Stonewall Book Awards Nonfiction Winners 2025-1971
Some years had multiple nonfiction winners. How many have you read?
Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster LLC)
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H (The Dial Press)
The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan (Bold Type Books)
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili (Little Puss Press)
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books)
Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them) (Duke University Press)
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster)
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst (London: Repeater Press)
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (Los Angeles: Ammo Books)
How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS, by David France (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, by Kenji Yoshino (New York: Crown Publishers)
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle (New York: New York University Press)
American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men, by David McConnell (New York : Akashic Books)
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, by Lori Duron (New York: Broadway Books, an imprint of Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.)
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home, edited by Keith Boykin (New York : Magnus Books)
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward (Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books)
A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History), by Michael Bronski (Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press)
Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf)
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank, (St. Martin's Press)
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr., (Viking)
Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, (HarperCollins)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, (Houghton Mifflin)
The fabulous Sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson, (H. Holt)
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden, (University of California Press)
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio, (Free Press)
How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz, ( Harvard University Press)
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth, (Nan A. Talese)
Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge, (Harvard University Press)
My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich, (Greywolf Press)
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman, (Duke University Press)
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon, (William Morrow and Co./Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)
Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson, (Scribner)
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, (Anchor Books)
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature Dorothy Allison, (Firebrand Books)
Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein, (Fletcher Press)
Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke, (Random House)
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus, (HarperCollins)
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman, (Columbia University Press)
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes, (Garland)
In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller, (Atlantic Monthly Press)
A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle, (Firebrand Books)
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, (St. Martin's Press)
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams, (Beacon Press)
Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton, (South End Press)
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn, (Beacon Press)
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio, (University of Chicago Press)
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman, (Morrow)
Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts, (Naiad Press)
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo, (Harper & Row)
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, (Spinsters, Ink)
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell, (University of Chicago Press)
Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book edited by Ginny Vida, (Prentice-Hall)
Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature edited by Jonathan Katz, (Arno Press) [Series of historically significant reprints]
Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)
The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher, (Stein & Day)
Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Glide Publications)
A Place for Us by Isabel Miller, (published in October, 1971 by McGraw Hill as Patience and Sarah )
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