3rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1990

3rd 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

1990 Categories
Overview of yearly categories

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

Lesbian Anthology
Winner: Women On Women edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)


Finalists:

• Lesbian Bedtime Stories 2 edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove)
• Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures edited by Jeffner Allen (SUNY)
• Lesbian Texts and Contexts edited by Karla Jay & Joanne Glasgow (NYU)
• Speaking For Ourselves edited by Irene Zahava (Crossing)

Lesbian Debut Fiction
Winner: Her by Cherry Muhanji (Aunt Lute Foundation)


Finalists:

• Simple Songs: Stories by Vickie Sears by Vickie Sears (Firebrand)
• Take Me to the Underground by Renee Hansen (Crossing)
• Virago by Karen Marie Christa Minns (Naiad) (vampires)
• Voyages Out 2: Lesbian Short Fiction by Julie Blackwomon & Nona Caspers (Seal)

Lesbian  Fiction
Winner: Out of Time by Paula Martinac (Seal)


Finalists:

• Don Juan In The Village by Jane DeLynn (Pantheon)
• Incidents Involving Mirth by Anna Livia (Eighth Mountain)
• My Jewish Face & Other Stories by Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz (Aunt Lute)
• People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman (Dutton)

Lesbian Mystery
Winners 

• Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
• Ninth Life by Lauren Wright Douglas (Naiad) 

Finalists:

• A Captive In Time by Sarah Dreher (New Victoria)
• Death Down Under by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Slick by Camarin Grae (Naiad)

Lesbian Nonfiction
Winner: The Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman (Beacon)


Finalists:

• Ceremonies of the Heart by Becky Butler (Seal) (multicultural wedding options, now out of date)
• Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Marcia Freedman (Firebrand)
• Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett (Simon & Schuster)
• Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World by Susie Bright (Cleis)

Lesbian Poetry
Winner: Going Back to the River by Marilyn Hacker (Random House)


Finalists:

• The Chant of the Women of Magdalena and The Magdalena Poems by SDiane Bogus (Woman in the Moon)
• Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Firebrand) [Literature Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 1991]
• A Few Words in the Mother Tongue by Irena Klepfisz (Eighth Mountain)
• Patience of Metal by Yvonne Zipter (Hutchinson House)

Lesbian Science Fiction & Fantasy
Winner: Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino (ROC) (fantasy) 


Finalists:

• Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Bike by Pat Califia (Alyson) (apocalyptic society, spirituality)
• Mighty Good Road by Melissa Scott (Baen) (scifi, intrigue)
• Priorities by Lynda Lyons (Naiad) (scifi)
• Virago by Karen Marie Christa Minns (Naiad) (vampires)

Lesbian Small Press Book Award
Winner: Different Mothers: Sons and Daughters of Lesbians Talk About Their Lives edited by Louise Rafkin (Cleis)

Finalists:

• Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color by Gloria Anzaldua (Aunt Lute)
• Black Women’s Health Book by Evelyn C. White (Seal) (first edition not available, see second edition)
• Dykes-Loving-Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbians Only. by BevJo, Linda Strega & Ruston (Battleaxe)
• Staying Power: Long Term Lesbian Couples by Susan Johnson (Naiad)

LGBTQ AIDS
Winner: The Way We Live Now: American Plays and the AIDS Crisis edited by M. Elizabeth Osborn (Theater Communications Group)

Finalists:

• AIDS Demo Graphics by Douglas Crimp (Bay)
• Inventing AIDS by Cindy Patton (Routledge)
• Surviving AIDS by Michael Callen (HarperCollins)
• Women, AIDS & Activism by ACT UP/New York Women (South End)

LGBTQ Humor
Winner: New, Improved Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand) (lesbian) [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics] 


Finalists:

• Meatmen Vol. 8 edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove) (comic, gay men)
• More Lesbian Etiquette: Humorous Essays by Gail Sausser & Aice Muhlback(Crossing) (lesbian)
• Stonewall Riots by Andrea Natalie (Andrea Natalie)
• Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World by Susie Bright (Cleis) (lesbian)

Gay Men's Anthology
Winner: Men on Men 3: Best New Gay Fiction edited by George Stambolian (Plume)


Finalists:

• Gay Men of Alcoholics Anonymous by Robert Kus (WinterStar)
• Keys to Caring: Assisting Your Gay and Lesbian Clients edited by Robert Kus (Alyson)
• Men and Intimacy: Personal Accounts Exploring the Dilemmas of Modern Male Sexuality edited by Franklin Abbott (Crossing)
• Triple Fiction by Cassady, Smith & Stone (Los Hombres)

Gay Men's Debut Fiction
Winner: Dancing On Tisha B’av by Lev Raphael (St. Martin’s)


Finalists:

• The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories by Allen Barnett (St. Martin’s)
• Horse and Other Stories by Bo Huston (Amethyst)
• Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler (Scribners)
• This Every Night by Patrick Moore (Amethyst)

Gay Men's Fiction
Winner: The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories by Allen Barnett (St. Martin’s)

Finalists:

• Afterlife by Paul Monette (Crown)
• A Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (FSG)
• Music I Never Dreamed Of by John Gilgun (Amethyst)
• A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt (Viking)

Gay Men's Mystery
Winner: Howtown by Michael Nava (HarperCollins)


Finalists:

• The Black Marble Pool by Stan Leventhal (Amethyst)
• A Body To Dye For by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
• Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead? by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men's Nonfiction
Winner: Coming Out Under Fire by Alan Berube (Free)


Finalists:

• Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball by Dave Pallone (Viking)
• My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present by Mary Ann Humphrey (HarperCollins)
• So Little Time: Essays on Gay Life by Mike Hippler (Celestial Arts)
• The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement by Stuart Timmons (Alyson)

Gay Men's Poetry
Winner: Decade Dance by Michael Lassell (Alyson)

Finalists:

• Body in Flames/Cuerpo En Llamas by Francisco Alarcon (Chronicle)
• The Buried Body: A Trilogy by Mark Ameen (Amethyst)
• The Healing Notebooks by Kenny Fries (Open)
• Special Deliveries: New and Selected by James Broughton (Broken Moon)

Gay Men's Science Fiction & Fantasy
Winners

• Magic’s Price by Mercedes Lackey (DAW) (fantasy)
• Secret Matter by Toby Johnson (Lavender) (science fiction)

Finalists:

• Alternate Casts by Marsh Cassady (Banned) (science fiction)
• Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine (TOR) (science fiction)
• The Gift by Scott Edelman (Space and Time) (science fiction)

Gay Men's Small Press Award
Winner: Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite (Alyson)


Finalists:

• Gays In Uniform by Kate Dyer (Alyson)
• Hard Plays Stiff Parts: The Homoerotic Plays of Robert Chesley by Robert Chesley (Alamo Square)
• Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982 by Jack Fritscher (Knights)
• The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement by Stuart Timmons (Alyson)
  
  

Editor's Choice Award
The Encyclopedia Of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes (Garland) [Nonfiction Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 1991]


Publisher's Service Award: Phil Willkie & Greg Baysans, The James White Review (gay men's writing magazine, now ended)



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