Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
2002 | Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | Winner | [2] |
Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties | Finalist | [2] |
Suzanna Danuta Walters | All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America |
William J. Mann | Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 |
Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (editors) | The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s |
2003 | Neil Miller | Sex-Crime Panic | Winner | [3][4] |
Craig Rimmerman | From Identity to Politics | Finalist | [4] |
Colm Tóibín | Love in a Dark Time |
Ruth Vanita (editor) | Queering India |
David Nimmons | Soul Beneath the Skin |
2004 | Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors) | Time on Two Crosses | Winner | [5] |
Wayne Besen | Anything But Straight | Finalist | [5] |
Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky | Love in the Time of HIV |
James McCourt | Queer Street |
Mack Friedman | Strapped for Cash |
2005 | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou | For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town | Winner | [6] |
Andrea Barnet | All-Night Party | Finalist | [6] |
Will Fellows | A Passion to Preserve |
Abigail Garner | Families Like Mine |
Evan Wolfson | Why Marriage Matters |
2006 | Susan Ackerman | When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David | Winner | [7] |
Jennifer Kelly | Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause | Finalist | [7] |
Dwight A. McBride | Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch |
Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (editors) | Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet |
Ruth Vanita | Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West |
2007 | Horace Griffin | Their Own Receive Them Not | Winner | [8] |
Robert McRuer | Crip Theory | Finalist | [8] |
Kathryn Stockton | Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame |
Carellin Brooks | Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. |
David Eisenbach | Gay Power: An American Revolution |
2008 | Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Winner | [9][10] |
Bertram Cohler | Writing Desire | Finalist | [9] |
Pagan Kennedy | The First Man-Made Man |
Mark Padilla | Caribbean Pleasure Industry |
Robert Reid-Pharr | Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual |
2009 | Regina Kunzel | Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality | Winner | [11] |
Michelle Ann Abate | Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History | Finalist | [11] |
Amin Ghaziani | The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington |
Kevin P. Murphy | Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform |
Linda Williams | Screening Sex |
2010 | Margot Canaday | The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America | Winner | [12] |
Armando Maggi | The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade | Finalist | [12] |
Julie Abraham | Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities |
Deborah B. Gould | Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS |
Kathryn Bond Stockton | The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century |
2011 | Scott Herring | Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism | Winner | [13] |
Gayle Salamon | Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality |
Fran Martin | Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary | Finalist | [14] |
Deborah Cohler | Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain |
Rafael de la Dehesa | Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies |
2012 | Lisa L. Moore | Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes | Winner | [15][16] |
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors) | Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Finalist | |
Chandan Reddy | Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State | |
Margot Weiss | Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality | |
Jafari S. Allen | ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba | |
2013 | Ramón H. Rivera-Servera | Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics | Winner | [17] |
Louis-Georges Tin | The Invention of Heterosexual Culture | Finalist | [18] |
Ernesto Javier Martínez | On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility |
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 |
Tracy Baim | Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America |
David M. Halperin | How To Be Gay |
2014 | Christina B. Hanhardt | Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence | Winner | [19][20][21] |
Marlon M. Bailey | Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit | Finalist | [21] |
Victoria Hesford | Feeling Women’s Liberation |
Colin R. Johnson | Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America |
Lisa Henderson | Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production |
Susana Pena | 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 | Shanghai Lalas |
Peter M. Coviello | Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely |
Isaac West | Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law | [21][22] |
2015 | Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors) | Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture | Winner | [23] |
Noelle M. Stout | After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba | Finalist | [24] |
Rachel Hope Cleves | 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 | [25] |
Clare Sears | Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco | Finalist | [26] |
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 |
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 | [27] |
Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory | Finalist | [28] |
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 | [29][30] |
Alfredo Mirandé | Behind the Mask | Finalist | [31] |
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 | [32] |
E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History | Finalist | |
Lyndon K. Gill | Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean | |
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 | [33][34][35][36] |
Robb Hernández | Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde | Finalist | [37][38][39] |
Elizabeth Freeman | Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century | [38][39] |
Kara Keeling | Queer Times, Black Futures | [37][38][39] |
Roberto Strongman | Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou | [38][39] |
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 | [40][37][41] |
Cait McKinney | Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies | Finalist | [42] |
José Esteban Muñoz | The Sense of Brown |
Janet Jakobsen | The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics | [42][37] |
Jane Ward | The Tragedy of Heterosexuality |
2022 | Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | Winner | [43] |
Gila Ashtor | Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | Finalist | [44] |
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 | [45] |
Mairead Sullivan | Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer | Finalist | [46] |
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 |