Year Author Title Result Ref. 2002 Joyce Murdoch Deb Price Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court Winner [ 2] Gay Wachman Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties Finalist [ 2] Suzanna Danuta Walters All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America William J. Mann Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 Ricardo J. Brown The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s 2003 Neil Miller Sex-Crime Panic Winner [ 3] [ 4] Craig Rimmerman From Identity to Politics Finalist [ 4] Colm Tóibín Love in a Dark Time Ruth Vanita Queering India David Nimmons Soul Beneath the Skin 2004 Devon W. Carbado Time on Two Crosses Winner [ 5] Wayne Besen Anything But Straight Finalist [ 5] Michael Mancilla Love in the Time of HIV James McCourt Queer Street Mack Friedman Strapped for Cash 2005 Elisabeth Kirtsoglou For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town Winner [ 6] Andrea Barnet All-Night Party Finalist [ 6] Will Fellows A Passion to Preserve Abigail Garner Families Like Mine Evan Wolfson Why Marriage Matters 2006 Susan Ackerman When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David Winner [ 7] Jennifer Kelly Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause Finalist [ 7] Dwight A. McBride Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch Esther D. Rothblum Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet Ruth Vanita Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West 2007 Horace Griffin Their Own Receive Them Not Winner [ 8] Robert McRuer Crip Theory Finalist [ 8] Kathryn Stockton Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame Carellin Brooks Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. David Eisenbach Gay Power: An American Revolution 2008 Sharon Marcus Between Women Winner [ 9] [ 10] Bertram Cohler Writing Desire Finalist [ 9] Pagan Kennedy The First Man-Made Man Mark Padilla Caribbean Pleasure Industry Robert Reid-Pharr Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual 2009 Regina Kunzel Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality Winner [ 11] Michelle Ann Abate Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History Finalist [ 11] Amin Ghaziani The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington Kevin P. Murphy Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform Linda Williams Screening Sex 2010 Margot Canaday The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America Winner [ 12] Armando Maggi The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade Finalist [ 12] Julie Abraham Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities Deborah B. Gould Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS Kathryn Bond Stockton The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century 2011 Scott Herring Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Winner [ 13] Gayle Salamon Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality Fran Martin Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary Finalist [ 14] Deborah Cohler Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Rafael de la Dehesa Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies 2012 Lisa L. Moore Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes Winner [ 15] [ 16] Eric A. Stanley Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex Finalist Chandan Reddy Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State Margot Weiss Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality Jafari S. Allen ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba 2013 Ramón H. Rivera-Servera Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics Winner [ 17] Louis-Georges Tin The Invention of Heterosexual Culture Finalist [ 18] Ernesto Javier Martínez On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Ashley Currier Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa Bernadette C. Barton Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays Brenna M. Munro South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom Sara Warner Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure Ann Cvetkovich Depression: A Public Feeling Tracy Baim Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America David M. Halperin How To Be Gay 2014 Christina B. Hanhardt Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence Winner [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] Marlon M. Bailey Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit Finalist [ 21] Victoria Hesford Feeling Women’s Liberation Colin R. Johnson Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America Lisa Henderson Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production Susana Pena Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami Afsaneh Najmabadi Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Lucetta Yip Lo Kam Shanghai Lalas Peter M. Coviello Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely Isaac West Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law [ 21] [ 22] 2015 Vincent Woodard Dwight McBride (editors)Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Winner [ 23] Noelle M. Stout After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba Finalist [ 24] Rachel Hope Cleves Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Marcia Ochoa Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela Lisa Tatonetti The Queerness of Native American Literature Juana María Rodríguez Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings Susan S. Lanser The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic Bobby Benedicto Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene 2016 Hiram Pérez A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Winner [ 25] Clare Sears Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Finalist [ 26] L.H. Stallings Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures Aaron Goodfellow Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship Madhavi Menon Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism Jane Ward Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men Petrus Liu Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Valerie Traub Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns 2017 Jennifer Tyburczy Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display Winner [ 27] Qwo-Li Driskill Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory Finalist [ 28] Gregory Woods Homintern Andrew Jolivette Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community Jonathan Goldberg Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility Kevin Mumford Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis Omar G. Encarnación Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution Timothy Stewart-Winter Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics 2018 Trevor Hoppe Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness Winner [ 29] [ 30] Alfredo Mirandé Behind the Mask Finalist [ 31] Mari Ruti The Ethics of Opting Out Emily Hobson Lavender and Red Jaclyn Pryor Time Slips Ashley T. Shelden Unmaking Love David M. Halperin The War on Sex Julio Capó Welcome to Fairyland 2019 William T. Hoston Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston Winner [ 32] E. Patrick Johnson Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History Finalist Lyndon K. Gill Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean Myrl Beam Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Keridwen N. Luis Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Andrew Billings Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports T. Jackie Cuevas Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique Anne Balay Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers 2020 Emily L. Thuma All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence Winner [ 33] [ 34] [ 35] [ 36] Robb Hernández Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde Finalist [ 37] [ 38] [ 39] Elizabeth Freeman Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century [ 38] [ 39] Kara Keeling Queer Times, Black Futures [ 37] [ 38] [ 39] Roberto Strongman Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou [ 38] [ 39] Dana Seitler Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction R.L. Cagle Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic Jian Neo Chen Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement 2021 Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World Winner [ 40] [ 37] [ 41] Cait McKinney Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies Finalist [ 42] José Esteban Muñoz The Sense of Brown Janet Jakobsen The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics [ 42] [ 37] Jane Ward The Tragedy of Heterosexuality 2022 Anna Lvovsky Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall Winner [ 43] Gila Ashtor Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia Finalist [ 44] C. Winter Han Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire Leah DeVun The Shape of Sex Howard Chiang Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific 2023 Darieck Scott Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics Winner [ 45] Mairead Sullivan Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer Finalist [ 46] Marlon B. Ross Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness Vivian L. Huang Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability Jafari S. Allen There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life 2024 Erin L. Durban The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti Winner [ 47] Jennifer Dominique Jones Ambivalent Af inities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II Finalist [ 48] Christoph Hanssmann Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine Margot Canaday Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Travis S. K. Kong Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China