Awards & Winners

1996 Lambda Literary Award

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Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

Clive Barker

Honored for : Sacrament
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Fiction

Joan Nestle, Naomi Holoch

Honored for : Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joan Nestle Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
Naomi Holoch Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
Shawn Stewart Ruff Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers
David Bergman Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction
Victoria A. Brownworth Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women
Bruce Morrow Shades: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent
Charles H. Rowell Shades: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Non-fiction

Michael Bronski

Honored for : Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Bronski Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex
Bruce Bawer Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy
Patrick Merla Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
Robin Bernstein Generation Q: Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals Born Around 1969's Stonewall Riots Tell Their Stories of Growing up in the Age of Information
Seth Clark Silberman Generation Q: Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals Born Around 1969's Stonewall Riots Tell Their Stories of Growing up in the Age of Information
Lee Lynch Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing on Menopause
Akia Woods Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing on Menopause
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Nancy Garden

Honored for : Good Moon Rising

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nancy Garden Good Moon Rising
Michael Willhoite Daddy's Wedding
Ellen Bass Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies
Kate Kaufman Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies
Earl Alexander My Dad Has HIV
Sheila Rudin My Dad Has HIV
Pam Sejkora My Dad Has HIV
Michael Thomas Ford The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community
Lambda Literary Award for Drama

Sue-Ellen Case

Honored for : Split Britches

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sue-Ellen Case Split Britches
Michael Kearns Acting=life
Rosemary Keefe Curb Amazon All-Stars
Holly Hughes Clit notes
Mart Crowley Three Plays by Crowley
Lambda Literary Award for Editor's Choice Award

Donald Windham

Honored for : Tennessee Williams' Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Fenton Johnson

Honored for : Geography of the Heart: A Memoir

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Nominee Nominated Work
Fenton Johnson Geography of the Heart: A Memoir
Mark Doty Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
David Hajdu Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Assotto Saint Spells of a Voodoo Doll
Bernard Cooper Truth Serum: Memoirs
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction

Shyam Selvadurai

Honored for : Funny Boy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy
Andrew Holleran The Beauty of Men
Patrick Moore Iowa
Dale Peck The Law of Enclosures
Michael Arditti Pagan's Father
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery

Michael Nava

Honored for : The Death of Friends

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Nava The Death of Friends
Steven Saylor A Murder on the Appian Way
John Morgan Wilson Simple Justice: A Benjamin Justice Mystery
Grant Michaels Time to Check Out: A Stan Kraychik Mystery
Robert D. Zimmerman Tribe: A Todd Mills Mystery
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry

Rafael Campo

Honored for : What the Body Told

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rafael Campo What the Body Told
Kenny Fries Anesthesia
Reginald Shepherd Angel, Interrupted
Michael Lassell Eros In Boystown: Contemporary Gay Poems About Sex
Jaime Manrique My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Studies

Patrick Merla

Honored for : Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

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Nominee Nominated Work
Patrick Merla Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
David Tuller Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia
Will Fellows Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
Keith Boykin One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America
Harry Hay Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder
Will Roscoe Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder
Lambda Literary Award for Humor

Judy Carter

Honored for : The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo: A Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men

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Nominee Nominated Work
Judy Carter The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo: A Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men
Tim Barela Kurt Cobain & Mozart are Both Dead
Helen Eisenbach Lesbianism Made Easy
Liz Tracey So You Want to be a Lesbian?
Sydney Pokorny So You Want to be a Lesbian?
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Doris Grumbach

Honored for : Life in a Day

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Nominee Nominated Work
Doris Grumbach Life in a Day
Candace Gingrich-Jones The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir
Helen Sheehy Eva le Gallienne: A Biography
Torie Osborn Coming Home to America: A Roadmap to Gay & Lesbian Empowerment
Honor Moore The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Achy Obejas

Honored for : Memory Mambo

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Nominee Nominated Work
Achy Obejas Memory Mambo
Barbara Wilson If You Had a Family
Carol Anshaw Seven Moves
Sarah Van Arsdale Towards Amnesia
Rebecca Brown What keeps me here
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Ellen Hart

Honored for : Robber's Wine: A Jane Lawless Mystery

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Hart Robber's Wine: A Jane Lawless Mystery
Jaye Maiman Baby, It's Cold
Jackie Manthorne Final Take
Claire McNab Inner Circle
Katherine V. Forrest Liberty Square
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

Robin Becker

Honored for : All-American Girl

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robin Becker All-American Girl
Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking
Clare Coss Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems
Linda Smukler Home in Three Days. Don\u2019t Wash.
Jeredith Merrin Shift
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

Maureen Seaton

Honored for : Furious Cooking

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robin Becker All-American Girl
Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking
Clare Coss Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems
Linda Smukler Home in Three Days. Don\u2019t Wash.
Jeredith Merrin Shift
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies

Bernadette J. Brooten

Honored for : Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bernadette Joan Brooten Love Between Women
Lindsy Van Gelder The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America
Pamela Robin Brandt The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America
Ruth Vanita Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination
Meg Daly Surface Tension: Love, Sex and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women
Victoria A. Brownworth Too Queer: Essays from a Radical Life
Lambda Literary Award for Photography/Visual Arts

Susie Bright, Jill Posener

Honored for : Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image

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Nominee Nominated Work
Susie Bright Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image
Jill Posener Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image
Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Derek Jarman Derek Jarman's Garden
Susan Stryker Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
Jim Van Buskirk Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
Persimmon Blackbridge Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies
Peter J. Gomes The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart
Keith Hartman Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality
Lev Raphael Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and Jewish
Marc Adams The Preacher\u2019s Son
Marilyn Alexander We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays
John Preston We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays
Lambda Literary Award for Pioneer Award
Lambda Literary Award for Publisher Service Award
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy

Clive Barker

Honored for : Sacrament

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Nominee Nominated Work
Clive Barker Sacrament
Rachel Pollack Godmother Night
Michael Rowe Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality
Thomas S. Roche Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality
Jewelle Gomez Swords of the Rainbow
Andrew Holleran Swords of the Rainbow
Pam Keesey Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis
Lambda Literary Award for Small Press

Loren Cameron

Honored for : Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

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Nominee Nominated Work
Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Celeste West Lesbian Polyfidelity
Bernard Welt Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art
Diamanda Galás The Shit of God
Victoria A. Brownworth Too Queer: Essays from a Radical Life
Lambda Literary Award for Photography/Visual Arts

Peter J. Gomes

Honored for : The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart

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Nominee Nominated Work
Susie Bright Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image
Jill Posener Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image
Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Derek Jarman Derek Jarman's Garden
Susan Stryker Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
Jim Van Buskirk Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
Persimmon Blackbridge Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies
Peter J. Gomes The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart
Keith Hartman Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality
Lev Raphael Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and Jewish
Marc Adams The Preacher\u2019s Son
Marilyn Alexander We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays
John Preston We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays
Lambda Literary Award for Transgender

Loren Cameron

Honored for : Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

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Nominee Nominated Work
Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Phyllis Burke Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female
Leon E. Pettiway Honey, Honey,Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets
Catalina de Erauso Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

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