2nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Edit Team

July 13, 1990

AIDS

• WINNER: Reports from the Holocaust by Larry Kramer (St. Martin’s Press)
• AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag (Ferrar Straus & Giroux)
• Epitaphs for the Living edited by Billy Howard (SMU Press)
• In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
• Personal Dispatches edited by John Preston (St. Martin’s Press)

EDITOR’S CHOICE

• WINNER: Lifting Belly Gertrude Stein, edited by Rebecca Mark (Naiad Press)

GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGIES

• WINNER: Hidden from History, edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al. (New American Library)
• Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam by Charles Ludlam (Harper & Row)
• Finale: Stories of Mystery edited by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
• Personal Dispatches edited by John Preston (St. Martin’s Press)
• Twice Blessed edited by Christie Balka & Andy Rose (Beacon)

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION

• WINNER: The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir (Harper & Row)
• A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan (Grove Press)
• About Courage by Mickey C. Fleming (Holloway House)
• Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (Viking/Penguin)
• The Buccaneer by M.S. Hunter (Alyson Publications)

GAY MEN’S FICTION

• WINNER: Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (Viking/Penguin)
• Closer by Dennis Cooper (Grove)
• In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
• Shy by Kevin Killian (Crossing Press)
• Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (Harper & Row)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY

• WINNER: Simple Suburban Murder by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s Press)
• Caravaggio Shawl by Samuel M. Steward (Alyson Publications)
• Faultlines: Stories of Suspense by Stan Leventhal (Banned Books)
• Finale edited by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
• Somewhere in the Night by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson Publications)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION

• WINNER: In Search of Gay America by Neil Miller (Atlantic Monthly)
• Accepting Ourselves by Sheppard B. Kominars (Harper & Row)
• Being Homosexual by Richard A. Isay (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
• James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by W.J. Weatherby (Donald I. Fine)
• Memoirs of A Bastard Angel by Harold Norse (William Morrow)

GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• WINNER: Somewhere in the Night by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson Publications)
• Walking Water/After All This by Thom Nickels (Banned Books)
• Key West 2720 AD by William K. Eakins (Knights Press)
• Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (DAW)
• Gentle Warriors by Geoff Mains (Knights Press)

HUMOR

• WINNER: Gay Comics, edited by Robert Triptow (New American Library)
• Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups by Elizabeth Dean et. Al (New Victoria Publications)
• Kvetch by T.R. Witomski (Celestial Arts)
• Lesbian Love Advisor by Celeste West (Cleis Press)
• Run That Sucker at Six!!! by N. Leigh Dunlap (St. Martin’s Press)

LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER-Tie: Hidden From History, edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al. (New American Library)
• WINNER-Tie: Intricate Passions, edited by Tee Corinne (Banned Books)
• WINNER-Tie: Out the Other Side, edited by C. McEwen & S. O’Sullivan (Crossing Press)
• Lesbian Bedtime Stories, edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove)
• Lesbian Love Stories, edited by Irene Zahava (Crossing Press)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

• WINNER: The Names of the Moons of Mars by Patricia R. Schwartz (New Victoria Publications)
• Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly (St. Martin’s Press)
• Eye of a Hurricane by Ruthann Robson (Firebrand Books)
• Rose Penski by Roz Perry (Naiad Press)
• Voyages Out by Paula Martinac & Carla Tomaso (Seal Press)

LESBIAN FICTION

• WINNER: The Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly (St. Martin’s Press)
• After the Fire by Jane Rule (Naiad Press)
• Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton (W.W. Norton)
• Trespassing and Other Stories by Valerie Miner (Crossing Press)
• The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood (Firebrand Books)

LESBIAN MYSTERY

• WINNER: The Beverly Malibu by Katherine V. Forrest (Naiad Press)
• Dog Collar Murders by Barbara Wilson (Seal Press)
• Fatal Reunion by Clair McNab (Naiad Press)
• Hallowed Murder by Ellen Hart (Seal Press)
• The Contactees Die Young by Antoinette Azolakov (Banned Books)

LESBIAN NONFICTION

• WINNER: Really Reading Gertrude Stein edited by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)
• Twice Blessed edited by Christie Balka & Andy Rose (Beacon)
• Lesbian Love Advisor by Celeste West (Cleis Press)
• There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You edited by Loralee MacPike (Naiad Press)
• Desert Years by Cynthia Rich (spinsters/Aunt Lute)

LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• WINNER: What Did Miss Darrington See? edited by Jessica A. Salmonson (Feminist Press)
• Clicking Stones by Nancy Tyler Glenn (Naiad Press)
• In The Blood by Lauren Wright Douglas (Naiad Press)
• Memories and Visions edited by Susanna J. Sturgis (Crossing Press)
• Sue Slate: Private Eye by Lee Lynch (Naiad)

POETRY

• WINNER: Poets for Life edited by Michael Klein (Crown Publishers)
• Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry by Cheryl Clarke (Firebrand Books)
• Naming the Waves edited by Christian McEwen (Crossing Press)
• Reader by Robert Gluck (Lapis Press)
• Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)

SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD

• WINNER: My Life as a Mole by Larry Mitchell, illustrated by Bill Rice (Calamus Books)
• Matlovich: The Good Soldier by Mike Hippler (Alyson Publications)
• Letting in the Night by Joan Lindau (Firebrand Books)
• Men of Color by Vega Studios (Vega Books)
• River of Promise by Judy Dahl (LuraMedia)

YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD

• WINNER: Losing Uncle Tim by MaryKate Jordan (Whitman, Albert & Co.)
• Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, Illustrated by Diane Souza (In Other Words Press)
• Jack by A.M. Homes (Macmillan)
• Unlived Affections by George Shannon (Harper & Row Juvenile)
• When Someone You Know Is Gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen (Evans)

PUBLISHER’S SERVICE AWARDS

• WINNER: Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News