9th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1996

9th 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

1996 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, Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror, Spirituality,
• 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: Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach (Beacon)

Nominees:

• Accidental Activist by Candace Gingrich (Scribner)
• Eva Le Gallienne by Helen Sheehy (Knopf)
• Coming Home to America: A Roadmap to Gay & Lesbian Empowerment by Torie Osborn (St. Martin’s)
• The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter by Honor Moore (Viking)

Lesbian Fiction

Winner: Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas (Cleis)
 
Nominees:

• If You Had a Family by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
• Seven Moves by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
• Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale (Riverhead)
• What Keeps Me Here by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)

Lesbian  Mystery

Winner: Robber’s Wine by Ellen Hart (Seal)

Nominees:

• Baby, It’s Cold by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
• Final Take by Jackie Manthorne (Gynergy)
• Inner Circle by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Liberty Square by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)

Lesbian  Poetry
 
Winners

• All-American Girl by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
• Furious Cooking by Maureen Seaton (University of Iowa)

Nominees:

• ARC OF LOVE: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems edited by Clare Coss (Scribner)
• Home in Three Days, Don’t Wash. by Linda Smukler (Hard)
• Shift by Jeredith Merrin (University of Chicago)

Lesbian Studies

Winner: Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten (University of Chicago)

Nominees:

• Girls Next Door by Lindsay Van Gelder & Pamela Brandt (Simon & Schuster)
• Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination by Ruth Vanita (Columbia University)
• Surface Tension: Love, Sex and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women edited by Meg Daly (Touchstone)
• Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)

LGBT Fiction Anthology

Winner: Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (No. 3) edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume) (lesbian)
 
Nominees:

• Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers edited by Shawn Stewart Ruff (Owl) (G & L)
• Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction edited by David Bergman (Plume) (gay male)
• Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women Tales of Blood and Lust edited by Victoria Brownworth (Seal) (lesbian, vampires)
• Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent edited by Bruce Morrow & Charles H. Rowell (Avon) (gay male)

LGBT Nonfiction Anthology

Winner: Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex edited by Michael Bronski (Masquerade)

Nominees:

• Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy edited by Bruce Bawer (Free) (GLBT politics, rights)
• Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon) (coming out stories, gay male)
• Generation Q edited by Robin Bernstein & Seth Clark Silberman (Alyson) (GLBT, politics, memoirs)
• Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing on Menopause edited by Lee Lynch & Akia Woods (New Victoria) (lesbian)

LGBT Children's & Young Adult

Winner: Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (FSG) (YA, lesbian)

Nominees:

• Daddy’s Wedding by Michael Willhoite (Alyson Publications) (gay male parents, ages 3-7)
• Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies by Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman (HarperPerennial) (YA, GBLTQ)
• My Dad Has HIV by Alexander, Rudin & Sejkora (Fairview Press) (gay male parent, ages 4-8)
• The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community by Michael Thomas Ford (The New Press) (YA, GLBTQ)

LGBT Drama

Winner: Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance edited by Sue-Ellen Case (Routledge) (lesbian)

Nominees:

• Acting=Life/Acting Equals Life: An Actor's Life Lessons by Michael Kearns (Heinemann) (gay male/actor handbook)
• Amazon All-Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays: with Essays and Commentary edited by Rosemary Keefe Curb (Applause) (lesbian)
• Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler by Holly Hughes (Grove) (lesbian)
• Three Plays by Crowley by Mart Crowley (Alyson) (gay male)

LGBT Humour

Winner: The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo: A Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men  by Judy Carter (Fireside)
 
Nominees:

• History of Lesbian Hair by Mary Dugger (Doubleday) (lesbian & GLBT, politics)
• Kurt Cobain & Mozart are Both Dead by Tim Barela (Palliard) (gay male comic strip: "Leonard and Larry" comics)
• Lesbianism Made Easy by Helen Eisenbach (Crown) (lesbian)
• So You Want to be a Lesbian? by Liz Tracey & Sydney Pokorny (St. Martin’s) (lesbian)

 

LGBT Photography & Visual Arts

Winner: Nothing but the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image : A Portfolio and Exploration of Lesbian Erotic Photography (Women on women) by Susie Bright & Jill Posener (Cassell) (lesbian)
 
Nominees:

• Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron (Cleis) (trans)
• Derek Jarman’s Garden by Derek Jarman (Overlook) (gay male artist)
• Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area by Susan Stryker & Jim Van Buskirk (Chronicle)
• Sunnybrook: A True Story With Lies by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang) (lesbian, humour/illustrated)

LGBT Science Fiction & Fantasy

Winner: Sacrament by Clive Barker (HarperCollins) (gay male, dark fantasy)
Nominees:

• Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (St. Martin’s) (lesbian fantasy)
• Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality edited by Michael Rowe & Thomas S. Roche (Cleis) (gay male, vampires, short stories)
• Swords of the Rainbow: Gay & Lesbian Fantasy Adventures edited by Eric Garber & Jewelle Gomez (Alyson) (G & L, fantasy)
• Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis edited by Pam Keesey (Cleis) (lesbian, werewolves, horror)

LGBT Spirituality

Winner: The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter Gomes (William Morrow)

Nominees:

• Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality by Keith Hartman (Rutgers University)
• Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and Jewish by Lev Raphael (Faber & Faber)
• The Preacher’s Son by Marc Adams (Window Books)
• We Were Baptized Too by Marilyn Alexander & James Preston (Westminster/John Knox)

 

Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Winner: Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (Scribner)

Nominees:

• Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hadju (FSG)
• Spells of a Voodoo Doll: The Poems, Fiction, Essays and Plays of Assotto Saint by Assotto Saint (Masquerade)
• Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper (Houghton Mifflin)

Gay Men's Fiction

Winner: Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadural (William Morrow)

Nominees:

• Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran (William Morrow)
• Iowa by Patrick Moore (Hard Candy)
• Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck (FSG)
• Pagan’s Father by Michael Arditti (SoHo)

Gay Men's Mystery

Winner: The Death of Friends by Michael Nava (Putnam)

Nominees:

• A Murder on the Appian Way: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
• Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
• Time to Check Out by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• Tribe by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)

Gay Men's Poetry


Winner: What the Body Told by Rafael Campo (Duke)

Nominees:

• Anesthesia by Kenny Fries (Advocado)
• Angel, Interrupted by Reginald Sheperd (University of Pittsburgh)
• Eros In Boystown: Contemporary Gay Poems About Sex edited by Michael Lassell (Crown)
• My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca by Jaime Marique (Painted Leaf)

 

Gay Men's Studies

Winner: Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)

Nominees:

• Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia by David Tuller (Faber & Faber)
• Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest edited by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
• One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America by Keith Boykin (Anchor)
• Radically Gay : Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder edited by Harry Hay and Will Roscoe (Beacon)

Transgender

Winner: Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
 
Nominees:

• Gender Shock by Phyllis Burke (Anchor)
• Honey, Honey,Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets by Leon E. Pettiway (Temple University)
• Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de Erauso (Beacon)
• Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)

Editor's Choice: Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 edited by Donald Windham (University of Georgia)

Pioneer Award: Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books

Publisher's Service Award: Norman Laurila, A Different Light Bookstores

 
Small Press

Winner: Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron (Cleis)

Nominees:

• Lesbian Polyfidelity: A Pleasure Guide for the Woman Whose Heart Is Open to Multiple, Concurrent Sexualoves, or How to Keep Non-Monogamy Safe, Sane, by Celeste West (Booklegger)
• Mythomania by Bernard Welt (Art.issues)
• The Shit of God: The Texts of Diamanda Galás by Diamanda Galas (Serpent’s Tale/High Risk)
• Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)

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

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