The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
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The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LBGTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
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How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir
In this multiple award-winning coming-of-age memoir ( Kirkus, 2019; Stonewall Book Award, 2020; New York Times 100 Notable Books, 2019), Saeed Jones writes about growing up in the South, as a young, black, gay man.
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Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
Featured are the works of 30 artists who have remixed fiber crafts, such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, sewing, weaving. Using their artwork, they seek to examine queerness in various forms. The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs.
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How To Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
2017 Lambda Literary award winner—
The definitive history of the battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. France tells the story of the men and women who watched their friends and lovers fall: ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large. Confronted with shame and hatred, they chose to fight for their right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a lifesaving medical breakthrough. —Provided by publisher.
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Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial: The Story of Hollingsworth v. Perry
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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home
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Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Based on memories noted in her childhood journal, comic artist Bechdel documents her unusual childhood with darkly humorous drawings and text. Her closeted gay father ran a funeral home and died (a probable suicide) just as she was coming out as a lesbian.
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
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The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
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The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People
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Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Faderman’s groundbreaking work uses a myriad of sources including interviews, photographs, and medical literature to chronicle the history of American lesbian culture in the 20th century.
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
A scholarly study of depictions of LGBTQ people in 20th century cinema.
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