Awards & Winners

2001 Lambda Literary Award

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Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett

Honored for : Point of Dreams
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Fiction

Helen Sandler

Honored for : Diva Book of Short Stories

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Nominee Nominated Work
Helen Sandler Diva Book of Short Stories
Nicola Griffith Reading the Landscape: Horror
Stephen Pagel Reading the Landscape: Horror
Jess Wells Love Shook My Heart 2: Lesbian Love Stories
Jay Quinn Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors
Quang Bao Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America
Hanya Yanagihara Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America
Timothy Lui Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Non-fiction

Delroy Constantine-Simms

Honored for : The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities

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Nominee Nominated Work
Delroy Constantine-Simms The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities
Catherine Reid His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers
Holly K. Iglesias His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers
Terry Goldie In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context
Rebecca Alpert Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
Sue Levi Elwell Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
Shirley Idelson Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
Winston Leyland Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism
Lambda Literary Award for Autobiography/Memoir

Andrew Solomon

Honored for : The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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Nominee Nominated Work
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Carol Guess Gaslight
Kirk Read How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-of-Age and Coming-Out Story
Brian Bouldrey Monster: Adventures in American Machismo
William Storandt Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean
Lambda Literary Award for Biography

Barry Werth

Honored for : The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin - A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal

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Nominee Nominated Work
Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin - A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
Alison Lurie Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Caroline Zilboorg The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography
Margaret Reynolds The Sappho Companion
Nancy Mitford Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Julia Watts

Honored for : Finding H.F.

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Nominee Nominated Work
Julia Watts Finding H.F.
Sara Ryan Empress of the World
Marilyn Reynolds Love Rules
Alex Sánchez Rainbow Boys
Todd Tuttle Spot
Lambda Literary Award for Erotica

Ian Philips

Honored for : See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ian Philips See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent
M. Christian Dirty Words: Provocative Gay Erotica
Lawrence Schimel His Tongue: Stories
Karen X. Tulchinsky Hot & Bothered 3: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire
Lori Selke Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction

Allan Gurganus

Honored for : The Practical Heart: Four Novellas

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Nominee Nominated Work
Allan Gurganus The Practical Heart: Four Novellas
Laura Albert The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories
Tom Spanbauer In the City of Shy Hunters
David Leavitt The Marble Quilt
David Ebershoff The Rose City
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery

Michael Nava

Honored for : Rag and Bone

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Nava Rag and Bone
Michael Craft Boy Toy: A Mark Manning Mystery
Roger Margason The Butcher's Son
Warren Dunford Making a Killing
Mark Richard Zubro Sex and Murder.com: A Paul Turner Mystery
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry

Mark Doty

Honored for : Source

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mark Doty Source
Constantine P. Cavafy Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy
Justin Chin Harmless Medicine
Timothy Liu Hard Evidence
J.D. McClatchy Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
Lambda Literary Award for GLBT Studies

Joyce Murdoch, Deb Price

Honored for : Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joyce Murdoch Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
Deb Price Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
Suzanna Walters All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
William J. Mann Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
Ricardo J. Brown The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s
William Reichard The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s
Gay Wachman Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties
Lambda Literary Award for Humor

David Rakoff

Honored for : Fraud

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Rakoff Fraud
Patrick Price Drama Queen: The Gay Man's Guide to an Uncomplicated Life
Erika Lopez Hoochie Mama
Ellen Orleans Inflatable Butch
Michael Thomas Ford The Little Book of Neuroses: Ongoing Trials From My Queer Life
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Achy Obejas

Honored for : Days of Awe

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Nominee Nominated Work
Achy Obejas Days of Awe
Erika Lopez Hoochie Mama
Ann Wadsworth Light, Coming Back
Sylvia Brownrigg Pages for You
Alexandra Grilikhes Yin Fire
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Ellen Hart

Honored for : Merchant of Venus

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ellen Hart Merchant of Venus
Alex Marcoux Back to Salem
Mabel Maney Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody
Pat Welch Moving Targets
Lauren Maddison Witchfire
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

Adrienne Rich

Honored for : Fox: Poems 1998-2000

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Nominee Nominated Work
Adrienne Rich Fox: Poems 1998-2000
Letta Neely Here
Gerry Pearlberg Mr. Bluebird
Eileen Myles Skies: Poems
Daphne Gottlieb Why Things Burn
Lambda Literary Award for Photography/Visual Arts

David Deitcher

Honored for : Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Deitcher Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918
Tee Corinne Intimacies
David Leddick Male Nude Now: New Visions for the 21st Century
Susan Stryker Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback
Robert Mainardi Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon
Lambda Literary Award for Romance

Sylvia Brownrigg

Honored for : Pages for You

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sylvia Brownrigg Pages for You
William Jack Sibley Any Kind of Luck
Marianne K. Martin Mirrors
Karin Kallmaker Substitute for Love
Vincent Virga Vadriel Vail
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett

Honored for : Point of Dreams

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Nominee Nominated Work
Melissa Scott Point of Dreams
Lisa A. Barnett Point of Dreams
Nicola Griffith Bending the Landscape: Horror
Stephen Pagel Bending the Landscape: Horror
David Thomas Lord Bound In Blood: The Erotic Journey of a Vampire
Keith Hartman Gumshoe Gorilla
Michael Schiefelbein Vampire Vow
Lambda Literary Award for Small Press

Mariana Romo-Carmona

Honored for : Conversaciones: Relatos Por Padres y Madres de Hijas Lesbianas y Hijos Gay

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mariana Romo-Carmona Conversaciones: Relatos Por Padres y Madres de Hijas Lesbianas y Hijos Gay
Andy Quan Calendar Boy
Michael G. Cornelius Creating Man
Robert N. Minor Scared Straight: Why It\u2019s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It\u2019s So Hard to Be Human
Patricia Nell Warren The Wild Man
Lambda Literary Award for Spirituality

Ken Stone

Honored for : Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ken Stone Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible
Bernard Mayes Escaping God\u2019s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
Leanne McCall Tigert Coming Out Young and Faithful
Timothy Brown Coming Out Young and Faithful
Vanessa Sheridan Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
Louis William Countryman Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church
M.R. Ritley Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church
Lambda Literary Award for Spirituality

Bernard Mayes

Honored for : Escaping God\u2019s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ken Stone Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible
Bernard Mayes Escaping God\u2019s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
Leanne McCall Tigert Coming Out Young and Faithful
Timothy Brown Coming Out Young and Faithful
Vanessa Sheridan Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
Louis William Countryman Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church
M.R. Ritley Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church

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