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Randy Shilts Award

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The Randy Shilts Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the gay community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in memory of American journalist Randy Shilts.[1]

Recipients

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Award winners and finalists[2]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
1997 Anthony Heilbut Thomas Mann Winner
Keith Boykin One More River to Cross Finalist
Mark Doty Heaven’s Coast Finalist
1998 David Sedaris Naked Winner
Daniel Harris The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture Finalist
Gabriel Rotello Sexual Ecology Finalist
1999 John Loughery The Other Side of Silence Winner
Michael Bronski The Pleasure Principle Finalist
Richard Rambuss Closer Devotions Finalist
2000 Eric Brandt (ed.) Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality The New Press Winner
James M. Saslow Pictures and Passions Viking Press Finalist
John Manual Andriote Victory Deferred University of Chicago Press Finalist
2001 Mark Matousek The Boy He Left Behind: A Man’s Search for His Lost Father Riverhead Books Winner
Beth Loffreda Losing Matt Shepard Columbia University Press Finalist
Ned Rorem Lies: A Diary 1986–1999 Counterpoint Finalist
2002 Ricardo J. Brown The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s University of Minnesota Press Winner
Robert Reid-Pharr Black Gay Man New York University Press Winner
Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor Doubleday Finalist
2003 Neil Miller Sex Crime Panic Alyson Books Winner
Colm Tóibín Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature Scribner Finalist
Richard Bruce Nugent, edited by Thomas H. Wirth Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance Duke University Press Finalist
2004 John D’Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin Free Press Winner
Augusten Burroughs Dry St. Martin’s Press Finalist
Dale Peck What We Lost Houghton Mifflin Finalist
2005 David K. Johnson The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government University of Chicago Press Winner
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
2006 Martin Moran The Tricky Part Beacon Press Winner [3]
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 [4]
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 [5]
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
2009 Kai Wright Drifting Toward Love Beacon Press Winner [6]
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 [7]
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 [8]
2013 Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws Twelve/Hachette Winner [9]
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 [10][11]
Jim Elledge Henry Darger: Throwaway Boy Overlook Finalist [12]
Lori Duron Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous Gender Creative Son Broadway Books Finalist [12]
Susana Peña Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boat Lift to Gay Cuban Miami University of Minnesota Press Finalist [12]
2015 Robert Beachy Gay Berlin Alfred A. Knopf Winner [13]
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 [14]
Michelangelo Signorile It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [14]
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 [15][16]
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 [17]
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 [18]
Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Yale University Press Finalist [19]
Lillian Faderman Harvey Milk Yale University Press Finalist [19]
Robert W. Fieseler Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and Rise of Gay Liberation Liveright/W. W. Norton Finalist [19]
2020 Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Simon & Schuster Winner [20][21]
New York Public Library (ed.) The Stonewall Reader Penguin Books Finalist [22]
David K. Johnson Buying Gay Columbia University Press Finalist [22]
Hugh Ryan When Brooklyn Was Queer St. Martin’s Finalist [22]
2021 Eric Cervini The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner [23][24]
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 [25][26]
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 [27][28]
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 [29][30]
Gregory D. Smithers Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Zachary Zane (, an imprint of Abrams Books) Abrams Image Finalist [31]
Greg Marshall Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It Abrams Books Finalist [31]
Mark D. Jordan Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires Fordham University Press Finalist [31]

References

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