15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 2002

15th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners and Finalists

The Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 
2002 | 2003 | 2004 |2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

2002 Categories:
Overview of yearly categories

• Lesbian
• Fiction, Mystery,  Poetry
• General LGBT
• Fiction Anthology, Non-fiction Anthology, Autobiography, Biography, Children's/ Young Adult, Erotica, Humour, Romance, Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror, Spirituality, LGBT Studies, Visual Arts
• Gay Men's
•  Fiction, Mystery,  Poetry
• Transgender
• Other Awards
• Bridge Builder Award, Editor's Choice, Pioneer Award, Small Press

Lesbian Fiction:

• Winner Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
• Finalists
  • Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove (St. Martin’s)
  • Stay by Nicola Griffith (Doubleday) [Overview of the series]
  • This Place Called Absence by Lydia Kwa (Kensington)

Lesbian Mystery:

• Winner  Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft (Kensington)
• Finalists
  • Accidental Murder by Claire McNab (Bella)
  • Death by Prophecy by Lauren Maddison (Alyson)
  • Immaculate Midnight by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)
  • The Weeping Buddha by Heather Dune Macadam (Akashic)

Lesbian Poetry:

• Winner Mules of Love by Ellen Bass (BOA Editions)
• Finalists
  • Body Language by C.C. Carter (Kings Crossing)
  • Passing by Eloise Klein Healy (Red Hen)
  • Red by Melanie Braverman (Perugia)
  • Unraveling at the Name by Jenny Factor (Copper Canyon)

LGBT Fiction Anthology:

• Winner Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction edited by Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Done Weise (Cleis)
• Finalists
  • Bend Sinister – The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories 3 edited by Peter Burton (GMP) [Horror, Gay male's]
  • Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction, Vol. 2 edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp) [Horror, Gay male's]
  • Rebel Yell 2: More Stories of Contemporary Gay Southern Men edited by Jay Quinn (Southern Tier/Harrington Park) [Gay male]
  • Summer Share by Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, Andy Schell and Ben Tyler (Kensington)  [Gay male]

LGBT Non-fiction Anthology:

• Winner The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers edited by Bruce Shenitz (Marlowe & Company)  [Gay male]
• Finalists
  
  • Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher) [Gay male]
  • From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization edited by Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk (Verso)
  • GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (Alyson)
  • this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation edited by Analouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldua (Routledge)

LGBT Autobiography/Memoir

• Winner: Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) by Betty Berzon (University of Wisconsin) [Lesbian]
• Finalists
  • Famous Builder by Paul Lisicky (Graywolf) [Gay male]
  • Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building by Terry Wolverton (City Lights) [Lesbian]
  • The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea (Seal) [Lesbian]
  • Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After by Kevin Bentley (Green Candy) [Gay male]

LGBT Biography

• Winner: Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam (Applause Books)! by David Kaufman (Applause Theatre & Cinema) [Gay male]
• Finalists:
  • Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent edited by Thomas Wirth (Duke University) [Gay male]
  • Glenway Wescott Personally by Jerry Rosco (University of Wisconsin) [Gay male]
  • Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveira (Rutgers University) [Lesbian]
  • Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez (Ecco) [Lesbian]

LGBT Children's/Young Adult:

• Winner Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko (Academy Chicago Press) [Young adult, Lesbian]
• Finalists
  • Felicia’s Favorite Story by Leslea Newman (Two Lives Publishing) [children's picture book Lesbian]
  • King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland (Tricycle) [children's picture book, Gay male]
  • Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (Haiduk)  [Young adult nonfiction]
  • The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein (Simon & Schuster) [children's picture book, Gay male]

LGBT Erotica:

• Winner Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis) [Lesbian]
• Finalists
  • Bedroom Eyes: Stories of Lesbians in the Boudoir edited by Leslea Newman (Alyson) [Lesbian]
  • Best Gay Erotica 2003 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis) [Gay male]
  • Cocksure by Bob Vickery (Alyson) [Gay male]
  • The Sperm Engine by Stephen Greco (Green Candy) [Gay male]

LGBT Humour

• Winner Skipping Toward Gomorrah by Dan Savage (Dutton)
• Finalists
  • Gaydar: The Ultimate Insider Guide to the Gay Sixth Sense by Donald F. Reuter (Crown) [Gay male]
  • Is It a Date or Just Coffee?: The Gay Girl's Guide to Dating, Sex, and Romance by Mo Brownsey (Alyson) [Lesbian]
  • Screening Party by Dennis Hensley (Alyson) [Gay male]
  • The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan (Kenisngton) [Lesbian]

LGBT Romance: 

• Winner The Winter of Our Discoteque by Andrew W.M. Beierle (Kensington) [Gay male]
• Finalists
  • Boyfriend Material by Jon Jeffrey (Kensington) [Gay male]
  • Different People by Orland Outland (Alyson) [Gay male]
  • Nora and Liz by Nancy Garden (Bella) [Lesbian]
  • She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Romantic Fiction by Leslea Newman (Alyson) [Lesbian]

LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror: 

• Winner Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction, Vol. 2 edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp) [Horror, Gay male's]
• Finalists
  • Daughters of an Amber Noon by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson) [Science fiction, Lesbian]
  • Seeds of Fire by Karin Kallmaker writing as Laura Adams (a.k.a. Karin Kallmaker) (Bella) [fantasy, Lesbian]
  • The Devil Inside by Randy Boyd (West Beach) [Science fiction, gay male]
  • Wired Hard 3: Even More Erotica for a Gay Universe edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet) [Science fiction, fantasy, gay male]

LGBT Spirituality & Religion

• Winner: Courage to Love: Liturgies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community by Geoffrey Duncan (Pilgrim)
• Finalists:
  • Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher)
  • Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (Haiduk)  [Young adult nonfiction]
  • Queer Jews edited by David Scneer and Caryn Aviv (Routledge)
  • Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up by Robert E. Goss (Pilgrim)

LGBT Studies:

• Winner Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s by Neil Miller (Alyson)
• Finalists
  • From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States (Queer Politics, Queer Theories) by Craig Rimmerman (Temple University)
  • Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature by Colm Toibin (Scribner)
  • Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society edited by Ruth Vanita (Routledge)
  • The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men by David Nimmons (St. Martin’s) [Gay male]

LGBT  Visual Arts:

• Winner A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality (Art & Design S.) by Dominique Fernandez (Prestel) [Gay male]
• Finalists
  • On the Couch – Volume One by Tom Bianchi (Bruno Gmunder Verlag) [Gay male]
  • Out/Lines: Gay Underground Erotic Graphics From Before Stonewall by Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp) [Gay male]
  • Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire) by Richard Meyer (Oxford University)
  • Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude by Justin Spring (Universe) [Gay male]

Gay Fiction

• Winner At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Scribner)
• Finalists
  • Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal (Graywolf)
  • Boulevard by Jim Grimsley (Alogonquin)
  • Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit (MacAdam/Cage) [Literature Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 2003]
  • The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son by David Gerrold (Forge)

Gay Mystery: 

• Winner The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice (Miramax)
• Finalists:
  • Hot Spot : A Mark Manning Mystery by Michael Craft (St. Martin’s)
  • Murder in the Rue Dauphine by Greg Herren (Alyson)
  • The Hired Man by Dorien Grey (GLB)
  • The Lodger by Drew Gummerson (GMP)

Gay Poetry:

• Winner Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy (Alfred A. Knopf) 
• Finalists
  • The Christmas Poems by Krandall Kraus (AttaGirl)
  • Landscape with Human Figure by Rafael Campo (Duke University)
  • Ten Tongues by Reginald Harris (Three Conditions)
  • Theory of Devolution by David Groff (University of Illinois)

Transgender

• Winner Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey (Picador)
• Finalists
  • Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
  • GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (Alyson)
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (FS&G)
  • Some of the Parts by T Cooper (Akashic)

Bridge Builder's Award

• Betty DeGeneres, author of Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey and Just a Mom [Lesbian]

Editor's Choice

• The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture by John D’Emilio (Duke University)

Small Press Award

• Kings Crossing Publishing, Robin G. White, Sha Mendon

Pioneer Award

• Judy Shepard, The Matthew Shepard Foundation
• Barbara Grier, Naiad Press

The Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 
2002 | 2003 | 2004 |2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

• Overview of all yearly Lambda Award categories 
• The Lesbian Book Awards Page 
• The Stonewall Book Awards
• The Alice B Readers award  
• The GLAAD Media Awards