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American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards
Winners, 1971-2000
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 awards for the best works of fiction and nonfiction dealing
with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered themes.
2000 | 1999
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1996 | 1995 |
1994 | 1993 |
1992 | 1991 |
1990 | 1989 |
1988 | 1987 |
1986 | 1985 |
1984 | 1983 |
1982 | 1981 |
1980 | 1979 |
1978 | 1977 |
1976 | 1975 |
1974 | 1973 |
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2000
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Nonfiction:
My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich--Winner!
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
by Bruce Bagemihl
Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty
Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton
Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote
Fiction:
Po Man's Child by Marci Blackman--Winner!
Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
Last Rights by Marvin K. White
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
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1999
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Nonfiction:
Stagestruck: Theatre, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman--Winner!
A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by Barbara Smith
The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities by John Loughery
Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport by Pat Griffin
Literature:
The Hours by Michael Cunningham--Winner!
An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Switch by Carol Guess
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than of Slavery by Pamela Sneed
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1998
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Nonfiction:
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon--Winner!
Hospital Time by Amy Hoffman
Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 by James Sears
Queerly Classed by Susan Raffo
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation by Arlene Stein
Literature:
Working Parts by Lucy Jane Bledsoe--Winner!
Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
The Escape Artist by Judith Katz
In Awe by Scott Heim
Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackbridge
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1997
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Nonfiction:
Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson--Winner!
Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media by Edward Alwood
Free Your Mind by Ellen Bass and
Kate Kaufman
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty
Cracks in the Iron Closet by David Tuller
Literature:
Hood by Emma Donoghue--Winner!
The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's Beads by Terry Wolverton
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1996
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Nonfiction:
Virtual Equality by Urvashi Vaid--Winner!
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s by Linnea Due
The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage by Claude J. Summers
Literature:
Dream Boy
by Jim Grimsley--Winner!
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
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1995
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Nonfiction:
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison--Winner!
Uncommon Heroes by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein--Winner!
Gay New York by George Chauncey
Images in the Dark by Raymond Murray
Sister and Brother by Joan Nestle and John Preston
Literature:
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
by Marion Dane Bauer, ed.--Winner!
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo
Chloe Plus Olivia by Lillian Faderman, ed.
The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel by Ellen Galford
Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker
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1994
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Nonfiction:
Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke--Winner!
Stonewall by Martin B. Duberman
Lesbian Culture by Julia Penelope, ed. and
Susan J. Wolfe, ed.
The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook by April Martin
Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law by William B. Rubenstein
Literature:
Stone Butch Blues
by Leslie Feinberg--Winner!
She's Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen
Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga
Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L. Singer, ed.
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1993
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Nonfiction:
Making History by Eric Marcus--Winner!
Positively Gay by Betty Berzon
The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrau
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
Mother Clap's Molly House by Rictor Norton
A Member of the Family by John Preston ed.
Literature:
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
by Essex Hemphill--Winner!
Almost History by Christopher Bram
The Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley
Vital Ties by Karen Kringle
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
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1992
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Nonfiction:
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman--Winner!
Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men by Gary David Comstock
Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey by Martin Duberman
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Are You Two ...Together?: A
Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe by
Lindsy Van Gelder and
Pamela Robin Brandt
Literature:
Halfway Home
by Paul Monette--Winner!
The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon
Brother to Brother by Essex Hemphill, ed.
Hawkwings by Howard Cruse
A Stone Gone Mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
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1991
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Nonfiction:
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality by Wayne Dynes, ed.--Winner!
Coming Out under Fire by Allan Berube
Gay and Lesbian Library Service by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt, ed.
Passions of the Cut Sleeve by Bret Hinch
My Country, My Right to Serve by Mary Ann Humphrey
Understanding Sexual Identity by Janice E. Rench
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
The Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman
Literature:
Crime against Nature
by Minnie Bruce Pratt--Winner!
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
Music I Never Dreamed of by John Gilgun
A Place I've Never Been by David Leavitt
Out of Time by Paula Martinac
Landscape Memory by Matthew Stadler
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1990
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Nonfiction:
In Search of Gay America by Neil Miller--Winner!
When Someone You Know is Gay by Susan Cohen and
Daniel Cohen
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey,
Jr., ed.
Not a Passing Phase by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS by John Preston, ed.
Literature:
Eighty-Sixed
by David B. Feinberg--Winner!
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram
A Place at the Table by Edith Konecky
Equal Affections by David Leavitt
In a Different Light: An
Anthology of Lesbian Writers by Carolyn Weathers, ed. and Jenny Wrenn, ed.
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1989
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Nonfiction:
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst--Winner!
Literature:
After Delores
by Sarah
Schulman--Winner!
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1988
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A Restricted County by Joan Nestle--Winner!
And the Band Played On
by Randy Shilts--Winner!
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1987
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The Spirit and the Flesh by Walter Williams--Winner!
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1986
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Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton--Winner!
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1985
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Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn--Winner!
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1984
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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities by John D'Emilio--Winner!
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1983
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No award given.
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1982
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Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman--Winner!
Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts--Winner!
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo--Winner!
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1981
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell--Winner!
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1980
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Now the Volcano by Winston Leyland--Winner!
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1979
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Now That You Know by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward--Winner!
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1978
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The New Our Right to Love : A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida, ed.--Winner!
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1977
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Familiar faces, hidden lives : the story of homosexual men in
America today by Howard Brown--Winner!
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1976
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No award given.
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1975
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Gay Crusaders (Homosexuality : Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History and Literature) by
Kay Tobin and Randy Wicker --Winner!
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1974
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Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster--Winner!
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1973
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No award given.
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1972
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The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male
Homosexuality by Peter Fisher--Winner!
Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon--Winner!
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1971
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Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller--Winner!
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