homosexual rights movement in Germany, 1836-1927
Eros : an anthology of friendship, edited by Alistair Sutherland and Patrick Anderson
Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon by Mary Ann Woods and Jane Pirie

1974
Sex variant women in literature; a historical and quantitative survey by Jeannette Foster

1973
No award given.

1972
The gay mystique : the myth and reality of male homosexuality by Peter Fisher
Lesbian/woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

1971
A place for us by Isabel Miller