Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref. 1997 Anthony Heilbut Thomas Mann Winner Keith Boykin One More River to Cross Finalist Mark Doty Heaven’s Coast Finalist 1998 David Sedaris Naked Winner Daniel Harris The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture Finalist Gabriel Rotello Sexual Ecology Finalist 1999 John Loughery The Other Side of Silence Winner Michael Bronski The Pleasure Principle Finalist Richard Rambuss Closer Devotions Finalist 2000 Eric Brandt Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality The New Press Winner James M. Saslow Pictures and Passions Viking Press Finalist John Manual Andriote Victory Deferred University of Chicago Press Finalist 2001 Mark Matousek The Boy He Left Behind: A Man’s Search for His Lost Father Riverhead Books Winner Beth Loffreda Losing Matt Shepard Columbia University Press Finalist Ned Rorem Lies: A Diary 1986–1999 Counterpoint Finalist 2002 Ricardo J. Brown The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s University of Minnesota Press Winner Robert Reid-Pharr Black Gay Man New York University Press Winner Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor Doubleday Finalist 2003 Neil Miller Sex Crime Panic Alyson Books Winner Colm Tóibín Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature Scribner Finalist Richard Bruce Nugent Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance Duke University Press Finalist 2004 John D’Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin Free Press Winner Augusten Burroughs Dry St. Martin’s Press Finalist Dale Peck What We Lost Houghton Mifflin Finalist 2005 David K. Johnson The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government University of Chicago Press Winner David Carter Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution St. Martin’s Press Finalist Graham Robb Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century W. W. Norton Finalist 2006 Martin Moran The Tricky Part Beacon Press Winner [ 3] Neil McKenna The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde Basic Books Finalist Thomas Glave Words to Our Now University of Minnesota Press Finalist 2007 Kenji Yoshino Covering Random House Winner [ 4] Bernard Cooper The Bill from My Father Simon & Schuster Finalist Rigoberto González Butterfly Boy University of Wisconsin Press Finalist 2008 Michael Rowe Other Men’s Sons Cormorant Books Winner [ 5] Martin Duberman The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein Alfred A. Knopf Finalist Michael S. Sherry Gay Artists in Modern American Culture University of North Carolina Press Finalist 2009 Kai Wright Drifting Toward Love Beacon Press Winner [ 6] Bob Morris Assisted Loving Harper/HarperCollins Finalist Linas Alsenas Gay America Amulet Books/Abrams Finalist 2010 James Davidson The Greeks and Greek Love Random House Winner Chad Heap Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife University of Chicago Press Finalist David Plante The Pure Lover Beacon Press Finalist 2011 Justin Spring Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner [ 7] R. Tripp Evans Grant Wood Alfred A. Knopf Finalist Wendy Moffat A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist 2012 Mark D. Jordan Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality University of Chicago Press Winner Martin Duberman A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds The New Press Finalist Michael Bronski A Queer History of the United States Beacon Press Finalist [ 8] 2013 Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws Twelve/Hachette Winner [ 9] Cynthia Carr Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz Bloomsbury Finalist David M. Halperin How to Be Gay Belknap/Harvard University Press Finalist Lisa Jarnot Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus University of California Press Finalist 2014 Hilton Als White Girls McSweeney’s Winner [ 10] [ 11] Jim Elledge Henry Darger: Throwaway Boy Overlook Finalist [ 12] Lori Duron Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous Gender Creative Son Broadway Books Finalist [ 12] Susana Peña Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boat Lift to Gay Cuban Miami University of Minnesota Press Finalist [ 12] 2015 Robert Beachy Gay Berlin Alfred A. Knopf Winner [ 13] Martin Duberman Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS The New Press Finalist Philip Gefter Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe Liveright/W. W. Norton Finalist Richard Blanco The Prince of Los Cocuyos Ecco/HarperCollins Finalist 2016 Barney Frank Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner [ 14] Michelangelo Signorile It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [ 14] Dale Peck Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS Soho Press Finalist Matthew Spender A House in St. John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist 2017 David France How to Survive a Plague Alfred A. Knopf Winner [ 15] [ 16] Kevin Mumford Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis University of North Carolina Press Finalist Paul Lisicky The Narrow Door Graywolf Press Finalist Will Schwalbe Books for Living Alfred A. Knopf Finalist 2018 Eli Clare Brilliant Imperfection Duke University Press Winner [ 17] Chike Frankie Edozien Lives of Great Men Team Angelica Publishing Finalist Peter Gajdics The Inheritance of Shame Brown Paper Press Finalist Richard A. McKay Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic University of Chicago Press Finalist 2019 Alexander Chee How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [ 18] Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Yale University Press Finalist [ 19] Lillian Faderman Harvey Milk Yale University Press Finalist [ 19] Robert W. Fieseler Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and Rise of Gay Liberation Liveright/W. W. Norton Finalist [ 19] 2020 Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Simon & Schuster Winner [ 20] [ 21] New York Public Library (ed.) The Stonewall Reader Penguin Books Finalist [ 22] David K. Johnson Buying Gay Columbia University Press Finalist [ 22] Hugh Ryan When Brooklyn Was Queer St. Martin’s Finalist [ 22] 2021 Eric Cervini The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner [ 23] [ 24] John Birdsall The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard W. W. Norton Finalist Ross A. Slotten Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis University of Chicago Press Finalist Wayne Koestenbaum Figure It Out Soft Skull Press Finalist 2022 Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods Mariner Winner [ 25] [ 26] C. Winter Han Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire University of Washington Press Finalist Jeremy Atherton Lin Gay Bar: Why We Went Out Little, Brown Finalist Rajiv Mohabir Antiman: A Memoir Restless Books Finalist 2023 Ron Goldberg Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of Act Up New York Fordham University Press Winner [ 27] [ 28] Gregory D. Smithers Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native America Beacon Press Finalist Jenn Budd Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist Heliotrope Finalist Scott Bane A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F.O Matthiesen and Russell Cheney University of Massachusetts Finalist 2024 Joseph Plaster Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin Duke University Press Winner [ 29] [ 30] Gregory D. Smithers Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto , by Zachary Zane (, an imprint of Abrams Books)Abrams Image Finalist [ 31] Greg Marshall Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It Abrams Books Finalist [ 31] Mark D. Jordan Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires Fordham University Press Finalist [ 31] 
