Year | Contributor(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
2006 | Thomas Glave | Words to Our Now | Winner | |
Keith Boykin | Beyond the Down Low | Finalist | |
Dennis Altman | Gore Vidal’s America | |
Peggy Drexler | Raising Boys without Men | |
Tirza True Latimer | Women Together/Women Apart | |
2007 | Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons | GAY L.A. | Winner | [2] |
James T. Sears | Behind the Mask of the Mattachine | Finalist | [2] |
Marcia Gallo | Different Daughters |
Kate Bornstein | Hello, Cruel World |
Brian Whitaker | Unspeakable Love |
2008 | Michael S. Sherry | Gay Artists in Modern American Culture | Winner | [3][4] |
Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Finalist | [4] |
David Valentine | Imagining Transgender |
Michael Rowe | Other Men’s Sons |
Toni Mirosevich | Pink Harvest |
2009 | Jane Rule | Loving The Difficult | Winner | [5] |
Nancy Polikoff | Beyond (Straight & Gay Marriage) | Finalist | [5] |
William N. Eskridge, Jr. | Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 |
Kai Wright | Drifting Toward Love |
Michelle Cliff | If I Could Write This in Fire |
Nancy Agabian | Me as Her Again |
2010 | James Davidson | The Greeks and Greek Love | Winner | [6] |
Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Eds.) | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde | Finalist | [6] |
Drewey Wayne Gunn (Ed.) | The Golden Age of Gay Fiction |
Sarah Schulman | Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences |
Nathaniel Frank | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America |
2011 | Virginie Despentes | King Kong Theory | Winner | [7] |
Noach Dzmura (Ed.) | Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community | Finalist | [8] |
Jallen Rix, Ed.D. | Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse |
Emma Donoghue | Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature |
Stuart Biegel | The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools |
2012 | Michael Bronski | A Queer History of the United States | Winner | [9] |
Scott Pasfield | Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield | Finalist | |
Jay Michaelson | God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality | |
Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer | Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | |
Robert Duncan | The H.D. Book | |
2013 | Dale Carpenter | Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas | Winner | [10] |
Stacy Braukman | Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 | Finalist | [10] |
Christopher Bram | Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America |
Andrew Solomon | Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity |
Michael G. Long (Ed.) | I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters |
Sarah Schulman | Israel/Palestine and the Queer International |
Jeffrey Schwarz, Mark Thompson, and Bo Young | Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two |
T Cooper | Real Man Stories |
2014 | Hilton Als | White Girls | Winner | [11][12] |
Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle | Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Finalist | [11] |
Jamie Woo | Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect |
Phil Tiemeyer | Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants |
Daniel Winunwe Rivers | Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II |
Matt Richardson | The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution |
Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi,and Edmund White | Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 |
Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico | You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People |
2015 | Lee Lynch | An American Queer: The Amazon Trail | Winner | |
Martin Duberman | Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Finalist | [13] |
Rebecca J. Anderson | Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS |
Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha, and Christian Scheidemann | Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor |
Robert Hofler | Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos |
Julie Sondra Decker | The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality |
Aaron H. Devor | The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future |
Clayton Delery-Edwards | The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973 |
2016 | Marcia M. Gallo | No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy | Winner | [14][15] |
Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski | Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics | Finalist | [16] |
Corbett Joan O'Toole | Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History |
Joshua Gamson | Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship |
Robert Lorway | Namibia’s Rainbow Project |
Lillian Faderman | The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle |
Jarrett Neal | What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity |
2017 | David France | How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS | Winner | [17] |
Sarah Schulman | Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair | Finalist | [18] |
Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider | Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York |
David Greven | Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity |
Jurek Wajdowicz | Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City |
Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity |
Ariel Goldberg | The Estrangement Principle |
Kristen Hogan | The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability |
2018 | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Winner | [19][20] |
Avram Finkelstein | After Silence | Finalist | [21] |
Malik Gaines | Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible |
Anne Elizabeth Moore | Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes |
Hida Viloria | Born Both: An Intersex Life |
Myriam Gurba | Mean |
Clayton Delery | Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice |
John Chaich and Todd Oldham | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community |
2019 | Imani Maria Perry | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Winner | [22] |
Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Finalist | [23] |
Martin Duberman | Has the Gay Movement Failed? |
Piper J. Daniels | Ladies Lazarus |
C.J. Janovy | No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas |
Avery Cassell | Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII |
Jim Elledge | The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century |
Charlene A. Carruthers | Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements |
2020 | Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House | Winner | [24][25] |
Cyrus Grace Dunham | A Year Without a Name | Finalist | [26][27] |
W. Ian Bourland | Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s |
Brett Krutzsch | Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics |
E. Patrick Johnson | Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women |
Selby Wynn Schwartz | The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives |
Hugh Ryan | When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History |
Karen Tongson | Why Karen Carpenter Matters |
2021 | Ashon Crawley | The Lonely Letters | Winner | [28][29][30] |
Ruth Coker Burks | All the Young Men | Finalist | [31] |
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel, Jr. | An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 |
Marty Fink | Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care |
Josephine Donovan | The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America |
2022 | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show | Winner | [32][33] |
Melissa Febos | Girlhood | Finalist | [34][35] |
Akwaeke Emezi | Dear Senthuran |
Adam Zmith | Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures | [35] |
Kazim Ali | Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water |
2023 | Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin | Winner | [36] |
Sabrina Imbler | How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Finalist | [37] |
Joseph Osmundson | Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between |
Ricky Tucker | And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community |
Hugh Ryan | The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison |
2024 | Matt Baume | Hi Honey, I'm Homo | Winner | [38] |
Daniel Black | Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America | Finalist | [39] |
Elyssa Maxx Goodman | Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City |
Julie Marie Wade | Otherwise |
John Sovec, LMFT | Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond |