Year
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Author
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Title
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Publisher
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Result
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Ref.
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1997
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Anthony Heilbut
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Thomas Mann
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Winner
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Keith Boykin
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One More River to Cross
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Finalist
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Mark Doty
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Heaven’s Coast
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Finalist
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1998
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David Sedaris
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Naked
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Winner
|
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Daniel Harris
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The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
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Finalist
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Gabriel Rotello
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Sexual Ecology
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Finalist
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1999
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John Loughery
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The Other Side of Silence
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Winner
|
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Michael Bronski
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The Pleasure Principle
|
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Finalist
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Richard Rambuss
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Closer Devotions
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Finalist
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2000
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Eric Brandt (ed.)
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Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality
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The New Press
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Winner
|
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James M. Saslow
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Pictures and Passions
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Viking Press
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Finalist
|
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John Manual Andriote
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Victory Deferred
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University of Chicago Press
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Finalist
|
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2001
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Mark Matousek
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The Boy He Left Behind: A Man’s Search for His Lost Father
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Riverhead Books
|
Winner
|
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Beth Loffreda
|
Losing Matt Shepard
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Columbia University Press
|
Finalist
|
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Ned Rorem
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Lies: A Diary 1986–1999
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Counterpoint
|
Finalist
|
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2002
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Ricardo J. Brown
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The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
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University of Minnesota Press
|
Winner
|
|
Robert Reid-Pharr
|
Black Gay Man
|
New York University Press
|
Winner
|
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Barry Werth
|
The Scarlet Professor
|
Doubleday
|
Finalist
|
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2003
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Neil Miller
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Sex Crime Panic
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Alyson Books
|
Winner
|
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Colm Tóibín
|
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
|
Scribner
|
Finalist
|
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Richard Bruce Nugent, edited by Thomas H. Wirth
|
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
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Duke University Press
|
Finalist
|
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2004
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John D’Emilio
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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Free Press
|
Winner
|
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Augusten Burroughs
|
Dry
|
St. Martin’s Press
|
Finalist
|
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Dale Peck
|
What We Lost
|
Houghton Mifflin
|
Finalist
|
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2005
|
David K. Johnson
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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Winner
|
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David Carter
|
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
|
St. Martin’s Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Graham Robb
|
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
|
W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
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2006
|
Martin Moran
|
The Tricky Part
|
Beacon Press
|
Winner
|
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Neil McKenna
|
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
|
Basic Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Thomas Glave
|
Words to Our Now
|
University of Minnesota Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2007
|
Kenji Yoshino
|
Covering
|
Random House
|
Winner
|
|
Bernard Cooper
|
The Bill from My Father
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Finalist
|
|
Rigoberto González
|
Butterfly Boy
|
University of Wisconsin Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2008
|
Michael Rowe
|
Other Men’s Sons
|
Cormorant Books
|
Winner
|
|
Martin Duberman
|
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Finalist
|
|
Michael S. Sherry
|
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
|
University of North Carolina Press
|
Finalist
|
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2009
|
Kai Wright
|
Drifting Toward Love
|
Beacon Press
|
Winner
|
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Bob Morris
|
Assisted Loving
|
Harper/HarperCollins
|
Finalist
|
|
Linas Alsenas
|
Gay America
|
Amulet Books/Abrams
|
Finalist
|
|
2010
|
James Davidson
|
The Greeks and Greek Love
|
Random House
|
Winner
|
|
Chad Heap
|
Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Finalist
|
|
David Plante
|
The Pure Lover
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2011
|
Justin Spring
|
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
Winner
|
|
R. Tripp Evans
|
Grant Wood
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Finalist
|
|
Wendy Moffat
|
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
Finalist
|
|
2012
|
Mark D. Jordan
|
Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Winner
|
|
Martin Duberman
|
A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds
|
The New Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Michael Bronski
|
A Queer History of the United States
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2013
|
Christopher Bram
|
Eminent Outlaws
|
Twelve/Hachette
|
Winner
|
|
Cynthia Carr
|
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
|
Bloomsbury
|
Finalist
|
|
David M. Halperin
|
How to Be Gay
|
Belknap/Harvard University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Lisa Jarnot
|
Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus
|
University of California Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2014
|
Hilton Als
|
White Girls
|
McSweeney’s
|
Winner
|
|
Jim Elledge
|
Henry Darger: Throwaway Boy
|
Overlook
|
Finalist
|
|
Lori Duron
|
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous Gender Creative Son
|
Broadway Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Susana Peña
|
Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boat Lift to Gay Cuban Miami
|
University of Minnesota Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2015
|
Robert Beachy
|
Gay Berlin
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Winner
|
|
Martin Duberman
|
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
|
The New Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Philip Gefter
|
Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe
|
Liveright/W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
|
Richard Blanco
|
The Prince of Los Cocuyos
|
Ecco/HarperCollins
|
Finalist
|
|
2016
|
Barney Frank
|
Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
Winner
|
|
Michelangelo Signorile
|
It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
Winner
|
|
Dale Peck
|
Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
|
Soho Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Matthew Spender
|
A House in St. John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
Finalist
|
|
2017
|
David France
|
How to Survive a Plague
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Winner
|
|
Kevin Mumford
|
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
|
University of North Carolina Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Paul Lisicky
|
The Narrow Door
|
Graywolf Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Will Schwalbe
|
Books for Living
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Finalist
|
|
2018
|
Eli Clare
|
Brilliant Imperfection
|
Duke University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Chike Frankie Edozien
|
Lives of Great Men
|
Team Angelica Publishing
|
Finalist
|
|
Peter Gajdics
|
The Inheritance of Shame
|
Brown Paper Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Richard A. McKay
|
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2019
|
Alexander Chee
|
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
Winner
|
|
Jeffrey C. Stewart
|
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
|
Yale University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Lillian Faderman
|
Harvey Milk
|
Yale University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Robert W. Fieseler
|
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and Rise of Gay Liberation
|
Liveright/W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
|
2020
|
Saeed Jones
|
How We Fight for Our Lives
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Winner
|
|
New York Public Library (ed.)
|
The Stonewall Reader
|
Penguin Books
|
Finalist
|
|
David K. Johnson
|
Buying Gay
|
Columbia University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Hugh Ryan
|
When Brooklyn Was Queer
|
St. Martin’s
|
Finalist
|
|
2021
|
Eric Cervini
|
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
Winner
|
|
John Birdsall
|
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
|
W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
|
Ross A. Slotten
|
Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Wayne Koestenbaum
|
Figure It Out
|
Soft Skull Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2022
|
Brian Broome
|
Punch Me Up to the Gods
|
Mariner
|
Winner
|
|
C. Winter Han
|
Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
|
University of Washington Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Jeremy Atherton Lin
|
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
|
Little, Brown
|
Finalist
|
|
Rajiv Mohabir
|
Antiman: A Memoir
|
Restless Books
|
Finalist
|
|
2023
|
Ron Goldberg
|
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of Act Up New York
|
Fordham University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Gregory D. Smithers
|
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native America
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Jenn Budd
|
Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist
|
Heliotrope
|
Finalist
|
|
Scott Bane
|
A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F.O Matthiesen and Russell Cheney
|
University of Massachusetts
|
Finalist
|
|
2024
|
Joseph Plaster
|
Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin
|
Duke University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Gregory D. Smithers
|
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Zachary Zane (, an imprint of Abrams Books)
|
Abrams Image
|
Finalist
|
|
Greg Marshall
|
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It
|
Abrams Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Mark D. Jordan
|
Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires
|
Fordham University Press
|
Finalist
|
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