17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 9, 2005

ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: 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)

TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER

• WINNER: 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)

INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD

• Suspect Thoughts Press
• Bella Books