Awards & Winners

Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Stonewall Book Award

Check all the winners of Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award presented under Stonewall Book Award since 1990 .


Nathaniel Frank

Honored for : Unfriendly Fire

William Eskridge

Honored for : Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William Eskridge Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
Bob Morris
Joanne Ellen Passet Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
E. Patrick Johnson Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
Joel Derfner Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever

Mark Doty

Honored for : Dog Years: A Memoir

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mark Doty Dog Years: A Memoir
Cris Beam Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
Stephen Pascal The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman
Janet Malcolm Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Kevin Sessums

Alison Bechdel

Honored for : Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Alison Bechdel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Kenji Yoshino Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
David Eisenbach Gay Power: An American Revolution
William Benemann Male-male intimacy in early America
Kevin Jennings Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son

Joshua Gamson

Honored for : The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The 70's in San Francisco

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joshua Gamson The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The 70's in San Francisco
Tania Katan My One-Night Stand With Cancer: A Memoir
Matt Houlbrook Queer London: Perils and Pleasures of the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
Neil McKenna The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Larry Kramer The Tragedy of Today's Gays

Joan Roughgarden

Honored for : Evolution's Rainbow

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Patrick Moore Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality
Douglas Crase Both: A Portrait in Two Parts
David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Alexis De Veaux Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Joan Roughgarden Evolution's Rainbow

John D'Emilio

Honored for : Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John D'Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Andrew Wilson
Vern Bullough Before Stonewall
Lois Banner Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
David Kaufman Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam

Joanne Meyerowitz

Honored for : How Sex Changed

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Noelle Howey Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's, and Mine
Joanne Meyerowitz How Sex Changed
Neil Miller
Carmen L. Oliveira Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares
Jerry Rosco Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography

Barry Werth

Honored for : The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin - A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin - A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
Louise A. Blum You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America
Joyce Murdoch Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
Kirk Read How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-of-Age and Coming-Out Story
Arlene Stein The Stranger Next Door
Edmund White Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS

William Eskridge

Honored for : Gaylaw

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William Eskridge Gaylaw
Frances Day Lesbian and Gay Voices
Beth Loffreda Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder
William Murray Janet, my mother, and me
Judd Winick Pedro and Me

Barrie Jean Borich

Honored for : My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Barrie Jean Borich My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage
John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America
Bruce Bagemihl Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Mark Doty Firebird: A Memoir
Leslie Stainton Lorca

Sarah Schulman

Honored for : Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sarah Schulman Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
Pat Griffin Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport
John Loughery The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, A Twentieth-Century History
Joan Nestle A Fragile Union: New and Selected Writings
Barbara Smith The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom

Adam Mastoon

Honored for : The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Adam Mastoon The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
Amy Hoffman Hospital time
Susan Raffo Queerly Classed: Gay Man & Lesbians Write About Class
James T. Sears Lonely hunters
Arlene Stein Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation

Fenton Johnson

Honored for : Geography of the Heart: A Memoir

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Fenton Johnson Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
Edward Alwood Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media
Ellen Bass Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies
Mark Doty Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
David Tuller Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia

Urvashi Vaid

Honored for : Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Urvashi Vaid Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Linnea Due Joining the tribe
Jonathan Ned Katz The Invention of Heterosexuality
Minnie Bruce Pratt S/He
Claude J. Summers The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works from Antiquity to the Present

Dorothy Allison

Honored for : Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Philip Sherman Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
Samuel Bernstein Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Raymond Murray Images in the dark
Joan Nestle Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together

Philip Sherman, Samuel Bernstein

Honored for : Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Philip Sherman Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
Samuel Bernstein Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans
George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Raymond Murray Images in the dark
Joan Nestle Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together

Phyllis Burke

Honored for : Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Phyllis Burke Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son
Martin Duberman Stonewall
Julia Penelope Lesbian Culture: An Anthology -The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present
Susan J. Wolfe Lesbian Culture: An Anthology -The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present
April Martin The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families
William B. Rubenstein Cases and materials on sexual orientation and the law

Eric Marcus

Honored for : Making History: An Oral History of the Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, 1945-1990

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eric Marcus Making History: An Oral History of the Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, 1945-1990
Betty Berzon Positively Gay
Jeanne DuPrau The Earth House
Paul Monette Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Rictor Norton Mother Clap's Molly House
John Preston A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families

Lillian Faderman

Honored for : Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lillian Faderman Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Sandra Butler Cancer in Two Voices
Barbara Rosenblum Cancer in Two Voices
Gary David Comstock Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
Martin Duberman Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey
Will Roscoe The Zuni Man-Woman
Lindsy Van Gelder Are you two-- together?
Pamela Robin Brandt Are you two-- together?

Wayne R. Dynes

Honored for : Encyclopedia of Homosexuality

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wayne R. Dynes Encyclopedia of Homosexuality
Allan Bérubé Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
Cal Gough Gay and Lesbian Library Service
Ellen Greenblatt Gay and Lesbian Library Service
Bret Hinsch Passions of the cut sleeve
Mary Ann Humphrey My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present
Janice E Rench Understanding sexual identity
Stuart Timmons The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement
Bonnie Zimmerman The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989

Neil Miller

Honored for : In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Neil Miller In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change
Susan Cohen When Someone You Know Is Gay
Daniel Cohen When Someone You Know Is Gay
Martin Duberman Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Martha Vicinus Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
George Chauncey Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Lesbian History Group Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985
John Preston