6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Edit Team

July 13, 1994

Anthologies

• WINNER: Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin (Routledge)
• Growing Up Gay edited by Bennett L. Singer (New)
• Lesbian Culture by Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe (Crossing)
• Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers by Arlene Stein (Plume)
• Eyes of Desire by Raymond Luczak (Alyson)

Children’s/Young Adult Literature

• WINNER: The Cat Came Back by Hilary Mullins (Naiad)
• Saturday is Pattyday by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Annette Hegel (New Victoria)
• We’re Not Alone by Rik Isensee (Lavender Press)
• Living In Secret by Christina Salat (Bantam)
• Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! written and illustrated by Michael Willhoite (Alyson Wonderland)

Drama

• WINNER: Angels in America: Millenium Approaches by Tony Kushner (TCG)
• The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer (Plume)
• Falsettos by William Finn (Plume)
• We Oughta Be In Pictures by Julia Willis (Alamo Square)
• She’s Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen (Third Side)

Editor’s Choice

• A Star Bright Lie by Coleman Dowell (Dalkey Archive)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: Genet by Edmund White (Knopf)
• City Poet by Brad Gooch (Knopf)
• Travels With Lizbeth by Lars Eighner (St. Martin’s)
• Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas (Viking)
• Coming Unbuttoned by James Broughton (City Lights)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen (Dutton)
• Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin (Alyson)
• Martin and John by Dale Peck (HarperPerennial)
• The Listener by Bo Huston (St. Martin’s)
• Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson (Pocket)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: Catilina’s Riddle by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
• Mae West Murder Case by George Baxt (St. Martin’s)
• Bohannon’s Country by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
• Torsos by John Cooke (Warner)
• Dead On Your Feet by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER (Tie): Collected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• WINNER (Tie): 1990 by Michael Klein (Provincetown Arts)
• My Alexandria by Mark Doty (University of Illinois)
• Orpheus in his Underwear by William Bory (Cythoera)
• Tranquil Lake of Love by Carl Cook (Vega)

Gay Men’s Studies

• WINNER: Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (St. Martin’s)
• Stonewall by Martin Duberman (Dutton)
• A Place at the Table by Bruce Bawer (Poseidon)
• Cherry Grove/Fire Island by Esther Newman (Beacon)
• The Queen’s Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum (Vintage)

Humor

• WINNER: Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Hothead Paisan by Diane DiMassa (Cleis)
• Whores of Lost Atlantis by Charles Busch (Hyperion)
• Closet Case by Robert Rodi (Dutton)
• Members of the Tribe by Michael Willhoite (Alyson)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyanne Savigneau (University of Chicago)
• Forty-Three Septembers by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
• How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith edited by Rose Gladney (University of North Carolina)
• Mary Renault by David Sweetman (Harcourt Brace)
• Family Values by Phyllis Burke (Random House)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson (Knopf)
• Sea of Light by Jenifer Levin (Dutton)
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand)
• Women On Women 2 edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)
• Home Movies by Paula Martinac (Seal)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Divine Victim by Mary Wings (Dutton)
• Trouble In Transylvania by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
• Long Goodbyes by Nikki Baker (Naiad)
• Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mabel Maney (Cleis)
• I’ll Be Leaving You Always by Sandra Scoppetone (Little, Brown)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by Audre Lorde (Norton)
• The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga (South End)
• The Black Back-Ups by Kate Rushin (Firebrand)
• Experimental Love Poetry by Cheryl Clarke (Firebrand)
• Collected Poems (1930-1993) by May Sarton (Norton)

Lesbian Studies

• WINNER: Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis (Routledge)
• Blood, Bread, and Roses by Judy Grahn (Beacon)
• The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (Columbia University)
• Vampires & Violets by Andrea Weiss (Penguin)
• What is Found There by Adrienne Rich (Norton)

Publisher’s Service Award

• Michael Denneny, St. Martin’s Press

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (Bantam)
• Drawing Blood by Poppy Brite (Delacorte)
• In the Garden of Dead Cars by Sybil Claiborne (Cleis)
• Burning Bright by Melissa Scott (TOR)
• The Unfinished by Jay Laws (Alyson)

Small Press Book Award

• WINNER (Tie): Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand)
• WINNER (Tie): Sojourner by Other Countries (Other Countries)
• Lotus of Another Color by Ratti Rakesh (Alyson)
• Eyes of Desire by Raymond Luczak (Alyson)
• Blue by Denise Ohio (MacPherson & Co.)