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1994 Gay/Lesbian Book Award Winners

The American Library Association Gay
and Lesbian Book Awards Committee is
pleased to announce the winners of the
1994 Gay/Lesbian Book Awards. The
awards are given annually to two books
of exceptional merit examining lesbian
and/or gay experience and published
during the prior calendar year.
Established in 1971, the Gay and
Lesbian Task Force Book Awards are
the nation's oldest and long—lived. The
two award winning books were selected
by a group of thirteen academic, public,
and special librarians from institutions
throughout the United States. This year
the ten finalists considered for the
awards were selected from a list of 47
nominated titles, which in turn were
drawn from a listing of over six hundred
titles, fiction and non—fiction, that were
identified as having gay or lesbian
content.

The 1994 Gay and Lesbian Book Award
for Literature goes to Leslie Feinberg
for Stone Butch Blues (Firebrand
Books), a poignant exploration of
transgendered identity in the years
surrounding the Stonewall Uprising.

Chosen as the 1994 Nonfiction award
winner, Family Values: Two Moms
and Their Son by Phyllis Burke
(Random House) chronicles the
author’s transformation from the
closet to activism though the catalyst
of lesbian parenthood.

Both books were selected from a list of
ten finalists. Runners up of the awards,
all worthy of recognition as some of the
best books of 1993, include:

LITERATURE:

Growing Up Gay: An Anthology for
Young People

edited by Bennet —Singer (New Press)
The Last Generation

by Cherrie Moraga (South End Press)
Scissors, Paper, Rock

by Fenton Johnson (Pocket Books)
She ’s Always Liked the Girls Best:
Lesbian Plays

by Claudia Allen (Third Side Press)

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NON -FICTION:

The Lesbian and Gay Parenting
Handbook: Creating and Raising Our
Families
by April Martin (HaiperPerennial)
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology
edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J.
Wolfe (Crossing Press)
Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law
by William B. Rubenstein (New Press)
Stonewall
by Martin Duberrnan (Dutton)

The book awards will be presented on June
27, 1994, during an awards ceremony at the
American Library Association annual
conference in Miami, Florida. With the
selection of the 1994 award winners, the
Gay and Lesbian Book Award Committee
now turns its attention to reading titles for
the 1995 awards. The committee
welcomes and encourages nominations
from the general public, excluding only
those persons affiliated with book
publishing firms. Nominations for
English—language books published in 1994
can be submitted through December 31,
1994. Nominations must include a brief
statement about one—half page in length as
to why the title is being recommended.

Nominations may be send to Ellen
Greenblatt, Chair, American Library
Association Gay and Lesbian Book
Award Committee, Central Technical
Services, Lockwood Library Building,
State University of New York at
Buffalo, Box 602200, Buffalo, NY
14260-2200. Nominations may also be
sent by FAX to (716) 645-5955 or by
email to either

ULCREG@UBVM (BITNET) or
ULCREG@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (lntemet).

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