Awards & Winners

1994 Lambda Literary Award

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Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

Melissa Scott

Honored for : Trouble and Her Friends
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Fiction

Lillian Faderman

Honored for : Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lillian Faderman Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
David Bergman Men on Men 5: Best New Gay Fiction
Ira Silverberg High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion
Amy Scholder High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion
Sharon Lim-Hing The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbians
Irene Zahava Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Short Stories
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Non-fiction

Joan Nestle, John Preston

Honored for : Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joan Nestle Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together
John Preston Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together
Kevin Jennings One Teacher in 10: LGBT Educators Share Their Stories
Julia Penelope Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak
Mark Thompson Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement
Patrick Higgins A Queer Reader: 2500 Years of Male Homosexuality
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Marion Dane Bauer

Honored for : Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marion Dane Bauer Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
Ann Heron Two Teenagers in 20: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth
Stacey Donovan Dive
Scott Nunokawa Oscar Wilde
Patricia Quinlan Tiger Flowers
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
Paul Rudnick Jeffrey
David Drake The night Larry Kramer kissed me
CherrĂ­e Moraga Heroes and Saints and Other Plays
Carolyn Gage The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays
Lambda Literary Award for Editor's Choice Award

Mab Segrest

Honored for : Memoir of a Race Traitor
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Abraham Verghese

Honored for : My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids

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Nominee Nominated Work
Abraham Verghese My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids
Paul Monette Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
John Preston My Life as a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts
Ned Rorem Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir
Lawrence D. Mass Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction

Alan Hollinghurst

Honored for : The Folding Star

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star
Norman Wong Cultural revolution
Mark Merlis American Studies
Douglas Sadownick Sacred Lips of the Bronx
Joseph Olshan Nightswimmer
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery

John Berendt

Honored for : Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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Nominee Nominated Work
John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Samuel R. Delany The Mad Man
Caleb Carr The Alienist
Grant Michaels Mask for a Diva
George Baxt A Queer Kind of Love: A Pharoah Love Mystery
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry

Thom Gunn

Honored for : Collected Poems

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Nominee Nominated Work
Thom Gunn Collected Poems
Rafael Campo The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
Richard McCann Ghost Letters
Assotto Saint Wishing for Wings
Paul Monette West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New & Selected Poems, 1973-1993
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Studies

George Chauncey

Honored for : Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

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Nominee Nominated Work
George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
John Boswell Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Mark Thompson Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature With Sixteen Writers, Healers, Teachers, and Visionaries
Paul Monette Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
David B. Feinberg Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone
Lambda Literary Award for Humor

Ellen Galford

Honored for : The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Galford The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel
David Sedaris Barrel Fever
Kevin Dilallo The Unofficial Gay Manual
Jack Krumholtz The Unofficial Gay Manual
Christian McLaughlin Glamourpuss
Mabel Maney The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Renate Stendhal

Honored for : Gertrude Stein In Words and Pictures

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Nominee Nominated Work
Renate Stendhal Gertrude Stein In Words and Pictures
Margarethe Cammermeyer Serving in Silence
Chris Fisher Serving in Silence
Elizabeth Bishop One Art
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas
Mab Segrest Memoir of a Race Traitor
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Rebecca Brown

Honored for : The Gifts of the Body

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rebecca Brown The Gifts of the Body
Heather Lewis House Rules
Eileen Myles Chelsea Girls
Ellen Galford The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel
Emma Donoghue Stir-Fry
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Ellen Hart

Honored for : A Small Sacrifice: A Jane Lawless Mystery

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Hart A Small Sacrifice: A Jane Lawless Mystery
Mabel Maney The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend
Randye Lordon Sister's Keeper
Claire McNab Body Guard
Sandra Scoppettone My Sweet Untraceable You
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

Marilyn Hacker

Honored for : Winter Numbers: Poems

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marilyn Hacker Winter Numbers: Poems
Sapphire American Dreams
June Jordan Haruko/Love Poems
Linda Smukler Normal Sex
Mary Oliver White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems
Lambda Literary Award for Photography/Visual Arts

Nancy Andrews

Honored for : Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nancy Andrews Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America
Out Magazine Out in America: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Life
Jack Kugelmass Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
Mark Thompson Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement
Jim French Art of the Male Nude: Jim French Photography
Lambda Literary Award for Publisher Service Award
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy

Melissa Scott

Honored for : Trouble and Her Friends

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Nominee Nominated Work
Melissa Scott Trouble and Her Friends
Suzy McKee Charnas The Furies
Nancy Springer Metal Angel
Mercedes Lackey Storm Warning
Jean Stewart Warriors of Isis
Lambda Literary Award for Small Press

Kiss & Tell

Honored for : Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kiss & Tell Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies
James Earl Hardy B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story
Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Achy Obejas We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories
Sapphire American Dreams

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