Lambda Literary Awards 1990
Winners and nominees of the 1990 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
AIDS literature
- ✦ In Memory of Angel Clare (nominee)
- ✦ Epitaphs for the Living (nominee)
- ✦ Personal Dispatches (nominee)
- ✦In Memory of Angel Clare(nominee)
- ✦Epitaphs for the Living(nominee)
- ✦Personal Dispatches(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦ Unlived Affections (nominee)
- ✦ MaryKate Jordan (nominee)
- ✦Jack — A. M. Homes (nominee)
- ✦When Someone You Know Is Gay — Daniel Cohen(nominee)
- ✦Unlived Affections(nominee)
Gay Anthology
- 🏆Hidden from History — Martin Duberman (winner)
- ✦Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam — Charles Ludlam (nominee)
- ✦ Personal Dispatches (nominee)
- ✦ Twice Blessed (nominee)
- ✦Finale: Stories of Mystery — Michael Nava(nominee)
- ✦Personal Dispatches(nominee)
- ✦Twice Blessed(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- ✦ About Courage (nominee)
- ✦ The Buccaneer (nominee)
- ✦The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket — John Weir (nominee)
- ✦A Visitation of Spirits — Randall Kenan(nominee)
- ✦About Courage(nominee)
- ✦The Buccaneer(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦Closer — Dennis Cooper(nominee)
- ✦ In Memory of Angel Clare (nominee)
- ✦Shy — Kevin Killian(nominee)
- ✦In Memory of Angel Clare(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆Simple Suburban Murder — Mark Richard Zubro(winner)
- ✦ Somewhere in the Night (nominee)
- ✦ Faultlines: Stories of Suspense (nominee)
- ✦Finale edited — Michael Nava(nominee)
- ✦Caravaggio Shawl — Samuel Steward(nominee)
- ✦Somewhere in the Night(nominee)
- ✦Faultlines: Stories of Suspense(nominee)
Gay Non-fiction
- ✦Memoirs of A Bastard Angel — Harold Norse (nominee)
- ✦ Being Homosexual (nominee)
- ✦ James Baldwin: Artist on Fire (nominee)
- ✦ Accepting Ourselves (nominee)
- ✦In Search of Gay America — Neil Miller (nominee)
- ✦Being Homosexual(nominee)
- ✦James Baldwin: Artist on Fire(nominee)
- ✦Accepting Ourselves(nominee)
Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- 🏆 Somewhere in the Night (winner)
- ✦ Gentle Warriors (nominee)
- ✦Walking Water/After All This(nominee)
- ✦Gentle Warriors(nominee)
Humor
- ✦Run That Sucker at Six!!! — N. Leigh Dunlap (nominee)
- ✦ Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups (nominee)
- ✦ Kvetch (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Love Advisor — Celeste West (nominee)
- ✦Gay Comics — Robert Triptow (nominee)
- ✦Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups(nominee)
- ✦Kvetch(nominee)
LGBT Small Press
- 🏆My Life as a Mole — Larry Mitchell (winner)
- ✦ Men of Color (nominee)
- ✦ Letting in the Night (nominee)
- ✦ Matlovich: The Good Soldier (nominee)
- ✦ River of Promise (nominee)
- ✦Men of Color(nominee)
- ✦Letting in the Night(nominee)
- ✦Matlovich: The Good Soldier(nominee)
- ✦River of Promise(nominee)
Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award
- 🏆 Lifting Belly Gertrude Stein (winner)
Lesbian Anthology
- 🏆Hidden From History — Martin Duberman (winner)
- 🏆 Out the Other Side (winner)
- 🏆Intricate Passions — Tee Corinne (winner)
- ✦ Lesbian Love Stories (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Bedtime Stories — Terry Woodrow (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Love Stories(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆 The Names of the Moons of Mars (winner)
- ✦ Rose Penski (nominee)
- ✦ Eye of a Hurricane (nominee)
- ✦ Bar Stories: A Novel After All (nominee)
- ✦Voyages Out — Paula Martinac (nominee)
- ✦Rose Penski(nominee)
- ✦Eye of a Hurricane(nominee)
- ✦Bar Stories: A Novel After All(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆The Bar Stories: A Novel After All — Nisa Donnelly (winner)
- 🏆 Nisa Donnelly (winner)
- ✦ After the Fire (nominee)
- ✦Education of Harriet Hatfield — May Sarton(nominee)
- ✦May Sarton(nominee)
- ✦After the Fire — Jane Rule(nominee)
- ✦The Big Mama Stories — Shay Youngblood (nominee)
- ✦ Shay Youngblood (nominee)
- ✦Trespassing and Other Stories — Valerie Miner (nominee)
- ✦ Valerie Miner (nominee)
- ✦After the Fire(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆The Beverly Malibu — Katherine V. Forrest(winner)
- ✦The Contactees Die Young — Antoinette Azolakov (nominee)
- ✦ Dog Collar Murders (nominee)
- ✦Fatal Reunion(nominee)
- ✦Hallowed Murder — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦Dog Collar Murders(nominee)
Lesbian Non-fiction
- 🏆Really Reading Gertrude Stein — Judy Grahn (winner)
- ✦ Twice Blessed (nominee)
- ✦ There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (nominee)
- ✦ Desert Years (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Love Advisor — Celeste West (nominee)
- ✦Twice Blessed(nominee)
- ✦There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You(nominee)
- ✦Desert Years(nominee)
Lesbian Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- 🏆What Did Miss Darrington See? — Jessica Amanda Salmonson (winner)
- ✦ Clicking Stones (nominee)
- ✦ Memories and Visions (nominee)
- ✦Clicking Stones(nominee)
- ✦Memories and Visions(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Lifting Belly — Gertrude Stein(winner)
- 🏆Magic's Price — Mercedes Lackey(winner)
- 🏆 Rebecca Mark (winner)
- ✦AIDS and Its Metaphors — Susan Sontag (nominee)
- ✦Epitaphs for the Living — Billy Howard (nominee)
Poetry
- 🏆 Poets for Life (winner)
- ✦ Reader (nominee)
- ✦ Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 (nominee)
- ✦Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry — Cheryl Clarke (nominee)
- ✦Naming the Waves — Christian McEwen (nominee)
- ✦Reader(nominee)
- ✦Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988(nominee)
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