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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

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

2004

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Monique Truong, The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin Company)

The Book of Salt

The Stonewall honor books in non-fiction

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context edited by Vern L. Bullough, R.N., Ph.D. (Harrington Park Press)

Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead,Ruth Benedict, and their Circle by Lois W. Banner(Knopf)

Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman (Applause Books)

The Stonewall honor books in literature

Cutting Room by Louise Welsh (Canongate)

Keeping you a Secret by Julie Ann Peters (Little, Brown & Co.)

Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel by Christopher Bram (William Morrow)

Southland by Nina Revoyr (Akashic Books)

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

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

2003

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

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

Letters to Montgomery Clift

The Stonewall honor books in non-fiction

Howey, Noelle. Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's and Mine (Picador USA)

Miller, Neil. Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950's. (Alyson Books)

Oliveria, Carmen L. Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares; translated by Niel K. Besner (Rutgers University Press)

Roscoe, Jerry. Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography (Univ of Wisconsin Press)

The Stonewall honor books in literature

Eugenidies, Jeffrey. Middlesex (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Frame, Ronald. Lantern Bearers: Novel (Counterpoint)

O'Neil, Jamie. At Swim, Two Boys (Scribner)

Waters, Sarah. Fingersmith (Riverhead Books)

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin:  A Literary Life Shattered By Scandal

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

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

2002

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Kaufman, Moisés, and the Tectonic Theatre Project. The Laramie Project. (Vintage Books)

The Laramie Project

The Stonewall honor books in non-fiction

Blum, Louise A. You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America. (University of Wisconsin Press)

Murdoch, Joyce, and Deb Price. Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court. (Basic Books)

Read, Kirk. How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story. (Hill Street Press)

Stein, Arlene. The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights. (Beacon Press)

White, Edmund, ed., with The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS. (University of Wisconsin Press)

The Stonewall honor books in literature

Brownrigg, Sylvia. Pages for You. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Cooper, Bernard. Guess Again: Short Stories. (Simon & Schuster)

Jones, John Sam. Welsh Boys Too. (Parthian Books)

LeRoy, J.T. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. (Bloomsbury)

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

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

2001

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Waters, Sarah. Affinity. (Riverhead Books)

Affinity

The Stonewall honor books in non-fiction

Day, Frances Ann. Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults. (Greenwood Press)

Loffreda, Beth. Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder. (Columbia University Press)

Murray, William. Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray. (Simon & Schuster)

Winick, Judd. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. (Henry Holt)

The Stonewall honor books in literature

Downing, Michael. Breakfast with Scot: A Novel. (Counterpoint)

Ebershoff, David. The Danish Girl: A Novel. (Viking)

Lassell, Michael, and Elena Georgiou, eds. The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology. (St. Martin's Press)

Maupin, Armistead. The Night Listener: A Novel. (HarperCollins)

My Lesbian Husband

Nonfiction

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

2000

Literature

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

Po Man

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Andriote, John-Manuel. Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. (University of Chicago Press)

Bagemihl, Bruce. Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. (St. Martin's Press)

Doty, Mark. Firebird: A Memoir. (HarperCollins)

Stainton, Leslie. Lorca: A Dream of Life. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Other Literature Finalists

Grimsley, Jim. Comfort and Joy: A Novel. (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Lippincott, Robin. Mr. Dalloway: A Novella. (Sarabande Books)

Lisicky, Paul. Lawnboy. (Turtle Point Press)

White, Marvin K. Last Rights: Poems. (Alyson Books)


Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America

Nonfiction

Schulman, Sarah. Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America. (Duke University Press)

1999

Literature

Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux)

The Hours

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Griffin, Pat. Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport. (Human Kinetics)

Loughery, John. The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History. (Henry Holt)

Nestle, Joan. A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings. (Cleis Press)

Smith, Barbara. The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom. (Rutgers University Press)

Other Literature Finalists

Griffith, Nicola and Stephen Pagel, eds. Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction. (Overlook Press)

Guess, Carol. Switch. (Calyx Books)

Merlis, Mark. An Arrow's Flight. (St. Martin's Press)

Sneed, Pamela. Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery: Poems. (Henry Holt)


The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
Nonfiction

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

1998

Literature

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Working Parts: A Novel. (Seal Press)/u>

Working Parts
Other Nonfiction Finalists

Hoffman, Amy. Hospital Time. (Duke University Press) ISBN 0822319276; ISBN 0822319209

Raffo, Susan, ed. Queerly Classed. (South End Press) ISBN 0896085627; ISBN 0896085619

Sears, James T. Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968. (Westview Press) ISBN 0813324742

Stein, Arlene. Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation. (University of California Press) ISBN 0520202570; ISBN 0520206746

Other Literature Finalists

Blackbridge, Persimmon. Prozac Highway: A Novel. (Press Gang Publishers) ISBN 088974078X

Dykewomon, Elana. Beyond the Pale: A Novel. (Press Gang Publishers) ISBN 0889740747

Heim, Scott. In Awe. (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060186879

Katz, Judith. The Escape Artist: A Novel. (Firebrand Books) ISBN 1563410850; ISBN 1563410842;


Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
Nonfiction

Johnson, Fenton. Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
. (Scribner)

1997

Literature

Donoghue, Emma. Hood. (HarperCollins)

Hood

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Alwood, Edward. Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media. (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231084366

Bass, Ellen, and Kate Kaufman. Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies. (HarperPerennial) ISBN 0060951044

Doty, Mark. Heaven's Coast: A Memoir. (HarperCollins) ISBN 006017210X

Tuller, David. Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia. (Faber and Faber) ISBN 0571198902

Other Literature Finalists

Holleran, Andrew. The Beauty of Men. (Morrow) ISBN 0688048579

Selvadurai, Shyam. Funny Boy. (Morrow) ISBN 0688145957

Van Arsdale, Sarah. Toward Amnesia. (Riverhead Books) ISBN 1573220175

Wolverton, Terry. Bailey's Beads. (Faber and Faber) ISBN 0571198910


Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Nonfiction

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

1996

Literature

Grimsley, Jim. Dream Boy. (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Dream Boy

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Due, Linnea. Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s. (Anchor Books) ISBN 0385475004

Katz, Jonathan Ned. The Invention of Heterosexuality. (Dutton) ISBN 0525938451

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/HE. (Firebrand Books) ISBN 1563410591

Summers, Claude J., ed. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. (J. Holt) ISBN 0805027165

Other Literature Finalists

Allison, Dorothy. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. (Dutton) ISBN 0525939210

Block, Francesca Lia. Baby Be-Bop. (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060248793

Cruse, Howard. Stuck Rubber Baby. (Paradox Press) ISBN 1563892162

Price, Reynolds. The Promise of Rest. (Scribner) ISBN 0684801493


Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
Nonfiction

Allison, Dorothy. Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature. (Firebrand Books)

Nonfiction

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

1995

Literature

Bauer, Marion Dane, ed. Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence. (HarperCollins)

Am I Blue? : Coming out from the Silence

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. (Basic Books) ISBN 0465026338

Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video. (TLA Publications) ISBN 1880707012

Nestle, Joan, and John Preston, eds. Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together. (HarperSanFrancisco) ISBN 006251055X; ISBN 0062510568

Other Literature Finalists

Campo, Rafael. The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World. (Arte Publico Press) ISBN 1558851208; ISBN 1558851119

Faderman, Lillian, ed. Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. (Viking Penguin) ISBN 0670846384

Galford, Ellen. The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel. (Seal Press) ISBN 1878067516

Hacker, Marilyn. Winter Numbers: Poems. (W.W. Norton) ISBN 039303674X


Nonfiction

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

1994

Literature

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

Stone Butch Blues

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Duberman, Martin B. Stonewall. (Dutton) ISBN 0525936025

Penelope, Julia, and Susan J. Wolfe, eds. Lesbian Culture: An

Anthology. (Crossing Press) ISBN 0895945916

Martin, April. The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook:

Creating and Raising Our Families. (HarperPerennial) ISBN 0060969296

Rubenstein, William B. Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law. (New Press) ISBN 1565840372 

Other Literature Finalists

Allen, Claudia. She's Always Liked the Girls Best. (Third Side Press) ISBN 1879427117 

Johnson, Fenton. Scissors, Paper, Rock. (Pocket Books) ISBN 0671795414

Moraga, Cherrie. The Last Generation. (South End Press) ISBN 0896084663

Singer, Bennett L., ed. Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology. (New Press) ISBN 1565841026


Nonfiction

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

1993

Literature

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

Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Berzon, Betty. Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life. (Celestial Arts) ISBN 0890876762

DuPrau, Jeanne. The Earth House. (New Chapter Press) ISBN 0942257324

Monette, Paul. Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) ISBN 0151115192

Norton, Rictor. Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830. (GMP) ISBN 0854491880

Preston, John, ed. A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write about Their Families. (Dutton) ISBN 0525935495

Other Literature Finalists

Bram, Christopher. Almost History. (Donald I. Fine) ISBN 1556112319

McCauley, Stephen. The Easy Way Out. (Simon & Schuster) ISBN 0671708184

Kringle, Karen. Vital Ties. (Spinsters) ISBN 0933216904

Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body. (Jonathan Cape) ISBN 0224035878


Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Nonfiction

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

1992

Literature

Monette, Paul. Halfway Home. (Crown) ISBN 0517583291

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Butler, Sandra, and Barbara Rosenblum. Cancer in Two Voices. (Spinsters) ISBN 093321684X

Comstock, Gary David. Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men. (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231073305

Duberman, Martin. Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey. (Dutton) ISBN 0525249559

Roscoe, Will. The Zuni Man-Woman. (University of New Mexico Press) ISBN 0826312535

Van Gelder, Lindsy and Pamela Robin Brandt. Are You Two...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe. (Random House) ISBN 0679735992

Other Literature Finalists

Calderon, Sara Levi. The Two Mujeres. (Aunt Lute) ISBN 187996001X

Hemphill, Essex, ed. Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men. (Alyson Publications) ISBN 155583146X

Osborne, Karen Lee. Hawkwings. (Third Side Press) ISBN 1879427001

Park, Jacquelyn Holt. A Stone Gone Mad. (Random House) ISBN 0394558618

Rich, Adrienne. An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991. (W.W. Norton) ISBN 0393308316

Saint, Assoto, ed. The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets. (Galiens Press) ISBN 0962167517

Silvera, Makeda, ed. Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology. (Sister Vision Press) ISBN 0920813658

Spanbauer, Tom. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. (Atlantic Monthly Press) ISBN 0871134683


Nonfiction

Dynes, Wayne, ed. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. (Garland)

1991

Literature

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Crime against Nature: The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1989. (Firebrand Books)

Other Nonfiction Finalists

Berube, Allan. Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. (Free Press) ISBN 0029031001

Gough, Cal, and Ellen Greenblatt, eds. Gay and Lesbian Library Service. (McFarland) ISBN 089950535X

Hinch, Bret. Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. (University of California Press) ISBN 0520067207

Humphrey, Mary Ann. My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present. (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060164468 

Rench, Janice E. Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends. (Lerner Publications) ISBN 0822500442

Timmons, Stuart. The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement. (Alyson Publications) ISBN 1555831753

Zimmerman, Bonnie. The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989. (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807079049

Other Literature Finalists

Cunningham, Michael. A Home at the End of the World. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN 0374172501 

Gilgun, John. Music I Never Dreamed of. (Amethyst Press) ISBN 0927200023

Leavitt, David. A Place I've Never Been. (Viking) ISBN 0670821969

Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (Seal Press) ISBN 0931188911

Stadler, Matthew. Landscape: Memory. (Scribner's) ISBN 0684191857


Nonfiction

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

1990

Literature

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

Other Nonfiction Finalists 

Cohen, Susan and Daniel. When Someone You Know is Gay. (M. Evans) ISBN 087131567X 

Duberman, Martin Bauml, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., eds. Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. (New American Library) ISBN 0453006892 

Lesbian History Group. Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985. (The Women's Press (London)) ISBN 0704341751 

Preston, John, ed. Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS. (St. Martin Press) ISBN 0312034121 

Other Literature Finalists 

Bram, Christopher. In Memory of Angel Clare. (Donald I. Fine) ISBN 155611138X 

Konecky, Edith. A Place at the Table. (Random House) ISBN 0394575229 

Leavitt, David. Equal Affections. (Penguin) ISBN 0140109587 

Weathers, Carolyn, and Jenny Wrenn, eds. In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers. (Clothespin Fever Press) ISBN 0961657251


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

1989

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

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

1988

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

1987

Williams, Walter. The Spirit and the Flesh; The American Indian Berdache and Male Sexuality; Sexual Diversity in Amerin Indian Culture. (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807046027

1986

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

Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS

1985

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

1984

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


1982

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

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

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

1981

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


1980

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

1979

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


1978

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

1977

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

Familiar Faces Hidden Lives

1975

Katz, Jonathan, ed. Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature. (Ayer Publications) [Series of historically significant reprints] 

1974

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


1972

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

Martin, Del, and Phyllis Lyon. Lesbian/Woman. (Gilda Publications) 

1971

Miller, Isabel. Patience and Sarah. (McGraw-Hill)


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