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2022
Winner
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
 
Honor
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
A History of Scars by Laura Lee
Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoe Playdon
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
2021
Winner
The Queer Games Avant Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg
 
Honor
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H Jackson
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
XOXY by Kimberly M Zieselman
​2020
Winner
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
 
Honor
Gender Queer: A Memoior by Maia Kobabe
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
2019
Winner
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst
 
Honor
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler & Dan Kois
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W Fieseler
Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History by E Patrick Johnson
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and Intersex Child by Eric Lohman & Stephani Lohman
2018
Winner
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich & Todd Oldham
 
Honor
The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans
LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Bennett Singer & David Deschamps
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton
2017
Winner
How to Survive A Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France
 
Honor
Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality by Annika Butler-Wall & Kim Cosier
Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E Coyote
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 by Michael Schreiber
2016
Winner
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino
 
Honor
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
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
2015
Winner
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
 
Honor
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
2014
Winners
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son by Lori Duron
American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men by David McConnell
 
Honor
Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father by Alysia Abbott
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World by RB Parkinson
2013
Winner
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home by Keith Boykin
 
Honor
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Jeanne Cordova
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
2012
Winner
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D Katz & David C Ward
 
Honor
A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories by Wanda M Corn & Tirza True Latimer
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan E Coyote & Zena Sharman
Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde & Nicholas Frankel
2011
Winner
Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
 
Honor
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 Moffat
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
2010
Winner
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank
 
Honor
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde by Rudolph P Byrd
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson
Black Bull, Ancestors and Me by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart E Weisberg
2009
Winner
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N Eskridge
 
Honor
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever by Joel Derfner
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E Patrick Johnson
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
2008
Winner
Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty
 
Honor
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam
Two lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman by Stephen Pascal
Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums
2007
Winner
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
 
Honor
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships by William Benemann
Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir by Kevin Jennings
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
2006
Winner
The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
 
Honor
Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
My one-night stand with cancer by Tania Katan
The tragedy of today's gays by Larry Kramer
The secret life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna
2005
Winner
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden
 
Honor
Both: a Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas Crase
Warrior Poet: a Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality by Patrick Moore
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
2004
Winner
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
 
Honor
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead,Ruth Benedict, and their Circle by Lois W Banner
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context by Vern L Bullough
Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
2003
Winner
How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
 
Honor
Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-- My Mothers, 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
Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography by Jerry Roscoe
2002
Winner
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth
 
Honor
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 & 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 by Edmund White & The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award - Non-Fiction

2001
Winner
Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N Eskridge
 
Honor
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
Winner
My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich
 
Honor
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
Winner
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman
 
Honor
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

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award - Non-Fiction

1998
Winner
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon
 
Honor
Hospital Time by Amy Hoffman
Queerly Classed 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
Winner
Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson
 
Honor
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 & 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
Winner
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid
 
Honor
S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s by Linnea Due
The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage by Claude J Summers
1995
Winners
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature by Dorothy Allison
Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Philip Sherman & Samuel Bernstein
 
Honor
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 and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together by Joan Nestle & John Preston
1994
Winner
Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke
 
Honor
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families by April Martin
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology by Julia Penelope & Susan J Wolfe
Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law by William B Rubenstein

Gay and Lesbian Book Award - Non-Fiction

1993
Winner
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus
 
Honor
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 by John Preston
1992
Winner
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-century America by Lillian Faderman
 
Honor
Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler & 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 & Pamela Robin Brandt
1991
Winner
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality by Wayne Dynes
 
Honor
Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Berube
Gay and Lesbian Library Service by Cal Gough & 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
Winner
In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller
 
Honor
When Someone You Know is Gay by Susan Cohen & Daniel Cohen
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus & George Chauncey Jr
Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS by John Preston
Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group