Stonewall Book Award

Stonewall Book Award
	Stonewall Book Award seal
Awarded for	"exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience"
Country	United States
Presented by	the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
First awarded	1971
Website	ala.org/glbtrt/award ; and two "homepages"[1][2][3][lower-alpha 1]

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S.^[1] They are sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards, since 1986 as the single Gay Book Award.^[4]^[5]

The three award categories are fiction and nonfiction in books for adults, distinguished in 1990, and books for children or young adults, from 2010. The awards are named for Barbara Gittings, Israel Fishman, and (jointly) Mike Morgan and Larry Romans. In full they are the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.^[1]

Finalists have been designated from 1990, and termed "Honor Books" from 2001.^[6] Currently a panel of librarians selects five finalists in each award category and subsequently selects one winner.^[4] The winners are announced in January and each receives a plaque and $1000 cash prize during the ALA Annual Conference in June or July.^[1] Winners are expected to attend and to give acceptance speeches.^[2]

The ALA solicits book suggestions each to be accompanied by a brief statement in favor of the book.^[1] Those are recommendations or "applications" to the Awards Committee from the public by email, which are not accepted from publishers, agents, authors, and others with vested interests.^[2]

Eligible books should be original works published in the U.S. during the preceding year, including "substantially changed new editions" and "English-language translations of foreign-language books".^[2]

History

The Gay Book Award was inaugurated in 1971, recognizing Patience and Sarah, a historical novel by Alma Routsong as Isabel Miller, which had been self-published by Routsong in 1969. Originally it was a "grassroots acknowledgment" of GLBT publishing and there was "only a handful" of books to consider annually. By 1995 there were more than 800.^[4]

In 2002 the awards, then two, were jointly named after the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots.^[4]

Award name and categories

1971-1986 Gay Book Award
1987-1989 Gay and Lesbian Book Award
1990-1993 Gay and Lesbian Book Award (nonfiction and literature categories)
1994-1998 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award (nonfiction and literature)
1999-2001 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award (nonfiction and literature)
2002–2010 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.^[1]
2010–present Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.

From 1986 the Gay Book Award and its descendants have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards.^[4]^[5]

Recipients

Stonewall Book Awards Winners^[6]^[7]^[8]^{[lower-alpha 1]}^[9]
Year	Category	Recipient	Title
1971		Isabel Miller	Patience and Sarah
1972		Peter Fisher	The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality
1972		Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon	Lesbian/Woman
1973		no award given	no award given
1974		Jeannette Howard Foster	Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey
1975		Jonathan Ned Katz, ed.	Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature
1976		no award given	no award given
1977		Howard Brown	Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today
1978		Ginny Vida, ed.	Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book
1979		Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward	Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality
1980		Winston Leyland, ed.	Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature
1981		John Boswell	Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
1982		Lillian Faderman	Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
1982		J.R. Roberts	Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
1982		Vito Russo	The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
1983		no award given	no award given
1984		John D'Emilio	Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
1985		Judy Grahn	Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
1986		Cindy Patton	Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS
1987		Walter Williams	The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
1988		Joan Nestle	A Restricted Country
1988		Randy Shilts	And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
1989		Alan Hollinghurst	The Swimming Pool Library
1989		Sarah Schulman	After Delores
1990	Non-fiction	Neil Miller	In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change
1990	Literature	David B. Feinberg	Eighty-Sixed
1991	Non-fiction	Wayne Dynes, ed.	Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (William Armstrong Percy)
1991	Literature	Minnie Bruce Pratt	Crime against Nature
1992	Non-fiction	Lillian Faderman	Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
1992	Literature	Paul Monette	Halfway Home
1993	Non-fiction	Eric Marcus	Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990
1993	Literature	Essex Hemphill	Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
1994	Non-fiction	Phyllis Burke	Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son
1994	Literature	Leslie Feinberg	Stone Butch Blues
1995	Non-fiction	Dorothy Allison	Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
1995	Non-fiction	Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein	Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
1995	Literature	Marion Dane Bauer	Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
1996	Non-fiction	Urvashi Vaid	Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
1996	Literature	Jim Grimsley	Dream Boy
1997	Non-fiction	Fenton Johnson	Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
1997	Literature	Emma Donoghue	Hood
1998	Non-fiction	Adam Mastoon	The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
1998	Literature	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	Working Parts: A Novel
1999	Non-fiction	Sarah Schulman	Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
1999	Literature	Michael Cunningham	The Hours
2000	Non-fiction	Barrie Jean Borich	My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage
2000	Literature	Marci Blackman	Po Man's Child: A Novel
2001	Non-fiction	William N. Eskridge	Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
2001	Literature	Sarah Waters	Affinity
2002	Non-fiction	Barry Werth	The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
2002	Literature	Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project	The Laramie Project
2003	Non-fiction	Joanne Meyerowitz	How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States
2003	Literature	Noel Alumit	Letters to Montgomery Clift : a Novel
2004	Non-fiction	John D'Emilio	Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
2004	Literature	Monique Truong	The Book of Salt
2005	Non-fiction	Joan Roughgarden	Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People
2005	Literature	Colm Tóibín	The Master
2006	Non-fiction	Joshua Gamson	The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco
2006	Literature	Abha Dawesar	Babyji
2007	Non-fiction	Alison Bechdel	Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
2007	Literature	Andrew Holleran	Grief: a Novel
2008	Non-fiction	Mark Doty	Dog Years: A Memoir
2008	Literature	Ellis Avery	The Teahouse Fire
2009	Non-fiction	William N. Eskridge	Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
2009	Literature	Evan Fallenberg	Light Fell
2010	Non-fiction	Nathaniel Frank	Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
2010	Literature	David Francis	Stray Dog Winter
2010	Children's & Young Adult	Nick Burd	The Vast Fields of Ordinary
2011	Non-fiction	Emma Donoghue	Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature
2011	Literature	Barb Johnson	More of This World or Maybe Another
2011	Children's & Young Adult	Brian Katcher	Almost Perfect
2012	Non-fiction (co-winner)	Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward	Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
2012	Non-fiction (co-winner)	Michael Bronski	A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History)
2012	Literature	Wayne Hoffman	Sweet Like Sugar
2012	Children's & Young Adult	Bil Wright	Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
2013	Non-fiction	Keith Boykin	For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home
2013	Literature	Ellis Avery	The Last Nude
2013	Children's & Young Adult	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
2014	Non-fiction(co-winner)	Lori Duron	Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
2014	Non-fiction(co-winner)	David McConnell	American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men
2014	Literature	Hilary Sloin	Art on Fire
2014	Children's & Young Adult (co-winner)	Kirstin Cronn-Mills	Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
2014	Children's & Young Adult (co-winner)	e.E. Charlton-Trujillo	Fat Angie
2015	Non-fiction	Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle	Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
2015	Literature	Saeed Jones	Prelude To Bruise
2015	Children's and Young Adult	Gayle E. Pitman	This Day in June
2016	Non-fiction	Kenji Yoshino	Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial
2016	Literature	Carolina De Robertis	The Gods of Tango
2016	Children's	Alex Gino	George
2016	Young Adult	Bill Konigsberg	The Porcupine of Truth
2017	Non-Fiction	David France	How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
2017	Literature	Chris McCormick	Desert Boys
2017	Children's	Rick Riordan	Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor
2017	Young Adult	Meredith Russo	If I Was Your Girl
2018	Non-Fiction	John Chaich and Todd Oldham	Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
2018	Literature	Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (editors)	Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
2018	Children's and Young Adult (co-winner)	Dashka Slater	The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
2018	Children's and Young Adult (co-winner)	Brandy Colbert	Little & Lion

Notes

1 2 Online the American Library Association presents the three Stonewall Book Awards twice, once in a GLBTRT subsite and once in an Awards subsite. The former treats them as three tracks of one award; the latter presents two Stonewall Book Awards for literature and nonfiction (adult books) and another one in parallel for children's and young adults books. References to both sets of webpages are provided here.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 "Stonewall Book Awards". American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2009-03-07.
1 2 3 4 Stonewall Book Awards: "This Award's Homepage". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
↑ Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award: "This Award's Homepage". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
1 2 3 4 5 "Stonewall Book Awards History". ALA. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
1 2 "ALA Book, Print & Media Awards". American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2013-05-05.
1 2 "Stonewall Book Awards List". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
↑ Stonewall Book Awards: "Winner List – All Years". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05. This table lists winners and honor books without distinguishing the Gittings Literature and Fishman Non-Fiction tracks.
↑ Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award: "Winner List – All Years". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
↑ BJARNAGIN (2018-02-13). "2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards Announced". News and Press Center. Retrieved 2018-02-14.

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[websites-4] 1 2 Online the American Library Association presents the three Stonewall Book Awards twice, once in a GLBTRT subsite and once in an Awards subsite. The former treats them as three tracks of one award; the latter presents two Stonewall Book Awards for literature and nonfiction (adult books) and another one in parallel for children's and young adults books. References to both sets of webpages are provided here.

[stonewall-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Stonewall Book Awards". American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2009-03-07.

[about1-2] 1 2 3 4 Stonewall Book Awards: "This Award's Homepage". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.

[about2-3] Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award: "This Award's Homepage". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.

[history-5] 1 2 3 4 5 "Stonewall Book Awards History". ALA. Retrieved 2009-11-19.

[ALAawards-6] 1 2 "ALA Book, Print & Media Awards". American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2013-05-05.

[list-7] 1 2 "Stonewall Book Awards List". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.

[winners1-8] Stonewall Book Awards: "Winner List – All Years". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05. This table lists winners and honor books without distinguishing the Gittings Literature and Fishman Non-Fiction tracks.

[winners2-9] Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award: "Winner List – All Years". ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.

[10] BJARNAGIN (2018-02-13). "2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards Announced". News and Press Center. Retrieved 2018-02-14.