6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1993

6th 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

1993 Categories
Overview of yearly categories

• Lesbian
  • Biography/ Autobiography, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Studies
• General LGBT
  • Anthology, Children's/ Young Adult, Drama, Humour, Science fiction/ Fantasy
• Gay Men's
  • Biography/ Autobiography, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Studies
• Other Awards
  • Editor's Choice Award, Publisher's Service Award, Small Press Award

Lesbian Biography/ Autobiography

Winner: Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyanne Savigneau (University of Chicago)

Nominees:

• Forty-Three Septembers by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
• How Am I To Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith edited by Rose Gladney (University of North Carolina)
• Mary Renault by David Sweetman (Harcourt Brace)
• Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son (also published as: Family Values: A Lesbian Mother's Fight for Her Son) by Phyllis Burke (Random House) [Non-fiction winner, Stonewall Book Award 1994]

Lesbian Fiction


Winner: Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson (Knopf)

Nominees:

• Sea of Light by Jenifer Levin (Dutton)
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand) [Literature winner, Stonewall Book Award 1994]
• Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)
• Home Movies by Paula Martinac (Seal)

Lesbian Mystery


Winner: Divine Victim by Mary Wings (Dutton)


Nominees:

• Trouble In Transylvania by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
• Long Goodbyes by Nikki Baker (Naiad)
• Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mabel Maney (Cleis)
• I’ll Be Leaving You Always by Sandra Scoppetone (Little, Brown)

Lesbian Poetry


Winner: The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by Audre Lorde (Norton)

Nominees:

• The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga (South End)
• The Black Back-Ups by Kate Rushin (Firebrand)
• Experimental Love Poetry by Cheryl Clarke (Firebrand)
• Collected Poems (1930-1993) by May Sarton (Norton)

Lesbian Studies


Winner: Boots of Leather, Slippers of GoldBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis (Routledge)

Nominees:

• Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World by Judy Grahn (Beacon)
• The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (Columbia University)
• Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film by Andrea Weiss (Penguin)
• What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, Expanded Edition by Adrienne Rich (Norton)

LGBT Anthologies

Winner: Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin (Routledge) (GLBT)

Nominees:

• Growing Up Gay edited by Bennett L. Singer (New) (YA, GLBT) (lesbian)
• Lesbian Culture: An Anthology : The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe (Crossing)
• Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (Plume) by Arlene Stein (Plume) (lesbian)
• Eyes Of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader by Raymond Luczak (Alyson) (GLBT)

LGBT Children's & Young Adult


Winner: The Cat Came Back by Hilary Mullins (Naiad) (lesbian, YA)

Nominees:

• Saturday is Pattyday by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Annette Hegel (New Victoria) (picture book, lesbian parents, divorce)
• We’re Not Alone by Rik Isensee (Lavender Press) (YA, gay and lesbian)
• Living In Secret by Christina Salat (Bantam) (YA, lesbian parents)
• Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! written and illustrated by Michael Willhoite (Alyson Wonderland) (gay uncle, picture book)

LGBT Drama

Winner: Angels in America: Millenium Approaches by Tony Kushner (TCG)

Nominees:

• The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer (Plume)
• Falsettos by William Finn (Plume)
• We Oughta Be In Pictures by Julia Willis (Alamo Square)
• She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays : Roomers/Raincheck/Hannah Free/Movie Queens by Claudia Allen (Third Side)

LGBT Humour

Winner: Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand) (lesbian) [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]

Nominees:

• Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist by Diane DiMassa (Cleis) (lesbian) [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]
• Whores of Lost Atlantis by Charles Busch (Hyperion) (gay male)
• Closet Case by Robert Rodi (Dutton) (gay male)
• Members of the Tribe: Caricatures of Gay Men and Lesbians by Michael Willhoite (Alyson) (gay & lesbian)

LGBT Science Fiction & Fantasy

Winner: The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (Bantam) (Science fiction, utopia, lesbian)


Nominees:

• Drawing Blood by Poppy Brite (Delacorte) (horror/paranormal, gay male)
• In the Garden of Dead Cars by Sybil Claiborne (Cleis) (science fiction, dystopia, AIDS)
• Burning Bright by Melissa Scott (TOR) (science fiction, general bisexuality)
• The Unfinished by Jay Laws (Alyson) (gay male, horror, AIDS)

Gay Men's Biography/ Autobiography

Winner: Genet by Edmund White (Knopf)


Nominees:

• City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch (Knopf)
• Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets by Lars Eighner (St. Martin’s)
• Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas (Viking)
• Coming Unbuttoned by James Broughton (City Lights)

Gay Men's Fiction


Winner: Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen (Dutton)


Nominees:

• Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin (Alyson)
• Martin and John by Dale Peck (HarperPerennial)
• The Listener by Bo Huston (St. Martin’s)
• Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson (Pocket)

Gay Men's Mystery


Winner: Catilina’s Riddle by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)


Nominees:

• Mae West Murder Case by George Baxt (St. Martin’s)
• Bohannon’s Country by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
• Torsos by John Cooke (Warner)
• Dead On Your Feet by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men's Poetry


Winners:

• Collected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• 1990 by Michael Klein (Provincetown Arts)

Nominees:

• My Alexandria by Mark Doty (University of Illinois)
• Orpheus in his Underwear by William Bory (Cythoera)
• Tranquil Lake of Love by Carl Cook (Vega)

Gay Men's Studies


Winner: Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (St. Martin’s)


Nominees:

• Stonewall by Martin Duberman (Dutton)
• Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society by Bruce Bawer (Poseidon)
• Cherry Grove Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newman (Beacon)
• The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum (Vintage)

Editor's Choice: A Star Bright Lie by Coleman Dowell (Dalkey Archive) (gay male)

Publisher's Service Award: Michael Denneny, St. Martin’s Press


Small Press Awards

Winners:

• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand) [Literature winner, Stonewall Book Award 1994]
• Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS, Other Countries by B. Michael Hunter (Other Countries) (gay male)

Nominees:

• A Lotus of Another Color An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience by Ratti Rakesh (Alyson) (gay and lesbian)
• Eyes Of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader by Raymond Luczak (Alyson)
• Blue by Denise Ohio (MacPherson & Co.) (lesbian)

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