Randy Shilts Award

The Randy Shilts Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the gay community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in memory of American journalist Randy Shilts.[1]

Winners
  • 1997 — Anthony Heilbut, Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature
  • 1998 — David Sedaris, Naked
  • 1999 — John Loughery, The Other Side of Silence
  • 2000 — Eric Brandt, Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays and the Struggle for Equality
  • 2001 — Mark Matousek, The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father
  • 2002 — [tie] Ricardo J. Brown, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's; Robert Reid-Pharr, Black Gay Man
  • 2003 — Neil Miller, Sex Crime Panic
  • 2004 — John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
  • 2005 — David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
  • 2006 — Martin Moran, The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace
  • 2007 — Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
  • 2008 — Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons
  • 2009 — Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
  • 2010 — James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love
  • 2011 — Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
  • 2012 — Mark D. Jordan, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality
  • 2013 — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America[2]
  • 2014 — Hilton Als, White Girls
  • 2015 — Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
  • 2016 — [tie] Barney Frank, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage and Michelangelo Signorile, It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality
  • 2017 — David France, How to Survive a Plague[3]
  • 2018 — Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection
  • 2019 — Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel[4]
  • 2020 — Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives[5]

References
  1. http://www.publishingtriangle.org/awards.asp
  2. "Going for the Silver". Gay City News, May 8, 2013.
  3. "Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white". CBC Books, May 1, 2017.
  4. "This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly, April 24, 2019.
  5. Samraweet Yohannes, "Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature". CBC Books, May 1, 2020.


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