# Stonewall Book Award

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".

## History

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) 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.

### Award name and categories

* 1971–1986 Gay Book Award
* 1987–1989 Gay and Lesbian Book Award
* 1990–1993 Gay and Lesbian Book Award (nonfiction and literature categories)
* 1994–1998 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award (nonfiction and literature)
* 1999–2001 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award (nonfiction and literature)
* 2002–2010 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.
* 2010–present Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.
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.

## Recipients

Stonewall Book Awards Winners :
| Year | Category | Recipient | Title | Citation |
| 1971 | | Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah | Winner |
| 1972 | | Peter Fisher | The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality | Winner |
| 1972 | | Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon | Lesbian/Woman | Winner |
| 1974 | | Jeannette Howard Foster | Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey | Winner |
| 1975 | | Jonathan Ned Katz (ed.) | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature | Winner |
| 1977 | | Howard Brown | Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today | Winner |
| 1978 | | Ginny Vida (ed.) | Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book | Winner |
| 1979 | | Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward | Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality | Winner |
| 1980 | | Winston Leyland (ed.) | Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature | Winner |
| 1981 | | John Boswell | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century | Winner |
| 1982 | | Lillian Faderman | Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present | Winner |
| 1982 | | J. R. Roberts | Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography | Winner |
| 1982 | | Vito Russo | The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies | Winner |
| 1984 | | John D'Emilio | Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 | Winner |
| 1985 | | Judy Grahn | Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds | Winner |
| 1986 | | Cindy Patton | Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS | Winner |
| 1987 | | Walter Williams | The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture | Winner |
| 1988 | | Joan Nestle | A Restricted Country | Winner |
| 1988 | | Randy Shilts | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | Winner |
| 1989 | | Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming Pool Library | Winner |
| 1989 | | Sarah Schulman | After Delores | Winner |
| 1990 | Non-fiction | Neil Miller | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | Winner |
| 1990 | Non-fiction | Susan and Daniel Cohen | When Someone You Know is Gay | Finalist |
| 1990 | Non-fiction | Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. (eds.) | Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | Finalist |
| 1990 | Non-fiction | Lesbian History Group | Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 | Finalist |
| 1990 | Non-fiction | John Preston (ed.) | Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS | Finalist |
| 1990 | Literature | David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Winner |
| 1990 | Literature | Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist |
| 1990 | Literature | Edith Konecky | A Place at the Table | Finalist |
| 1990 | Literature | David Leavitt | Equal Affections | Finalist |
| 1990 | Literature | Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn (eds.) | In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Wayne Dynes (ed.) | Encyclopedia of Homosexuality | Winner |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Allan Berube | Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt (eds.) | Gay and Lesbian Library Service | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Bret Hinch | Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Mary Ann Humphrey | My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Janice E. Rench | Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Stuart Timmons | The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement | Finalist |
| 1991 | Non-fiction | Bonnie Zimmerman | The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 | Finalist |
| 1991 | Literature | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Crime Against Nature | Winner |
| 1991 | Literature | Michael Cunningham | A Home at the End of the World | Finalist |
| 1991 | Literature | John Gilgun | Music I Never Dreamed of | Finalist |
| 1991 | Literature | David Leavitt | A Place I've Never Been | Finalist |
| 1991 | Literature | Paula Martinac | Out of Time | Finalist |
| 1991 | Literature | Matthew Stadler | Landscape: Memory | Finalist |
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America | Winner |
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum | Cancer in Two Voices | Finalist |
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Gary David Comstock | Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men | Finalist |
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Martin Duberman | Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey | Finalist |
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Will Roscoe | The Zuni Man-Woman | Finalist |
| 1992 | Non-fiction | Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt | Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Paul Monette | Halfway Home | Winner |
| 1992 | Literature | Sara Levi Calderon | The Two Mujeres | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Essex Hemphill (ed.) | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Karen Lee Osborne (ed.) | Hawkwings | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Jacquelyn Holt Park | A Stone Gone Mad | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Adrienne Rich | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Assoto Saint (ed.) | The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Makeda Silvera (ed.) | Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology | Finalist |
| 1992 | Literature | Tom Spanbauer | The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon | Finalist |
| 1993 | Non-fiction | Eric Marcus | Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 | Winner |
| 1993 | Non-fiction | Betty Berzon | Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life | Finalist |
| 1993 | Non-fiction | Jeanne DuPrau | The Earth House | Finalist |
| 1993 | Non-fiction | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story | Finalist |
| 1993 | Non-fiction | Rictor Norton | Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830 | Finalist |
| 1993 | Non-fiction | John Preston (ed.) | A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write about Their Families | Finalist |
| 1993 | Literature | Essex Hemphill | Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry | Winner |
| 1993 | Literature | Christopher Bram | Almost History | Finalist |
| 1993 | Literature | Stephen McCauley | The Easy Way Out | Finalist |
| 1993 | Literature | Karen Kringle | Vital Ties | Finalist |
| 1993 | Literature | Jeanette Winterson | Written on the Body | Finalist |
| 1994 | Non-fiction | Phyllis Burke | Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son | Winner |
| 1994 | Non-fiction | Martin Duberman | Stonewall | Finalist |
| 1994 | Non-fiction | Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe (eds.) | Lesbian Culture: An Anthology | Finalist |
| 1994 | Non-fiction | April Martin | The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families | Finalist |
| 1994 | Non-fiction | William B. Rubenstein | Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law | Finalist |
| 1994 | Literature | Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Winner |
| 1994 | Literature | Claudia Allen | She's Always Liked the Girls Best | Finalist |
| 1994 | Literature | Fenton Johnson | Scissors, Paper, Rock | Finalist |
| 1994 | Literature | Cherrie Moraga | The Last Generation | Finalist |
| 1994 | Literature | Bennett L. Singer (ed.) | Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology | Finalist |
| 1995 | Non-fiction | Dorothy Allison | Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature | Winner |
| 1995 | Non-fiction | Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein | Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans | Winner |
| 1995 | Non-fiction | George Chauncey | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 | Finalist |
| 1995 | Non-fiction | Raymond Murray | Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video | Finalist |
| 1995 | Non-fiction | Joan Nestle and John Preston (eds.) | Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together | Finalist |
| 1995 | Literature | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence | Winner |
| 1995 | Literature | Rafael Campo | The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World | Finalist |
| 1995 | Literature | Lillian Faderman (ed.) | Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present | Finalist |
| 1995 | Literature | Ellen Galford | The Dyke and Dybbuk | Finalist |
| 1995 | Literature | Marilyn Hacker | Winter Numbers: Poems | Finalist |
| 1996 | Non-fiction | Urvashi Vaid | Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation | Winner |
| 1996 | Non-fiction | Linnea Due | Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s | Finalist |
| 1996 | Non-fiction | Jonathan Ned Katz | The Invention of Heterosexuality | Finalist |
| 1996 | Non-fiction | Minnie Bruce Pratt | S/HE | Finalist |
| 1996 | Non-fiction | Claude J. Summers (ed.) | The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | Finalist |
| 1996 | Literature | Jim Grimsley | Dream Boy | Winner |
| 1996 | Literature | Dorothy Allison | Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | Finalist |
| 1996 | Literature | Francesca Lia Block | Baby Be-Bop | Finalist |
| 1996 | Literature | Howard Cruse | Stuck Rubber Baby | Finalist |
| 1996 | Literature | Reynolds Price | The Promise of Rest | Finalist |
| 1997 | Non-fiction | Fenton Johnson | Geography of the Heart | Winner |
| 1997 | Non-fiction | Edward Alwood | Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media | Finalist |
| 1997 | Non-fiction | Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman | Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies | Finalist |
| 1997 | Non-fiction | Mark Doty | Heaven's Coast | Finalist |
| 1997 | Non-fiction | David Tuller | Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia | Finalist |
| 1997 | Literature | Emma Donoghue | Hood | Winner |
| 1997 | Literature | Andrew Holleran | The Beauty of Men | Finalist |
| 1997 | Literature | Shyam Selvadurai | Funny Boy | Finalist |
| 1997 | Literature | Sarah Van Arsdale | Toward Amnesia | Finalist |
| 1997 | Literature | Terry Wolverton | Bailey's Beads | Finalist |
| 1998 | Non-fiction | Adam Mastoon | The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People | Winner |
| 1998 | Non-fiction | Amy Hoffman | Hospital Time | Finalist |
| 1998 | Non-fiction | Susan Raffo | Queerly Classed | Finalist |
| 1998 | Non-fiction | James T. Sears | Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 | Finalist |
| 1998 | Non-fiction | Arlene Stein | Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation | Finalist |
| 1998 | Literature | Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Working Parts | Winner |
| 1998 | Literature | Persimmon Blackbridge | Prozac Highway | Finalist |
| 1998 | Literature | Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale | Finalist |
| 1998 | Literature | Scott Heim | In Awe | Finalist |
| 1998 | Literature | Judith Katz | The Escape Artist | Finalist |
| 1999 | Non-fiction | Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America | Winner |
| 1999 | Non-fiction | Pat Griffin | Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport | Finalist |
| 1999 | Non-fiction | John Loughery | The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History | Finalist |
| 1999 | Non-fiction | Joan Nestle | A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings | Finalist |
| 1999 | Non-fiction | Barbara Smith | The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom | Finalist |
| 1999 | Literature | Michael Cunningham | The Hours | Winner |
| 1999 | Literature | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | Science Fiction | Finalist |
| 1999 | Literature | Carol Guess | Switch | Finalist |
| 1999 | Literature | Mark Merlis | An Arrow's Flight | Finalist |
| 1999 | Literature | Pamela Sneed | Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems | Finalist |
| 2000 | Non-fiction | Barrie Jean Borich | My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage | Winner |
| 2000 | Non-fiction | John-Manuel Andriote | Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America | Finalist |
| 2000 | Non-fiction | Bruce Bagemihl | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | Finalist |
| 2000 | Non-fiction | Mark Doty | Firebird | Finalist |
| 2000 | Non-fiction | Leslie Stainton | Lorca: A Dream of Life | Finalist |
| 2000 | Literature | Marci Blackman | Po Man's Child | Winner |
| 2000 | Literature | Jim Grimsley | Comfort & Joy | Finalist |
| 2000 | Literature | Robin Lippincott | Mr. Dallowayla | Finalist |
| 2000 | Literature | Paul Lisicky | Lawnboy | Finalist |
| 2000 | Literature | Marvin K. White | Last Rights: Poems | Finalist |
| 2001 | Non-fiction | William N. Eskridge | Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet | Winner |
| 2001 | Non-fiction | Frances Ann Day | Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults | Honor |
| 2001 | Non-fiction | Beth Loffreda | Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder | Honor |
| 2001 | Non-fiction | William Murray | Janet, My Mother, and Me of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray | Honor |
| 2001 | Non-fiction | Judd Winick | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | Honor |
| 2001 | Literature | Sarah Waters | Affinity | Winner |
| 2001 | Literature | Michael Downing | Breakfast with Scot | Honor |
| 2001 | Literature | David Ebershoff | The Danish Girl | Honor |
| 2001 | Literature | Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou (eds.) | The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology | Honor |
| 2001 | Literature | Armistead Maupin | The Night Listener: A Novel | Honor |
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Barry Werth | The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal | Winner |
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Louise A. Blum | You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America | Honor |
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | Honor |
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Kirk Read | How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story | Honor |
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Arlene Stein | The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights | Honor |
| 2002 | Non-fiction | Edmund White with The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS (eds.) | Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS | Honor |
| 2002 | Literature | Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project | The Laramie Project | Winner |
| 2002 | Literature | Sylvia Brownrigg | Pages for You | Honor |
| 2002 | Literature | Bernard Cooper | Guess Again: Short Stories | Honor |
| 2002 | Literature | John Sam Jones | Welsh Boys Too | Honor |
| 2002 | Literature | JT LeRoy | The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Honor |
| 2003 | Non-fiction | Joanne Meyerowitz | How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States | Winner |
| 2003 | Non-fiction | Noelle Howey | Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's and Mine | Honor |
| 2003 | Non-fiction | Neil Miller | Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s | Honor |
| 2003 | Non-fiction | Carmen L. Oliveria, translated by Niel K. Besner | Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares | Honor |
| 2003 | Non-fiction | Jerry Roscoe | Glenway Wescott Personally | Honor |
| 2003 | Literature | Noel Alumit | Letters to Montgomery Clift | Winner |
| 2003 | Literature | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex | Honor |
| 2003 | Literature | Ronald Frame | The Lantern Bearers | Honor |
| 2003 | Literature | Jamie O'Neill | At Swim, Two Boys | Honor |
| 2003 | Literature | Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Honor |
| 2004 | Non-fiction | John D'Emilio | Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin | Winner |
| 2004 | Non-fiction | Andrew Wilson | Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Honor |
| 2004 | Non-fiction | Vern L. Bullough (ed.) | Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context | Honor |
| 2004 | Non-fiction | Lois W. Banner | Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their Circle | Honor |
| 2004 | Non-fiction | David Kaufman | Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam | Honor |
| 2004 | Literature | Monique Truong | The Book of Salt | Winner |
| 2004 | Literature | Louise Welsh | Cutting Room | Honor |
| 2004 | Literature | Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You a Secret | Honor |
| 2004 | Literature | Christopher Bram | Lives of the Circus Animals | Honor |
| 2004 | Literature | Nina Revoyr | Southland | Honor |
| 2005 | Non-fiction | Joan Roughgarden | Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People | Winner |
| 2005 | Non-fiction | Patrick Moore | Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality | Honor |
| 2005 | Non-fiction | Douglas Crase | Both: a Portrait in Two Parts | Honor |
| 2005 | Non-fiction | David Sedaris | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | Honor |
| 2005 | Non-fiction | Alexis De Veaux | Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde | Honor |
| 2005 | Literature | Colm Tóibín | The Master | Winner |
| 2005 | Literature | Doug Wright | I Am My Own Wife | Honor |
| 2005 | Literature | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | Honor |
| 2005 | Literature | Julie Anne Peters | Luna | Honor |
| 2005 | Literature | Stacey D'Erasmo | A Seahorse Year | Honor |
| 2006 | Non-fiction | Joshua Gamson | The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco | Winner |
| 2006 | Non-fiction | Tania Katan | My One-Night Stand with Cancer | Honor |
| 2006 | Non-fiction | Matt Houlbrook | Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 | Honor |
| 2006 | Non-fiction | Neil McKenna | The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde | Honor |
| 2006 | Non-fiction | Larry Kramer | The Tragedy of Today's Gays | Honor |
| 2006 | Literature | Abha Dawesar | Babyji | Winner |
| 2006 | Literature | Keith McDermott | Acqua Calda | Honor |
| 2006 | Literature | Barry McCrea | The First Verse | Honor |
| 2006 | Literature | Richard McCann | Mother of Sorrows | Honor |
| 2006 | Literature | Sam D'Allesandro, edited by Kevin Killian | The Wild Creatures: Collected Stories of Sam D'Allesandro | Honor |
| 2007 | Non-fiction | Alison Bechdel | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Winner |
| 2007 | Non-fiction | Kenji Yoshino | Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights | Honor |
| 2007 | Non-fiction | David Eisenbach | Gay Power: An American Revolution | Honor |
| 2007 | Non-fiction | William Benemann | Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships | Honor |
| 2007 | Non-fiction | Kevin Jennings | Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son | Honor |
| 2007 | Literature | Andrew Holleran | Grief | Winner |
| 2007 | Literature | Christian Burch | The Manny Files | Honor |
| 2007 | Literature | Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Honor |
| 2007 | Literature | Michelle Tea | Rose of No Man's Land | Honor |
| 2007 | Literature | Martin Hyatt | A Scarecrow's Bible | Honor |
| 2008 | Non-fiction | Mark Doty | Dog Years | Winner |
| 2008 | Non-fiction | Cris Beam | Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers | Honor |
| 2008 | Non-fiction | Stephen Pascal (ed.) | The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman | Honor |
| 2008 | Non-fiction | Janet Malcolm | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | Honor |
| 2008 | Non-fiction | Kevin Sessums | Mississippi Sissy | Honor |
| 2008 | Literature | Ellis Avery | The Teahouse Fire | Winner |
| 2008 | Literature | Ivan E. Coyote | Bow Grip | Honor |
| 2008 | Literature | Samuel R. Delany | Dark Reflections | Honor |
| 2008 | Literature | David Leavitt | The Indian Clerk: A Novel | Honor |
| 2008 | Literature | Ali Liebegott | The IHOP Papers | Honor |
| 2009 | Non-fiction | William N. Eskridge | Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 | Winner |
| 2009 | Non-fiction | Bob Morris | Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad | Honor |
| 2009 | Non-fiction | Joanne Passet | Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster | Honor |
| 2009 | Non-fiction | E. Patrick Johnson | Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South | Honor |
| 2009 | Non-fiction | Joel Derfner | Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever | Honor |
| 2009 | Literature | Evan Fallenberg | Light Fell | Winner |
| 2009 | Literature | Joseph Olshan | The Conversion | Honor |
| 2009 | Literature | Alain Claude Sulzer | A Perfect Waiter | Honor |
| 2009 | Literature | Emma Donoghue | The Sealed Letter | Honor |
| 2010 | Non-fiction | Nathaniel Frank | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | Winner |
| 2010 | Non-fiction | Stuart E. Weisberg | Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman | Honor |
| 2010 | Non-fiction | Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde | Black Bull, Ancestors and Me | Honor |
| 2010 | Non-fiction | James Davidson | The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece | Honor |
| 2010 | Non-fiction | Rudolph P. Byrd (ed.) | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde | Honor |
| 2010 | Literature | David Francis | Stray Dog Winter | Winner |
| 2010 | Literature | James Hannaham | God Says No | Honor |
| 2010 | Literature | Mario Bellatin | Beauty Salon | Honor |
| 2010 | Children's & Young Adult | Nick Burd | The Vast Fields of Ordinary | Winner |
| 2010 | Children's & Young Adult | Marcus Ewert | 10,000 Dresses | Honor |
| 2010 | Children's & Young Adult | Lesléa Newman | Daddy, Papa, and Me | Honor |
| 2010 | Children's & Young Adult | Linas Alsenas | Gay America: Struggle for Equality | Honor |
| 2010 | Children's & Young Adult | Lesléa Newman | Mommy, Mama, and Me | Honor |
| 2010 | Children's & Young Adult | Dale Peck | Sprout | Honor |
| 2011 | Non-fiction | Emma Donoghue | Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature | Winner |
| 2011 | Non-fiction | Stuart Biegel | The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools | Honor |
| 2011 | Non-fiction | Wendy Moffat | A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster | Honor |
| 2011 | Non-fiction | Patti Smith | Just Kids | Honor |
| 2011 | Non-fiction | Justin Spring | Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade | Honor |
| 2011 | Literature | Barb Johnson | More of This World or Maybe Another | Winner |
| 2011 | Literature | Tom Mendicino | Probation | Honor |
| 2011 | Literature | Michael Sledge | The More I Owe You | Honor |
| 2011 | Literature | Zoe Whittall | Holding Still for as Long as Possible | Honor |
| 2011 | Children's & Young Adult | Brian Katcher | Almost Perfect | Winner |
| 2011 | Children's & Young Adult | John Green and David Levithan | Will Grayson, Will Grayson | Honor |
| 2011 | Children's & Young Adult | Davida Wills Hurwin | Freaks and Revelations | Honor |
| 2011 | Children's & Young Adult | James Klise | Love Drugged | Honor |
| 2011 | Children's & Young Adult | David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake | The Boy in the Dress | Honor |
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward | Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture | Winner |
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Michael Bronski | A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History) | Winner |
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Nick Krieger | Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender | Honor |
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman (eds.) | Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme | Honor |
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer | Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | Honor |
| 2012 | Non-fiction | Oscar Wilde and Nicholas Frankel (ed.) | The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition | Honor |
| 2012 | Literature | Wayne Hoffman | Sweet Like Sugar | Winner |
| 2012 | Literature | Jon Marans | The Temperamentals: A New Play | Honor |
| 2012 | Literature | Bob Smith | Remembrance of Things I Forgot | Honor |
| 2012 | Literature | Kathleen Winter | Annabel | Honor |
| 2012 | Literature | Oscar Wilde and Nicholas Frankel (ed.) | The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition | Honor |
| 2012 | Children's & Young Adult | Bil Wright | Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy | Winner |
| 2012 | Children's & Young Adult | Lili Wilkinson | Pink | Honor |
| 2012 | Children's & Young Adult | Brian Farrey | With or Without You | Honor |
| 2012 | Children's & Young Adult | Ilike Merey | a + e 4ever | Honor |
| 2012 | Children's & Young Adult | Paul Yee | Money Boy | Honor |
| 2013 | Non-fiction | Keith Boykin | For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home | Winner |
| 2013 | Non-fiction | Christopher Bram | Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | Honor |
| 2013 | Non-fiction | Jeanne Cordova | When We Were Outlaws of Love & Revolution | Honor |
| 2013 | Non-fiction | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.) | Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform | Honor |
| 2013 | Non-fiction | Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Honor |
| 2013 | Literature | Ellis Avery | The Last Nude | Winner |
| 2013 | Literature | John Boyne | The Absolutist | Honor |
| 2013 | Literature | Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | Honor |
| 2013 | Literature | Charles Rice-Gonzalez | Chulito | Honor |
| 2013 | Literature | Paul Russell | The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov | Honor |
| 2013 | Children's & Young Adult | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Winner |
| 2013 | Children's & Young Adult | Raina Telgemeier | Drama | Honor |
| 2013 | Children's & Young Adult | Hannah Moskowitz | Gone, Gone, Gone | Honor |
| 2013 | Children's & Young Adult | Lesléa Newman | October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard | Honor |
| 2013 | Children's & Young Adult | S. J. Adams | Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie | Honor |
| 2014 | Non-fiction | Lori Duron | Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son | Winner |
| 2014 | Non-fiction | David McConnell | American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men | Winner |
| 2014 | Non-fiction | R.B. Parkinson | A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World | Honor |
| 2014 | Non-fiction | Alysia Abbott | Fairyland of my Father | Honor |
| 2014 | Literature | Hilary Sloin | Art on Fire | Winner |
| 2014 | Literature | Jon Marans | A Strange and Separate People | Honor |
| 2014 | Literature | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club | Honor |
| 2014 | Literature | William Klaber | The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell | Honor |
| 2014 | Children's & Young Adult | Kirstin Cronn-Mills | Beautiful Music for Ugly Children | Winner |
| 2014 | Children's & Young Adult | e.E. Charlton-Trujillo | Fat Angie | Winner |
| 2014 | Children's & Young Adult | Tim Federle | Better Nate Than Ever | Honor |
| 2014 | Children's & Young Adult | Ken Setterington | Branded by the Pink Triangle | Honor |
| 2014 | Children's & Young Adult | David Levithan | Two Boys Kissing | Honor |
| 2015 | Non-fiction | Scott Kugle | Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Winner |
| 2015 | Non-fiction | Robert Beachy | Gay Berlin | Honor |
| 2015 | Non-fiction | Janet Mock | Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More | Honor |
| 2015 | Non-fiction | Martin Duberman | Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Honor |
| 2015 | Non-fiction | Rachel Hope Cleves | Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | Honor |
| 2015 | Literature | Saeed Jones | Prelude to Bruise | Winner |
| 2015 | Literature | Tatamkhulu Afrika | Bitter Eden | Honor |
| 2015 | Literature | Emma Donoghue | Frog Music | Honor |
| 2015 | Literature | David Leavitt | The Two Hotel Francforts | Honor |
| 2015 | Literature | Jo Walton | My Real Children | Honor |
| 2015 | Children's & Young Adult | Gayle E. Pitman | This Day in June | Winner |
| 2015 | Children's & Young Adult | Susan Kuklin | Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out | Honor |
| 2015 | Children's & Young Adult | Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | Honor |
| 2015 | Children's & Young Adult | Christine Baldacchio, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant | Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress | Honor |
| 2016 | Non-fiction | Kenji Yoshino | Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial | Winner |
| 2016 | Non-fiction | Amy Ellis Nutt | Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family | Honor |
| 2016 | Non-fiction | Lillian Faderman | The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | Honor |
| 2016 | Non-fiction | Michael Helquist | Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions | Honor |
| 2016 | Non-fiction | Doug Meyer | Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination | Honor |
| 2016 | Literature | Carolina de Robertis | The Gods of Tango | Winner |
| 2016 | Literature | Virginie Despentes | Apocalypse Baby | Honor |
| 2016 | Literature | Leah Horlick | For Your Own Good | Honor |
| 2016 | Literature | LaShonda Katrice Barnett | Jam On The Vine | Honor |
| 2016 | Literature | Libby Ware | Lum | Honor |
| 2016 | Children's & Young Adults | Alex Gino | Melissa | Winner |
| 2016 | Children's & Young Adults | Bill Konigsberg | The Porcupine of Truth | Winner |
| 2016 | Children's & Young Adults | Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth | Sex is a Funny Word: a Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU | Honor |
| 2016 | Children's & Young Adults | Christopher Barzak | Wonders of the Invisible World | Honor |
| 2017 | Non-fiction | David France | How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS | Winner |
| 2017 | Non-fiction | Kevin J. Mumford | Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis | Honor |
| 2017 | Non-fiction | Michael Schreiber | One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin | Honor |
| 2017 | Non-fiction | Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, et al. (eds.) | Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality | Honor |
| 2017 | Non-fiction | Ivan E. Coyote | Tomboy Survival Guide | Honor |
| 2017 | Literature | Chris McCormick | Desert Boys | Winner |
| 2017 | Literature | Martin Hyatt | Beautiful Gravity | Honor |
| 2017 | Literature | Bryan Borland | Dig | Honor |
| 2017 | Literature | Saleem Haddad | Guapa | Honor |
| 2017 | Literature | Matthew Griffin | Hide | Honor |
| 2017 | Children's & Young Adult | Rick Riordan | Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor | Winner |
| 2017 | Children's & Young Adult | Meredith Russo | If I Was Your Girl | Winner |
| 2017 | Children's & Young Adult | Anna-Marie McLemore | When the Moon Was Ours | Honor |
| 2017 | Children's & Young Adult | Jenny Downham | Unbecoming | Honor |
| 2017 | Children's & Young Adult | Robin Stevenson | Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community | Honor |
| 2018 | Non-fiction | John Chaich and Todd Oldham | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | Winner |
| 2018 | Non-fiction | C. Riley Snorton | Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | Honor |
| 2018 | Non-fiction | Andrew Evans | The Black Penguin | Honor |
| 2018 | Non-fiction | Bennett Singer and David Deschamps | LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers | Honor |
| 2018 | Literature | Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (eds.) | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Winner |
| 2018 | Literature | SJ Sindu | Marriage of a Thousand Lies | Honor |
| 2018 | Literature | Kai Cheng Thom | A Place Called No Homeland | Honor |
| 2018 | Literature | Rivers Solomon | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Honor |
| 2018 | Literature | Chen Chen | When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities | Honor |
| 2018 | Children's & Young Adult | Dashka Slater | The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives | Winner |
| 2018 | Children's & Young Adult | Brandy Colbert | Little & Lion | Winner |
| 2018 | Children's & Young Adult | Melanie Gillman | As the Crow Flies | Honor |
| 2018 | Children's & Young Adult | Mackenzi Lee | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue | Honor |
| 2019 | Literature | Rebecca Makkai | The Great Believers | Winner |
| 2019 | Literature | Lisa Maas | Forward | Honor |
| 2019 | Literature | Carole Maurel, adapted by Mariko Tamaki | Luisa: Now and Then | Honor |
| 2019 | Literature | Uzodinma Iweala | Speak No Evil | Honor |
| 2019 | Literature | Amy Bloom | White Houses | Honor |
| 2019 | Non-fiction | Michael Amherst | Go the Way Your Blood Beats | Winner |
| 2019 | Non-fiction | E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History | Honor |
| 2019 | Non-fiction | Eric and Stephani Lohman | Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and Intersex Child | Honor |
| 2019 | Non-fiction | Robert W. Fieseler | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Honor |
| 2019 | Non-fiction | Isaac Butler and Dan Kois | The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in AmericaThe World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America | Honor |
| 2019 | Children's & Young Adult | Jessica Love | Julian is a Mermaid | Winner |
| 2019 | Children's & Young Adult | Kacen Callender | Hurricane Child | Winner |
| 2019 | Children's & Young Adult | Ashley Herring Blake | Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World | Honor |
| 2019 | Children's & Young Adult | Kelly Loy Gilbert | Picture Us in the Light | Honor |
| 2020 | Non-fiction | Saeed Jones | How We Fight for Our Lives | Winner |
| 2020 | Non-fiction | Maia Kobabe | Gender Queer | Honor |
| 2020 | Non-fiction | Kai Cheng Thom | I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World | Honor |
| 2020 | Non-fiction | Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House | Honor |
| 2020 | Non-fiction | Robyn Ryle | She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters | Honor |
| 2020 | Literature | Carolina de Robertis | Cantoras | Winner |
| 2020 | Literature | Bryan Washington | Lot: Stories | Honor |
| 2020 | Literature | Ocean Vuong | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Honor |
| 2020 | Literature | Nicole Dennis-Benn | Patsy | Honor |
| 2020 | Literature | Hasan Namir | War/Torn | Honor |
| 2020 | Children's & Young Adult | Kyle Lukoff | When Aidan Became a Brother | Winner |
| 2020 | Children's & Young Adult | Dean Atta | The Black Flamingo | Winner |
| 2020 | Children's & Young Adult | Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | Honor |
| 2020 | Children's & Young Adult | Abdi Nazemian | Like a Love Story | Honor |
| 2020 | Children's & Young Adult | Maulik Pancholy | The Best At It | Honor |
| 2021 | Non-fiction | Bonnie Ruberg | Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games | Winner |
| 2021 | Non-fiction | Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | Honor |
| 2021 | Non-fiction | Molly Wizenberg | The Fixed Stars: A Memoir | Honor |
| 2021 | Non-fiction | Jeffrey H. Jackson | Paper Bullets | Honor |
| 2021 | Non-fiction | Kimberly M. Zieselman | XOXY | Honor |
| 2021 | Literature | Zeyn Joukhadar | The Thirty Names of Night | Winner |
| 2021 | Literature | Akwaeke Emezi | The Death of Vivek Oji | Honor |
| 2021 | Literature | Bryan Washington | Memorial | Honor |
| 2021 | Literature | Kay Ulanday Barrett | More Than Organs | Honor |
| 2021 | Literature | Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem | Honor |
| 2021 | Children's & Young Adult | Archaa Shrivastav | We Are Little Feminists: Families | Winner |
| 2021 | Children's & Young Adult | Aliza Layne | Beetle & The Hollowbones | Honor |
| 2021 | Children's & Young Adult | Adib Khorram | Darius the Great Deserves Better | Honor |
| 2021 | Children's & Young Adult | Kacen Callender | Felix Ever After | Honor |
| 2021 | Children's & Young Adult | Leah Johnson | You Should See Me in a Crown | Honor |
| 2022 | Non-fiction | Akwaeke Emezi | Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir | Winner |
| 2022 | Non-fiction | Zoe Playdon | The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience | Honor |
| 2022 | Non-fiction | Laura Lee | A History of Scars | Honor |
| 2022 | Non-fiction | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 | Honor |
| 2022 | Non-fiction | Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods | Honor |
| 2022 | Literature | Rivers Solomon | Sorrowland | Winner |
| 2022 | Literature | Ryka Aoki | Light From Uncommon Stars | Honor |
| 2022 | Literature | Becky Chambers | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Honor |
| 2022 | Literature | Lee Lai | Stone Fruit | Honor |
| 2022 | Literature | Jasmine Mans | Black Girl, Call Home | Honor |
| 2022 | Children's & Young Adult | Kyle Lukoff | Too Bright to See | Winner |
| 2022 | Children's & Young Adult | Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Winner |
| 2022 | Children's & Young Adult | Jake Maia Arlow | Almost Flying | Honor |
| 2022 | Children's & Young Adult | Eliot Schrefer | The Darkness Outside Us | Honor |
| 2022 | Children's & Young Adult | Harry Woodgate | Grandad's Camper | Honor |
| 2023 | Non-fiction | Cecilia Gentili | Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist | Winner |
| 2023 | Non-fiction | Hugh Ryan | The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison | Winner |
| 2023 | Non-fiction | Sherronda J. Brown | Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture | Honor |
| 2023 | Non-fiction | Edgar Gomez | High-Risk Homosexual | Honor |
| 2023 | Non-fiction | Lars Horn | Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay | Honor |
| 2023 | Literature | Rachel M. Harper | The Other Mother | Winner |
| 2023 | Literature | Rachel Wiley | Revenge Body | Winner |
| 2023 | Literature | SJ Sindu | Dominant Genes | Honor |
| 2023 | Literature | KB Brookins | How to Identify Yourself with a Wound | Honor |
| 2023 | Literature | Isaac Fellman | Dead Collections | Honor |
| 2023 | Children's | Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Charlene Chua | Love, Violet | Winner |
| 2023 | Children's | Mariama J. Lockington | In the Key of Us | Honor |
| 2023 | Children's | Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa | Kapaemahu | Honor |
| 2023 | Children's | Rachel Elliott | The Real Riley Mayes | Honor |
| 2023 | Children's | Rob Kearney, Eric Rosswood, and Nidhi Chanani | Strong | Honor |
| 2023 | Young Adult | Sacha Lamb | When the Angels Left the Old Country | Winner |
| 2023 | Young Adult | Casey McQuiston | I Kissed Shara Wheeler | Honor |
| 2023 | Young Adult | R. Eric Thomas | Kings of B'more | Honor |
| 2023 | Young Adult | Cory McCarthy | Man o' War | Honor |
| 2023 | Young Adult | Jen Ferguson | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | Honor |
| 2024 | Non-fiction | Lamya H | Hijab Butch Blues | Winner |
| 2024 | Non-fiction | Curtis Chin | Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant | Honor |
| 2024 | Non-fiction | Elyssa Maxx Goodman | Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City | Honor |
| 2024 | Non-fiction | Matt Baume | Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture | Honor |
| 2024 | Non-fiction | Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy | Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Honor |
| 2024 | Literature | KB Brookins | Freedom House | Winner |
| 2024 | Literature | A. Light Zachary | More Sure | Honor |
| 2024 | Literature | Sarah Cypher | The Skin and Its Girl | Honor |
| 2024 | Literature | Sebastian Merrill | Ghost::Seeds | Honor |
| 2024 | Literature | Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. | Gay Poems for Red States | Honor |
| 2024 | Children's | Nora Dåsnes | Cross My Heart and Never Lie | Winner |
| 2024 | Children's | Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Svabhu Kohli (illust.) | Desert Queen | Honor |
| 2024 | Children's | Jessica Walton and Aśka (illust.) | Stars in Their Eyes | Honor |
| 2024 | Children's | Justine Pucella Winans | The Otherwoods | Honor |
| 2024 | Children's | A.M. Wild and Kah Yangni (illust.) | Not He or She, I'm Me | Honor |
| 2024 | Young Adult | Abdi Nazemian | Only This Beautiful Moment | Winner |
| 2024 | Young Adult | Andrew Joseph White | The Spirit Bares Its Teeth | Honor |
| 2024 | Young Adult | Becky Albertalli | Imogen, Obviously | Honor |
| 2024 | Young Adult | James Acker | The Long Run | Honor |
| 2024 | Young Adult | Johnny Garza Villa | Ander & Santi Were Here | Honor |
| 2025 | Non-fiction |
| 2025 | Non-fiction | Annie Liontas | Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery | Winner |
| 2025 | Non-fiction | Rae Garringer | Country Queers: A Love Letter | Honor |
| 2025 | Non-fiction | Darius Stewart | Be Not Afraid of My Body | Honor |
| 2025 | Non-fiction | Sara Glass | Kissing Girls on Shabbat | Honor |
| 2025 | Non-fiction | Nico Lang | American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era | Honor |
| 2025 | Literature |
| 2025 | Literature | Griffin Hansbury | Some Strange Music Draws Me In | Winner |
| 2025 | Literature | Alison Cochrun | Here We Go Again | Honor |
| 2025 | Literature | Justinian Huang | The Emperor and the Endless Palace | Honor |
| 2025 | Literature | Eric Schlich | Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife | Honor |
| 2025 | Poetry | torrin a. greathouse | DEED | Winner |
| 2025 | Children's |
| 2025 | Children's | Jes and Cin Wibowo | Lunar Boy | Winner |
| 2025 | Children's | Joëlle Retener, illustrated by DeAnn Wiley | Marley's Pride | Honor |
| 2025 | Children's | Taylor Tracy | Murray Out of Water | Honor |
| 2025 | Children's | H.E. Edgmon | The Flicker | Honor |
| 2025 | Children's | Jay Leslie, illustrated by Loveis Wise | What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice | Honor |
| 2025 | Young Adult |
| 2025 | Young Adult | Jonny Garza Villa | Canto Contigo | Winner |
| 2025 | Young Adult | Gabe Cole Novoa | Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix | Honor |
| 2025 | Young Adult | Jeremy Whitley, with art by Cassio Ribeiro | Navigating with You | Honor |
| 2025 | Young Adult | Rex Ogle | Road Home | Honor |
| 2025 | Young Adult | Chatham Greenfield | Time and Time Again | Honor |