Year Contributor(s) Title Result Ref. 2006 Thomas Glave Words to Our Now Winner Keith Boykin Beyond the Down Low Finalist Dennis Altman Gore Vidal’s America Peggy Drexler Raising Boys without Men Tirza True Latimer Women Together/Women Apart 2007 Lillian Faderman and Stuart TimmonsGAY L.A. Winner [ 2] James T. Sears Behind the Mask of the Mattachine Finalist [ 2] Marcia Gallo Different Daughters Kate Bornstein Hello, Cruel World Brian Whitaker Unspeakable Love 2008 Michael S. Sherry Gay Artists in Modern American Culture Winner [ 3] [ 4] Sharon Marcus Between Women Finalist [ 4] David Valentine Imagining Transgender Michael Rowe Other Men’s Sons Toni Mirosevich Pink Harvest 2009 Jane Rule Loving The Difficult Winner [ 5] Nancy Polikoff Beyond (Straight & Gay Marriage) Finalist [ 5] William N. Eskridge, Jr. Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 Kai Wright Drifting Toward Love Michelle Cliff If I Could Write This in Fire Nancy Agabian Me as Her Again 2010 James Davidson The Greeks and Greek Love Winner [ 6] Rudolph P. Byrd , Johnnetta Betsch Cole , and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Eds.)I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde Finalist [ 6] Drewey Wayne Gunn (Ed.)The Golden Age of Gay Fiction Sarah Schulman Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences Nathaniel Frank Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America 2011 Virginie Despentes King Kong Theory Winner [ 7] Noach Dzmura (Ed.)Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Finalist [ 8] Jallen Rix , Ed.D.Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse Emma Donoghue Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature Stuart Biegel The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools 2012 Michael Bronski A Queer History of the United States Winner [ 9] Scott Pasfield Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield Finalist Jay Michaelson God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True LatimerSeeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories Robert Duncan The H.D. Book 2013 Dale Carpenter Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas Winner [ 10] Stacy Braukman Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 Finalist [ 10] Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America Andrew Solomon Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity Michael G. Long (Ed.)I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters Sarah Schulman Israel/Palestine and the Queer International Jeffrey Schwarz , Mark Thompson, and Bo YoungOut Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two T Cooper Real Man Stories 2014 Hilton Als White Girls Winner [ 11] [ 12] Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims Finalist [ 11] Jamie Woo Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect Phil Tiemeyer Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants Daniel Winunwe Rivers Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II Matt Richardson The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution Ben Smales , Tom Bianchi, and Edmund WhiteTom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 Michael Bronski , Ann Pellegrini, and Michael AmicoYou Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People 2015 Lee Lynch An American Queer: The Amazon Trail Winner Martin Duberman Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS Finalist [ 13] Rebecca J. Anderson Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS Hilton Als , Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha, and Christian ScheidemannRobert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor Robert Hofler Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos Julie Sondra Decker The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality Aaron H. Devor The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future Clayton Delery-Edwards The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973 2016 Marcia M. Gallo No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy Winner [ 14] [ 15] Kay Whitlock and Michael BronskiConsidering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics Finalist [ 16] Corbett Joan O'Toole Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History Joshua Gamson Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship Robert Lorway Namibia’s Rainbow Project Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Jarrett Neal What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity 2017 David France How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS Winner [ 17] Sarah Schulman Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair Finalist [ 18] Donald Albrecht with Stephen ViderGay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York David Greven Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity Jurek Wajdowicz Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City Alexis Pauline Gumbs Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Ariel Goldberg The Estrangement Principle Kristen Hogan The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability 2018 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Winner [ 19] [ 20] Avram Finkelstein After Silence Finalist [ 21] Malik Gaines Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible Anne Elizabeth Moore Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes Hida Viloria Born Both: An Intersex Life Myriam Gurba Mean Clayton Delery Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice John Chaich and Todd OldhamQueer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community 2019 Imani Maria Perry Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Winner [ 22] Ria Brodell Butch Heroes Finalist [ 23] Martin Duberman Has the Gay Movement Failed? Piper J. Daniels Ladies Lazarus C.J. Janovy No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas Avery Cassell Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII Jim Elledge The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century Charlene A. Carruthers Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements 2020 Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House Winner [ 24] [ 25] Cyrus Grace Dunham A Year Without a Name Finalist [ 26] [ 27] W. Ian Bourland Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Brett Krutzsch Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics E. Patrick Johnson Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women Selby Wynn Schwartz The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives Hugh Ryan When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History Karen Tongson Why Karen Carpenter Matters 2021 Ashon Crawley The Lonely Letters Winner [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] Ruth Coker Burks All the Young Men Finalist [ 31] Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel, Jr.An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 Marty Fink Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care Josephine Donovan The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America 2022 Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show Winner [ 32] [ 33] Melissa Febos Girlhood Finalist [ 34] [ 35] Akwaeke Emezi Dear Senthuran Adam Zmith Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures [ 35] Kazim Ali Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water 2023 Hafizah Augustus Geter The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin Winner [ 36] Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Finalist [ 37] Joseph Osmundson Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between Ricky Tucker And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community Hugh Ryan The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison 2024 Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo Winner [ 38] Daniel Black Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Finalist [ 39] Elyssa Maxx Goodman Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City Julie Marie Wade Otherwise John Sovec , LMFT Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond