Lambda Literary Award
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'''Lambda Literary Awards''' ''(also known as the "Lammies")'' are awarded yearly by the [[United States|US]]-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore [[LGBT]] themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award. The Lambda Literary Foundation states that its mission is "to celebrate [[LGBT literature]] and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians - the whole literary community."<ref>{{cite web
| title =News and Announcements
| publisher =[[Lambda Literary Foundation]]
| date =2007
| url =http://www.lambdaliterary.org/index.html
| accessdate =2007-11-25 }}</ref> The awards were instituted in [[1988]].
==Controversy==
===Bisexual Community/Bi Any Other Name===
In 1992 despite requests from the [[bisexual community]] for a more appropriate and inclusive category, the groundbreaking bisexual anthology ''[[Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out]]''<ref>{{cite web
| title =Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out Review
| publisher =International Gay & Lesbian Review
| url =http://gaybookreviews.info/review/2488/548
| accessdate =2007-11-25 }}</ref> by [[Loraine Hutchins]] and [[Lani Kaahumanu]] was forced to compete (and lose) in the category ''"Lesbian Anthology"''.<ref>{{cite web
| title =1991 Lambda Literary Awards Recipients
| publisher =[[Lambda Literary Foundation]]
| url =http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_1988_1991.html#1991
| accessdate =2007-11-25 }}</ref>
Led by [[BiNet USA]].<ref>{{cite web
| last =Curry
| first =Wendy
| authorlink =Wendy Curry
| title =What makes a book bisexual?
| work =Curried Spam
| publisher =[[BiNet USA]]
| date =2007
| url =http://www.binetusa.org/curriedspam.html#bibook
| accessdate =2007-11-25 }}</ref>, the [[American Institute of Bisexuality]] and assisted by other bisexual organizations including [[BiPOL]], [[Bialogue]] and [[Bi Writers Association]] a group of [[bisexual]] [[civil rights|rights]] [[activist]]s launched a multi-year struggle that eventually culminated in [[2006]] with the addition of a Bisexual category.
===Transgender Community/The Man Who Would Be Queen===
In 2004, the book ''[[The Man Who Would Be Queen|The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism]]'' by the highly controversial researcher [[J. Michael Bailey]] was announced as a finalist in the Transgender category of the 2003 Awards.
[[Transpeople]] immediately protested the nomination and gathered thousands of petition signatures in opposition within a few days. After the petition, the Foundation's judges examined the book more closely, decided that they considered it [[transphobia|transphobic]] and removed it from their list of finalists.<ref>{{cite web
| last =Letellier
| first =Patrick
| title = Group rescinds honor for disputed book
| publisher =[[PlanetOut]]
| date =2004-03-16
| url =http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2004/03/16/3
| accessdate =2007-11-25 }}</ref> Within a year the executive director who had initially approved of the book's inclusion resigned.<ref>{{cite web
| last =Schwartz
| first =Nomi
| title =Lambda Literary Foundation Announces Major Changes
| publisher =[[American Booksellers Association]]
| date =2005-06-16
| url =http://news.bookweb.org/news/3606.html
| accessdate =2007-11-25 }}</ref>
==2001 winners==
* '''Anthologies/Fiction''': [[Helen Sandler]], ed. ''Diva Book of Short Stories'' (Millivres)
* '''Anthologies/Nonfiction''': [[Constantine-Simms]], ed. ''The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities'' (Alyson)
* '''Autobiography/Memoir ''': [[Andrew Solomon]], ''Noonday Demon'' (Scribner)
* '''Biography''': [[Barry Werth]], ''The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin'' (Doubleday)
* '''Children's/Young Adult''': [[Julia Watts]], ''Finding H.F.'' (Alyson)
* '''Erotica''': [[Ian Philips]], ''See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent'' (AttaGirl)
* '''Gay Men's Fiction''': [[Allan Gurganus]], ''The Practical Heart'' (Knopf)
* '''Gay Men's Mystery''': [[Michael Nava]], ''Rag and Bone'' (G.P. Putnam)
* '''Gay Men's Poetry''': [[Mark Doty]], ''Source'' (HarperCollins)
* '''GLBT Studies''': [[Joyce Murdoch]] and [[Deb Price]], ''Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court'' (Basic)
* '''Humor''': [[David Rakoff]], ''Fraud'' (Doubleday)
* '''Lesbian Fiction''': [[Achy Obejas]], ''Days of Awe'' (Ballantine)
* '''Lesbian Mystery''': [[Ellen Hart]], ''Merchant of Venus'' (St. Martin’s)
* '''Lesbian Poetry''': [[Adrienne Rich]], ''Fox'' (Norton)
* '''Photography/Visual Arts''': [[David Deitcher]], ''Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918'' (Harry N. Abrams)
* '''Romance''': [[Silvia Brownrigg]], ''Pages for You'' (FS&G)
* '''Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror''': [[Melissa Scott (writer)|Melissa Scott]] and [[Lisa A. Barnett]], ''Point of Dreams'' (Tor)
* '''Small Press''': [[Mariana Romo-Carmona]], ''Conversaciones!'' (Cleis)
* '''Spirituality''' ''(tie)'': [[Ken Stone (theologian)|Ken Stone]] ed. ''Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible'' (Pilgrim)
* '''Spirituality''' ''(tie)'': [[Bernard Duncan Mayes]], '' Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest'' (Univ. Press of Virginia)
* '''Transgender/Bisexual''': [[Virginia Ramey Mollenkott]], ''Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach'' (Pilgrim)
==2002 winners==
* '''Anthologies/Fiction''': [[Devon Carbado]], [[Dwight McBride]] and [[Don Weise]], eds. ''Black Like Us'' (Cleis)
* '''Anthologies/Nonfiction''': [[Bruce Shenitz]], ''The Man I Might Become'' (Marlowe & Company)
* '''Autobiography''': [[Betty Berzon]], ''Surviving Madness'' (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
* '''Biography''': [[David Kaufman (writer)|David Kaufman]], ''Ridiculous!'' (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
* '''Children's/Young Adult''': [[Bonnie Shimko]], ''Letters in the Attic'' (Academy Chicago Press)
* '''Editor's Choice''': [[John D'Emilio]], ''The World Turned'' (Duke University)
* '''Erotica''': [[Tristan Taormino]], ed., ''Best Lesbian Erotica 2003'' (Cleis)
* '''Gay men's fiction''': [[Jamie O'Neill]], ''[[At Swim, Two Boys]]'' (Scribner)
* '''Gay men's mystery''': [[Christopher Rice]], ''The Snow Garden'' (Miramax)
* '''Gay men's poetry''': [[J.D. McClatchy]], ''Hazmat'' (Alfred A. Knopf)
* '''Humor''': [[Dan Savage]], ''[[Skipping Towards Gomorrah]]'' (Dutton)
* '''Lesbian fiction''': [[Sarah Waters]], ''[[Fingersmith]]'' (Riverhead)
* '''Lesbian mystery''': [[Elizabeth Woodcraft]], ''Good Bad Woman'' (Kensington)
* '''Lesbian poetry''': [[Ellen Bass]], ''Mules of Love'' (BOA Editions)
* '''LGBT studies''': [[Neil Miller]]. ''Sex-Crime Panic'' (Alyson)
* '''Pioneer Award''': [[Barbara Grier]].
* '''Romance''': [[Andrew W.M. Beierle]]. ''The Winter of Our Discoteque'' (Kensington)
* '''Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror''': [[Michael Rowe]], ed., ''Queer Fear II'' (Arsenal Pulp)
* '''Small Press''': [[Kings Crossing Publishing]].
* '''Spirituality''': [[Geoffrey Duncan]], ''Courage to Love'' (Pilgrim)
* '''Transgender''': [[Noelle Howey]], ''Dress Codes'' (Picador)
* '''Visual arts''': [[Dominique Fernandez]], ''A Hidden Love'' (Prestel)
==2003 winners==
* '''Anthologies/Fiction''': [[Michael Bronski]], ed., ''Pulp Friction'' (St. Martin's Press)
* '''Anthologies/Non-fiction''': [[Bob Guter]] and [[John Killacky]], eds., ''Queer Crips'' (Harrington Park Press)
* '''Autobiography/Memoir''': [[Lillian Faderman]], ''Naked in the Promised Land'' (Houghton Mifflin)
* '''Biography''': [[Andrew Wilson (writer)|Andrew Wilson]], ''Beautiful Shadow'' (Bloomsbury)
* '''Children /Young adult''': [[David Levithan]], ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
* '''Drama''': [[Brian Drader]], ''[[Prok]]'' (Scirocco Drama)
* '''Erotica''': [[Tristan Taormino]], ed., ''Best Lesbian Erotica 2004'' (Cleis Press)
* '''Gay men's fiction''': [[Christopher Bram]], ''Lives of the Circus Animals'' (William Morrow)
* '''Gay men's mystery''': [[John Morgan Wilson]], ''Blind Eye'' (St. Martin's Press)
* '''Gay men's poetry''': [[Henri Cole]], ''Middle Earth'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Mark [[Bibbins]], ''Sky Lounge'' (Graywolf Press)(tie)
* '''Humor''': [[Alison Bechdel]], ''Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For'' ([[Alyson Publications]])
* '''Lesbian fiction''': [[Nina Revoyr]], ''Southland'' (Akashic Books)
* '''Lesbian mystery''': [[Elizabeth Sims]], ''Damn Straight'' (Alyson Publications)
* '''Lesbian poetry''': [[Minnie Bruce Pratt]], ''The Dirt She Ate'' (University of Pittsburgh Press)
* '''LGBT studies''': [[Devon Carbado]] and [[Donald Weise]], eds., ''Time on Two Crosses'' (Cleis Press)
* '''Photography/Visual arts''': [[Lonthar Schirmer]], ed., ''Women Seeing Women'' (W.W. Norton)
* '''Romance''': [[Michael Thomas Ford]], ''Last Summer'' (Kensington Publishing) and [[Karin Kallmaker]], [[Maybe Next Time]] (Bella Books)
* '''Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror''': [[Helen Sandler]], ed., ''Necrologue'' (Diva Books)
* '''Spirituality''': [[Fenton Johnson]], ''Keeping Faith'' (Houghton Mifflin)
* '''Transgender/Genderqueer''': [[Jennifer Finney Boylan]], ''She's Not There'' (Broadway Books)
==2004 winners==
* '''Anthologies/Fiction''': [[Edmund White]] and [[Donald Weise]], eds., ''Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction'' (Carroll & Graff)
* '''Anthologies/Non-fiction''': [[Greg Wharton]] and [[Ian Philips]], eds., ''I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage'' (Suspect Thoughts Press)
* '''Autobiography/Memoir''': [[Alison Smith (writer)|Alison Smith]], ''Name All the Animals'' (Scribner)
* '''Biography''': [[Alexis De Veaux]], ''Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde'' ([[W. W. Norton]])
* '''Children's / Young Adult''': [[Alex Sanchez]], ''[[So Hard to Say]]'' (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
* '''Drama / Theater''': [[Doug Wright]], ''[[I Am My Own Wife]]'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
* '''Erotica''': [[Richard Labonte]], ''Best Gay Erotica 2005'' (Cleis Press)
* '''Gay Men's Debut Fiction''': [[Blair Mastbaum]], ''[[Clay's Way]]'' (Alyson Books)
* '''Gay Men's Fiction''': [[Colm Tóibín]], ''[[The Master (novel)|The Master]]'' (Scribner)
* '''Gay Men's Poetry''': [[Luis Cernuda]], ''Written in Water'' (City Lights Publishers)
* '''Gay Men's Mystery''': [[Anthony Bidulka]], ''Flight of Aquavit'' ([[Insomniac Press]])
* '''Humor''': [[David Sedaris]], ''[[Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim]]'' (Little, Brown)
* '''Lesbian Biography/Autobiography''': [[Renate Stendhal]], ''Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures'' (Algonquin Books, 1994)
* '''Lesbian Debut Fiction''': [[Judith Frank]], ''Crybaby Butch'' (Firebrand)
* '''Lesbian Fiction''': [[Stacey D'Erasmo]], ''A Seahorse Year'' (Houghton Mifflin)
* '''Lesbian Poetry''': [[Beverly Burch]], ''Sweet to Burn'' (Gival Press)
* '''Lesbian Mystery''': [[Katherine V. Forrest]], ''Hancock Park'' (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Group USA)
* '''LGBT Studies''': [[Elisabeth Kirtsoglou]], ''For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town'' (Routledge)
* '''Photography/Visual Arts''': [[Evan Bachner]] and [[Harry Abrams]], ''At Ease: Navy Men of World War II''
* '''Romance''': [[Steven Kluger]], ''Almost Like Being in Love'' (HarperCollins)
* '''Religion/Spirituality''': [[Will Roscoe]], ''Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love'' (Suspect Thoughts Press)
* '''Science fiction/Fantasy/Horror''': [[Jim Grimsley]], ''The Ordinary'' (Tor Books)
* '''Transgender/GenderQueer''': [[Mariette Pathy Allen]], ''The Gender Frontier'' (Kehrer Verlag)
==2005 winners==
* '''Anthologies''': [[E. Lynn Harris]], ed., ''Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present''
* '''Belles Lettres''': [[Martin Moran]], ''The Tricky Part''
* '''Biography''': [[Sherrill Tippins]], ''February House''
* '''Children's/Young Adult''': [[Shyam Selvadurai]], ''Swimming in the Monsoon Sea''
* '''Erotica''': [[Stacia Seaman]] and [[Radclyffe]], eds., ''Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2''
* '''Gay Men's Debut Fiction''': [[Vestal McIntyre]], ''You Are Not the One''
* '''Gay Men's Fiction''': [[Dennis Cooper]], ''The Sluts''
* '''Gay Men's Mystery''': [[D. Travers Scott]], ''One of These Things is Not Like the Other''
* '''Gay Men's Poetry''': [[Richard Siken]], ''Crush''
* '''Humor''': [[David Rakoff]], ''Don't Get Too Comfortable''
* '''Lesbian Debut Fiction''': [[Ali Leibegott]], ''The Beautifully Worthless''
* '''Lesbian Fiction''': [[Abha Dawesar]], ''[[Babyji]]'' and Helen Humphreys, ''Wild Dogs''
* '''Lesbian Mystery''': [[Alicia Gaspar de Alba]], ''Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders''
* '''Lesbian Poetry''': [[June Jordan]], ''Directed by Desire: Collected Poems''
* '''LGBT Studies''': [[Susan Ackerman]], ''When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David''
* '''Nonfiction''': [[Thomas Glave]], ''Words to Our Now''
* '''Romance''': [[Radclyffe]], ''Distant Shores, Silent Thunder''
* '''Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror''': [[Katherine V. Forrest]], ''Daughters of an Emerald Dusk''
* '''Spirituality''': [[Cheri DiNovo]], ''Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In''
* '''Transgender/GenderQueer''': [[Charlie Anders]], ''Choir Boy''
==2006 winners==
* '''Anthology''': [[Greg Herren]] and [[Paul J. Willis]] , eds. ''Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans'' ([[Alyson]])
* '''Arts & Culture''': [[Lillian Faderman]] and [[Stuart Timmons]], ''Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians'' ([[Basic Books]])
* '''Bisexual''': [[Michael Szymanski]] and [[Nicole Kristal]], ''The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe'' ([[Alyson]])
* '''Children's/Young Adult''' ''(tie)'': [[David Levithan]] and [[Billy Merrell]], eds. ''Full Spectrum'' ([[Random House|Random House Children's Books]])
* '''Children's/Young Adult''' ''(tie)'': [[Julie Anne Peters]], ''Between Mom & Jo'' ([[Little Brown]])
* '''Drama/Theater''': [[Tim Miller (performance artist)]], ''1001 Beds'' ([[University of Wisconsin-Madison]])
* '''Gay Debut Fiction''': [[Robert Westfield]], ''Suspension: A Novel'' ([[Harper Perennial]])
* '''Gay Erotica''': [[Jeff Mann]], ''A History of Barbed Wire'' ([[Suspect Thoughts]])
* '''Gay Fiction''': [[Robert Westfield]], ''Suspension: A Novel'' ([[Harper Perennial]])
* '''Gay Memoir/Biography''': [[Bernard Cooper]], ''The Bill From My Father'' ([[Simon & Schuster]])
* '''Gay Mystery''': [[Garry Ryan]], ''The Lucky Elephant Restaurant'' ([[NeWest Press]])
* '''Gay Poetry''': [[Jim Elledge]], ''A History of My Tattoo'' ([[Stonewall/BrickHouse Books]])
* '''Gay Romance''': [[Rob Byrnes]], ''When the Stars Come Out'' ([[Kensington Books]])
* '''Humor''': [[Joe Keenan (writer)|Joe Keenan]], ''[[My Lucky Star (novel)|My Lucky Star]]'' ([[Little Brown]])
* '''Lesbian Debut Fiction''': [[Ellis Avery]], ''The Teahouse Fire'' ([[Riverhead Books]])
* '''Lesbian Erotica''': [[Laurinda D. Brown]], ''Walk Like a Man'' ([[Q-Boro Books]])
* '''Lesbian Fiction''': [[Sarah Waters]], ''The Night Watch'' ([[Riverhead Books]])
* '''Lesbian Memoir/Biography''': [[Alison Bechdel]], ''Fun Home'' ([[Houghton Mifflin]])
* '''Lesbian Mystery''': [[Laurie R. King]], ''The Art of Detection'' ([[Bantam Books]])
* '''Lesbian Poetry''': [[Sina Queyras]], ''Lemon Hound'' ([[Coach House Books]])
* '''Lesbian Romance''': [[Georgia Beers]], ''Fresh Tracks'' ([[Bold Strokes]])
* '''LGBT Nonfiction''' ''(tie)'': [[Lillian Faderman]] and [[Stuart Timmons]], ''Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians'' ([[Basic Books]])
* '''LGBT Nonfiction''' ''(tie)'': [[Marcia M. Gallo]], ''Different Daughters'' ([[Carroll & Graf]])
* '''LGBT Studies''': [[Horace L. Griffin]], ''Their Own Receive Them Not'' ([[Pilgrim Press]])
* '''Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror''': [[Neal Drinnan]], ''Izzy and Eve'' ([[Green Candy Press]])
* '''Spirituality''': [[Michael McColly]], ''The After-Death Room'' ([[Soft Skull Press]])
* '''Transgender''': [[Susan Stryker]] and [[Stephen Whittle]] , eds. ''The Transgender Studies Reader'' ([[Routledge]])
==2007 winners==
* '''Anthology''': [[Richard Labonte]] and [[Lawrence Schimel]], eds., ''First Person Queer'' ([[Arsenal Pulp Press]])
* '''Arts & Culture''': [[Matthew Hays]], ''The View From Here'' ([[Arsenal Pulp Press]])
* '''Bisexual''': [[Brent Hartinger]], ''Split Screen'' ([[HarperCollins]] Children's Books)
* '''Children's/Young Adult''': [[Perry Moore]], ''[[Hero (novel)|Hero]]'' ([[Hyperion (publisher)|Hyperion]])
* '''Drama/Theater''': [[Steve Susoyev]] and [[George Birimisa]], eds., ''Return to the Caffe Cino'' ([[Moving Finger Press]])
* '''Erotica''': [[Simon Sheppard (writer)|Simon Sheppard]], ''Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica'' ([[Running Press]])
* '''Gay Debut Fiction''': [[Christopher Kelly (novelist)|Christopher Kelly]], ''[[A Push and a Shove]]'' ([[Alyson Books]])
* '''Lesbian Debut Fiction''': [[Aoibheann Sweeney]], ''Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking'' ([[The Penguin Press]])
* '''LGBT Studies''': [[Sharon Marcus]], ''Between Women'' ([[Princeton University Press]])
* '''Men's Fiction''': [[Andre Aciman]], ''Call Me By Your Name'' ([[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]])
* '''Men's Memoir/Biography''': [[Kevin Sessums]], ''Mississippi Sissy'' ([[St. Martin's Press]])
* '''Men's Mystery''': [[Greg Herren]], ''Murder in the Rue Chartres'' ([[Alyson Books]])
* '''Men's Romance''': [[Michael Thomas Ford]], ''Changing Tides'' ([[Kensington]])
* '''Nonfiction''': [[Michael S. Sherry]], ''Gay Artists in Modern American Culture'' ([[University of North Carolina Press]])
* '''Poetry''': [[Henri Cole]], ''Blackbird and Wolf'' ([[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]])
* '''Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror''': [[Lee Thomas (author)|Lee Thomas]], ''The Dust of Wonderland'' ([[Alyson Books]])
* '''Transgender''': [[Cris Beam]], ''Transparent'' ([[Harcourt]])
* '''Women's Fiction''': [[Ali Liebegott]], ''[[The IHOP Papers]]'' ([[Carroll & Graf]])
* '''Women's Memoir/Biography''': [[Nicola Griffith]], ''And Now We Are Going to Have a Party'' ([[Payseur & Schmidt]])
* '''Women's Mystery''': [[Gabrielle Goldsby]], ''Wall of Silence'' ([[Bold Strokes Books]])
* '''Women's Romance''': [[K. G. MacGregor]], ''Out of Love'' ([[Bella Books]])
==See also==
* [[LGBT literature]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.lambdaliterary.org/ Lambda Literary Foundation]
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