5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1992

5th 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

1992 Categories
Overview of yearly categories

• Lesbian
  • Anthologies, Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction (Studies) Poetry, Science fiction/Fantasy
• General LGBT
  • Children's/ Young Adult, Humour,
• Gay Men's
  • Anthologies, Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction (Studies) Poetry, Science fiction/Fantasy
• Other Awards
  • Editor's Choice Award, Publisher's Service Award, Small Press Award

Lesbian Anthologies

Winner: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson)

Nominees:

• Write from the Heart: Lesbians Healing from Heartache edited by Anita L. Pace (Baby Steps)
• Erotic Naiad edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier (Naiad)
• Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990 edited by Anne MacKay (Ten Percent)
• The Poetry of Sex: Lesbians Write the Erotic by Tee Corinne (Banned)

Lesbian Fiction


Winner: Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (Firebrand)

Nominees:

• Empathy by Sarah Schulman (E.P. Dutton)
• Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
• The Terrible Girls by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
• On Ships at Sea by Madelyn Arnold (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Mystery


Winners

• Two-Bit Tango by Elizabeth Pincus (Spinsters)
• Crazy for Loving by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)

Nominees:

• Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redman (New Victoria)
• Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker (Naiad)
• Stage Fright by Ellen Hart (Seal)

Lesbian Nonfiction (studies)


Winner: Eleanor Roosevelt Volume One 1884-1933 & Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Cook (Viking)

Nominees:

• The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson)
• The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrau (New Chapter)
• Practicing Eternity by Carol Givens and L. Diane Fortier (Paradigm)
• Shattered Applause: The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne by Robert A. Schanke (Southern Illinois University)

Lesbian Poetry


Winner: Undersong by Audre Lorde (Norton)


Nominees:

• Black Slip by Terry Wolverton (Clothespin Fever)
• Cultivating Excess by Lori Anderson (Eighth Mountain)
• According to Her Contours by Nancy Boutilier (Black Sparrow)
• Lady Sun, Lady Moon by Diane Stein (Crossing)

Lesbian Science fiction/Fantasy


Winner: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (Del Rey) (science fiction) [review]


Nominees:

• Return to Isis by Jean Stewart (Rising Tide) (science fiction)
• Speaking Dreams by Severna Park (Firebrand)) (science fiction)
• Dreamships by Melissa Scott (TOR)) (science fiction)
• Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (Firebrand) (paranormal/fantasy)

LGBT Children's & Young Adult


Winner: When Heroes Die by Penny Raife Durant (Atheneum) (gay male uncle)

Nominees:

• The Daddy Machine by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt (Alyson Wonderland) (lesbian parents)
• A Boy’s Best Friend by Joan Alden, illustrated by Catherine Hopkins (Alyson Wonderland) (lesbian parents, bullying)
• The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene (Bantam) (YA, gay bashing)
• The Day They Put a Tax on Rainbows by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt (Alyson Wonderland) (alternate fairytales, mixture of lesbian/gay male parents)

LGBT Humour

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

Nominees:

• The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green by Eric Orner (St. Martin’s) (gay male)
• The Night Audrey’s Vibrator Spoke by Andrea Natalie (Cleis)
• BB and the Diva by Rupert Kinnard (Alyson) (gay male)
• That’s Ms. Bulldyke to You, Charles! by Jane Caminos (Madwoman) (lesbian)

Gay Men's Anthologies

Winner: Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)


Nominees:

• Men on Men 4 edited by George Stambolian (Plume)
• Discontents; New Queer Writers edited by Dennis Cooper (Amethyst)
• Flesh and the Word: An Anthology of Erotic Writing edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
• Here to Dare: 10 Gay Black Poets edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens)

Gay Men's Fiction


Winner: Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Randall Kenan (Harcourt Brace)


Nominees:

• Winter Eyes by Lev Raphael (St. Martin’s)
• Almost History by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
• Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique (St. Martin’s)
• Dream Life by Bo Huston (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men's Mystery


Winner: Hidden Law by Michael Nava (HarperCollins)


Nominees:

• Final Atonement by Steve Johnson (Onyx)
• Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Love You to Death by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• One for the Master, Two for the Fool by Larry Townsend (Alyson)

Gay Men's Nonfiction (Studies)


Winner: Becoming a Man by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)


Nominees:

• The Homoerotic Photograph : Male Images from Durieu / Delacroix to Mapplethorpe by Allen Ellenzweig (Columbia University)
• Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights : 1945-1990 : An Oral History by Eric Marcus (HarperCollins) (reprinted) [Nonfiction winner,  Stonewall Book Awards 1993]
• Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University by John D’Emilio (Routledge)
• Heartlands: A Gay Man's Odyssey Across America by Darrell Yates Rist (E.P. Dutton)

Gay Men's Poetry


Winners: Counting Myself Lucky by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)


Nominees:

• The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn (Farrar Straus)
• Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill (Plume) [Literature winner,  Stonewall Book Awards 1993]
• Strong Place by Tim Dlugos (Amethyst)
• Long Division by Rudy Kikel (Writers Block)

 

Gay Men's Science fiction /Fantasy


Winner: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (TOR) (scifi) [multiple scifi award winning]


Nominees:

• Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (Abyss/Delacorte) (horror)
• The Living One: A Gothic Thriller by Lewis Gannett (Random House) (horror)
• Crygender by Thomas T. Thomas (Baen) (scifi)
• Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice (Knopf) (vampires)

Editor's Choice: Gay Ideas by Richard Mohr (Beacon) 

Publisher's Service Award: Craig Rodwell Founder, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop 

Small Press Awards

Winner: Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz (Artspace) (gay male)

Nominees:

• A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney by Natalie Barney (New Victoria) (lesbian)
• Here to Dare: 10 Gay Black Poets edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens) (gay male)
• To Kill a Cardinal by Michael Rumaker (Arthur Mann Kaye) (gay male)
• Hot Chicken Wings by Jyl Lynn Felman (Aunt Lute) (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