Stonewall Book Award

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Stonewall Book Award
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Awarded for"exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience"
CountryUnited States
Presented bythe Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
First awarded1971
Website ala.org/rt/rrt/award/stonewall
and two "homepages" [1] [2] [3] [lower-alpha 1]

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. [1] They are sponsored by the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards, since 1986 as the single Gay Book Award. [4] [5]

Contents

The three award categories are fiction and nonfiction in books for adults, distinguished in 1990, and books for children or young adults, from 2010. The awards are named for Barbara Gittings, Israel Fishman, and (jointly) Mike Morgan and Larry Romans. In full they are the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award. [1]

Finalists have been designated from 1990, and termed "Honor Books" from 2001. [6] Currently a panel of librarians selects five finalists in each award category and subsequently selects one winner. [4] The winners are announced in January and each receives a plaque and $1000 cash prize during the ALA Annual Conference in June or July. [1] Winners are expected to attend and to give acceptance speeches. [2]

The ALA solicits book suggestions each to be accompanied by a brief statement in favor of the book. [1] Anyone may suggest a title for consideration. However, the publisher of a proposed title, agents or representatives of the author, or anyone else who may stand to gain directly from the nomination of the book should disclose this information via the online form. [2]

Eligible books should be original works published in the U.S. and Canada during the preceding year, including "substantially changed new editions" and "English-language translations of foreign-language books". [2]

History

The Gay Book Award was inaugurated in 1971 at the ALA annual meeting in Dallas, by the newly created Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL) [7] The ceremony, attended by only 9 people, [7] recognized Patience and Sarah , a historical novel by Alma Routsong (writing as Isabel Miller), which had been self-published by Routsong in 1969. A "grassroots acknowledgment" of GLBT publishing, there were "only a handful" of books to consider annually. The ALA officially started granting the award in 1986, and by 1995, there were more than 800 books considered for the award. [4]

In 2002, the awards, then two, were jointly named after the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots as well as two of the founding members of the TFGL, Barbara Gittings and Israel Fishman. [4]

Award name and categories

From 1986, the Gay Book Award and its descendants have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards. [4] [5]

Recipients

Stonewall Book Awards Winners [8]
YearCategoryRecipientTitleCitation
1971 Isabel Miller Patience and Sarah Winner
1972 Peter Fisher The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male HomosexualityWinner
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Lesbian/Woman Winner
1974 Jeannette Howard Foster Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey Winner
1975 Jonathan Ned Katz (ed.)Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and LiteratureWinner
1977 Howard Brown Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America TodayWinner
1978 Ginny Vida (ed.)Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource BookWinner
1979 Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About HomosexualityWinner
1980 Winston Leyland (ed.)Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay LiteratureWinner
1981 John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century Winner
1982 Lillian Faderman Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the PresentWinner
J. R. RobertsBlack Lesbians: An Annotated BibliographyWinner
Vito Russo The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies Winner
1984 John D'Emilio Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970Winner
1985 Judy Grahn Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay WorldsWinner
1986 Cindy Patton Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDSWinner
1987 Walter Williams The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian CultureWinner
1988 Joan Nestle A Restricted CountryWinner
Randy Shilts And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Winner
1989 Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library Winner
Sarah Schulman After DeloresWinner
1990Non-fiction Neil Miller In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of ChangeWinner
Susan and Daniel Cohen When Someone You Know is Gay Finalist
Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. (eds.)Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
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John Preston (ed.)Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS
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Edith Konecky A Place at the Table
David Leavitt Equal Affections
Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn (eds.)In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers
1991Non-fiction Wayne Dynes (ed.) Encyclopedia of Homosexuality Winner
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Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt (eds.)Gay and Lesbian Library Service
Bret Hinch Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
Mary Ann Humphrey My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present
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Stuart Timmons The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement
Bonnie Zimmerman The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989
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John Gilgun Music I Never Dreamed of
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Paula Martinac Out of Time
Matthew Stadler Landscape: Memory
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Will Roscoe The Zuni Man-Woman
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Rob Kearney , Eric Rosswood, and Nidhi Chanani Strong
Young Adult Sacha Lamb When the Angels Left the Old CountryWinner
Casey McQuiston I Kissed Shara WheelerHonor
R. Eric Thomas Kings of B'more
Cory McCarthy Man o' War
Jen Ferguson The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
2024Non-fiction Lamya H Hijab Butch Blues Winner
Curtis Chin Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese RestaurantHonor
Elyssa Maxx Goodman Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Literature KB Brookins Freedom HouseWinner
A. Light Zachary More SureHonor
Sarah Cypher The Skin and Its Girl
Sebastian Merrill Ghost::Seeds
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. Gay Poems for Red States
Children's Nora Dåsnes Cross My Heart and Never LieWinner
Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Svabhu Kohli (illust.)Desert QueenHonor
Jessica Walton and Aśka (illust.)Stars in Their Eyes
Justine Pucella Winans The Otherwoods
A.M. Wild and Kah Yangni (illust.)Not He or She, I'm Me
Young Adult Abdi Nazemian Only This Beautiful MomentWinner
Andrew Joseph White The Spirit Bares Its TeethHonor
Becky Albertalli Imogen, Obviously
James Acker The Long Run
Johnny Garza Villa Ander & Santi Were Here

See also

Notes

  1. Online the American Library Association presents the three Stonewall Book Awards twice, once in a GLBTRT subsite and once in an Awards subsite. The former treats them as three tracks of one award; the latter presents two Stonewall Book Awards for literature and nonfiction (adult books) and another one in parallel for children's and young adults books. References to both sets of webpages are provided here.

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