Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction

The Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards LGBT-themed nonfiction books whose intended audience is "general readers, as opposed to those targeted primarily to scholarly audiences."[1] Anthologies and memoirs are not included as they have their own categories (i.e., Anthology, Gay Memoir, Lesbian Memoir, Bisexual Literature, and Transgender Literature).

Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction
Awarded forLGBTQ+ Nonfiction Books
Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
DateAnnual
Websitelambdaliterary.org/awards/
Lambda Literary Award

Recipients

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Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction winners and finalists
Year Contributor(s) Title Result Ref.
2006 Thomas Glave Words to Our Now Winner
Keith Boykin Beyond the Down Low Finalist
Dennis Altman Gore Vidal’s America
Peggy Drexler Raising Boys without Men
Tirza True Latimer Women Together/Women Apart
2007 Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons GAY L.A. Winner [2]
James T. Sears Behind the Mask of the Mattachine Finalist [2]
Marcia Gallo Different Daughters
Kate Bornstein Hello, Cruel World
Brian Whitaker Unspeakable Love
2008 Michael S. Sherry Gay Artists in Modern American Culture Winner [3][4]
Sharon Marcus Between Women Finalist [4]
David Valentine Imagining Transgender
Michael Rowe Other Men’s Sons
Toni Mirosevich Pink Harvest
2009 Jane Rule Loving The Difficult Winner [5]
Nancy Polikoff Beyond (Straight & Gay Marriage) Finalist [5]
William N. Eskridge, Jr. Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003
Kai Wright Drifting Toward Love
Michelle Cliff If I Could Write This in Fire
Nancy Agabian Me as Her Again
2010 James Davidson The Greeks and Greek Love Winner [6]
Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Eds.) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde Finalist [6]
Drewey Wayne Gunn (Ed.) The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
Sarah Schulman Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences
Nathaniel Frank Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
2011 Virginie Despentes King Kong Theory Winner [7]
Noach Dzmura (Ed.) Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Finalist [8]
Jallen Rix, Ed.D. Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse
Emma Donoghue Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Stuart Biegel The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools
2012 Michael Bronski A Queer History of the United States Winner [9]
Scott Pasfield Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield Finalist
Jay Michaelson God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality
Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
Robert Duncan The H.D. Book
2013 Dale Carpenter Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas Winner [10]
Stacy Braukman Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 Finalist [10]
Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Andrew Solomon Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Michael G. Long (Ed.) I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
Sarah Schulman Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Jeffrey Schwarz, Mark Thompson, and Bo Young Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two
T Cooper Real Man Stories
2014 Hilton Als White Girls Winner [11][12]
Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims Finalist [11]
Jamie Woo Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect
Phil Tiemeyer Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
Daniel Winunwe Rivers Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
Matt Richardson The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi,and Edmund White Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983
Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
2015 Lee Lynch An American Queer: The Amazon Trail Winner
Martin Duberman Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS Finalist [13]
Rebecca J. Anderson Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS
Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha, and Christian Scheidemann Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor
Robert Hofler Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos
Julie Sondra Decker The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
Aaron H. Devor The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future
Clayton Delery-Edwards The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
2016 Marcia M. Gallo No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy Winner [14][15]
Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics Finalist [16]
Corbett Joan O'Toole Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History
Joshua Gamson Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
Robert Lorway Namibia’s Rainbow Project
Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Jarrett Neal What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity
2017 David France How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS Winner [17]
Sarah Schulman Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair Finalist [18]
Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
David Greven Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
Jurek Wajdowicz Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City
Alexis Pauline Gumbs Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Ariel Goldberg The Estrangement Principle
Kristen Hogan The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
2018 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Winner [19][20]
Avram Finkelstein After Silence Finalist [21]
Malik Gaines Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
Anne Elizabeth Moore Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
Hida Viloria Born Both: An Intersex Life
Myriam Gurba Mean
Clayton Delery Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
John Chaich and Todd Oldham Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
2019 Imani Maria Perry Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Winner [22]
Ria Brodell Butch Heroes Finalist [23]
Martin Duberman Has the Gay Movement Failed?
Piper J. Daniels Ladies Lazarus
C.J. Janovy No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
Avery Cassell Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII
Jim Elledge The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century
Charlene A. Carruthers Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
2020 Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House Winner [24][25]
Cyrus Grace Dunham A Year Without a Name Finalist [26][27]
W. Ian Bourland Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
Brett Krutzsch Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
E. Patrick Johnson Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
Selby Wynn Schwartz The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives
Hugh Ryan When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History
Karen Tongson Why Karen Carpenter Matters
2021 Ashon Crawley The Lonely Letters Winner [28][29][30]
Ruth Coker Burks All the Young Men Finalist [31]
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel, Jr. An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989
Marty Fink Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
Josephine Donovan The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
2022 Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show Winner [32][33]
Melissa Febos Girlhood Finalist [34][35]
Akwaeke Emezi Dear Senthuran
Adam Zmith Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures [35]
Kazim Ali Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
2023 Hafizah Augustus Geter The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin Winner [36]
Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Finalist [37]
Joseph Osmundson Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Ricky Tucker And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Hugh Ryan The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
2024 Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo Winner [38]
Daniel Black Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Finalist [39]
Elyssa Maxx Goodman Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
Julie Marie Wade Otherwise
John Sovec, LMFT Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond

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