Randy Shilts Award Winners

The Publishing Triangle began giving the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction , along with the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, in 1997. T ...more

Winners

	The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 2,314 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 20,327 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 9,868 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 742 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France 4.43 avg rating — 3,490 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality by Michelangelo Signorile (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 177 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank 3.92 avg rating — 544 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy 4.07 avg rating — 860 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Girls by Hilton Als 3.88 avg rating — 3,793 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram 4.13 avg rating — 660 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality by Mark D. Jordan 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring 4.06 avg rating — 1,724 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greeks & Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World by James Davidson 3.82 avg rating — 126 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York by Kai Wright 4.49 avg rating — 49 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Mens Sons by Michael Rowe (Goodreads Author) 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino 4.12 avg rating — 1,429 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace by Martin Moran 4.02 avg rating — 320 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson 4.04 avg rating — 615 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio 4.22 avg rating — 724 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s by Neil Miller 3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Gay Man: Essays by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings Randy Shilts Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s by Ricardo J. Brown 4.02 avg rating — 185 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father by Mark Matousek (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 87 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality by Eric Brandt (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives & Gay Identities - A Twentieth-Century History by John Loughery 3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naked by David Sedaris 4.09 avg rating — 258,828 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by Anthony Heilbut 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay 4.13 avg rating — 188 ratings Randy Shilts Award Nominee (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man by Chike Frankie Edozien 3.91 avg rating — 67 ratings Randy Shilts Award Nominee (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inheritance of Shame by Peter Gajdics (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings Randy Shilts Award Nominee (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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