The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
2024
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Call Number: 365.9747 R988
2021
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LBGTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
Call Number: 794.069 R895
2020
How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir
Call Number: 811 J7845J
In this multiple award-winning coming-of-age memoir ( Kirkus, 2019; Stonewall Book Award, 2020; New York Times 100 Notable Books, 2019), Saeed Jones writes about growing up in the South, as a young, black, gay man.
2018
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
Call Number: 746 C434
Featured are the works of 30 artists who have remixed fiber crafts, such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, sewing, and weaving. Using their artwork, they seek to examine queerness in various forms. The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs.
2017
How To Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
Call Number: 616.9709747 F815
2017 Lambda Literary award winner—
The definitive history of the battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. France tells the story of the men and women who watched their friends and lovers fall: ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large. Confronted with shame and hatred, they chose to fight for their right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a lifesaving medical breakthrough. —Provided by publisher.
2016
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial: The Story of Hollingsworth v. Perry
Call Number: 306.7660973 Y65
2013
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home
Call Number: 306.76620973 F692
2010
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
Call Number: 355.0973 F828
2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Call Number: 740.914 B391-5
Based on memories noted in her childhood journal, comic artist Bechdel documents her unusual childhood with darkly humorous drawings and text. Her closeted gay father ran a funeral home and died (a probable suicide) just as she was coming out as a lesbian.
2006
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Call Number: 789.14 S985Ga
2005
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Call Number: 639 R856
2002
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
Call Number: 810.92 A795We
1998
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
Call Number: 306.76609 M423
1996
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Call Number: 306.7660973 V122
1993
Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
Call Number: 306.76609 M322
1992
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Call Number: 301.415709 F144-1
Faderman’s groundbreaking work uses a myriad of sources including interviews, photographs, and medical literature to chronicle the history of American lesbian culture in the 20th century.
1982
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
Call Number: 791.9 R969 1987a
A scholarly study of depictions of LGBTQ people in 20th century cinema.
