16th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 9, 2004

Anthologies/Fiction

• WINNER: Pulp Friction edited by Michael Bronski (St. Martin’s)
• All I Want for Christmas by Jon Jeffrey, Chris, Kenry, William J. Mann, and Ben Tyler (Kenisington)
• Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
• M2M edited by Karl Woelz (AttaGirl)
• Telling Moments edited by Lydia Hall (University of Wisconsin)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

• WINNER: Queer Crips edited by Bob Guter and John R. Killacky (Harrington Park)
• Boyfriends from Hell edited by Kevin Bentley (Green Candy)
• Mortal Secrets edited by Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer (Johns Hopkins University)
• The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name edited by Greg Wharton (Boheme)
• Pinned Down by Pronouns edited by Toni Amato and Mary Davies (Conviction)

Autobiography/Memoir

• WINNER: Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman (Houghton Mifflin)
• Cleopatra’s Wedding Present by Robert Tewdwr Moss (University of Wisconsin)
• Going the Other Way by Billy Bean (Marlowe & Company)
• Highsmith: A Romance by Marijane Meaker (Cleis)
• She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Broadway)

Biography

• WINNER: Beautiful Shadow: A Life by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)
• Intertwined Lives by Lois W. Banner (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Lost Prophet by John D’Emilio (Free)
• Original Youth by Keith Fleming (Green Candy)
• That Furious Lesbian by Robert A. Schanke (Southern Illinois University)

Children’s/Young Adult

• WINNER: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Geography Club by Brent Hartinger (HarperTempest)
• Gravel Queen by Tea Benduhn (Simon & Schuster)
• Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown & Company)
• Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)

Drama

• WINNER: Prok by Brian Drader (Scirocco Drama)
• Forbidden Acts by Ben Hodges (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
• Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays by C.E. Gatchalian (The Writers’ Collective)
• The Band Plays by Mart Crowley (Alyson)
• Women in Turmoil: Six Plays edited by Robert Schanke (Southern Illinois University)

Erotica

• WINNER: Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Best Gay Erotica 2004 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis)
• Hot and Bothered 4 edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Arsenal Pulp)
• Masters of Midnight by Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe, and Jeff Mann (Kensington)
• Quickies 3 edited by James Johnstone (Arsenal Pulp)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: Lives of the Circus Animals by Christopher Bram (William Morrow)
• Beijing by Philip Gambone (University of Wisconsin)
• The Book of Salt by Monique Truong (Houghton Mifflin)
• War Against the Animals by Paul Russell (St. Martin’s)
• Where the Boys Are by William J. Mann (Kensington)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: Blind Eye by John Morgan Wilson (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Bourbon Street Blues by Greg Herren (Kensington)
• Dead Egotistical Morons by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• It Takes Two by Elliott Mackle (Alyson)
• Wearing Black to the White Party by David Stukas (Kenisington)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Sky Lounge by Mark Bibbins (Graywolf)
• Middle Earth by Henri Cole (FS&G)
• Otherhood: Poems by Reginald Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh)
• Saying the World by Peter Pereira (Copper Canyon)
• The Healing Art by Rafael Campo (W.W. Norton)

Humor

• WINNER: Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Alyson)
• Chelsea Boys by Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth (Alyson)
• Men are Pigs, But We Love Bacon by Michael Alvear (Kensington)
• My Big Fat Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)
• That’s Why They’re in Cages, People! by Joel Perry (Alyson)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Southland by Nina Revoyr (Akashic)
• And Then They Were Nuns by Susan J. Leonardi (Firebrand)
• The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie MacDonald (HarperCollins)
• This Wild Silence by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Alyson)
• What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo (Curbstone)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Damn Straight by Elizabeth Sims (Alyson)
• Cry Havoc by Baxter Clare (Bella)
• Epitaph for an Angel by Laruen Maddison (Alyson)
• Owl of the Desert by Ida Swearingen (New Victoria)
• The Woman Who Found Grace by Bett Reece Johnson (Cleis)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: The Dirt She Ate by Minnie Bruce Pratt (University of Pittsburgh)
• Embers by Terry Wolverton (Red Hen)
• Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb (Soft Skull)
• Swirl by Susan McCabe (Red Hen)
• The Beautiful by Michelle Tea (Manic D)

LGBT Studies

• WINNER: Time on Two Crosses edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (Cleis)
• Anything But Straight by Wayne Besen (Harrington Park)
• Love in the Time of HIV by Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky (Guilford)
• Queer Street by James McCourt (W.W. Norton)
• Strapped for Cash by Mack Friedman (Alyson)

Photography/Visual arts

• WINNER: Women Seeing Women edited by Lonthar Schirmer (W.W. Norton)
• A Face in the Crowd edited by John Peterson and Martin Bedogne (Prospect)
• Familiar Men by Laurie Toby Edison (Shifting Focus)
• Focus on Living by Roslyn Banish (University of Massachusetts)
• Vacation in Ibiza by Lawrence Schimel and Sebas (Eurotica/NBM)

Romance

• WINNER (Tie: Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington)
• WINNER (Tie: Maybe Next Time by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
• Daytime Drama by Dave Benbow (Kensington)
• They Say She Tastes Like Honey by Michelle Sawyer (Alyson)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: Necrologue edited by Helen Sandler (Diva)
• Elf Child by David M. Pierce (Southern Tier)
• The Red Line of Yarmald by Diana Rivers (Bella)
• The Substance of God by Perry Brass (Belhue)
• Vampire Thrall by Michael Schiefelbein (Alyson)

Spirituality

• WINNER: Keeping Faith by Fenton Johnson (Houghton Mifflin)
• Anything But Straight by Wayne Besen (Harrington Park)
• Gay Perspective by Toby Johnson (Alyson)
• Gay Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak (Red Wheel/Weiser)
• The Man Jesus Loved by Theodore W. Jennings (Pilgrim)

Transgender/Genderqueer

• WINNER: She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Broadway)
• The Drag King Anthology edited by Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco, and Jean Noble (Harrington Park)
• Trans-gendered by Justin Tanis (Pilgrim)
• Transgender Journeys by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa Sheridan (Pilgrim)