Previous Lammy Award Winners

2004 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

Anthologies/Fiction

Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction edited by Donald Weise (Carroll & Graf)

• Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004 edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
• Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person edited by Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea (Alyson)
• Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories edited by Peter Burton (GMP/Millivres)
• The Milk of Human Kindness edited by Lori L. Lake (Regal Crest)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips (Suspect Thoughts)

• Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative edited by Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott (Coach House)
• Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
• That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Soft Skull)
• Wonderlands edited by Raphael Kadushin (University of Wisconsin)

Autobiography/Memoir

Name All the Animals by Alison Smith (Scribner)

• Blue Days, Black Nights by Ron Nyswaner (Advocate)
• Long Life by Mary Oliver (Da Capo)
• Rent Girl by Michelle Tea (Last Gasp)
• The Tomcat Chronicles by Jack Nichols (Harrington Park)

Biography

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux (W.W. Norton)

• Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White (W.W. Norton)
• Both: A Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas Crase (Pantheon)
• Jerome Robbins by Deborah Jowitt (Simon & Schuster)
• Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology by John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, and David P. Keys (University of Wisconsin)

Children’s/Young Adult

So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

• Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (Delacorte)
• Rosemary and Juliet by Judy MacLean (Alice Street Editions)
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Drama

I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (Faber and Faber)

• Fabulous! by Donald Reuter (Broadway)
• How to Make Dances in an Epidemic by David Gere (University of Wisconsin)
• love conjure/blues by Sharon Bridgeforth (RedBone)
• The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater edited by Claude J. Summers (Cleis)

Erotica

Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis)

• All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Once Upon a Dyke by Karin Kallmaker, Therese Syzmanski, Julia Watts, and Barbara Johnson (Bella)
• Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex by Rachel Kramer Bussel and Stacy M. Bias (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Debut Fiction

Clay’s Way by Blair Mastbaum (Alyson)

• A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl (CDS)
• Half-Life by Aaron Krach (Alyson)
• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater by Mar Acito (Broadway)
• World Famous Love Acts by Brian Leung (Sarabande)

Gay Men’s Fiction

The Master by Colm Toibin (Scribner)

• Collage by Ted Wojtasik (Livingston)
• The Disinherited by Han Ong (FS&G)
• The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack (Soft Skull)
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury)

Gay Men’s Poetry

Written in Water by Luis Cernuda (City Lights)

• Cocktails by D.A. Powell (Graywolf)
• nothin’ ugly fly by Marvin K. White (RedBone)
• The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips (FS&G)
• Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich (Graywolf)

Gay Men’s Mystery

Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac)

• Jackson Square Jazz by Greg Herren (Kensington)
• Moth and Flame by John Morgan Wilson (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Someone You Know by Gary Zebrun (Alyson)
• The Role Players by Dorien Grey (GLB)

Humor

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

• Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Cheryl Peck (Warner)
• Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast by Greg Fox (Kenisington)
• Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s)
• Alexander the Fabulous by Michael Alvear and Vicky A. Shecter (Advocate)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank (Firebrand)

• Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion (Alyson)
• Dish It Up, Baby! by Kristie Helms (Firebrand)
• Fire & Brimstone by Laurinda D. Brown (Strebor)
• Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey by Bridget Bufford (Alice Street)

Lesbian Fiction

A Seahorse Year by Stacey D’Erasmo (Houghton Mifflin)

• Abundant Light by Valerie Miner (Michigan State University)
• Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt)
• Skels by Maggie Dubris (Soft Skull)
• Venus of Chalk by Susan Stinson (Firebrand)

Lesbian Poetry

Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch (Gival)

• Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King (BlazeVox)
• Femme’s Dictionary by Carol Guess (Calyx)
• The School Among the Ruins by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
• Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon)

Lesbian Mystery

Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley Prime Crime)

• An Intimate Ghost by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Commitment to Die by Jennifer Jordan (Bean Pole)
• Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion (Alyson)
• The Wombat Strategy by Claire McNab (Alyson)

LGBT Studies

For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Routledge)

• All-Night Party by Andrea Barnet (Algonquin)
• A Passion to Preserve by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
• Families Like Mine by Abigail Garner (HarperCollins)
• Why Marriage Matters by Evan Wolfson (Simon & Schuster)

Photography/Visual Arts

At Ease: Navy Men of World War II by Evan Bachner (Harry Abrams)

• Lust Unearthed by Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp)
• The Queer Movie Poster Book by Jenni Olson (Chronicle)
• Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin (Last Gasp)
• The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts edited by Claude J. Summers (Cleis)

Romance

Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger (HarperCollins)

• All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• Confessions of a Casanova by Chris Kenry (Kensington)
• Gulf Breeze by Gerri Hill (Bella)
• Under the Witness Tree by Marianne Martin (Bywater)

Religion/Spirituality

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love by Will Roscoe (Suspect Thoughts)

• Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions by Randy Conner and David Hatfield Sparks (Harrington Park)
• Same-Sex Marriage: A Christian Ethical Analysis by Marvin M. Ellison (Pilgrim)
• Sanctity and Male Desire by Donald L. Boisvert (Pilgrim)
• Wrestling with God & Men by Rabbi Steven Greenberg (University of Wisconsin)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley (Tor)

• Firelands by Michael Jensen (Alyson)
• Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual edited by Greg Herren (Southern Tier)
• The Wizard of Isis by Jean Stewart (Bella)
• With Her Body by Nicola Griffith (Aqueduct)

Independent Press Award

Suspect Thoughts Press

Bella Books

Transgender/GenderQueer

The Gender Frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen (Kehrer Verlag)

• Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green (Vanderbilt University)
• From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond (Manic D)
• Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser by Helen Boyd (Thunder’s Mouth)

2005 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

Anthologies

Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing edited by E. Lynn Harris (Carroll & Graf)

• Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
• Lesbian Pulp Fiction edited by Katherine Forrest (Cleis)
• Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men edited by Wendell Ricketts (Suspect Thoughts)
• Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier (Suspect Thoughts)

Belles Lettres

The Tricky Part by Martin Moran (Beacon)

• Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford (Counterpoint)
• Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller (Algonquin)
• My One Night Stand with Cancer by Tania Katan (Alyson)
• When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg, illustrated by Tom Bachtell (Regan)

Biography

February House by Sherrill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin)

• The Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson (Henry Holt)
• Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger (The Disinformation Company)
• Beyond Recall by Mary Meigs and Lise Weil (Talonbooks)
• Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art by Diana Souhami (St. Martin's)

Children's/Young Adult

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (Tundra)

• Antonio's Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Children’s Book)
• Totally Joe by James Howe (Simon & Schuster)
• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson (Simon & Schuster)
• Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)

Erotica

Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

• Best Gay Erotica 2006 edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonte (Cleis)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 edited by Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Suspect Thoughts)
• Close Contact by Sean Wolfe (Kensington)

Gay Men’s Debut Fiction

You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (Carroll & Graf)

• Setting the Lawn on Fire by Mack Friedman (Wisconsin)
• Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (Pantheon)
• The First Verse by Barry McCrea (Carroll & Graf)
• Bilal's Bread by Sulyman X (Alyson)

Gay Men's Fiction

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Carroll & Graf)

• German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene (Wisconsin)
• Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger (Random House)
• What We Do is Secret by Kief Hillsbery (Villard)
• Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott (Carroll & Graf)

Gay Men's Mystery

One of These Things is Not Like the Other by D. Travers Scott (Suspect Thoughts)

• The Actor’s Guide to Greed by Rick Copp (Kensington)
• The Paper Mirror by Dorien Grey (GLB)
• White Tiger by Michael Allen Dymmoch (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Cajun Snuff by W. Randy Haynes (Publish America)

Gay Men's Poetry

Crush by Richard Siken (Yale)

• School of the Arts by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• For Dust Thou Art by Timothy Lui (Southern Illinois)
• Sugar by Martin Pousson (Suspect Thoughts)
• Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith (Pittsburgh)

Humor

Don't Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff (Doubleday)

• Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Alyson)
• Juicy Mother by Jennifer Camper (Soft Skull)
• What the L ? by Kate Clinton (Carroll & Graf)
• Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck (5 Spot, Warner)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts)

• Crashing America by Katia Noyes (Alyson)
• Manstealing for Fat Girls by Michelle Embree (Soft Skull)
• In Too Deep by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
• Bliss by Fiona Zedde (Kensington)

Lesbian Fiction

Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor)

• Wild Dogs by Helen Humphrys (W. W. Norton)
• With or Without You by Lauren Sanders (Akashic)
• Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky (Raincoast)
• Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (Harcourt)

Lesbian Mystery

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba (Arte Publico)

• Women of Mystery edited by Katherine Forrest (Haworth)
• The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Darkness Descending by Penny Mickelbury (Kings Crossing)
• Justice Served by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Lesbian Poetry

Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan (Copper Canyon)

• Where the Apple Falls by Samiya Bashir (RedBone)
• Life Mask by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe)
• New and Selected Poems, Volume II by Mary Oliver (Beacon)
• Eye of Water by Amber Flora Thomas (Pittsburgh)

LGBT Studies

When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman (Columbia)

• Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause by Jennifer Kelly (Spinifex)
• Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch by Dwight A. McBride (NYU)
• Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (Harrington Park)
• Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan)

Nonfiction

Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave (Minnesota)

• Gore Vidal’s America by Dennis Altman (Polity)
• Beyond the Down Low by Keith Boykin (Carroll & Graf)
• Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler (Rodale)
• Women Together/Women Apart by Tirza True Latimer (Rutgers)

Romance

Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

• Artist’s Dream by Gerri Hill (Bella)
• Just Like That by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson (Seventh Window)
• Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd (West Beach)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror

Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson)

• Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Seven Stories)
• Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe (Tor)
• Temple Landfall by Jane Fletcher (Bold Strokes)
• No Sister of Mine by Jeanne G’Fellers (Bella)

Spirituality

Qu(e)erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo (Pilgrim)

• The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (Spinifex)
• The Path of the Green Man by Michael Thomas Ford (Citadel)
• I Am This One Walking Beside Me by Daniel Gebhardt (Pilgrim)
• Fumbling Toward Divinity by Craig Hickman (Annabessacook Farm)

Transgender/GenderQueer

Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (Soft Skull)

• In a Queer Time and Place by Judith Halberstam (NYU)
• Deliver Me from Nowhere by Tennessee Jones (Soft Skull)
• Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey (Beacon)
• The Riddle of Gender by Deborah Rudacille (Pantheon)

2006 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

ANTHOLOGY

Love, Bourbon Street, edited by Greg Herren & Paul J. Willis (Alyson)

• Confessions of the Other Mother, edited by Harlyn Aizley (Beacon)
• From Boys to Men, edited by Ted Gideonse & Rob Williams (Carroll & Graf)
• Charmed Lives, edited by Toby Johnson & Steve Berman (White Crane Books)
• No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian, edited by Catherine Lake & Nairne Holtz (Insomniac)

ARTS & CULTURE

GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
• Cinemachismo by Sergio de la Mora (University of Texas Press)
• Sex Objects by Jennifer Doyle (University of Minnesota Press)
• Blood Beats: Vol 1 by Ernest Hardy (Redbone Press)
  
  

BISEXUAL

The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe, Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal (Alyson)

• Eros by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (Harrington Park Press)
• Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men by Ronald C. Fox (Harrington Park Press)
• Three Sides to Every Story by Clarence Nero (Harlem Moon/Broadway)
• Bi Guys, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha (Harrington Park Press)
• Bi Men, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha & Pete Chvany (Harrington Park Press)

CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

The Full Spectrum, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell (Random House Childrens Books)

Between Mom & Jo by Julie Anne Peters (Little Brown)

• The Manny Files by Christian Burch (Simon & Schuster)
• Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan (Simon & Schuster)
• Erik & Isabelle's Junior Year at Foresthill High by Kim Wallace (Foglight Press)

DRAMA/THEATER

1001 Beds by Tim Miller (University of Wisconsin)

• Questa by Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Publishing Inc.)
• Confessions of a Mormon Boy by Steven Fales (Alyson)

HUMOR

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan (Little Brown)

• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
• Roy & Al by Ralf Konig (Arsenal Pulp Press)

LGBT NONFICTION

GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)

Different Daughters by Marcia Gallo (Carroll & Graf)

• Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein (Seven Stories)
• Behind the Mask of the Mattachine by James T. Sears (Harrington Park Press)
• Unspeakable Love by Brian Whitaker (University of California)

LGBT STUDIES

Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace Griffin (Pilgrim Press)

• Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. by Carellin Brooks (UBC Press)
• Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach (Carroll & Graf)
• Crip Theory by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)
• Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame by Kathryn Stockton (Duke University Press)

SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)

• Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg (Alyson)
• A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day (Iris Print)
• Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (Bantam Spectra)

SPIRITUALITY

The After-Death Room by Michael McColly (Soft Skull Press)

• Sex & the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak (Harrington Park Press)
• Spirited edited by Lisa Moore & G. Winston James (Redbone Press)
• The Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino (Pearlsong Press )
• Mobius Trip by Giti Thadani (Spinifex Press)

TRANSGENDER

The Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (Routledge)

• Transgender Rights edited Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter (University of Minnesota Press)
• Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg (Carroll & Graf)
• Supervillainz by Alicia E. Goranson (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press)
  

LESBIAN FICTION

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)

• Punk Like Me by JD Glass (Bold Strokes)
• Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
• Outrageous by Sheila Ortiz Taylor (Spinsters Ink)
• Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea (Macadam Cage)

LESBIAN ROMANCE

Fresh Tracks by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes)

• Wild Abandon by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
• Finders Keepers by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Chance by Grace Lennox (Bold Strokes)
• Turn Back Time by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

LESBIAN MYSTERY

The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (Bantam)

• Sleep of Reason by Rose Beecham, Rose (Bold Strokes)
• Night Vision by Ellen Hart (St. Martins)
• Idaho Code by Joan Opyr (Bywater Books)
• The Weekend Visitor by Jessica Thomas (Bella Books)
  

LESBIAN POETRY

Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)

• Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
• Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clarke (Carroll & Graf)
• The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson (Nightboat Books)
• Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens (Coach House Books)

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)

• Intimate Politics by Bettina Aptheker (Seal Press)
• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
• Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend (Marlowe & Co.)
• Incognito Street by Barbara Sjoholm (Seal Press)

LESBIAN EROTICA

Walk Like a Man by Laurinda D. Brown (Q-Boro Books)

• Glamour Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Harrington Park Press)
• 18th & Castro by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Master Han's Daughter by Midori (Circlet Press)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 edited by Tristan Taormino & Emma Donoghue (Cleis Press)
  

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (Riverhead)

• Black Marks by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte (Akashic)
• Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara (Redbone Press)
• Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
• Origami Striptease by Peggy Munson (Suspect Thoughts)

GAY FICTION

Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

• Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey (William Morrow)
• Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)
• Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley (Simon & Schuster)
• Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer (Houghton Mifflin)

GAY ROMANCE

When the Stars Come Out by Rob Byrnes (Kensington)

• Someone Like You by Timothy James Beck (Kensington)
• Two Boys in Love by Lawrence Schimel (Seventh Window)
• Surf 'N Turf by Scott & Scott (Romentics)
• Going Down in La-La Land by Andy Zeffer (Harrington Park Press)

GAY MYSTERY

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press)

• Mardi Gras Mambo by Greg Herren (Kensington)
• The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon (I-Universe)
• The Back Passage by James Lear (Cleis Press)
• Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues by Randall Peffer (Bleak House Books)

GAY POETRY

A History of My Tattoo by Jim Elledge (Stonewall)

• Gutted by Justin Chin (Manic D Press)The Album That Changed
• My Life by Jeffrey Conway (Cold Calm Press)
• Other Fugitives & Other Strangers by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Tupelo Press)
• When the Eye Forms by Dwaine Rieves (Tupelo Press)

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper (Simon & Schuster)

• Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (FSG)
• Tweaked by Patrick Moore (Kensington)
• History of Swimming by Kim Powers (Carroll & Graf)
• My Father's Keeper by Jonathan Silin (Beacon)

GAY EROTICA

A History of Barbed Wire by Jeff Mann (Suspect Thoughts)

• Best Gay Erotica 2007 edited by Richard Labonte & Timothy J. Lambert (Cleis Press)
• Hot On His Trail by Zavo (Alyson)

GAY DEBUT FICTION

Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

• A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Zookeeper by Alex MacLennan (Alyson)
• Send Me by Patrick Ryan (Dial Press)
• 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds by Timothy Williams (Amistad)

2007 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press)

• Juicy Mother 2, Jennifer Camper (Manic D Press)
• Vital Signs, Richard Canning (Carroll & Graf)
• Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense, Sean Meriwether & Greg Wharton, (Haworth)
• Baby Remember My Name, Michelle Tea (Carroll & Graf)

LGBT ARTS & CULTURE

The View From Here, Matthew Hays (Arsenal Pulp Press)

• Media Queered, Kevin Barnhurst (Peter Lang Publishing)
• Art That Dares, Kittredge Cherry (AndroGyne Press)
• Feeling Backward, Heather Love (Harvard University Press)
• Other Men's Sons, Michael Rowe (Cormorant Books)

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

Hero, Perry Moore (Hyperion)

• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Saints of Augustine, P.E. Ryan (HarperTeen)
• Freak Show, James St. James (Dutton Children's/Penguin)
• Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)

LGBT DRAMA/THEATER

Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and
George Birimisa (Moving Finger Press)

• Dose: Plays & Monologues, Dan Bernitt (Sawyer House)
• Niagara Falls, Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Play Publishing)
  

LGBT EROTICA

Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica, Simon Sheppard (Running Press)

• The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica, Victoria Brownworth & Judith M. Redding (Magic Carpet Books)
• Red Light, J. D. Glass (Bold Strokes Books)
• Ardennian Boy, William Maltese & Wayne Gunn (MLR Press)
• The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Lawrence Schimel (Carrol & Graf)
• Every Dark Desire, Fiona Zedde (Kensington)
  

LGBT NONFICTION

Gay Artists in Modern American Culture, Michael S. Sherry (University of North Carolina Press)

• Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University Press)
• Pink Harvest, Toni Mirosevich (Mid-List Press)
• Other Men's Sons, Michael Rowe (Cormorant Books)
• Imagining Transgender, David Valentine (Duke University Press)
  

LGBT POETRY

Blackbird and Wolf, Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

• A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering, Dawn Lundy Martin (University of Georgia Press)
• Otherwise Obedient, Carol Potter (Red Hen Press)
• Fata Morgana, Reginald Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh)
• The Second Person, C. Dale Young (Four Way Books)
• Human Resources, Rachel Zolf (Coach House Books)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

The Dust of Wonderland, Lee Thomas (Alyson Books)

• Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale (Blind Eye Books)
• A Companion to Wolves, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor Books)
• Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor Books)
• Ha'penny, Jo Walton (Tor Books)
  

LGBT STUDIES

Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University Press)

• Writing Desire, Bertram Cohler (University of Wisconsin Press)
• The First Man-Made Man, Pagan Kennedy (Bloomsbury)
• Caribbean Pleasure Industry, Mark Padilla (University of Chicago Press)
• Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual, Robert Reid-Pharr (NYU Press)

BISEXUAL

Split Screen, Brent Hartinger (Harper Collins Children's Books)

• Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
• Becoming Visible, Beth Firestein, Ed., (Columbia University Press)
• The Tourists, Jeff Hobbs (Simon & Schuster)
• Stray, Sheri Joseph (MacAdam/Cage)

TRANSGENDER

Transparent, Cris Beam (Harcourt)

• Male Bodies, Women's Souls, LeeRay M. Costa, PhD, (Haworth)
• The Marrow's Telling, Eli Clare (Homofactus Press)
• What Becomes You, Aaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz (University of Nebraska Press)
• Nobody Passes, Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Seal Press)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, Aoibheann Sweeney (The Penguin Press)

• Lockjaw, Holly Farris (Gival Press)
• Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba (Manic D Press)
• Breathing Underwater, Lu Vickers (Alyson Books)
• O Street, Corrina Wycoff (OV Books)

GAY DEBUT FICTION

A Push and a Shove, Christopher Kelly (Alyson Books)

• Tales from the Town of Widows, James Canon (Harpercollins)
• That Was Then, Michael Quadland (Red Hen Press)
• SoMa, Kemble Scott (Kensington)
• Freak Show, James St. James (Dutton Children's/Penguin)

WOMEN'S FICTION

The IHOP Papers, Ali Liebegott (Carroll & Graf)

• Biting the Apple, Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Carroll & Graf)
• Greetings from Jamaica, Mari San Giovanni (Bywater Books)
• The Child, Sarah Schulman (Carroll & Graf)
• The Kind of Girl I Am, Julia Watts (Spinsters Ink)
• The Mandrake Broom, Jess Wells (Firebrand Books)

WOMEN'S ROMANCE

Out of Love, K. G. MacGregor (Bella Books)

• Sheridan's Fate, Gun Brooke (Bold Strokes Books)
• The Road Home, Frankie J. Jones (Bella Books)
• For Now, for Always, Marianne K. Martin (Bywater Books)
• When Dreams Tremble, Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books)

WOMEN'S MYSTERY

Wall of Silence, Gabrielle Goldsby (Bold Strokes Books)

• Mortal Groove, Ellen Hart (St. Martin's Press)
• In the Name of the Father, Gerri Hill (Bella Books)
• Selective Memory, Jennifer L. Jordan (Spinsters Ink)
• Laura's War, Ursula Steck (Bella Books)

WOMEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Nicola Griffith (Payseur & Schmidt)

• Comfort Food for Breakups, Marusya Bocurkiuw (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• An Army of Ex-Lovers, Amy Hoffman (University of Massachusetts Press)
• Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice, Janet Malcolm (Yale University Press)
• Waiting for the Call, Jacqueline Taylor (University of Michigan Press)

MEN's FICTION

Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (Farrar Straus Giroux)

• First Person Plural, Andrew W.M. Beierle (Kensington)
• Dark Reflections, Samuel R. Delany (Carroll & Graf)
• Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon (Pantheon)
• The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, Manuel Munoz (Algonquin)

MEN's ROMANCE

Changing Tides, Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington)

• A Secret Edge, Robin Reardon (Kensington)
• Right Side of the Wrong Bed, Frederick Smith (Kensington)
• Broadway Nights, Seth Rudetsky (Alyson Books)
• A Few Hints and Clews, Robert Taylor (Haworth)

MEN's MYSTERY

Murder in the Rue Chartres, Greg Herren (Alyson Books)

• Double Abduction, Chris Beakey (J. Boylston/ ibooks, Inc.)
• Stain of the Berry, Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac Press)
• Pierce, Roberto Ferrari (Haworth)
• Mahu Surfer, Neil Plakcy (Alyson Books)
• Drag Queen in the Court of Death, Caro Soles (Haworth)

MEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Mississippi Sissy, Kevin Sessums (St. Martin's Press)

• Forgiving Troy, Thom Bierdz (Hudson House)
• Dog Years, Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, Martin Duberman (Knopf)
• The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory, Kenny Fries (Perseus Books)
• What Becomes You, Aaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz (University of Nebraska Press)

2008 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

BISEXUAL

Open, Jenny Block, Seal Press

• Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love & Desire,
  Lisa M. Diamond, Harvard University Press
• The Bishop's Daughter, Honor Moore, W.W. Norton
• Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey, Ron Jackson Suresha, Taylor & Francis Journals
• Rimbaud, Edmund White, Atlas & Company

TRANSGENDER

Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press

• 10,000 Dresses, Marcus Ewert & Rex Ray, Seven Stories Press
• Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Schofield, Homofactus Press
• Boy with Flowers, Ely Shipley, Barrow Street Press
  
• Transgender History, Susan Stryker, Seal Press

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

• Our Caribbean, edited by Thomas Glave, Duke University Press

• A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction, Peter Burton, Arcadia Books
• Live Through This, edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev, Seven Stories Press
• Love, West Hollywood, edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, Alyson
• Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing, edited by Raphael Kadushin, University of Wisconsin Press

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

• Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg, Dutton

• Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel, Christian Burch, Simon and Schuster
• How They Met & Other Stories, David Levithan, Knopf Children's Books
• Mousetraps, Pat Schmatz, Carolrhoda Books
• What They Always Tell Us, Martin Wilson, Random House Children's Books
• Love & Lies: Marisol's Story, Ellen Wittlinger, Simon and Schuster

LGBT DRAMA

• The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage, Outskirts Press

• Phi Alpha Gamma, Dan Bernitt, Sawyer House
• Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays, Martin Duberman, The New Press
• Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Schofield, Homofactus Press
• Vile Affections, Vanda, Original Works Publishing

LGBT NONFICTION

• Loving The Difficult, Jane Rule, Hedgerow Press
  
  
• Me as Her Again, Nancy Agabian, Aunt Lute Books
• If I Could Write This in Fire, Michelle Cliff, Univ of Minnesota Press
• Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003, William N. Eskridge Jr, Penguin Group
• Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage, Nancy Polikoff, Beacon Press
• Drifting Toward Love, Kai Wright, Beacon Press

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

• Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling, Blind Eye Books
  
  
• The Archer's Heart, Astrid Amara, Blind Eye Books
• The Magician and the Fool, Barth Anderson, Bantam Del Rey
• Wilde Stories 2008, Steve Berman, Lethe Press
• Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories, Craig Gidney, Lethe Press

LGBT STUDIES

• Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Regina Kunzel, The University of Chicago Press
  
  
• Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History, Michelle Ann Abate, Temple University Press
• The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington, Amin Ghaziani, The University of Chicago Press
• Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & & the Politics of Progressive Reform, Kevin P. Murphy, Columbia University Press
• Screening Sex, Linda Williams, Duke University Press

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

• The Bruise, Magdalena Zurawski, Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press

• Red Audrey & the Roping, Jill Malone, Bywater Books
• Passing for Black, Linda Villarosa, Kensington
• Closer to Fine, Meri Weiss, Kensington
• Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, Chavisa Woods, Fly by Night Press

LESBIAN EROTICA

• In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip, Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, Bold Strokes Books

• Lipstick on Her Collar, Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Pretty Things Press
• Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Lynne Jamneck, Lethe Press

LESBIAN FICTION (a tie!)

• The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• All the Pretty Girls, Chandra Mayor, Conundrum Press

• The Slow Fix, Ivan E. Coyote, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Map of Ireland, Stephanie Grant, Scribner
• Breaking Spirit Bridge, Ruth Perkinson, Spinsters Ink

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir, Maureen Seaton, University of Wisconsin Press

• Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, Susan Griffin,
  Shambhala Publications
• Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press
• Sex Variant Woman, Joanne Passet, Da Capo
• Case of a Lifetime, Abbe Smith, Palgrave Macmillan

LESBIAN MYSTERY

• Whacked, Josie Gordon, Bella Books

• Blind Faith, Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Bold Strokes Books
• Sweet Poison, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Press
• Losers Weepers, Jessica Thomas, Bella Books
• Calling the Dead, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books

LESBIAN POETRY

• love belongs to those who do the feeling, Judy Grahn, Red Hen Press
  
  
• Interpretive Work, Elizabeth Bradfield, Arktoi / Red Hen Press
• Kissing Dead Girls, Daphne Gottlieb, Soft Skull Press
• Same Life, Maureen N. McLane, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Two Minutes of Light, Nancy K. Pearson, Perugia Press

LESBIAN ROMANCE

• The Kiss That Counted, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books

• Finding Home, Georgia Beers, Bold Strokes Books
• A Pirate's Heart, Catherine Friend, Bold Strokes Books
• Hotel Liaison, JLee Meyer, Bold Strokes Books
• The Lonely Hearts Club, Radclyffe, Bold Strokes Books

GAY DEBUT FICTION

• Finlater, Shawn Ruff, Quote Editions
  

• Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Light Fell, Evan Fallenberg, Soho Press
• The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second, Drew Ferguson, Kensington
• The Steve Machine, Mike Hoolboom, Coach House Books

GAY EROTICA

• Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonte & James Lear, Cleis Press
  
  
• The Secret Tunnel, James Lear, Cleis Press
• Hard Working Men, William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, & J.P. Bowie, MLR Press

GAY FICTION

• We Disappear, Scott Heim, Harper Perennial

• Stray Dog Winter, David Francis, Macadam/Cage Publishing
• The Torturer's Wife, Thomas Glave, City Light Publishers
• The Conversion, Joseph Olshan, St. Martin’s Press
• The Boomerang Kid, Jay Quinn, Alyson

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Edward Carpenter:  A Life of Liberty and Love, Sheila Rowbotham, Verso Books
  
  
• Bringing Him Home, Aaron Cooper, Late August Press
• Swish, Joel Derfner, Broadway Books
• Assisted Loving, Bob Morris, Harper
• King of Shadows, Aaron Shurin, City Lights Publishers

GAY MYSTERY

• First You Fall, Scott Sherman, Alyson Books

• The Fisher Boy, Stephen Anable, Poisoned Pen Press
• Sundowner Ubuntu, Anthony Bidulka, Insomniac Press
• Mahu Fire, Neil Plakcy, Alyson Books
• Spider Season, John Morgan Wilson, St. Martin's Press

GAY POETRY (a tie!)

• Fire to Fire, Mark Doty, Harper
• Now You're the Enemy, James Allen Hall, Univ. of Arkansas Press

• Want, Rick Barot, Sarabande Press
• Please, Jericho Brown, New Issues
• My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Wesleyan University Press

GAY ROMANCE

• Got 'til it's Gone, Larry Duplechan, Arsenal Pulp Press

• Mexican Heat, Laura Baumbach & Josh Lanyon, MLR Press
• The Protector, N.L. Gassert, Seventh Window Publications