The Randy Shilts Award is an annual literary award, presented by

Publishing Triangle The Publishing Triangle, founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy, is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry. They sponsor an annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and have sponsored the annual Triangle Awards prog ...

to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in memory of American journalist

Randy Shilts Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts began working as a reporter for both '' The Advocate'' and the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', as wel ...

Winners

* 1997 —

Anthony Heilbut Anthony Heilbut (born November 22, 1940) is an American writer, and record producer of gospel music. He is noted for his biography of Thomas Mann, and has also won a Grammy Award. Life Anthony Heilbut, the son of German Jewish refugees Bertha and ...

, ''Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature'' * 1998 —

David Sedaris David Raymond Sedaris (; born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries.” He published his first co ...

, ''

Naked Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing. The loss of body hair was one of the physical characteristics that marked the biological evolution of modern humans from their hominin ancestors. Adaptations related to h ...

'' * 1999 — John Loughery, ''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 s ...

, ''The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father'' * 2002 — ie Ricardo J. Brown, ''The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's'';

Robert Reid-Pharr Robert Reid-Pharr is an American literary and cultural critic and professor. Early life and education A native North Carolinian, Reid-Pharr holds a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and both an M.A. ...

, ''Black Gay Man'' * 2003 — Neil Miller, ''Sex Crime Panic'' * 2004 —

John D'Emilio John D'Emilio (born 1948) is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph ...

, ''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 Martin Moran (born December 29, 1959) is an American actor and writer who grew up in Denver, Colorado. He attended Stanford University and is best known for his autobiographical solo show about his childhood molestation called '' The Tricky P ...

, '' The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace'' * 2007 —

Kenji Yoshino Kenji Yoshino (born May 1, 1969) is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involve ...

, '' Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights'' * 2008 —

Michael Rowe Michael Rowe (born 1960) is an American television writer, producer and comedian. He has written for ''Becker'', ''The Nanny'', '' Futurama'', '' Paranormal Action Squad'' and '' Family Guy'', as well as writing the episode of ''The PJs ''Th ...

, ''Other Men's Sons'' * 2009 —

Kai Wright Kai Wright is an American journalist, activist, author, and podcast host. He has served as copy editor at the New York Daily News, senior writer at The Root, senior editor at City Limits, editorial director at ColorLines, and features editor at T ...

, ''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 Justin Edward Spring (born March 11, 1984) is a retired American gymnast. He is a member of the bronze medal winning U.S. team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He was also a top gymnast in NCAA competition, where he represented the University ...

, ''Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward'' * 2012 —

Mark D. Jordan Mark D. Jordan (born 1953/54) is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhard Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women, ...

, ''Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality'' * 2013 —

Christopher Bram Christopher Bram (born February 22, 1952) is an American author. Bram grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia (outside Norfolk), where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in English) ...

, ''Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America'' * 2014 —

Hilton Als Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for ''The New Yor ...

, ''White Girls'' * 2015 —

Robert Beachy Robert Beachy (born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico) is associate professor of history at the Underwood International College at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Was raised in Mennonite communities in Puerto Rico and Indiana. He formerly taug ...

, ''Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity'' * 2016 — ie

Barney Frank Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a former American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee ...

, ''Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage'' and

Michelangelo Signorile Michelangelo Signorile (; born December 19, 1960) is an American journalist, author and talk radio host. His radio program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada on Sirius XM Radio and globally online. Signorile was editor-a ...

, ''It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality'' * 2017 — David France, ''How to Survive a Plague'' * 2018 — Eli Clare, ''Brilliant Imperfection'' * 2019 —

Alexander Chee Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Chuuk Lagoon, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the I ...

, ''How to Write an Autobiographical Novel'' * 2020 —

Saeed Jones Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American writer and poet. His debut collection '' Prelude to Bruise'' was named a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. His second book, a memoir, '' How We Fight for Our ...

, '' How We Fight for Our Lives'' * 2021 —

Eric Cervini Eric Cervini (born 1992) is an American historian and author of LGBTQ politics and culture. His 2020 book, ''The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of America'', was a ''New York Times'' Bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitze ...

, ''The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America'' * 2022 — Brian Broome, ''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 part ...

'', May 11, 2022.

References

External links

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