Awards & Winners

2005 Lambda Literary Award

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Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

Katherine V. Forrest

Honored for : Daughters of an Emerald Dusk
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies

E. Lynn Harris

Honored for : Freedom In This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing

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Nominee Nominated Work
E. Lynn Harris Freedom In This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing
Anna Camilleri Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts
Katherine V. Forrest Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965
Wendell Ricketts Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men
Emanuel Xavier Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry
Lambda Literary Award for Belles Lettres

Martin Moran

Honored for : The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace

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Nominee Nominated Work
Martin Moran The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace
Sybille Bedford Quicksands: A Memoir
Eddie Muller Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
Tab Hunter Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
Tania Katan My One-Night Stand With Cancer: A Memoir
Robert Trachtenberg When I Knew
Tom Bachtell When I Knew
Lambda Literary Award for Biography

Sherill Tippins

Honored for : February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sherill Tippins February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America
Joshua Gamson The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The 70's in San Francisco
John G. Geiger Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin
Mary Meigs Beyond Recall
Lise Weil Beyond Recall
Diana Souhami Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art -The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Shyam Selvadurai

Honored for : Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

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Nominee Nominated Work
Shyam Selvadurai Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Rigoberto González Antonio's Card
James Howe Totally Joe
Peter Parnell And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson And Tango Makes Three
Alex Sánchez Rainbow Road
Lambda Literary Award for Erotica

Stacia Seaman, Radclyffe

Honored for : Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stacia Seaman Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2
Radclyffe Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2
Matt Bernstein Sycamore Best Gay Erotica 2006
Richard Labonte Best Gay Erotica 2006
Eileen Myles Best Lesbian Erotica 2006
Tristan Taormino Best Lesbian Erotica 2006
Rakelle Valencia Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica
Connie Wilkins Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica
Sean Wolfe Close Contact
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Debut Fiction

Vestal McIntyre

Honored for : You Are Not the One

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Nominee Nominated Work
Vestal McIntyre You Are Not the One
Mack Friedman Setting the Lawn on Fire
Richard McCann Mother of Sorrows
Barry McCrea The First Verse: A Novel
Sulayman X Bilal's Bread
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction

Dennis Cooper

Honored for : The Sluts

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Nominee Nominated Work
Dennis Cooper The Sluts
Harlan Greene The German Officer's Boy
Aaron Hamburger Faith for Beginners
Thorn Kief Hillsbery What We Do Is Secret
Keith McDermott Acqua calda
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery

D. Travers Scott

Honored for : One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

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Nominee Nominated Work
D. Travers Scott One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
Rick Copp The Actor\u2019s Guide to Greed
Roger Margason The Paper Mirror: A Dick Hardesty Mystery
Michael Dymmoch White Tiger
W. Randy Haynes Cajun Snuff
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry

Richard Siken

Honored for : Crush

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Siken Crush
Mark Doty School of the Arts
Timothy Liu For Dust Thou Art
Martin Pousson Sugar
Aaron Smith Blue on Blue Ground
Lambda Literary Award for Humor

David Rakoff

Honored for : Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Alison Bechdel Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For
Jennifer Camper Juicy Mother: Celebration
Kate Clinton What the L?
Cheryl Peck Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction

Ali Liebegott

Honored for : The Beautifully Worthless

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ali Liebegott The Beautifully Worthless
Katia Noyes Crashing America
Michelle Embree Manstealing for Fat Girls
Ronica Black In Too Deep
Fiona Zedde Bliss
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Abha Dawesar

Honored for : Babyji

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Nominee Nominated Work
Abha Dawesar Babyji
Helen Humphreys Wild Dogs
Lauren Sanders With or Without You
Karen X. Tulchinsky The Five Books of Moses Lapinksky
Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Honored for : Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alicia Gaspar de Alba Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
Katherine V. Forrest Women of Mystery
Ellen Hart The Iron Girl: A Jane Lawless Mystery
Penny Mickelbury Darkness Descending
Radclyffe Justice Served
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

June Jordan

Honored for : Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

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Nominee Nominated Work
June Jordan Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Samiya Bashir Where the Apple Falls
Jackie Kay Life Mask
Mary Oliver New and Selected Poems
Amber Flora Thomas Eye of Water
Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies

Susan Ackerman

Honored for : When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

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Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Ackerman When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
Jennifer Kelly Zest for Life: Lesbians' Experiences of Menopause
Dwight A. McBride Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch
Esther D. Rothblum Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet
Penny Sablove Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet
Ruth Vanita Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction

Thomas Glave

Honored for : Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent

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Nominee Nominated Work
Thomas Glave Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent
Dennis Altman Gore Vidal's America
Keith Boykin Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
Peggy Drexler Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men
Tirza True Latimer Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris
Lambda Literary Award for Romance

Radclyffe

Honored for : Distant Shores, Silent Thunder

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Nominee Nominated Work
Radclyffe Distant Shores, Silent Thunder
Gerri Hill Artist's Dream
Karin Kallmaker Just Like That
Marlys Pearson The Price of Temptation
Randy Boyd Walt Loves the Bearcat
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Katherine V. Forrest

Honored for : Daughters of an Emerald Dusk

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Nominee Nominated Work
Katherine V. Forrest Daughters of an Emerald Dusk
Octavia E. Butler Fledgling
David B. Coe Shapers of Darkness
Jane Fletcher The Temple at Landfall
Jeanne G'Fellers No Sister Of Mine
Lambda Literary Award for Spirituality

Cheri DiNovo

Honored for : Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community From the Outside In

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cheri DiNovo Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community From the Outside In
Munya Andrews The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World
Michael Thomas Ford The Path Of The Green Man: Gay Men, Wicca and Living a Magical Life
Daniel Gebhardt I Am This One Walking Beside Me: Meditations of an HIV Positive Gay Man
Craig Hickman Fumbling Toward Divinity: The Adoption Scriptures
Lambda Literary Award for Transgender/GenderQueer

Charlie Jane Anders

Honored for : Choir Boy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Charlie Jane Anders Choir Boy
Judith Halberstam In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Tennessee Jones Deliver Me from Nowhere
Matt Kailey Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience
Deborah Rudacille The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights

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