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Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Book Award, 2006-1995

The GLBTF, a unit of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table, is the oldest gay/lesbian professional organization in the United States. Since 1971, the GLBTF has presented its book award for the best works of nonfiction and literature dealing with gay, lesbian, and bisexual themes.


2006

Nonfiction:
The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco / Joshua Gamson (Winner)
My One Night Stand with Cancer / Tania Katan
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde / Neil McKenna
The Tragedy of Today’s Gays / Larry Kramer

Literature:
Babyji / Abha Dawesar (Winner)
Acqua Calda / Keith McDermott
The First Verse / Barry McCrea
Mother of Sorrows / Richard McCann
The Wild Creatures: Collected Stories of Sam D’Allesandro / edited by Kevin Killian

2005

Nonfiction:
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People / Joan Roughgarden (Winner)
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality / Patrick Moore
Both: A Portrait in Two Parts / Douglas Crase
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim / David Sedaris
Warrior Poet: a Biography of Audre Lorde / Alexis DeVeaux


Literature:
The Master: A Novel / Colm Tóibín (Winner)
I Am My Own Wife: A Play / Doug Wright
The Line of Beauty / Allan Hollinghurst
Luna: a Novel / Julie Anne Peters
The Seahorse Year / Stacy D’Erasmo

2004

Nonfiction:
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin / John D'Emilio (Winner)
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith / Andrew Wilson
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context / Vern L. Bullough
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their Circle / Lois W. Banner
Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam / David Kaufman

Literature:
The Book of Salt / Monique Truong (Winner)
Cutting Room / Louise Welsh
Keeping You a Secret / Julie Ann Peters
Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel / Christopher Bram
Southland / Nina Revoyr

2003

Nonfiction:
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States  / Joanne J. Meyerowitz (Winner)
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-- My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine / Noelle Howey
Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950's / Neil Miller
Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares / Carmen L. Oliveria
Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography / Jerry Roscoe

Literature:
Letters to Montgomery Clift: A Novel / Noel Alumit (Winner)
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenidies
Lantern Bearers / Ronald Frame
At Swim, Two Boys / Jamie O'Neil
Fingersmith / Sarah Waters

2002

Nonfiction:
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal / Barry Werth (Winner)
You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America / Louise A. Blum
Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court / Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story / Kirk Read
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights / Arlene Stein
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS / Edmund White

Literature:

The Laramie Project / Moisés Kaufman (Winner)
Pages for You / Sylvia Brownrigg
Guess Again: Short Stories / Bernard Cooper
Welsh Boys Too / John Sam Jones
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things / J.T. LeRoy
2001

Nonfiction:
Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet / William N. Eskridge (Winner)
Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults / Frances Ann Day
Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder / Beth Loffreda
Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray / William Murray
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned / Judd Winick

Literature:
Affinity / Sarah Waters (Winner)
Breakfast with Scot: A Novel / Michael Downing
The Danish Girl: A Novel / David Ebershoff
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology / Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, eds.
The Night Listener: A Novel / Armistead Maupin

2000

Nonfiction:
My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage / Barrie Jean Borich (Winner)
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity / Bruce Bagemihl
Firebird: A Memoir / Mark Doty
Lorca: A Dream of Life / Leslie Stainton
Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America / John-Manuel Andriote

Literature:
Po Man's Child / Marci Blackman (Winner)
Comfort and Joy/ Jim Grimsley
Last Rights: Poems / Marvin K. White
Lawnboy/ Paul Lisicky
Mr. Dalloway / Robin Lippincott

1999

Nonfiction:
Stagestruck: Theatre, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America / Sarah Schulman (Winner)
A Fragile Union / Joan Nestle
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom / Barbara Smith
The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities / John Loughery
Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport / Pat Griffin

Literature:
The Hours / Michael Cunningham (Winner)
An Arrow's Flight / Mark Merlis
Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing: Science Fiction / edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel   
Switch / Carol Guess
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than of Slavery: Poems / Pamela Sneed

1998

Nonfiction:
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories ... / Adam Mastoon (Winner)
Hospital Time / Amy Hoffman
Lonely Hunters: An Oral History ... / James Sears
Queerly Classed / Susan Raffo
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation / Arlene Stein

Literature:
Working Parts / Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Winner)
Beyond the Pale / Elana Dykewomon
The Escape Artist / Judith Katz
In Awe / Scott Heim
Prozac Highway / Persimmon Blackbridge

1997

Nonfiction:
Geography of the Heart: A Memoir / Fenton Johnson (Winner)
Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media / Edward Alwood
Free Your Mind / Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir / Mark Doty
Cracks in the Iron Closet / David Tuller

Literature:
Hood / Emma Donoghue (Winner)
The Beauty of Men / Andrew Holleran
Funny Boy / Shyam Selvadurai
Toward Amnesia / Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's Beads / Terry Wolverton  

1996

Nonfiction:
Virtual Equality / Urvashi Vaid (Winner)
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s / Linnea Due
The Invention of Heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz
S/HE / Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage / Claude J. Summers

Literature:
Dream Boy / Jim Grimsley (Winner)
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison
Baby Be-Bop / Francesca Lia Block
Stuck Rubber Baby / Howard Cruse
The Promise of Rest / Reynolds Price

1995

Nonfiction:
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature / Dorothy Allison (Winner)
Uncommon Heroes / Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein (Winner)
Gay New York / George Chauncey
Images in the Dark / Raymond Murray
Sister and Brother / Joan Nestle and John Preston

Literature:
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence / Marion Dane Bauer, ed. (Winner)
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World / Rafael Campo
Chloe Plus Olivia / Lillian Faderman
The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel / Ellen Galford
Winter Numbers: Poems / Marilyn Hacker
 
 

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