John Boswell Prize

Given by Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH)

20 Works 2,284 Books 27 Reviews 4.3
The John Boswell Prize recognizes an outstanding book on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, and/or queer history published in English. It is awarded in odd-numbered years, covering show more books published in the previous two years.

Prize page, on site of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History show less
Stages:
All, Winner (18), Honorable Mention (2)
Categories:
All, No Category (20)
Years:
All, 2021 (1), 2019 (2), 2017 (2), 2015 (2), 2013 (1), 2011 (1), 2009 (1), 2007 (1), 2005 (2), 2003 (2), 2001 (2), 1999 (1), 1997 (1), 1995 (1)

Winner 18

WorkYear
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism) by David K. Johnson2021
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton2019
Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain by Zeb Tortorici2019
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Clare Sears2017
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Timothy Stewart-Winter2017
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Experimental Futures) by Afsaneh Najmabadi2015
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants by Phil Tiemeyer2015
My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Bérubé2013
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday2011
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina Kunzel2009
Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s by Martin Meeker2007
Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950 (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) by Jens Rydstrom2005
Fashioning Sapphism by Laura Doan2003
Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz2003
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity by Lisa Duggan2001
The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology by Mark D. Jordan1999
Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas by Richard C. Trexler1997
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey1995

Honorable Mention 2

WorkYear
The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Nadine Hubbs2005
Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 by Gregory M. Pflugfelder2001

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