Congratulations are in order for Tabb Center director and AGHI board member Joseph Plaster, who won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for 2024 this week in New York. The award, which was among the honors bestowed by The Publishing Triangle, went to Plaster’s recent book, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke UP, 2023).
Others of the 36th annual Triangle Awards, held on April 17, included the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction—honoring Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee. A full list of winners appears at the Publishing Triangle’s website and at Publishers Weekly. The Randy Shilts Award in particular “recognizes works that are by or about gay men, bisexual men, and/or transmen, or that have a significant influence upon the lives of queer men” (PT).
Since 2020, Plaster has served at Hopkins as the director of the new Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center, with a wide array of public humanities programming, the ballroom collaboration with the Peabody, and artist and researcher fellowships. Lots more info about Plaster’s work is available at his website.
Congratulations, Joey!
[Image at top: “Some of the winners at the 36th annual Publishing Triangle Awards. (From L.) J.M. Redmann, Leslie Sainz, Helen Elaine Lee, Emily Drabinski, Joseph Plaster, Kris Kleindienst, Barbara Jane Brickman, Emily Zhou.” Photo by Andres Otero.]