11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1998

11th 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

1998 Categories
Overview of yearly categories 

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

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Winner:

• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand) [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]

Nominees:

• A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
• The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Viking) 
• Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline (Overlook)

Lesbian Fiction
Winner: Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)
 
Nominees:

• bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)
• Shimmer by Sarah Schulman (Avon)
• The Dogs by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
• THEY CALL ME MAD DOG!: A Story for Bitter, Lonely People by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)

Lesbian Mystery
Winners:  

• The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (Avon) [Review]
• Shaman’s Moon by Sarah Dreher (New Victoria)

Nominees:

• Mother May I by Randye Lordon (Avon)
• Past Due by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Wicked Games by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Poetry
Winner: Marianne Faithfull’s Cigarette by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)
Nominees:

• Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery by Pamela Sneed (Owl)
• In the Open by Beatrix Gates (Painted Leaf)
• Juba by Letta Neely (Wildheart)
• The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman (New Victoria)

Lesbian Studies
Winner: A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
Nominees:

• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
• Gay Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick (Alyson)
• Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman (Duke) [Nonfiction winner, Stonewall Book Awards, 1999]
• The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by Barbara Smith (Rutgers)

 

LGBTQ Fiction Anthologies

Winner: Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature edited by Byrne R.S. Fone (Columbia University) [gay male]

Nominees:

• Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica edited by Lawrence Schimel (Carroll & Graf)  [gay men's]
• Men on Men 7: Best New Gay Fiction (v. 7) edited by David Bergman (Penguin/Plume) [gay men's]
• Queer PAPI Porn by Joel Tan (Cleis)  [gay men's]
• To Be Continued edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky (Firebrand) [lesbian]

LGBTQ Non-fiction Anthologies

Winners:

• Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life edited by Nisa Donnelly (Alyson) [lesbian]
• Q & A: Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng (Temple University) [GLBT]

Nominees: 

• Lesbian Travels edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Whereabouts) [lesbian]
• Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade edited by Clifford Chase (Weisbach) [GLBT]
• Telling Tales Out of School edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson) [GLBT]

GLBTQ Children's (& Young Adult)

Winner: Telling Tales Out of School by Kevin Jennings (Alyson) [GLBT] YA

Nominees:

• I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins) [female main character, gay male character] YA
• Lucy Goes to the Country by Joseph Kennedy, illustrated by John Canemaker (Alyson) [GLBT parents, Picture book]
• OutSpoken: Role Models from the Lesbian and Gay Community by Michael Thomas Ford (Morrow Junior) YA
• Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade edited by Clifford Chase (Weisbach) [GLBT] 

 

GLBTQ Drama
Winner: O Solo Homo edited by Holly Hughes (Grove)

Nominees:

• Mr. Universe and Other Plays by Jim Grimsley and David Roman (Algonquin)
• Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical by D.A. Miller (Harvard University)
• Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman (Duke) [Nonfiction winner, Stonewall Book Awards, 1999]
• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (Villard)

GLBTQ Humour
Winner: Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)

Nominees:

• Don’t Get Me Started by Kate Clinton (Ballantine)
• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)  [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]
• Savage Love by Dan Savage (Dutton)
• Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)  [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]

LGBTQ Photography/Visual Arts Winners

• The Male Nude by David Leddick (Taschen)
• Women in Love by Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera (Bullfinch/Little Brown)

Nominees

• Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples, 1850-1950 by Russell Bush (St. Martin’s)
• Becoming Visible : An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
• The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire by Deborah Bright (Routledge)

LGBTQ Religion/Spirituality
Winner: Ferocious Romance by Donna Minkowitz (Free Press)

Nominees

• Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair by John McNeill (Westminister John Knox)
• Closet Devotions by Richard Rambuss (Duke)
• How to Survive Your Own Gay Life: An Adult Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships by Perry Brass (Belhue)
• Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes (Morrow)

LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy
Winners:

• Bending the Landscape II: Science Fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook) [Review]
• Galilee: A novel of the fantastic by Clive Barker (HarperCollins) (gothic fantasy)

Nominees 

• Desmond: A Novel About Love and the Modern Vampire by Ulysses G. Dietz (Alyson) (gay male protagonist, vampires)
• Falling to Earth by Elizabeth Brownrigg (Firebrand) (lesbian, urban fantasy)
• Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism edited by Lawrence Schimel (Ultra Violet) (urban fantasy anthology) [Review]

Gay Men's Biography/ Autobiography
Winner: Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by William J. Mann (Viking)

Nominees:

• Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Norman Page (St. Martin’s)
• The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (Random House)
• Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney (Little Brown)
• In the Flesh: Undressing for Success by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard (Barricade)

Gay Men’s Fiction
Winner: An Arrow’s Flight by Mark Merlis (St. Martin’s)


Nominees:

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (FS&G) [Literature winner, Stonewall Book Awards, 1999]
• Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine (St. Martin’s/Picador)
• The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway (Houghton Mifflin)
• Where the Rainbow Ends by Jameson Currier (Overlook)

Gay Men’s Mystery
Winner: Outburst by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacourt)

Nominees:

• Dead as a Doornail by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• Federal Fag by Fred Hunter (St. Martin’s)
• Strachey’s Folly by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Gay Men’s Poetry
Winner: Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy (Knopf)

Nominees:

• A Flame for the Touch That Matters by Michael Lassell (Painted Leaf)
• A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)
• Say Goodnight by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)
• Sweet Machine by Mark Doty (Harper Flamingo)

Gay Men’s Studies
Winner: The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities : A Twentieth-Century History by John Loughery (Henry Holt)
Nominees  

• Becoming Visible : An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
• Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s)
• Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival by Andrew Sullivan (Knopf)
• The Pleasure Principle by Michael Bronski (St. Martin’s)

Transgender

Winner: The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of José Sarria by Michael R. Gorman (Harrington Park)
Nominees

• Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray (St. Martin’s)
• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
• Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Houghton Mifflin)
• Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon

Editor’s Choice Award

• The Boy by Naeem Murr (Houghton Mifflin)

Pioneer Award

• Katherine V. Forrest

Publisher Service Award

• Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink (acquired by Kathy Hovis in 2000)

Small Press Awards

Winner:  the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)

Nominees

• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals edited by Barbara Summerhawk (New Victoria)
• The Reluctant Pornographer by Bruce LaBruce (Gutter)
• Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

 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
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• The GLAAD Media Awards