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.
Recipients +Award winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitlePublisherResult1997Thomas MannWinnerOne More River to CrossFinalistHeaven's CoastFinalist1998NakedWinnerFinalistSexual EcologyFinalist1999WinnerFinalistCloser DevotionsFinalist2000 (ed.)Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for EqualityThe New PressWinnerPictures and PassionsViking PressFinalistVictory DeferredUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist2001Riverhead BooksWinnerLosing Matt ShepardColumbia University PressFinalistLies: A Diary 1986–1999CounterpointFinalist2002University of Minnesota PressWinnerBlack Gay ManNew York University PressWinnerDoubledayFinalist2003Sex Crime PanicAlyson BooksWinnerLove in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and LiteratureScribnerFinalist, edited by Thomas H. WirthGay Rebel of the Harlem RenaissanceDuke University PressFinalist2004Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard RustinFree PressWinnerDrySt. Martin's PressFinalistWhat We LostHoughton MifflinFinalist2005University of Chicago PressWinnerStonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay RevolutionSt. Martin's PressFinalistStrangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth CenturyW. W. NortonFinalist2006Beacon PressWinnerBasic BooksFinalistWords to Our NowUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist2007CoveringRandom HouseWinnerSimon & SchusterFinalistButterfly BoyUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalist2008Other Men's SonsCormorant BooksWinnerAlfred A. KnopfFinalistGay Artists in Modern American CultureUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalist2009Drifting Toward LoveBeacon PressWinnerAssisted LovingHarper/HarperCollinsFinalistGay AmericaAmulet Books/AbramsFinalist2010Random HouseWinnerSlumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American NightlifeUniversity of Chicago PressFinalistBeacon PressFinalist2011Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel StewardFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerGrant WoodAlfred A. KnopfFinalistFarrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist2012Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About HomosexualityUniversity of Chicago PressWinnerThe New PressFinalistBeacon PressFinalist2013Eminent OutlawsTwelve/HachetteWinnerFire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David WojnarowiczBloomsburyFinalistHow to Be GayBelknap/Harvard University PressFinalistRobert Duncan: The Ambassador from VenusUniversity of California PressFinalist2014White GirlsMcSweeney'sWinnerHenry Darger: Throwaway BoyOverlookFinalistRaising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous Gender Creative SonBroadway BooksFinalistOye Loca: From the Mariel Boat Lift to Gay Cuban MiamiUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist2015Gay BerlinAlfred A. KnopfWinnerHold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDSThe New PressFinalistWagstaff: Before and After MapplethorpeLiveright/W. W. NortonFinalistEcco/HarperCollinsFinalist2016Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex MarriageFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerIt's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True EqualityHoughton Mifflin HarcourtWinnerVisions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDSSoho PressFinalistFarrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist2017How to Survive a PlagueAlfred A. KnopfWinnerNot Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS CrisisUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalistGraywolf PressFinalistBooks for LivingAlfred A. KnopfFinalist2018Brilliant ImperfectionDuke University PressWinnerLives of Great MenTeam Angelica PublishingFinalistBrown Paper PressFinalistPatient Zero and the Making of the AIDS EpidemicUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist2019How to Write an Autobiographical NovelHoughton Mifflin HarcourtWinnerYale University PressFinalistHarvey MilkYale University PressFinalistTinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and Rise of Gay LiberationLiveright/W. W. NortonFinalist2020How We Fight for Our LivesSimon & SchusterWinnerNew York Public Library (ed.)Penguin BooksFinalistBuying GayColumbia University PressFinalistWhen Brooklyn Was QueerSt. Martin'sFinalist2021Farrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerW. W. NortonFinalistPlague Years: A Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS CrisisUniversity of Chicago PressFinalistFigure It OutSoft Skull PressFinalist2022Punch Me Up to the GodsMarinerWinnerRacial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of DesireUniversity of Washington PressFinalistGay Bar: Why We Went OutLittle, BrownFinalistAntiman: A MemoirRestless BooksFinalist2023Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of Act Up New YorkFordham University PressWinnerReclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native AmericaBeacon PressFinalistAgainst the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights ActivistHeliotropeFinalistUniversity of MassachusettsFinalist2024Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's TenderloinDuke University PressWinnerBoyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto, by Zachary Zane (, an imprint of Abrams Books)Abrams ImageFinalistLeg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From ItAbrams BooksFinalistQueer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and DesiresFordham University PressFinalist2025HarperCollinsWinnerChristopher Isherwood Inside-OutFarrar, Straus and GirouxFinalistStraight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William ShakespeareSeal PressFinalistTen Bridges I've BurntMCDFinalist2026Baldwin: A Love StoryFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerAmerican ScareDuttonFinalistDon Bachardy: An Artist's LifeCitadelFinalistThe Einstein of SexW. W. NortonFinalistThe IntermediariesW. W. NortonFinalist
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