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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Book Awards 1972-2002 |
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Book Awards 1972-2002 |
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Originally a grassroots acknowledgment honoring hallmark works in lesbigay publishing, the Gay Book Award (as it was originally known) became an official American Library Association award in 1986. The next year, its name was changed to the Gay and Lesbian Book Award. Beginning in 1990, the Book Award expanded into two categories: nonfiction and literature. In 1994, the name changed once more to the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award. In 1999, when the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force became the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table, the name changed yet again to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award.
The committee that surveys the lesbian, gay, and bisexual publications is made up of equal numbers of women and men from various types of libraries across the United States. Ultimately, the committee must review the nominees and select five finalists each in the categories of nonfiction and literature. The winners are chosen from among these five finalists.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award is presented to English language works published the year prior to the announcement date. The award, which consists of a commemorative plaque and a cash stipend, is announced in March and presented to the winning authors or editors at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June.
From 1990 to the present we have indicated the winning non-fiction work by (NF) after the title and the winning literature work by (LIT) after the title.
| 2002 | Barry Werth | The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (NF) |
| 2002 | Moises Kaufman & Tectonic Theatre | The Laramie Project : A Play (LIT) |
| 2001 | William N. Eskridge | Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet (NF) |
| 2001 | Sarah Waters | Affinity (LIT) |
| 2000 | Jean Barrie Borich | My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage (NF) |
| 2000 | Marci Blackman | Po Man's Child (LIT) |
| 1999 | Sarah Schulman | Stage Struck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (NF) |
| 1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours (LIT) |
| 1998 | Adam Mastoon | The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People (NF) |
| 1998 | Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Working Parts: A Novel (LIT) |
| 1997 | Fenton Johnson | Geography of the Heart : A Memoir (NF) |
| 1997 | Emma Donoghue | Hood (LIT) |
| 1996 | Urvashi Vaid | Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian (NF) |
| 1996 | Jim Grimsley | Dream Boy (LIT) |
| 1995 | Dorothy Allison | Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature (NF) |
| 1995 | Phillip Sherman & Samuel Bernstein | Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans (NF) |
| 1995 | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence |
| 1994 | Phyllis Burke | Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son (NF) |
| 1994 | Leslie Feinberg | Staone Butch Blues (LIT) |
| 1993 | Eric Marcus | Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 (NF) |
| 1993 | Essex Hemphill | Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (LIT) |
| 1992 | Lilian Faderman | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America (NF) |
| 1992 | Paul Monette | Halfway Home (LIT) |
| 1991 | Wayne Dynes | Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (NF) |
| 1991 | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Crime Against Nature (LIT) |
| 1990 | Neil Miller | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change (NF) |
| 1990 | David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed (LIT) |
| 1989 | Andrew Hollinghurst | The Swimming-Pool Library |
| 1989 | Sarah Schulman | After Delores |
| 1988 | Joan Nestle | A Restricted Country |
| 1988 | Randy Schilts | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic |
| 1987 | Walter Williams | The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture |
| 1986 | Candy Patton | Sex and Germs |
| 1985 | Judy Grahn | Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds |
| 1984 | John D'Emilio | Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 |
| 1983 | No Award | |
| 1982 | Lilian Faderman | Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present |
| 1982 | J.R. Roberts | Black Lesbians |
| 1982 | Vito Russo | The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies |
| 1981 | John Boswell | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century |
| 1980 | Winston Leyland | Now the Volcano |
| 1979 | Betty Fairchild & Nancy Hayward | Now That You Know |
| 1978 | Ginny Vida, ed. | Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book |
| 1977 | Howard Brown | Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today |
| 1976 | No Award | |
| 1975 | Jonathan Katz, ed. | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature |
| 1974 | Jeanette Foster | Sex Variant Women in Literature |
| 1973 | No Award | |
| 1972 | Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah |
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