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Stonewall Book Awards 2012

The 2012 Stonewall Book Awards went to Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright (Children's and Young Adult), Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman (Literature) and A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski and Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward (Nonfiction). 12 books were Honor Books across 3 categories.

Winners

Children's and Young Adult

  1. Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wrightsource (opens in a new tab)

Literature

  1. Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffmansource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronskisource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Wardsource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

Children's and Young Adult

  1. Money Boy by Paul Yeesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Pink by Lili Wilkinsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. With or Without You by Brian Farreysource (opens in a new tab)
  4. a + e 4ever by Ilike Mereysource (opens in a new tab)

Literature

  1. Annabel by Kathleen Wintersource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Remembrance of Things I Forgot by Bob Smithsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wildesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Temperamentals by Jon Maranssource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Kriegersource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharmansource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories by Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimersource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wildesource (opens in a new tab)

About the Stonewall Book Awards

Award winners and Honor Books from the Rainbow Round Table's Stonewall Book Awards list. Year is the award year the Round Table uses, announced each January. Categories: Literature (Barbara Gittings Literature Award), Poetry (Barbara Gittings Poetry Award, given separately in 2023 and 2025), Nonfiction (Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award) and Children's and Young Adult (Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Award, first given in 2010). The 2024 Literature & Poetry award was a single combined award and sits under Literature. Some years have two winners in a category. The 2021 page lists a Literature shortlist after the Honor Books; those are recorded as Shortlist. The 2012 annotated Picture of Dorian Gray was an Honor Book in both Literature and Nonfiction and appears once in each. Children's and Young Adult author fields name the writer, then the illustrator when credited.

Organization: American Library Association Rainbow Round Table. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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