8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 14, 1996

Anthologies/Fiction

• WINNER: Tasting Life Twice edited by E.J. Levy (Avon)
• Afrekete edited by Catherine McKinley & L. Joyce Delaney (Anchor)
• New Fuck You edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e))
• Forbidden Passages by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller (Cleis)
• His by Robert Drake (Faber and Faber)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

• WINNER: Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage edited by Claude J. Summers (Henry Holt)
• Dyke Life edited by Karla Jay (BasicBooks)
• Tomboys edited by Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber (Alyson)
• A Loving Testimony edited by Leslea Newman (Crossing)
• Out in All Directions edited by Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus (Warner)

Children’s/Young Adult

• WINNER: From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Blue Sky Press)
• Baby Bebop by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
• My Two Uncles by Judith Vinga (Albert Whitman & Co.)
• Passages of Pride by Kurt Chandler (Times Books)
• Toby’s Lie by Daniel Vilmure (Simon & Schuster)

Drama

• WINNER (Tie): Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) by Tony Kushner (TCG)
• WINNER (Tie): Go Fish by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche (Penguin)
• Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (Penguin)
• Love! Valor! Compassion! by Terrence McNally (Plume)
• T-Cells and Sympathy by Michael Kerns (Heinneman)

Editors’ Choice

• Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada introduced by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller (Cleis)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich (Crown)
• Last Night on Earth by Bill T. Jones with Peggy Gillespie (Pantheon)
• Palimpsest by Gore Vidal (Random House)
• Our Paris by Edmund White (Knopf)
• Prayers for Bobby by Leroy Aarons (HarperCollins)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (FSG)
• Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley (Algonquin)
• Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
• Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (HarperCollins)
• Like People in History by Felice Picano (Viking)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: Closet by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)
• Venus Throw by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
• Shock to the System by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Another Dead Teenager by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)
• Queer Kind of Umbrella by George Baxt (Simon & Schuster)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Atlantis by Mark Doty (HarperPerrenial)
• Cortege by Carl Philips (Graywolf)
• Badboy Book of Erotic Verse by David Laurents (Badboy)
• Scattering of Salts by James Merrill (Knopf)
• Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)

Gay Men’s Studies

• WINNER: De Los Otros by Joseph Carrier (Columbia University)
• Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz (Dutton)
• I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual by Pierre Seel (BasicBooks)
• Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan (Random House)
• Saint=Foucault by Daniel Halperin (Oxford University)

Humor

• WINNER: The Butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans (Laugh Lines)
• Revenge of HotHead Paisan by Diane Dimassa (Cleis)
• Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Growing Up Gay by Funny Gay Males (Hyperion)
• Ghost in the Closet by Mabel Maney (Cleis)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer (HarperCollins)
• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)
• Eight Bullets by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley (Firebrand)
• And Say Hi to Joyce by Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch (Doubleday)
• Babe by Susan E. Cayliff (University of Illinois)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson (Dutton)
• Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant (Houghton Mifflin)
• Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman (Dutton)
• Amnesty by Louise Blum (Alyson)
• Sweat by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Seal)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Intersection of Law and Desire by J.M. Redmann (Norton)
• Hangdog Hustle by Elizabeth Pincus (Spinsters)
• Faint Praise by Ellen Hart (Seal)
• Someone to Watch by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
• Night Songs by Penny Mickleberry (Naiad)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Dark Fields of the Republic by Adrienne Rich (Norton)
• Maxfield Parrish by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
• Oral Tradition by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
• Fire Power by Chrystos (Press Gang)
• Key to Everything edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Studies

• WINNER: Dyke Life edited by Karla Jay (BasicBooks)
• Virtual Equality by Urvashi Vaid (Anchor)
• S/he by Minne Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
• Tomboys edited by Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber (Alyson)
• Parker and Hulme by Julie Glamuzina & Alison J. Laurie (Firebrand)

Photography/Visual Arts

• WINNER: Paris was a Woman by Andrea Weiss (HarperCollins)
• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse (Paradox)
• Butch/Femme edited by M.G. Soares (Crown)
• Fully Exposed by Emmanuel Cooper (Routledge)
• Making Love Visible by Geoff Manasse and Jean Swallow (Crossing)

Pioneer Award

• L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, President and CEO of Lambda Rising, Inc.

Publisher’s Service Award

• Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press
• Restricted Entry by Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley (Press Gang)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: Shadow Man by Melissa Scott (TOR)
• Slow River by Nicola Griffith (DelRay)
• Dryland’s End by Felice Picano (Richard Kasak)
• Dark Angels by Pam Keesey (Cleis)
• Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel Delaney (Wesleyan)

Small Press Book Award

• WINNER: The New Fuck You edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e))
• S/He by Minne Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
• Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (Permeable)
• The Medicine Burns by Adam Klein (Serpent’s Tale)
• Milking Black Bull edited by Vega Press (Vega Press)

Spirituality

• WINNER: Wrestling with the Angel edited by Brian Bouldrey (Riverhead)
• Queer Spirits edited by Will Roscoe (Beacon)
• Gay Fairy Tales by Peter Cashorali (HarperCollins)
• Our Tribe by Nancy Wilson (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Freedom, Glorious Freedom by John McNeill (Beacon)