| Stonewall Book Award | |
| Awarded For: | "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" |
| Presenter: | the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1971 |
| Website: | and two "homepages" |
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. 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.
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.
Finalists have been designated from 1990, and termed "Honor Books" from 2001. Currently a panel of librarians selects five finalists in each award category and subsequently selects one winner. The winners are announced in January and each receives a plaque and $1000 cash prize during the ALA Annual Conference in June or July. Winners are expected to attend and to give acceptance speeches.
The ALA solicits book suggestions each to be accompanied by a brief statement in favor of the book. 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.
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".
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)[1] The ceremony, attended by only 9 people, 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.
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.
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.
| -- style="text-align: center" --> | + Stonewall Book Awards Winners | Year | Category | Recipient | Title | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Patience and Sarah | Winner | ||||
| 1972 | Winner | |||||
| Lesbian/Woman | Winner | |||||
| 1974 | Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey | Winner | ||||
| 1975 | (ed.) | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature | Winner | |||
| 1977 | Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today | Winner | ||||
| 1978 | (ed.) | Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book | Winner | |||
| 1979 | Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality | Winner | ||||
| 1980 | (ed.) | Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature | Winner | |||
| 1981 | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century | Winner | ||||
| 1982 | Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present | Winner | ||||
| Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography | Winner | |||||
| Winner | ||||||
| 1984 | Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 | Winner | ||||
| 1985 | Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds | Winner | ||||
| 1986 | Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS | Winner | ||||
| 1987 | Winner | |||||
| 1988 | Winner | |||||
| And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | Winner | |||||
| 1989 | Winner | |||||
| After Delores | Winner | |||||
| 1990 | Non-fiction | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | Winner | |||
| When Someone You Know is Gay | Finalist | |||||
| Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | ||||||
| Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 | ||||||
| Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS | ||||||
| Literature | Eighty-Sixed | Winner | ||||
| In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist | |||||
| Equal Affections | ||||||
| In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers | ||||||
| 1991 | Non-fiction | (ed.) | Encyclopedia of Homosexuality | Winner | ||
| Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two | Finalist | |||||
| Gay and Lesbian Library Service | ||||||
| Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China | ||||||
| My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present | ||||||
| Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends | ||||||
| Literature | Crime Against Nature | Winner | ||||
| Finalist | ||||||
| Music I Never Dreamed of | ||||||
| Out of Time | ||||||
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Cancer in Two Voices | Finalist | |||||
| Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men | ||||||
| Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey | ||||||
| Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe | ||||||
| Literature | Halfway Home | Winner | ||||
| Finalist | ||||||
| (ed.) | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | |||||
| (ed.) | Hawkwings | |||||
| (ed.) | ||||||
| (ed.) | Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology | |||||
| 1993 | Non-fiction | Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 | Winner | |||
| Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life | Finalist | |||||
| Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830 | ||||||
| Literature | Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry | Winner | ||||
| Almost History | Finalist | |||||
| Vital Ties | ||||||
| Written on the Body | ||||||
| 1994 | Non-fiction | Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son | Winner | |||
| Stonewall | Finalist | |||||
| Lesbian Culture: An Anthology | ||||||
| Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law | ||||||
| Literature | Stone Butch Blues | Winner | ||||
| She's Always Liked the Girls Best | Finalist | |||||
| Scissors, Paper, Rock | ||||||
| (ed.) | Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology | |||||
| 1995 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans | ||||||
| Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 | Finalist | |||||
| Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video | ||||||
| (eds.) | Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together | |||||
| Literature | Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence | Winner | ||||
| Finalist | ||||||
| (ed.) | Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present | |||||
| Winter Numbers: Poems | ||||||
| 1996 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s | Finalist | |||||
| S/HE | ||||||
| (ed.) | ||||||
| Literature | Dream Boy | Winner | ||||
| Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | Finalist | |||||
| Baby Be-Bop | ||||||
| Stuck Rubber Baby | ||||||
| 1997 | Non-fiction | Geography of the Heart | Winner | |||
| Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media | Finalist | |||||
| Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies | ||||||
| Heaven's Coast | ||||||
| Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia | ||||||
| Literature | Hood | Winner | ||||
| Finalist | ||||||
| Funny Boy | ||||||
| Toward Amnesia | ||||||
| Bailey's Beads | ||||||
| 1998 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Hospital Time | Finalist | |||||
| Queerly Classed | ||||||
| Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 | ||||||
| Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation | ||||||
| Literature | Working Parts | Winner | ||||
| Prozac Highway | Finalist | |||||
| Beyond the Pale | ||||||
| In Awe | ||||||
| 1999 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport | Finalist | |||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Science Fiction | Finalist | |||||
| Switch | ||||||
| Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems | ||||||
| 2000 | Non-fiction | My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage | Winner | |||
| Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America | Finalist | |||||
| Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | ||||||
| Firebird | ||||||
| Lorca: A Dream of Life | ||||||
| Literature | Po Man's Child | Winner | ||||
| Comfort & Joy | Finalist | |||||
| Mr. Dallowayla | ||||||
| Lawnboy | ||||||
| Last Rights: Poems | ||||||
| 2001 | Non-fiction | Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet | Winner | |||
| Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults | Honor | |||||
| Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder | ||||||
| Janet, My Mother, and Me of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray | ||||||
| Literature | Affinity | Winner | ||||
| Breakfast with Scot | Honor | |||||
| (eds.) | ||||||
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America | Honor | |||||
| Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | ||||||
| How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story | ||||||
| (eds.) | Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS | |||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Pages for You | Honor | |||||
| Guess Again: Short Stories | ||||||
| Welsh Boys Too | ||||||
| 2003 | Non-fiction | How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States | Winner | |||
| Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's and Mine | Honor | |||||
| Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s | ||||||
| Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares | ||||||
| Glenway Wescott Personally | ||||||
| Literature | Letters to Montgomery Clift | Winner | ||||
| Middlesex | Honor | |||||
| At Swim, Two Boys | ||||||
| Fingersmith | ||||||
| 2004 | Non-fiction | Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin | Winner | |||
| Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Honor | |||||
| (ed.) | Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context | |||||
| Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their Circle | ||||||
| Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Cutting Room | Honor | |||||
| Keeping You a Secret | ||||||
| Lives of the Circus Animals | ||||||
| Southland | ||||||
| 2005 | Non-fiction | Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People | Winner | |||
| Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality | Honor | |||||
| Both: a Portrait in Two Parts | ||||||
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | ||||||
| Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| I Am My Own Wife | Honor | |||||
| Luna | ||||||
| 2006 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| My One-Night Stand with Cancer | Honor | |||||
| Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 | ||||||
| Literature | Babyji | Winner | ||||
| Acqua Calda | Honor | |||||
| Mother of Sorrows | ||||||
| , edited by Kevin Killian | ||||||
| 2007 | Non-fiction | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Gay Power: An American Revolution | ||||||
| Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships | ||||||
| Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son | ||||||
| Literature | Grief | Winner | ||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Rose of No Man's Land | ||||||
| 2008 | Non-fiction | Dog Years | Winner | |||
| Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers | Honor | |||||
| (ed.) | ||||||
| Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | ||||||
| Mississippi Sissy | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Bow Grip | Honor | |||||
| Dark Reflections | ||||||
| 2009 | Non-fiction | Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 | Winner | |||
| Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad | Honor | |||||
| Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster | ||||||
| Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South | ||||||
| Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever | ||||||
| Literature | Light Fell | Winner | ||||
| Honor | ||||||
| 2010 | Non-fiction | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | Winner | |||
| Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman | Honor | |||||
| Black Bull, Ancestors and Me | ||||||
| (ed.) | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde | |||||
| Literature | Stray Dog Winter | Winner | ||||
| God Says No | Honor | |||||
| Beauty Salon | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Winner | |||||
| 10,000 Dresses | Honor | |||||
| Daddy, Papa, and Me | ||||||
| Gay America: Struggle for Equality | ||||||
| Mommy, Mama, and Me | ||||||
| Sprout | ||||||
| 2011 | Non-fiction | Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Just Kids | ||||||
| Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade | ||||||
| Literature | More of This World or Maybe Another | Winner | ||||
| Probation | Honor | |||||
| Holding Still for as Long as Possible | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Almost Perfect | Winner | ||||
| and David Levithan | Will Grayson, Will Grayson | Honor | ||||
| Freaks and Revelations | ||||||
| Love Drugged | ||||||
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture | Winner | |||
| Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender | Honor | |||||
| Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme | ||||||
| Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | ||||||
| Literature | Sweet Like Sugar | Winner | ||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Remembrance of Things I Forgot | ||||||
| Annabel | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy | Winner | ||||
| Pink | Honor | |||||
| With or Without You | ||||||
| a + e 4ever | ||||||
| Money Boy | ||||||
| 2013 | Non-fiction | For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home | Winner | |||
| Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | Honor | |||||
| When We Were Outlaws of Love & Revolution | ||||||
| (ed.) | Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform | |||||
| Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Chulito | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Winner | ||||
| Drama | Honor | |||||
| Gone, Gone, Gone | ||||||
| October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard | ||||||
| Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie | ||||||
| 2014 | Non-fiction | Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son | Winner | |||
| American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men | ||||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Fairyland of my Father | ||||||
| Literature | Art on Fire | Winner | ||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Beautiful Music for Ugly Children | Winner | ||||
| Fat Angie | ||||||
| Better Nate Than Ever | Honor | |||||
| Branded by the Pink Triangle | ||||||
| Two Boys Kissing | ||||||
| 2015 | Non-fiction | Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Winner | |||
| Gay Berlin | Honor | |||||
| Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | ||||||
| Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | ||||||
| Literature | Prelude to Bruise | Winner | ||||
| Bitter Eden | Honor | |||||
| Frog Music | ||||||
| My Real Children | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | This Day in June | Winner | ||||
| Honor | ||||||
| I'll Give You the Sun | ||||||
| Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress | ||||||
| 2016 | Non-fiction | Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial | Winner | |||
| Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family | Honor | |||||
| Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions | ||||||
| Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Apocalypse Baby | Honor | |||||
| For Your Own Good | ||||||
| Jam On The Vine | ||||||
| Lum | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adults | Melissa | Winner | ||||
| Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU | Honor | |||||
| Wonders of the Invisible World | ||||||
| 2017 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis | Honor | |||||
| One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin | ||||||
| (eds.) | Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality | |||||
| Tomboy Survival Guide | ||||||
| Literature | Desert Boys | Winner | ||||
| Beautiful Gravity | Honor | |||||
| Dig | ||||||
| Guapa | ||||||
| Hide | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor | Winner | ||||
| If I Was Your Girl | ||||||
| When the Moon Was Ours | Honor | |||||
| Unbecoming | ||||||
| Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community | ||||||
| 2018 | Non-fiction | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | Winner | |||
| Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | Honor | |||||
| LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers | ||||||
| Literature | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Winner | ||||
| Marriage of a Thousand Lies | Honor | |||||
| When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Winner | |||||
| Little & Lion | ||||||
| As the Crow Flies | Honor | |||||
| 2019 | Literature | Winner | ||||
| Forward | Honor | |||||
| Luisa: Now and Then | ||||||
| Speak No Evil | ||||||
| White Houses | ||||||
| Non-fiction | Go the Way Your Blood Beats | Winner | ||||
| Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History | Honor | |||||
| Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and Intersex Child | ||||||
| Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Julian is a Mermaid | Winner | ||||
| Hurricane Child | ||||||
| Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World | Honor | |||||
| Picture Us in the Light | ||||||
| 2020 | Non-fiction | How We Fight for Our Lives | Winner | |||
| Gender Queer | Honor | |||||
| I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World | ||||||
| In the Dream House | ||||||
| She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters | ||||||
| Literature | Cantoras | Winner | ||||
| Lot: Stories | Honor | |||||
| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | ||||||
| Patsy | ||||||
| War/Torn | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | When Aidan Became a Brother | Winner | ||||
| Pet | Honor | |||||
| Like a Love Story | ||||||
| 2021 | Non-fiction | Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games | Winner | |||
| My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | Honor | |||||
| Paper Bullets | ||||||
| XOXY | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Honor | ||||||
| Memorial | ||||||
| More Than Organs | ||||||
| Postcolonial Love Poem | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | We Are Little Feminists: Families | Winner | ||||
| Beetle & The Hollowbones | Honor | |||||
| Darius the Great Deserves Better | ||||||
| Felix Ever After | ||||||
| You Should See Me in a Crown | ||||||
| 2022 | Non-fiction | Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir | Winner | |||
| Honor | ||||||
| Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 | ||||||
| Punch Me Up to the Gods | ||||||
| Literature | Sorrowland | Winner | ||||
| Light From Uncommon Stars | Honor | |||||
| Stone Fruit | ||||||
| Black Girl, Call Home | ||||||
| Children's & Young Adult | Too Bright to See | Winner | ||||
| Last Night at the Telegraph Club | ||||||
| Almost Flying | Honor | |||||
| Grandad's Camper | ||||||
| 2023 | Non-fiction | Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist | Winner | |||
| Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture | Honor | |||||
| High-Risk Homosexual | ||||||
| Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay | ||||||
| Literature | Winner | |||||
| Revenge Body | ||||||
| Dominant Genes | Honor | |||||
| How to Identify Yourself with a Wound | ||||||
| Dead Collections | ||||||
| Children's | and Charlene Chua | Love, Violet | Winner | |||
| In the Key of Us | Honor | |||||
| , Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa | Kapaemahu | |||||
| , Eric Rosswood, and Nidhi Chanani | Strong | |||||
| Young Adult | When the Angels Left the Old Country | Winner | ||||
| I Kissed Shara Wheeler | Honor | |||||
| Kings of B'more | ||||||
| Man o' War | ||||||
| 2024 | Non-fiction | Winner | ||||
| Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant | Honor | |||||
| Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City | ||||||
| Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture | ||||||
| and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy | Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | |||||
| Literature | Freedom House | Winner | ||||
| More Sure | Honor | |||||
| The Skin and Its Girl | ||||||
| Ghost::Seeds | ||||||
| Gay Poems for Red States | ||||||
| Children's | Cross My Heart and Never Lie | Winner | ||||
| and Svabhu Kohli (illust.) | Desert Queen | Honor | ||||
| and Aśka (illust.) | Stars in Their Eyes | |||||
| The Otherwoods | ||||||
| and Kah Yangni (illust.) | Not He or She, I'm Me | |||||
| Young Adult | Only This Beautiful Moment | Winner | ||||
| The Spirit Bares Its Teeth | Honor | |||||
| Imogen, Obviously | ||||||
| The Long Run | ||||||
| Ander & Santi Were Here |