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
edit| 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] |
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