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The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....

 (ALA), the Stonewall Book Award is for LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 books. It is presented annually to English language works of fiction (Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that...

 Literature Award), non-fiction (Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award) and Children's books (Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award). Winners are announced in January and presented with a plaque and cash stipend at a ceremony in June or July.

First awarded in 1971 as the Gay Book Award, over the years the name of the award has changed:

• 1971-1986 Gay Book Award
• 1987-1989 Gay and Lesbian Book Award
• 1990-1993 Gay and Lesbian Book Award, nonfiction and literature
• 1994-1998 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award, nonfiction and literature
• 1999-2001 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award, nonfiction and literature
• 2002–2010 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings
  Barbara Gittings
  Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that...
  
   Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. The current name is derived from the 1969 Stonewall riots
  Stonewall riots
  The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City...
  
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• 2010–present Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Award Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award.

In 1986, the award became an official ALA award.

Stonewall Book Award recipients

Year	Title
1971	Isabel Miller	Patience and Sarah Patience and Sarah Patience and Sarah is a 1969 historical fiction novel with strong lesbian themes by Alma Routsong, using the pen name Isabel Miller. It was originally self-published under the title A Place For Us and eventually found a publisher as Patience and Sarah in 1971.Routsong's novel is based on a...
1972	Peter Fisher	The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality
1972	Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon	Lesbian/Woman
1973	no award given	no award given
1974	Jeannette Howard Foster Jeannette Howard Foster Jeannette Howard Foster was a researcher in the field of lesbian literature. She pioneered the study of popular fiction and ephemera in order to excavate lesbian themes both overt and covert, and her years of pioneering data collection culminated in her 1956 study Sex Variant Women in Literature,...	Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey
1975	Jonathan D. Katz Jonathan D. Katz Jonathan David Katz is an American activist, art historian, educator and writer, he is currently the director of the doctoral program in Visual culture studies at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is also the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay... , ed.	Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature
1976	no award given	no award given
1977	Howard Brown	Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today
1978	Ginny Vida, ed.	Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book
1979	Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward	Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality
1980	Winston Leyland, ed.	Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature
1981	John Boswell John Boswell (historian) John Eastburn Boswell was a prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of homosexuality and religion, specifically homosexuality and Christianity....	Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
1982	Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:...	Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
1982	J.R. Roberts	Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
1982	Vito Russo Vito Russo Vito Russo was an American LGBT activist, film historian and author who is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet ....	The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
1983	no award given	no award given
1984	John D'Emilio John D'Emilio John D'Emilio is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg...	Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
1985	Judy Grahn Judy Grahn Judy Rae Grahn is an American poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works.-Activities:Judy Grahn is a poet who writes about women's lives, including lesbian experience. She was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist collective on the west coast, founded...	Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
1986	Cindy Patton	Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS
1987	Walter Williams	The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
1988	Joan Nestle Joan Nestle Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her...	A Restricted Country
1988	Randy Shilts Randy Shilts Randy Shilts was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations....	And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic And the Band Played On And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987...
1989	Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...	The Swimming Pool Library The Swimming Pool Library The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst.-Plot introduction:In 1983 London, the privileged, gay, and apparently sexually irresistible 25 year old protagonist Will saves the life of an elderly aristocrat having a heart-attack in a public lavatory...
1989	Sarah Schulman Sarah Schulman Sarah Miriam Schulman is an American novelist, historian and playwright. An early chronicler of the AIDS crisis, she wrote on AIDS and social issues, publishing in The Village Voice in the early 1980s, and writing the first piece on AIDS and the homeless, which appeared in The Nation...	After Delores
1990 Non-fiction	Neil Miller Neil Miller (writer) Neil Miller is an American journalist and nonfiction writer, best known for his books on LGBT history and culture.- Life :Miller was born in Kingston, New York, in 1945 and graduated from Kingston High School and Brown University...	In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change
1990 Literature	David B. Feinberg David B. Feinberg David Barish Feinberg was an American writer and AIDS activist.-Early life:Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Feinberg grew up in Syracuse, New York...	Eighty-Sixed
1991 Non-fiction	Wayne Dynes, ed.	Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (William Armstrong Percy)
1991 Literature	Minnie Bruce Pratt Minnie Bruce Pratt Minnie Bruce Pratt is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville,...	Crime against Nature Crime against nature Crime against nature is a legal term used in published cases in the United States since 1814 and normally defined as a form of sexual behavior that is not considered natural and is seen as a punishable offense in dozens of countries and several U.S. states...
1992 Non-fiction	Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:...	Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America
1992 Literature	Paul Monette Paul Monette Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.-Biography:...	Halfway Home
1993 Non-fiction	Eric Marcus Eric Marcus Eric Marcus is an American non-fiction writer. His works are primarily of LGBT interest, including Breaking the Surface, the autobiography of gay Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, which became a #1 New York Times Bestseller and Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights,...	Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990
1993 Literature	Essex Hemphill Essex Hemphill Essex Hemphill was an American poet and activist. He was a 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts.-Biography:Essex Hemphill was born April 16, 1957 in Chicago and died on November 4, 1995 of AIDS-related complications...	Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
1994 Non-fiction	Phyllis Burke	Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son
1994 Literature	Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg is a transgender queer and communist activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg's first novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.- Career :...	Stone Butch Blues Stone Butch Blues Stone Butch Blues is a novel written by transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. The novel won the 1994 Stonewall Book Award. It tells the story of the life of a butch named Jess Goldberg and the trials and tribulations she faces growing up in the pre-Stonewall era. Published in 1993, the novel...
1995 Non-fiction	Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a...	Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature is a collection of essays written by award-winning author Dorothy Allison. Published in 1994, the book contains original essays as well as updated versions of essays that appeared in anthologies and magazines like New York Native, The Village Voice, and...
1995 Non-fiction	Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein Samuel Bernstein Samuel Bernstein is an award winning screenwriter, director and author who grew up all over the world, living in Cairo, Honolulu, Austin, Phoenix, Albuquerque, New York City, Los Angeles, and Ft. Collins, Colorado, while his family also traveled through Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean...	Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
1995 Literature	Marion Dane Bauer	Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
1996 Non-fiction	Urvashi Vaid Urvashi Vaid Urvashi Vaid is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.- Political activism :...	Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
1996 Literature	Jim Grimsley Jim Grimsley -Biography:Born to a troubled rural family in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Grimsley said of his childhood that "for us in the South, the family is a field where craziness grows like weeds"....	Dream Boy Dream Boy Dream Boy is a 1995 novel by Jim Grimsley.-Plot summary:Nathan is an intelligent but shy, adolescent boy, who wants to escape from his abusive and violent father and fantasizes about a relationship with Roy, the boy who lives next door. Roy is a senior at the same high school as Nathan, and he...
1997 Non-fiction	Fenton Johnson Fenton Johnson John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.-Life:His most recent book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in...	Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
1997 Literature	Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...	Hood Hood (novel) Hood is a novel written by Irish author Emma Donoghue in 1995. The book was the recipient of the 1997 Stonewall Book Award and is heavily influenced by James Joyce's Ulysses....
1998 Non-fiction	Adam Mastoon	The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
1998 Literature	Lucy Jane Bledsoe Lucy Jane Bledsoe Lucy Jane Bledsoe is a novelist and science writer, who writes both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults...	Working Parts: A Novel
1999 Non-fiction	Sarah Schulman Sarah Schulman Sarah Miriam Schulman is an American novelist, historian and playwright. An early chronicler of the AIDS crisis, she wrote on AIDS and social issues, publishing in The Village Voice in the early 1980s, and writing the first piece on AIDS and the homeless, which appeared in The Nation...	Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
1999 Literature	Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.-Early life and education:...	The Hours The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.-Plot introduction:The book...
2000 Non-fiction	Barrie Jean Borich	My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage
2000 Literature	Marci Blackman	Po Man's Child: A Novel
2001 Non-fiction	William N. Eskridge	Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
2001 Literature	Sarah Waters Sarah Waters Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966....	Affinity Affinity (novel) Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. It is the author's second novel, following Tipping the Velvet, and followed by Fingersmith.-Plot summary:...
2002 Non-fiction	Barry Werth	The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
2002 Literature	Moisés Kaufman Moisés Kaufman Moisés Kaufman is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 33 Variations and is perhaps best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project...  and Tectonic Theatre Project	The Laramie Project The Laramie Project The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...
2003 Non-fiction	Joanne Meyerowitz	How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States
2003 Literature	Noel Alumit Noel Alumit Noël Alumit is an American novelist, actor, and activist. He has been identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine. He was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in the Los Angeles, United States...	Letters to Montgomery Clift : a Novel
2004 Non-fiction	John D'Emilio John D'Emilio John D'Emilio is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg...	Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
2004 Literature	Monique Truong Monique Truong Monique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975 and graduated from high school in Houston, Texas...	The Book of Salt The Book of Salt The Book of Salt by Monique Truong presents a narrative through the eyes of Binh, a Vietnamese cook. It tells his story predominantly in Paris and his hometown in Vietnam...
2005 Non-fiction	Joan Roughgarden Joan Roughgarden Joan E. Roughgarden is an American evolutionary biologist.- Biography :...	Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People
2005 Literature	Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...	The Master The Master (novel) The Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It is his fifth novel and it was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize and received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award and, in France, Le prix du meilleur livre...
2006 Non-fiction	Joshua Gamson	The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco
2006 Literature	Abha Dawesar	Babyji Babyji Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family...
2007 Non-fiction	Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...	Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Fun Home Fun Home is a 2006 graphic memoir by American writer Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, USA, focusing on her complex relationship with her father...
2007 Literature	Andrew Holleran Andrew Holleran Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber , a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. He was a member of The Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81. The Violet Quill included other prolific gay writers...	Grief: a Novel
2008 Non-Fiction	Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...	Dog Years: A Memoir
2008 Literature	Ellis Avery	The Teahouse Fire The Teahouse Fire The Teahouse Fire is a novel by Ellis Avery set in late nineteenth century Japan published by Riverhead in the US in 2006 and to be published by Random House in the UK as a paperback original.-Plot summary:...
2009 Non-Fiction	William N. Eskridge	Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
2009 Literature	Evan Fallenberg	Light Fell
2010 Non-Fiction	Nathaniel Frank	Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
2010 Literature	David Francis David Francis David Francis may refer to:*David "Panama" Francis, American drummer*David R. Francis, American politician*David Hywel Francis, known as Hywel Francis, Welsh politician*David Francis , former member of the USA Cycling team...	Stray Dog Winter
2010 Children's & Young Adult	Nick Burd	The Vast Fields of Ordinary The Vast Fields of Ordinary The Vast Fields of Ordinary is a young adult gay novel by American author Nick Burd first published in 2009. The novel depicts the summer after high school graduation for a closeted suburban teenage boy, his openly lesbian new best friend, and the two boys he is interested in dating...
2011 Children's & Young Adult	Brian Katcher	Almost Perfect

External links

• Stonewall Book Awards
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT)