Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award

2023

Winner
The Other Mother by Rachel M Harper

Honor
Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu
How to Identify Yourself with a Wound by KB Brookins
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

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Non-Fiction

Children's and Young Adults

2022

Winner
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Honor
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

Winner
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Honor
More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Memorial by Bryan Washington

2020

Winner
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Honor
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
War/Torn by Hasan Namir
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Lot (Stories) by Bryan Washington

2019

Winner
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Honor
White Houses by Amy Bloom
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Forward by Lisa Maas
Luisa: Now and Then by Carole Maurel & Mariko Tamaki

2018

Winner
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett

Honor
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Marriage Of A Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom

2017

Winner
Desert Boys by Chris McCormick

Honor
Dig by Bryan Borland
Hide: a novel by Matthew Griffin
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Beautiful gravity: a novel by Martin Hyatt

2016

Winner
The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis

Honor
Jam On The Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes
For Your Own Good by Leah Horlick
Lum: a novel by Libby Ware

2015

Winner
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones

Honor
Bitter Eden by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
My Real Children by Jo Walton

2014

Winner
Art on Fire by Hilary Sloin

Honor
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
A Strange and Separate People by Jon Marans
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz

2013

Winner
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery

Honor
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Russell

2012

Winner
Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman

Honor
The Temperamentals: a new play by Jon Marans
Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel by Bob Smith
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde & Nicholas Frankel
Annabel by Kathleen Winter

2011

Winner
More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

Honor
Probation by Tom Mendicino
The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge
Holding Still for As Long as Possible by Zoe Whitall

2010

Winner
Stray Dog Winter by David Francis

Honor
Beauty Salono by Mario Bellatin
God Says No by James Hannaham

2009

Winner
Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg

Honor
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
The Conversions by Joseph Olshan
A Perfect Waiter: A Novel by Alain Claude Sulzer

2008

Winner
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Honor
Bow Grip by Ivan E Coyote
Dark Reflections by Samuel R Delany
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott

2007

Winner
Grief: a Novel by Andrew Holleran

Honor
The Manny Files by Christian Burch
A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt
Rose of No Man's Land: A Novel by Michelle Tea
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

2006

Winner
Babyji by Abha Dawesar

Honor
The wild creatures: collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro by Sam D'Allesandro & Kevin Killian
Mother of sorrows by Richard McCann
The first verse: a novel by Barry McCrea
Acqua calda by Keith McDermott

2005

Winner
The Master by Colm Toibin

Honor
A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Luna: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters
I Am My Own Wife: a Play by Doug Wright

2004

Winner
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

Honor
Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel by Christopher Bram
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Southland by Nina Revoyr
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh

2003

Winner
Letters to Montgomery Clift : a Novel by Noel Alumit

Honor
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Lantern Bearers: Novel by Ronald Frame
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

2002

Winner
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

Honor
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 JT LeRoy

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award - Literature

2001

Winner
Affinity by Sarah Waters

Honor
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 by Michael Lassell & Elena Georgiou
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

2000

Winner
Po Man's Child: A Novel by Marci Blackman

Honor
Comfort & Joy: A Novel by Jim Grimsley
Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Last Rights: Poems by Marvin K White

1999

Winner
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Honor
Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith & 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

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award - Literature

1998

Winner
Working Parts: A Novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Honor
Prozac Highway: 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

1997

Winner
Hood by Emma Donoghue

Honor
The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's Beads by Terry Wolverton

1996

Winner
Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley

Honor
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

1995

Winner
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer

Honor
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman
The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel by Ellen Galford
Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker

1994

Winner
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Honor
She's Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen
Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga
Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L Singer

Gay and Lesbian Book Award - Literature

1993

Winner
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill

Honor
Almost History by Christopher Bram
Vital Ties by Karen Kringle
The Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

1992

Winner
Halfway Home by Paul Monette

Honor
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men by Essex Hemphill
A Stone Gone Mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park
The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon
Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets by Assoto Saint
Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

1991

Winner
Crime against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Honor
A Home at the End of the World: A Novel 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

1990

Winner
Eighty-Sixed by David B Feinberg

Honor
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram
A Place at the Table by Edith Konecky
Equal Affections by David Leavitt
In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers by Carolyn Weathers & Jenny Wrenn

Gay and Lesbian Book Award

1989

Winners
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
After Delores by Sarah Schulman

1988

Winners
A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

1987

Winner
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams

Gay Book Award

1986

Winner
Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton

1985

Winner
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn

1984

Winner
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio

1982

Winners
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 JR Roberts
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo