Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Jackson, (Algonquin Books, a division of Workman Publishing) "The Fixed Stars: A Memoir" by Molly Wizenberg, (Abrams Press, an imprint of ABRAMS)."My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" by Jenn Shapland, (Tin House Books)."Too Much Lip" by Melissa Lucashenko, (HarperVia)."The Subtweet" by Vivek Shraya, ( ECW Press)."The Pull of the Stars" by Emma Donoghue, (Little, Brown and Company).Danforth & Sara Lautman, ( William Morrow and Company) "Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel" by Emily M."Boys of Alabama" by Genevieve Hudson, (Liveright Publishing Corporation).Stonewall Honor Books in Literature Shortlist “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz, (Graywolf Press).“More Than Organs” by Kay Ulanday Barrett, (Sibling Rivalry Press).“Memorial” by Bryan Washington, (Riverhead Books).“The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi, (Riverhead Books).“We Are Little Feminists: Families” designed by Lindsey Blakely, written by Archaa Shrivastav (Little Feminist) Stonewall Honor Books in Literature "Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games" by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them) (Duke University Press) Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award "The Thirty Names of Night" by Zeyn Joukhadar (Atria Books) Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award 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.
Catherine’s great rival throughout her reign, Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia, said about her: “A woman is always a woman and, in feminine government, the cunt has more influence than a firm policy guided by straight reason.” Sour grapes indeed from one who could never overcome her enormous power.The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. In case one doubts the misogyny at the heart of the negative legends about her, one need only consult the thoughts of her powerful contemporaries. Horse-riding was integrally linked with notions of nobility, and this story was also a perfect subversion of Catherine’s noted equestrian skills. (In reality she died from a stroke.) The use of horse-riding as a sexual metaphor had a long history in libelous attacks on courtly women. These depictions included the most notorious myth of all: it was claimed that, during an orgy of bestiality, Catherine died when the harness that was suspending a stallion above her broke, causing her to be crushed by the horse. Read more: How Marie Antoinette's Legacy Was Sullied by Vicious Songs About Her Death British presses did the same with obscene political cartoons. Revolutionary presses happily poured out the same kind of polemical prose that depicted Catherine as prey to her voracious sexual appetite. In France, where Catherine’s lack of support for the recent Revolution meant that she had become a vilified representative of the ancien régime, the same kind of pornographic libels that had been used against Marie Antoinette were ready to be deployed against her. Accounts of Cleopatra’s life, for example, all originate from Romans, who were eager to glorify the Roman Empire and its founder Octavius Augustus, who had been Cleopatra’s rival.
At each point, these stories originate in the minds of their greatest enemies.