Randy Shilts Award

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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.

Winners

1997 — Anthony Heilbut, Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature

1998 — David Sedaris, Naked

1999 — John Loughery, The Other Side of Silence

2000 — Eric Brandt, Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays and the Struggle for Equality

2001 — Mark Matousek, The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father

2002 — [tie] Ricardo J. Brown, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's; Robert Reid-Pharr, Black Gay Man

2003 — Neil Miller, Sex Crime Panic

2004 — John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

2005 — David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government

2006 — Martin Moran, The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace

2007 — Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

2008 — Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons

2009 — Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York

2010 — James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love

2011 — Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward

2012 — Mark D. Jordan, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality

2013 — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

2014 — Hilton Als, White Girls

2015 — Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

2016 — [tie] Barney Frank, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage and Michelangelo Signorile, It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality

References

Randy Shilts Award Wikipedia

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