Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award - First awarded in 2008
COMING SOON, visitors will be able to click on the names of the winners to see their profile page with bio and photos.
2008
Geoff Mains Book Award - Lee Harrington - Shabari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macrame
2009
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Jack Fritscher - Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer
2010
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - David Stein and David Schachter - Ask the Man Who Owns Him
2011
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Justin Spring - Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
2012
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Gayle Rubin - Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
2013
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Mollena Williams & Lee Harrington - Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities
2014
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) - John Huxley - The Artisan's Book of Fetishcraft: Patterns and Instructions for Creating Professional Fetishwear, Restraints and Sensory Equipment
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) -F.R.R. Mallory - The Kinky Feminist
2015
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Peter Masters - A Year of Dominance
2016
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Lee Harrington - More Shibari You Can Use
2017
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Peter Tupper and David Stein (ed.) - Our Lives, Our History
2018
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Jack Fritscher - Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999
2019
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) - Janet M. Hardy - The Sexually Dominant Woman: An Illustrated Guide for Nervous Beginners
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) - Peter Tupper - A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism
2020 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS
Awards will be pushed to 2020 to ensure all award nominations and selections take place at the same time.
2020
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Janet Hardy - Impervious: Confessions of Semi-Retired Deviant