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 John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Seco ...

, ''The Other Side of Silence'' * 2000 — Eric Brandt, ''Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays and the Struggle for Equality'' * 2001 —

Mark Matousek Mark Matousek (born February 5, 1957) is an American memoirist, teacher, and journalist. Early years Matousek was born in Los Angeles, California. His father James Matousek disappeared when he was four, leaving his mother in dire straits; his ...

, ''The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father'' * 2002 — ie

Ricardo J. Brown Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname. People Given name *Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portu ...

, ''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 David K. Johnson (born c. 1962) is an American historian and author who has taught at the University of South Florida since 2003. He specializes in LGBTQ and gender history in the 20th-century United States. His first book, ''The Lavender Scare'' ...

, ''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 — ie 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'' * 2017 —

David France David Harry France, (born 30 June 1948) is an author, football historian and philanthropist. Throughout the past two decades, he has been the driving force behind numerous initiatives related to Everton Football Club including Gwladys Street's H ...

, ''How to Survive a Plague'' * 2018 — Eli Clare, ''Brilliant Imperfection'' * 2019 — Alexander Chee, ''How to Write an Autobiographical Novel'' * 2020 — Saeed Jones, ''

How We Fight for Our Lives ''How We Fight for Our Lives'' is a coming-of-age memoir written by American author Saeed Jones and published by Simon & Schuster in 2019. The story follows Jones as a young, black, gay man in 1990s Lewisville, Texas as he fights to carve out a p ...

'' * 2021 — Eric Cervini, ''The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America'' * 2022 —

Brian Broome Brian Broome (born 1969 or 1970) is an American memoirist, poet, and screenwriter from Ohio. He is best known for his award-winning memoir '' Punch Me Up to the Gods.'' Education and career Broome received his Master of Fine Arts degree from th ...

, ''Punch Me Up to the Gods''"Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"
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Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...

'', May 11, 2022.

References

External links

* Triangle Awards American non-fiction literary awards Awards established in 1997 {{lit-award-stub