Awards & Winners

1993 Lambda Literary Award

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Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

Starhawk

Honored for : The Fifth Sacred Thing
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies

Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. Halperin

Honored for : The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

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Nominee Nominated Work
Henry Abelove The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Michele Aina Barale The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
David M. Halperin The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Bennett L. Singer Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology
Julia Penelope Lesbian Culture: An Anthology -The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present
Susan J. Wolfe Lesbian Culture: An Anthology -The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present
Arlene Stein Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond The Lesbian Nation
Raymond Luczak Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Hilary Mullins

Honored for : The Cat Came Back

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Nominee Nominated Work
Hilary Mullins The Cat Came Back
Lesléa Newman Saturday is Pattyday
Annette Hegel Saturday is Pattyday
Rik Isensee We're Not Alone
Cristina Salat Living in Secret
Michael Willhoite Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming to Visit!!
Lambda Literary Award for Drama

Tony Kushner

Honored for : Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tony Kushner Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Larry Kramer The Destiny of Me
William Finn Falsettos
Julia Willis We oughta be in pictures--
Claudia Allen She's always liked the girls best
Lambda Literary Award for Editor's Choice Award

Coleman Dowell

Honored for : A Star-Bright Lie
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Edmund White

Honored for : Genet: A Biography

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Nominee Nominated Work
Edmund White Genet: A Biography
Brad Gooch City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
Lars Eighner Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
Reinaldo Arenas Before Night Falls: A Memoir
James Broughton Coming Unbuttoned
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction

Joseph Hansen

Honored for : Living Upstairs

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joseph Hansen Living Upstairs
Steven Corbin Fragments that Remain
Dale Peck Martin and John
Bo Huston The Listener
Fenton Johnson Scissors, Paper, Rock
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery

Steven Saylor

Honored for : Catilina's Riddle

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Nominee Nominated Work
Steven Saylor Catilina's Riddle
George Baxt The Mae West Murder Case
Joseph Hansen Bohannon's Country: Mystery Stories
John Peyton Cooke Torsos
Grant Michaels Dead on Your Feet
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry

James Schuyler

Honored for : Collected Poems

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Schuyler Collected Poems
Michael Klein 1990
Mark Doty My Alexandria
William Bory Orpheus in his Underwear
Carl Cook The Tranquil Lake of Love
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry

Michael Klein

Honored for : 1990

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Schuyler Collected Poems
Michael Klein 1990
Mark Doty My Alexandria
William Bory Orpheus in his Underwear
Carl Cook The Tranquil Lake of Love
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Studies

Randy Shilts

Honored for : Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military

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Nominee Nominated Work
Randy Shilts Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military
Martin Duberman Stonewall
Bruce Bawer A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society
Esther Newton Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Wayne Koestenbaum The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire
Lambda Literary Award for Humor

Alison Bechdel

Honored for : Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alison Bechdel Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For
Diane DiMassa Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
Charles Busch Whores of Lost Atlantis
Robert Rodi Closet Case
Michael Willhoite Members of the Tribe
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Josyane Savigneau

Honored for : Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life

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Nominee Nominated Work
Josyane Savigneau Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life
Jewelle Gomez Forty-Three Septembers: Essays
Margaret Rose Gladney How Am I to be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith
David Sweetman Mary Renault: A Biography
Phyllis Burke Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Jeanette Winterson

Honored for : Written on the Body

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body
Jenifer Levin The Sea of Light
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
Joan Nestle Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction
Naomi Holoch Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction
Paula Martinac Home Movies
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Mary Wings

Honored for : Divine Victim

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mary Wings Divine Victim
Barbara Wilson Trouble in Transylvania
Nikki Baker Long Goodbyes: A Virginia Kelly Mystery
Mabel Maney The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
Sandra Scoppettone I'll Be Leaving You Always: A Lauren Laurano Mystery
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

Audre Lorde

Honored for : The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance: Poems 1987-1992

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Nominee Nominated Work
Audre Lorde The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance: Poems 1987-1992
Cherríe Moraga The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry
Kate Rushin The Black Back-Ups: Poetry
Cheryl Clarke Experimental Love: Poetry
May Sarton Collected Poems, 1930-1993
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies

Madeline Davis, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

Honored for : Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

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Nominee Nominated Work
Madeline Davis Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Judy Grahn Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World
Terry Castle The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture
Andrea Weiss Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema
Adrienne Rich What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
Lambda Literary Award for Publisher Service Award
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy

Starhawk

Honored for : The Fifth Sacred Thing

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Nominee Nominated Work
Starhawk The Fifth Sacred Thing
Poppy Z. Brite Drawing Blood
Sybil Claiborne In the Garden of Dead Cars
Melissa Scott Burning Bright
Jay B. Laws The Unfinished
Lambda Literary Award for Small Press Book Award

Leslie Feinberg

Honored for : Stone Butch Blues

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Nominee Nominated Work
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
Other Countries Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS
Rakesh Ratti A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience
Raymond Luczak Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader
Denise Ohio Blue: A Novel
Lambda Literary Award for Small Press Book Award

Other Countries

Honored for : Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
Other Countries Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS
Rakesh Ratti A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience
Raymond Luczak Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader
Denise Ohio Blue: A Novel

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