Stonewall Book Awards

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

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.

From 2010 the awards included a Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.

See other literary prize winners.

2024

Literature and poetry

• Freedom House by KB Brookins

Non-fiction

• Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

2023

Literature

• (Fiction) The Other Mother Rachel M. Harper
• (Poetry) Revenge Body Rachel Wiley

Non-fiction

• Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist Cecilia Gentil
• The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Hugh Ryan

2022

• Literature: Sorrowland Rivers Solomon
• Non-fiction: Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir Akwaeke Emezi

2021

• Non-fiction: Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games Bonnie Ruberg
• Literature: The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar

2020

• Non-fiction: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones
• Literature: Cantoras Carolina De Robertis

2019

• Non-fiction: Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire Michael Amherst
• Literature: The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai

2018

• Non-fiction: Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham
• Literature: Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

2017

• Non-fiction: How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS David France
• Literature: Desert boys Chris McCormick

2016

• Non-fiction: Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial Kenji Yoshino
• Literature: The Gods of Tango Carolina De Robertis

2015

• Non-fiction: Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
• Literature: Prelude To Bruise Saeed Jones

2014

• Non-fiction: Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son Lori Duron and
• American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men David McConnell
• Literature: Art on Fire Hilary Sloin

2013

• Non-fiction: For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home Keith Boykin
• Literature: The Last Nude Ellis Avery

2012

• Non-fiction: A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History) Michael Bronski and
• Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward (tie)
• Literature: Sweet Like Sugar Wayne Hoffman

2011

• Non-fiction: Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature Emma Donoghue
• Literature: More of This World or Maybe Another Barb Johnson

2010

• Non-fiction: Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America Nathaniel Frank
• Literature: Stray Dog Winter David Francis

2009

• Non-fiction: Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 William N. Eskridge, Jr
• Literature: Light Fell Evan Fallenberg

2008

• Non-fiction: Dog Years: A Memoir Mark Doty
• Literature: The Teahouse Fire Ellis Avery

2007

• Non-fiction: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel
• Literature: Grief Andrew Holleran

2006

• Literature: Babyji  Abha Dawesar
• Non-fiction: The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco Joshua Gamson

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 Barry Werth
• 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 literatureed. 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