Year
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Author
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Title
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Result
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Ref.
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2002
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Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
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Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
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Winner
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Gay Wachman
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Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties
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Finalist
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Suzanna Danuta Walters
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All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
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William J. Mann
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Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
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Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (editors)
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The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
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2003
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Neil Miller
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Sex-Crime Panic
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Winner
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Craig Rimmerman
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From Identity to Politics
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Finalist
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Colm Tóibín
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Love in a Dark Time
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Ruth Vanita (editor)
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Queering India
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David Nimmons
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Soul Beneath the Skin
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2004
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Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors)
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Time on Two Crosses
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Winner
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Wayne Besen
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Anything But Straight
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Finalist
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Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky
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Love in the Time of HIV
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James McCourt
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Queer Street
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Mack Friedman
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Strapped for Cash
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2005
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Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
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For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
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Winner
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Andrea Barnet
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All-Night Party
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Finalist
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Will Fellows
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{A Passion to Preserve
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Abigail Garner
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Families Like Mine
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Evan Wolfson
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Why Marriage Matters
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2006
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Susan Ackerman
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When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
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Winner
|
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Jennifer Kelly
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Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause
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Finalist
|
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Dwight A. McBride
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Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch
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Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (editors)
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Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet
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Ruth Vanita
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Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
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2007
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Horace Griffin
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Their Own Receive Them Not
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Winner
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Robert McRuer
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Crip Theory
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Finalist
|
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Kathryn Stockton
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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
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Carellin Brooks
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Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc.
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David Eisenbach
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Gay Power: An American Revolution
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2008
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Sharon Marcus
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Between Women
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Winner
|
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Bertram Cohler
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Writing Desire
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Finalist
|
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Pagan Kennedy
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The First Man-Made Man
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Mark Padilla
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Caribbean Pleasure Industry
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Robert Reid-Pharr
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Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual
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2009
|
Regina Kunzel
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Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
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Winner
|
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Michelle Ann Abate
|
Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History
|
Finalist
|
|
Amin Ghaziani
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The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
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Kevin P. Murphy
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Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
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Linda Williams
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Screening Sex
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2010
|
Margot Canaday
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The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America
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Winner
|
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Armando Maggi
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The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
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Finalist
|
|
Julie Abraham
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Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
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Deborah B. Gould
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Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
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Kathryn Bond Stockton
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The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
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2011
|
Scott Herring
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Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
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Winner
|
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Gayle Salamon
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Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
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Fran Martin
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Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
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Finalist
|
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Deborah Cohler
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Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
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Rafael de la Dehesa
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Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
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2012
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Lisa L. Moore
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Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
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Winner
|
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Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors)
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
|
Finalist
|
|
Chandan Reddy
|
Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
|
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Margot Weiss
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Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
|
|
Jafari S. Allen
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¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
|
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2013
|
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
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Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics
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Winner
|
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Louis-Georges Tin
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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
|
Finalist
|
|
Ernesto Javier Martínez
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On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
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Ashley Currier
|
Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
|
Bernadette C. Barton
|
Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
|
Brenna M. Munro
|
South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
|
Sara Warner
|
Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
|
Ann Cvetkovich
|
Depression: A Public Feeling
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Tracy Baim
|
Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America
|
David M. Halperin
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How To Be Gay
|
2014
|
Christina B. Hanhardt
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Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
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Winner
|
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Marlon M. Bailey
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Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
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Finalist
|
|
Victoria Hesford
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Feeling Women’s Liberation
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Colin R. Johnson
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Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
|
Lisa Henderson
|
Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
|
Susana Pena
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Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
|
Afsaneh Najmabadi
|
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
|
Lucetta Yip Lo Kam
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Shanghai Lalas
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Peter M. Coviello
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Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
|
Isaac West
|
Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
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|
2015
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Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors)
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Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
|
Winner
|
|
Noelle M. Stout
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After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
|
Finalist
|
|
Rachel Hope Cleves
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Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
|
Marcia Ochoa
|
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
|
Lisa Tatonetti
|
The Queerness of Native American Literature
|
Juana María Rodríguez
|
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
|
Susan S. Lanser
|
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic
|
Bobby Benedicto
|
Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
|
2016
|
Hiram Pérez
|
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
|
Winner
|
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Clare Sears
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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
|
Finalist
|
|
L.H. Stallings
|
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
|
Aaron Goodfellow
|
Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
|
Madhavi Menon
|
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
|
Jane Ward
|
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
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Petrus Liu
|
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
|
Valerie Traub
|
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
|
2017
|
Jennifer Tyburczy
|
Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
|
Winner
|
|
Qwo-Li Driskill
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Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory
|
Finalist
|
|
Gregory Woods
|
Homintern
|
Andrew Jolivette
|
Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
|
Jonathan Goldberg
|
Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
|
Kevin Mumford
|
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
|
Omar G. Encarnación
|
Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
|
Timothy Stewart-Winter
|
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
|
2018
|
Trevor Hoppe
|
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
|
Winner
|
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Alfredo Mirandé
|
Behind the Mask
|
Finalist
|
|
Mari Ruti
|
The Ethics of Opting Out
|
Emily Hobson
|
Lavender and Red
|
Jaclyn Pryor
|
Time Slips
|
Ashley T. Shelden
|
Unmaking Love
|
David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe
|
The War on Sex
|
Julio Capó
|
Welcome to Fairyland
|
2019
|
William T. Hoston
|
Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
|
Winner
|
|
E. Patrick Johnson
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Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
|
Finalist
|
|
Lyndon K. Gill
|
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
|
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Myrl Beam
|
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
|
|
Keridwen N. Luis
|
Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States
|
|
Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz
|
Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports
|
|
T. Jackie Cuevas
|
Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
|
|
Anne Balay
|
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
|
|
2020
|
Emily L. Thuma
|
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
|
Winner
|
|
Robb Hernández
|
Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
|
Finalist
|
|
Elizabeth Freeman
|
Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
|
|
Kara Keeling
|
Queer Times, Black Futures
|
|
Roberto Strongman
|
Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou
|
|
Dana Seitler
|
Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
|
R.L. Cagle
|
Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
|
Jian Neo Chen
|
Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
|
2021
|
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
|
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
|
Winner
|
|
Cait McKinney
|
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
|
Finalist
|
|
José Esteban Muñoz
|
The Sense of Brown
|
Janet Jakobsen
|
The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
|
|
Jane Ward
|
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
|
2022
|
Anna Lvovsky
|
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
|
Winner
|
|
Gila Ashtor
|
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia
|
Finalist
|
|
C. Winter Han
|
Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
|
Leah DeVun
|
The Shape of Sex
|
Howard Chiang
|
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
|
2023
|
Darieck Scott
|
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
|
Winner
|
|
Mairead Sullivan
|
Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer
|
Finalist
|
|
Marlon B. Ross
|
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
|
Vivian L. Huang
|
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
|
Jafari S. Allen
|
There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
|
2024
|
Erin L. Durban
|
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
|
Winner
|
|
Jennifer Dominique Jones
|
Ambivalent Af inities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II
|
Finalist
|
|
Christoph Hanssmann
|
Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine
|
Margot Canaday
|
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
|
Travis S. K. Kong
|
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
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