Randy Shilts Award

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The Randy Shilts Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the gay community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in memory of American journalist Randy Shilts. [1]

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Recipients

Award winners and finalists [2]
YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.
1997 Anthony Heilbut Thomas MannWinner
Keith Boykin One More River to Cross Finalist
Mark Doty Heaven’s CoastFinalist
1998 David Sedaris Naked Winner
Daniel Harris The Rise and Fall of Gay CultureFinalist
Gabriel Rotello Sexual Ecology Finalist
1999 John Loughery The Other Side of SilenceWinner
Michael Bronski The Pleasure PrincipleFinalist
Richard Rambuss Closer DevotionsFinalist
2000 Eric Brandt (ed.)Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for EqualityThe New PressWinner
James M. Saslow Pictures and PassionsViking PressFinalist
John Manual Andriote Victory DeferredUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
2001 Mark Matousek The Boy He Left Behind: A Man’s Search for His Lost FatherRiverhead BooksWinner
Beth Loffreda Losing Matt ShepardColumbia University PressFinalist
Ned Rorem Lies: A Diary 1986–1999CounterpointFinalist
2002 Ricardo J. Brown The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’sUniversity of Minnesota PressWinner
Robert Reid-Pharr Black Gay ManNew York University PressWinner
Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor DoubledayFinalist
2003 Neil Miller Sex Crime PanicAlyson BooksWinner
Colm Tóibín Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and LiteratureScribnerFinalist
Richard Bruce Nugent , edited by Thomas H. WirthGay Rebel of the Harlem RenaissanceDuke University PressFinalist
2004 John D’Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard RustinFree PressWinner
Augusten Burroughs DrySt. Martin’s PressFinalist
Dale Peck What We LostHoughton MifflinFinalist
2005 David K. Johnson The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal GovernmentUniversity of Chicago PressWinner
David Carter Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay RevolutionSt. Martin’s PressFinalist
Graham Robb Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth CenturyW. W. NortonFinalist
2006Martin Moran The Tricky Part Beacon PressWinner [3]
Neil McKenna The Secret Life of Oscar WildeBasic BooksFinalist
Thomas Glave Words to Our NowUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist
2007 Kenji Yoshino CoveringRandom HouseWinner [4]
Bernard Cooper The Bill from My FatherSimon & SchusterFinalist
Rigoberto González Butterfly BoyUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalist
2008 Michael Rowe Other Men’s SonsCormorant BooksWinner [5]
Martin Duberman The Worlds of Lincoln KirsteinAlfred A. KnopfFinalist
Michael S. Sherry Gay Artists in Modern American CultureUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalist
2009 Kai Wright Drifting Toward LoveBeacon PressWinner [6]
Bob Morris Assisted LovingHarper/HarperCollinsFinalist
Linas Alsenas Gay AmericaAmulet Books/AbramsFinalist
2010 James Davidson The Greeks and Greek LoveRandom HouseWinner
Chad Heap Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American NightlifeUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
David Plante The Pure LoverBeacon PressFinalist
2011Justin SpringSecret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel StewardFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinner [7]
R. Tripp Evans Grant WoodAlfred A. KnopfFinalist
Wendy Moffat A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. ForsterFarrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
2012 Mark D. Jordan Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About HomosexualityUniversity of Chicago PressWinner
Martin Duberman A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynoldsThe New PressFinalist
Michael Bronski A Queer History of the United States Beacon PressFinalist [8]
2013 Christopher Bram Eminent OutlawsTwelve/HachetteWinner [9]
Cynthia Carr Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David WojnarowiczBloomsburyFinalist
David M. Halperin How to Be GayBelknap/Harvard University PressFinalist
Lisa Jarnot Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from VenusUniversity of California PressFinalist
2014 Hilton Als White Girls McSweeney’sWinner [10] [11]
Jim Elledge Henry Darger: Throwaway BoyOverlookFinalist [12]
Lori Duron Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous Gender Creative SonBroadway BooksFinalist [12]
Susana Peña Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boat Lift to Gay Cuban MiamiUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist [12]
2015 Robert Beachy Gay BerlinAlfred A. KnopfWinner [13]
Martin Duberman Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDSThe New PressFinalist
Philip Gefter Wagstaff: Before and After MapplethorpeLiveright/W. W. NortonFinalist
Richard Blanco The Prince of Los Cocuyos Ecco/HarperCollinsFinalist
2016 Barney Frank Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex MarriageFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinner [14]
Michelangelo Signorile It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True EqualityHoughton Mifflin HarcourtWinner [14]
Dale Peck Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDSSoho PressFinalist
Matthew SpenderA House in St. John’s Wood: In Search of My ParentsFarrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
2017 David France How to Survive a Plague Alfred A. KnopfWinner [15] [16]
Kevin Mumford Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS CrisisUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalist
Paul Lisicky The Narrow DoorGraywolf PressFinalist
Will Schwalbe Books for LivingAlfred A. KnopfFinalist
2018 Eli Clare Brilliant ImperfectionDuke University PressWinner [17]
Chike Frankie Edozien Lives of Great MenTeam Angelica PublishingFinalist
Peter Gajdics The Inheritance of ShameBrown Paper PressFinalist
Richard A. McKay Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS EpidemicUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
2019 Alexander Chee How to Write an Autobiographical NovelHoughton Mifflin HarcourtWinner [18]
Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Yale University PressFinalist [19]
Lillian Faderman Harvey MilkYale University PressFinalist [19]
Robert W. Fieseler Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and Rise of Gay LiberationLiveright/W. W. NortonFinalist [19]
2020 Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Simon & SchusterWinner [20] [21]
New York Public Library (ed.)The Stonewall ReaderPenguin BooksFinalist [22]
David K. Johnson Buying GayColumbia University PressFinalist [22]
Hugh Ryan When Brooklyn Was QueerSt. Martin’sFinalist [22]
2021 Eric Cervini The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of AmericaFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinner [23] [24]
John BirdsallThe Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James BeardW. W. NortonFinalist
Ross A. Slotten Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS CrisisUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
Wayne Koestenbaum Figure It OutSoft Skull PressFinalist
2022 Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods MarinerWinner [25] [26]
C. Winter Han Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of DesireUniversity of Washington PressFinalist
Jeremy Atherton Lin Gay Bar: Why We Went Out Little, BrownFinalist
Rajiv Mohabir Antiman: A MemoirRestless BooksFinalist
2023 Ron Goldberg Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of Act Up New YorkFordham University PressWinner [27] [28]
Gregory D. Smithers Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native AmericaBeacon PressFinalist
Jenn Budd Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights ActivistHeliotropeFinalist
Scott Bane A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F.O Matthiesen and Russell CheneyUniversity of MassachusettsFinalist
2024 Joseph Plaster Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's TenderloinDuke University PressWinner [29] [30]
Gregory D. Smithers Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Zachary Zane (, an imprint of Abrams Books)Abrams ImageFinalist [31]
Greg Marshall Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From ItAbrams BooksFinalist [31]
Mark D. Jordan Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and DesiresFordham University PressFinalist [31]

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