| Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction | |
| Awarded For: | LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Books |
| Sponsor: | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Date: | Annual |
| Main: | Lambda Literary Award |
The Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards LGBT-themed nonfiction books whose intended audience is "general readers, as opposed to those targeted primarily to scholarly audiences."[1] Anthologies and memoirs are not included as they have their own categories (i.e., Anthology, Gay Memoir, Lesbian Memoir, Bisexual Literature, and Transgender Literature).
| Contributor(s) | Title | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Words to Our Now | Winner | ||
| Beyond the Down Low | Finalist | |||
| Gore Vidal’s America | ||||
| Raising Boys without Men | ||||
| Women Together/Women Apart | ||||
| 2007 | and Stuart Timmons | GAY L.A. | Winner | [2] |
| Behind the Mask of the Mattachine | Finalist | |||
| Different Daughters | ||||
| Hello, Cruel World | ||||
| Unspeakable Love | ||||
| 2008 | Gay Artists in Modern American Culture | Winner | [3] [4] | |
| Between Women | Finalist | |||
| Imagining Transgender | ||||
| Other Men’s Sons | ||||
| Pink Harvest | ||||
| 2009 | Loving The Difficult | Winner | [5] | |
| Beyond (Straight & Gay Marriage) | Finalist | |||
| Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 | ||||
| Drifting Toward Love | ||||
| If I Could Write This in Fire | ||||
| Me as Her Again | ||||
| 2010 | The Greeks and Greek Love | Winner | [6] | |
| , Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Eds.) | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde | Finalist | ||
| (Ed.) | The Golden Age of Gay Fiction | |||
| Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences | ||||
| Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | ||||
| 2011 | King Kong Theory | Winner | [7] | |
| (Ed.) | Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community | Finalist | [8] | |
| , Ed.D. | Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse | |||
| Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature | ||||
| The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools | ||||
| 2012 | A Queer History of the United States | Winner | [9] | |
| Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield | Finalist | |||
| God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality | ||||
| and Tirza True Latimer | Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | |||
| The H.D. Book | ||||
| 2013 | Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas | Winner | [10] | |
| Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 | Finalist | |||
| Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | ||||
| Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity | ||||
| (Ed.) | I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters | |||
| Israel/Palestine and the Queer International | ||||
| , Mark Thompson, and Bo Young | Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two | |||
| Real Man Stories | ||||
| 2014 | White Girls | Winner | [11] [12] | |
| Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Finalist | |||
| Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect | ||||
| Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants | ||||
| Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II | ||||
| The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution | ||||
| , Tom Bianchi,and Edmund White | Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 | |||
| , Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico | You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People | |||
| 2015 | An American Queer: The Amazon Trail | Winner | ||
| Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Finalist | [13] | ||
| Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS | ||||
| , Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha, and Christian Scheidemann | Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor | |||
| Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos | ||||
| The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality | ||||
| The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future | ||||
| The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973 | ||||
| 2016 | No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy | Winner | [14] [15] | |
| and Michael Bronski | Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics | Finalist | [16] | |
| Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History | ||||
| Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship | ||||
| Namibia’s Rainbow Project | ||||
| The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | ||||
| What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity | ||||
| 2017 | Winner | [17] | ||
| Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair | Finalist | [18] | ||
| with Stephen Vider | Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York | |||
| Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity | ||||
| Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City | ||||
| The Estrangement Principle | ||||
| The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability | ||||
| 2018 | How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Winner | [19] [20] | |
| After Silence | Finalist | [21] | ||
| Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible | ||||
| Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes | ||||
| Born Both: An Intersex Life | ||||
| Mean | ||||
| Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice | ||||
| and Todd Oldham | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | |||
| 2019 | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Winner | [22] | |
| Butch Heroes | Finalist | [23] | ||
| Has the Gay Movement Failed? | ||||
| Ladies Lazarus | ||||
| No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas | ||||
| Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII | ||||
| The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century | ||||
| Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements | ||||
| 2020 | In the Dream House | Winner | [24] [25] | |
| A Year Without a Name | Finalist | [26] [27] | ||
| Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s | ||||
| Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics | ||||
| Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women | ||||
| The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives | ||||
| When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History | ||||
| Why Karen Carpenter Matters | ||||
| 2021 | The Lonely Letters | Winner | [28] [29] [30] | |
| All the Young Men | Finalist | [31] | ||
| and Erich Kessel, Jr. | An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 | |||
| Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care | ||||
| The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America | ||||
| 2022 | Let the Record Show | Winner | [32] [33] | |
| Girlhood | Finalist | [34] [35] | ||
| Dear Senthuran | ||||
| Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures | ||||
| Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water | ||||
| 2023 | Winner | [36] | ||
| How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Finalist | [37] | ||
| Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between | ||||
| And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community | ||||
| 2024 | Hi Honey, I'm Homo | Winner | [38] | |
| Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America | Finalist | [39] | ||
| Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City | ||||
| Otherwise | ||||
| , LMFT | Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond |