Lambda Literary Awards 1992
Winners and nominees of the 1992 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦ Sudden Strangers (nominee)
- ✦The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans: and Other Stories — Johnny Valentine (nominee)
- ✦How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? — Kris Kovick (nominee)
- ✦How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? — Meredith Maran (nominee)
- ✦Lark in the Morning — Nancy Garden (nominee)
- ✦Gloria Goes to Gay Pride — Lesléa Newman (nominee)
- ✦Sudden Strangers(nominee)
Gay Anthology
- ✦Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers — Robert Drake (nominee)
- ✦Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice — Mark Thompson (nominee)
- ✦Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong — John Preston(nominee)
- ✦Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men — Essex Hemphill (nominee)
- ✦Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction — Edmund White(nominee)
- ✦Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers — Terry Wolverton (nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆What the Dead Remember — Harlan Greene (winner)
- ✦Halfway Home — Paul Monette(nominee)
- ✦Vanishing Rooms — Melvin Dixon (nominee)
- ✦Language We Use Up Here(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆A Country of Old Men — Joseph Hansen(winner)
- ✦Master’s Counterpoints — Larry Townsend (nominee)
- ✦ Best Performance by a Patsy (nominee)
- ✦ The Face on the Cutting Room Floor (nominee)
- ✦Sorry Now? — Mark Richard Zubro(nominee)
- ✦Best Performance by a Patsy(nominee)
- ✦The Face on the Cutting Room Floor(nominee)
Gay Non-fiction
- ✦Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England — Bruce R. Smith (nominee)
- ✦ Will Roscoe (nominee)
- ✦Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard — John W. Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Close To the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- ✦Bethlehem in Broad Daylight — Mark Doty (nominee)
- ✦The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets — Assotto Saint (nominee)
- ✦Sex-Charge — Perry Brass (nominee)
- ✦The Burnt Pages — John Ash (nominee)
- ✦Hand over Heart — David Trinidad (nominee)
Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦ Steam (nominee)
- ✦ Embracing the Dark (nominee)
- ✦ Vampires Anonymous (nominee)
- ✦Mirage — Perry Brass (nominee)
- ✦Steam(nominee)
- ✦Embracing the Dark(nominee)
- ✦Vampires Anonymous(nominee)
Humor
- ✦ Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor (nominee)
- ✦ Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games (nominee)
- ✦ Strange Angel (nominee)
- ✦What I Love about Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With — Kris Kovick (nominee)
- ✦Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor(nominee)
- ✦Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games(nominee)
- ✦Strange Angel(nominee)
LGBT Small Press
- ✦ Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really (nominee)
- ✦ How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos (nominee)
- ✦ Putting Out ’91 (nominee)
- ✦Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine — Winston Leyland (nominee)
- ✦The Advocate Advisor — Patrick Califia(nominee)
- ✦Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really(nominee)
- ✦How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos(nominee)
- ✦Putting Out ’91(nominee)
Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award
Lesbian Anthology
- ✦An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality — Judith Barrington (nominee)
- ✦Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers — Robert Drake (nominee)
- ✦Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition — Barbara Sang (nominee)
- ✦Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition — Joyce Warshow (nominee)
- ✦Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition — Adrienne Smith (nominee)
- ✦Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About — Carla Trujillo (nominee)
- ✦Bi Any Other Name — Lani Ka‘ahumanu (nominee)
- ✦Bi Any Other Name — Loraine Hutchins (nominee)
- ✦Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers — Terry Wolverton (nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆The Gilda Stories — Jewelle Gomez(winner)
- 🏆The Revolution of Little Girls — Blanche McCrary Boyd (winner)
- ✦Just Say Yes — Judith McDaniel (nominee)
- ✦ Judith McDaniel (nominee)
- ✦ Diane Salvatore (nominee)
- ✦ Benediction (nominee)
- ✦Minimax — Anna Livia Julian Brawn (nominee)
- ✦Benediction(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆Murder by Tradition — Katherine V. Forrest(winner)
- ✦ Final Session (nominee)
- ✦ Everything You Have is Mine (nominee)
- ✦ Cop Out (nominee)
- ✦The Providence File — Amanda Kyle Williams (nominee)
- ✦Final Session(nominee)
- ✦Everything You Have is Mine(nominee)
- ✦Cop Out(nominee)
Lesbian Non-fiction
- 🏆Cancer in Two Voices — Barbara Rosenblum (winner)
- ✦An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality — Judith Barrington (nominee)
- ✦ Gertrude and Alice (nominee)
- ✦Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America — Lillian Faderman(nominee)
- ✦Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 — Minnie Bruce Pratt (nominee)
- ✦Gertrude and Alice(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 — Adrienne Rich (winner)
- ✦ Not Me (nominee)
- ✦The Forbidden Poems — Becky Birtha (nominee)
- ✦Fear of Subways — Maureen Seaton (nominee)
- ✦Artemis in Echo Park — Eloise Klein Healy (nominee)
- ✦Not Me(nominee)
Lesbian Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦ Shadows of Aggar (nominee)
- ✦ Mega (nominee)
- ✦Stranded — Camarin Grae (nominee)
- ✦Shadows of Aggar(nominee)
- ✦Mega(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Randall Kenan(winner)
- 🏆 Essex Hemphill (winner)
- 🏆 Lynette Schmidt (winner)
- ✦Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers — Lillian Faderman(nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Frank A. Bennack, Jr. (winner)
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