Stonewall Book Awards

The American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards were established in 1971, and are awarded to authors of exceptional merit examining the lesbian, gay and/or bisexual experience, by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Task Force of the ALA. In 2002, the name changed to the Stonewall Book Award: Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award: Israel Fishman Award for Non-Fiction.

2009

Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Light Fell

Evan Fallenberg

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003

William N. Eskridge, Jr

2008

Barbara Gittings Book Award in Literature

The Teahouse Fire Ellis Avery

Israel Fishman Book Award for Nonfiction

Dog Years: A Memoir Mark Doty

2007

Stonewall Book Awards - Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Grief Andrew Holleran

Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel

2006

Non-fiction

The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco Joshua Gamson

Literature

Babyji Abha Dawesar

2005

• Non-fiction:Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People Joan Roughgarden
• Literature: The Master Colm Tóibín

2004

• Non-fiction: Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin John D'Emilio
• Literature: The Book of Salt Monique Truong

2003

• Non-fiction: How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States Joanne Meyerowitz
• Literature: Letters to Montgomery Clift Noel Alumit

2002

• Non-fiction: The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal
• Literature: The Laramie Project Moses Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project

2001

• Non-fiction: Gaylaw: Challenging the apartheid of the closet William Eskridge
• Literature: Affinity Sarah Waters

2000

• Non-fiction: My lesbian husband: landscapes of a marriage Barrie Jean Borich
• Literature: Po man's child Marci Blackman

1999

• Non-fiction: Stagestruck: Theatre, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America Sarah Schulman
• Literature:The Hours Michael Cunningham

1998

• Non-fiction:The shared heart: portraits and stories celebrating lesbian, gay and bisexual young people Adam Mastoon
• Literature:Working parts: a novel Lucy Jane Bledsoe

1997

• Non-fiction:Geography of the heart Fenton Johnson
• Literature: Hood Emma Donoghue

1996

• Non-fiction:Virtual equality Urvashi Vaid
• Literature: Dream boy Jim Grimsley

1995

• Non-fiction: Skin: talking about sex, class & literature Dorothy Allison
• Uncommon heroes Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein
• Literature:Am I blue? ed. Marion Dane Bauer

1994

• Non-fiction: Family values: two moms and their son Phyllis Burke
• Literature: Stone butch blues Leslie Feinberg

1993

• Non-fiction:Making history: the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 Eric Marcus
• Literature: Ceremonies: prose and poetry Essex Hemphill

1992

• Non-fiction: Odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in twentieth century America Lillian Faderman
• Literature: Halfway home Paul Monette

1991

• Non-fiction:Encyclopedia of homosexuality ed. Wayne Dynes
• Literature:Crime against nature Minnie Bruce Pratt

1990

• Non-fiction: In search of gay America: women and men in a time of change Neil Miller
• Literature: Eighty-Sixed David B. Feinberg

1989

• The Swimming pool library Alan Hollinghurst
• After Delores Sarah Schulman

1988

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

1987

• The Spirit and the flesh: sexual diversity in American Indian culture Walter Williams

• 1986 Sex and germs: the politics of AIDS Cindy Patton
• 1985 Another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds Judy Grahn
• 1984 Sexual politics/sexual communities: the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970 John D'Emilio
• 1983 No award

1982

• Black lesbians: an annotated bibliography compiled by J R Roberts
• The Celluloid closet: homosexuality in the movies Vito Russo
• Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present Lillian Faderman

• 1981 Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality: gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century John Boswell
• 1980 Now the volcano: An anthology of Latin American gay literature ed. Winston Leyland
• 1979 Now that you know: what every parent should know about homosexuality Betty Fairchild and Nancy Howard
• 1978 Our right to love ed. Ginny Vida
• 1977 Familiar faces, hidden lives: The Story of homosexual men in America today Howard Brown
• 1976 No Award
• 1975 Homosexuality: Lesbians and gay men in society, history, and literature ed. Jonathan Katz
• 1974 Sex variant women in literature: a historical and quantitative survey Jeanette Foster
• 1973 No Award

1972

• The Gay Mystique Peter Fisher
• Lesbian/Woman Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

1971 Patience and Sarah Isabel Miller