Stonewall Book Awards honor LGBT content

Posted on Apr 19, 2012 Recommend Twitter

Each year, books of exceptional merit that reflect the LGBT experience are recognized by the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Awards. Winners and honor books are chosen in literature, non-fiction, and children's/young adult categories. The CSUMB Library is pleased to report that our collection has 13 of the 15 Stonewall selections for 2012, listed below.

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Winners (tie):

Bronski, Michael. 2011. A Queer History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press.

Katz, Jonathan, David C Ward, Jennifer Sichel. 2010. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Honor books:

Corn, Wanda, Tirza True Latimer. 2011. Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Coyote, Ivan, and Zena Sharman. 2011. Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Krieger, Nick. 2011. Nina Here nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender. Boston: Beacon Press.

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Winner:

Hoffman, Wayne. 2011. Sweet Like Sugar. New York, NY: Kensington Books.

Honor books:

Smith, Bob. 2011. Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel. Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books.

Winter, Kathleen. 2010. Annabel. New York: Black Cat.

Joint fiction/non-fiction honor book:

Wilde, Oscar, and Nicholas Frankel. 2011. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award

Winner:

Wright, Bil. 2011. Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Honor books:

Farrey, Brian. 2011. With or Without You. New York: Simon Pulse.

Wilkinson, Lili. 2011. Pink. New York: HarperTeen.

Yee, Paul. 2011. Money Boy. Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press.

ALA's press release and full book list