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Sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table, The Stonewall Book Awards are the first and most enduring awards for GLBT books. The American Library Association ( ALA) is a group based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally LGBT (also GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to Lesbian, Gay, bisexual, and Transgender / transsexual The awards are presented annually to English language works of fiction (Barbara Gittings Literature Award) and non-fiction (Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award). Barbara Gittings (July 31 1932 – February 18 2007 was a prominent American Gay rights activist They are announced in January to the winning authors or editors, who are given a plaque and cash stipend.

First awarded in 1971 as the Gay Book Award, over the years the name of the award has changed:

Stonewall Book Award recipients

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. The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28 1969 at the Stonewall Inn Alma Routsong ( 26 November, 1924 - 4 October, 1996) was an American Novelist best known for her Lesbian fiction Patience and Sarah is a 1969 Historical fiction lesbian novel by Alma Routsong, using the Pen name Isabel Miller. Sponsored by the American Library Association 's Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table The Stonewall Book Awards are the first and most enduring awards for Dorothy Louise 'Del' Martin nee Taliaferro (May 5 1921 &ndash August 27 2008 and Phyllis Ann Lyon (born November 10 1924 were an American Lesbian Dorothy Louise 'Del' Martin nee Taliaferro (May 5 1921 &ndash August 27 2008 and Phyllis Ann Lyon (born November 10 1924 were an American Lesbian
1974 Jeannette Howard Foster Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey
1975 Jonathan D. Katz, ed. Jeannette Howard Foster ( November 3, 1895 - July 26, 1981) was a pioneering researcher in the field of Lesbian literature. This article is about a Queer studies professor For the technology writer see Jon Katz. Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature
1976 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 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. John Eastburn Boswell ( March 20, 1947 – December 24, 1994) was a prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Lillian Faderman (born 1940 is a scholar whose books on Lesbian relationships in history have earned critical praise and awards R. Roberts Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
1982 Vito Russo The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
1983 No award given. Vito Russo (b 1946 New York City - 7 November, 1990, New York City was an American Gay activist, Film historian
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. John D'Emilio (born 1948 New York City) is a Professor of History and of women's and Gender studies at the University of Illinois Judy Rae Grahn (born July 28, 1940, in Chicago) is an American Poet. Joan Nestle (b May 12, 1940) is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Randy Shilts ( August 8 1951 February 17 1994) was a highly acclaimed pioneering Gay American Journalist and And the Band Played On Politics People and the AIDS Epidemic is a best-selling work of nonfiction written by San Francisco Chronicle Journalist Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English Novelist and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty The Swimming Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst. Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958, in New York City) is an American novelist historian and playwright David Barish Feinberg ( November 25, 1956 - November 2, 1994) was an American writer and AIDS activist 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 & 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 (novel)
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. William Armstrong Percy III, (born 10 December, 1933) is a professor historian encyclopedist and Gay activist Minnie Bruce Pratt (b September 12 1946 in Selma Alabama) is an U Lillian Faderman (born 1940 is a scholar whose books on Lesbian relationships in history have earned critical praise and awards Paul Monette ( October 16, 1945 &ndash February 10, 1995) was an American author, Poet, and activist best remembered Eric Marcus is an American Non-fiction Writer. His works are primarily of LGBT interest including Breaking the Surface, the Essex Hemphill (1957 &ndash 1995 was an African American poet and activist Leslie Feinberg (born September 1, 1949) is a Transgender activist speaker and Author. Stone Butch Blues is a novel written by Transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer speaker and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Samuel Bernstein is an award winning screenwriter director and author (born 1970 who grew up all over the world living in Cairo, Honolulu, Austin, Urvashi Vaid (born 1958 in New Delhi, India) is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting Civil rights Jim Grimsley (born 1955 is an American Novelist and Playwright. Dream Boy is a 1995 Novel by Jim Grimsley Nathan is an intelligent but shy Adolescent Boy. John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition Emma Donoghue is an Irish -born playwright literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Hood is a Novel written by Irish Author Emma Donoghue in 1995. Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958, in New York City) is an American novelist historian and playwright Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American Writer, best known for his 1998 Novel The Hours The Hours is a 1998 Novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner 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 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

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Sarah Waters is a British Novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Affinity is a 1999 Historical fiction Novel by Sarah Waters. It is the author's second novel following Tipping the Moisés Kaufman (born November 21 1963) is a Playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard lists notable plays films novels songs and other works created from the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder investigation and resulting interest Noël Alumit is an American writer and actor Named one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine, novelist actor and activist he was born John D'Emilio (born 1948 New York City) is a Professor of History and of women's and Gender studies at the University of Illinois Monique TD Truong (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American Writer living in Brooklyn New York. The Book of Salt by Monique Truong presents a narrative through the eyes of Binh a Vietnamese cook Joan E Roughgarden (b Jonathan Roughgarden in Paterson New Jersey on 13 March 1946) is an American Biologist. Colm Tóibín ( (born 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland) is an multi award winning Irish novelist and critic The Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It is his fifth novel and it was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize and received Abha Dawesar (born January 1, 1974) is an Indian novelist writing in English. Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the Coming of age Alison Bechdel (born September 10 1960 is an American Cartoonist. Fun Home (subtitled A Family Tragicomic) is a graphic Memoir by Alison Bechdel, author of the Comic strip Dykes Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944 a Novelist, Essayist, and Short story writer
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