“Strong” by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.).“The Real Riley Mayes” written and illustrated by Rachel Elliott (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, and HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).“Kapaemahu” by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House).Lockington (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group) Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

“Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay” by Lars Horn (Graywolf Press).“High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir” by Edgar Gomez (Soft Skull Press).“Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture” by Sherronda J.“How to Identify Yourself with a Wound”, b KB Brookins (Kallisto Gaia Press).“Dominant Genes” by SJ Sindu (Black Lawrence Press).“Dead Collections” by Isaac Fellman (Penguin Books).“When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb (Arthur A.“Love, Violet” by Charlotte Sullivan Wilde and illustrated by Charlene Chua (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group).

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

“Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist” by Cecilia Gentili (Little Puss Press).

“The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison” by Hugh Ryan (Bold Type Books).

“Revenge Body” by Rachel Wiley (Button Poetry) Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Harper (Counterpoint Press) Inaugural Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry The award is announced in January and presented to the winning authors or editors at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June or July. The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award are presented to English language works published the year prior to the announcement date. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience. The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table.

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