Stonewall Book Awards
What are the Stonewall Book Awards?
The American Library Association's Stonewall Book Awards are presented to English language books that have "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" published in the U.S.
Winners are announced each January/February.
Literature Award Winners by Year
Stray Dog Winter by 2010 winner
More of This World or Maybe Another by 2011 winner
Sweet Like Sugar by 2012 winner
The Last Nude by 2013 winner
Art on Fire by 2014 winner
Prelude to Bruise by 2015 winner
The Gods of Tango by 2016 winner
Desert Boys by 2017 winner
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by 2018 winner
Po Man's Child by 2000 winner
Affinity by 2001 winner
Letters to Montgomery Clift by 2003 winner
Babyji by 2006 winner
Grief by 2007 winner
The Teahouse Fire by 2008 winner
Light Fell by 2009 winner
Literature Award Winners by Year
- Eighty-Sixed by1990 winner
- Crime Against Nature by1991 winner
Halfway Home by 1992 winner- Ceremonies : Prose and poetry by1993 winner
Am I Blue? : coming out from the silence by 1995 winner
Dream Boy by 1996 winner
Working Parts by 1998 winner
The Swimming-Pool Library by 1989 winner- After Delores by1989 winner
- A Place for Us by1971 winner
Literature Award for Poetry
Nonfiction Award Winners by Year
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by 2021 winner
Faltas : Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by 2023 winner (tie)
The Women's House of Detention : a queer history of a forgotten prison by Call Number: ebook2023 winner (tie)
Hijab Butch Blues : A memoir by 2024 winner
Unfriendly Fire : how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America by Call Number: UB418.G38 F73 20092010 winner
Inseparable : desire between women in literature by 2011 winner
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by 2012 winner
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home by 2013 winner
American Honor Killings : desire and rage among men by Call Number: HV6529.C3816 M379 20132014 winner
Raising My Rainbow : adventures in raising a fabulous, gender creative son by Call Number: HQ759.9145 .D87 20132014 winner
Speak Now : marriage equality on trial : the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry by Call Number: KF229.H654 Y67 20152016 winner
How to Survive a Plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by Call Number: RA643.84.N7 F73 20162017 winner
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by 2019 winner
My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by 2000 winner
Gaylaw : challenging the apartheid of the closet by Call Number: ebook and KF4754.5 .E84 19992001 winner
The Scarlet Professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal by 2002 winner
Lost Prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin by 2004 winner
Evolution's Rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people by Call Number: ebook and QH541.15.B56 R68 20042005 winner
The fabulous Sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by 2006 winner
Dog Years : A Memoir by 2008 winner
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by 2009 winner
Nonfiction Award Winners by Year
In Search of Gay America : Women and Men in a Time of Change by 1990 winner
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Call Number: ebook and HQ75.6.U5 F33 19911992 winner- Making History : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 : an oral history byCall Number: HQ76.8.U5 M36 19921993 winner
- Family Values : Two moms and their son by1994 winner
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by 1995 winner- Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by1995 winner
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by 1996 winner
Geography of the Heart : A memoir by 1997 winner
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by 1998 winner
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by 1999 winner
- Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature by1980 winner
- The Cancer Journals by1981 winner
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century by Call Number: HQ76.3.E8 B67 19811981 winner- Surpassing the Love of Men : Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present byCall Number: HQ75.5 .F33 19941982 winner
- Black Lesbians : An annotated bibliography by1982 winner
- The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the movies by1982 winner
- Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by1984 winner
- Another Mother Tongue : Gay Words, Gay Worlds by1985 winner
- Sex and Germs : The Politics of AIDS by1986 winner
The Spirit and the Flesh : sexual diversity in American Indian culture by 1987 winner- A Restricted Country by1988 winner
And the Band Played On : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic by Call Number: RA644.A25 S48 19881988 winner
- The Gay Mystique : The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by1972 winner
- Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature (series) by1975 winner
Familiar Faces Hidden Lives : The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by ISBN: 01563012021977 winner- Our Right to Love : A Lesbian Resource Book by1978 winner
- Now That You Know : What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by1979 winner
Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award Winners by Year
When Aidan Became a Brother by 2020 winner- We Are Little Feminists: Families by2021 winner
Love, Violet by 2023 Children's winner
Cross My Heart and Never Lie by 2024 Children's winner
Canto Contigo by 2025 Young Adult winner
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by 2010 winner
Almost Perfect by 2011 winner
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by 2012 winner
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Call Number: PZ7.S1273 Ar 20122013 winner
The Porcupine of Truth by 2016 winner (Young Adult Award)
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2 the Hammer of Thor by 2017 winner
Julian is a Mermaid by 2019 winner
