D'Emilio was awarded theStonewall Book Award in 1984[3] for his most widely cited book,Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, which is considered the definitive history of the U.S. homophile movement from 1940 to 1970. His biography of thecivil-rights leaderBayard Rustin,Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace and Justice in America, won theRandy Shilts Award and the Stonewall Book Award for non-fiction in 2004.[4] He was the 2005 recipient of theBrudner Prize[5] atYale University.
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983; 2nd edition, with a new preface and afterword, 1998)
Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (New York: Routledge, 1992)
The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002)
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (New York: Free Press, 2003; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)
With Estelle Freedman,Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1988; 2nd expanded edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997; 3rd edition, 2012)
The Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile (New York: Facts-on-File, 1979), with an introduction
The Universities and the Gay Experience: Proceedings of the Conference Sponsored by the Women and Men of the Gay Academic Union, November 23 and 24, 1973 (New York: Gay Academic Union, 1974), with an introduction
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