Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg is the winner of The 2009 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 received the 2009 Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award as the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table named its Stonewall Award recipients.
Works that received “honor awards” included Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson (who teaches at Northwestern University) and Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster by Joanne Ellen Passet.
This year’s awards will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago July 9-15. See www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/stonewall/stonewallbook.cfm.