The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic. The Ruth Benedict Prize is awarded in each of two separate categories: one for a single-authored monograph and another for an edited volume. Submissions may be on any topic related to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, or other gender / sexual formations and categories from any world culture area. Topics may include the study of normativity, queer theory, and the social/historical construction of sexual and gender identities, discourses and categories. Authors may represent any scholarly discipline, but the material submitted must engage anthropological theories and methods.

Since 1988, the Lambda Literary Awards, also called the "Lammys", have been awarded "to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians---the whole literary community." There are currently twenty-two categories, with one winner in each and a number of finalists.

You can also browse a collection of just the Lambda Literary Awards Winners, and these books are included in the main LGBTQ Collection.

The Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table, are a set of literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S.A.

You can also browse a collection of just the Stonewall Book Awards Winners, and these books are included in the main LGBTQ Collection.