Lambda Literary Awards 1996
Winners and nominees of the 1996 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Anthology (Fiction)
- 🏆Tasting Life Twice — E. J. Levy (winner)
- ✦His — Robert Drake (nominee)
- ✦ Afrekete (nominee)
- ✦New Fuck You — Eileen Myles(nominee)
- ✦Afrekete(nominee)
Anthology (Non-fiction)
- ✦ Tomboys (nominee)
- ✦ A Loving Testimony (nominee)
- ✦Out in All Directions — Sherry Thomas (nominee)
- ✦Out in All Directions — Eric Marcus (nominee)
- ✦Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage — Claude J. Summers (nominee)
- ✦Dyke Life — Karla Jay (nominee)
- ✦Tomboys(nominee)
- ✦A Loving Testimony(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦ My Two Uncles (nominee)
- ✦ Passages of Pride (nominee)
- ✦ Toby’s Lie (nominee)
- ✦Baby Bebop — Francesca Lia Block(nominee)
- ✦My Two Uncles(nominee)
- ✦Passages of Pride(nominee)
- ✦Toby’s Lie(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆Go Fish — Rose Troche (winner)
- 🏆Go Fish — Guinevere Turner (winner)
- 🏆Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) — Tony Kushner (winner)
- ✦Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays — Nina Shengold (nominee)
- ✦ T-Cells and Sympathy (nominee)
- ✦Love! Valor! Compassion! — Terrence McNally (nominee)
- ✦T-Cells and Sympathy(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆Flesh and Blood — Michael Cunningham(winner)
- ✦Like People in History — Felice Picano (nominee)
- ✦Dream Boy — Jim Grimsley(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams (winner)
- ✦ Last Night on Earth (nominee)
- ✦Palimpsest — Gore Vidal(nominee)
- ✦Our Paris — Edmund White(nominee)
- ✦Last Night on Earth(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆Closet — R. D. Zimmerman (winner)
- ✦ Queer Kind of Umbrella (nominee)
- ✦Another Dead Teenager — Mark Richard Zubro(nominee)
- ✦Shock to the System — Richard Stevenson (nominee)
- ✦Venus Throw — Steven Saylor (nominee)
- ✦Queer Kind of Umbrella(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Atlantis — Mark Doty (winner)
- ✦Scattering of Salts — James Merrill (nominee)
- ✦ Badboy Book of Erotic Verse (nominee)
- ✦Cortege — Carl Phillips (nominee)
- ✦Burnt Offerings — Timothy Liu (nominee)
- ✦Badboy Book of Erotic Verse(nominee)
Gay Studies
- 🏆 De Los Otros (winner)
- ✦ Saint=Foucault (nominee)
- ✦Invention of Heterosexuality — Jonathan Ned Katz (nominee)
- ✦I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual — Pierre Seel (nominee)
- ✦Saint=Foucault(nominee)
Humor
- 🏆 The Butches of Madison County (winner)
- ✦Growing Up Gay — Funny Gay Males (nominee)
- ✦Revenge of HotHead Paisan(nominee)
- ✦Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For — Alison Bechdel(nominee)
- ✦Ghost in the Closet(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦Dark Angels — Pam Keesey (nominee)
LGBT Small Press
- 🏆The New Fuck You — Eileen Myles(winner)
- ✦ S/He (nominee)
- ✦ The Medicine Burns (nominee)
- ✦ Milking Black Bull (nominee)
- ✦S/He(nominee)
- ✦The Medicine Burns(nominee)
- ✦Milking Black Bull(nominee)
Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award
- ✦Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada — Janine Fuller (nominee)
- ✦Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada — Patrick Califia(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Autobiography of a Family Photo — Jacqueline Woodson(winner)
- ✦ Louise Blum (nominee)
- ✦ Sweat (nominee)
- ✦ Passion of Alice (nominee)
- ✦ Amnesty (nominee)
- ✦Rat Bohemia — Sarah Schulman(nominee)
- ✦Sarah Schulman(nominee)
- ✦ Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
- ✦Sweat(nominee)
- ✦Passion of Alice(nominee)
- ✦Amnesty(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- ✦And Say Hi to Joyce — Joyce Murdoch (nominee)
- ✦ Eight Bullets (nominee)
- ✦ Babe (nominee)
- ✦Two or Three Things I Know for Sure — Dorothy Allison(nominee)
- ✦And Say Hi to Joyce — Deb Price (nominee)
- ✦Eight Bullets(nominee)
- ✦Babe(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆 Intersection of Law and Desire (winner)
- ✦ Someone to Watch (nominee)
- ✦ Night Songs (nominee)
- ✦ Hangdog Hustle (nominee)
- ✦Faint Praise — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦Someone to Watch(nominee)
- ✦Night Songs(nominee)
- ✦Hangdog Hustle(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Dark Fields of the Republic — Adrienne Rich (winner)
- ✦ Fire Power (nominee)
- ✦ Key to Everything (nominee)
- ✦Oral Tradition — Jewelle Gomez(nominee)
- ✦Maxfield Parrish — Eileen Myles(nominee)
- ✦Fire Power(nominee)
- ✦Key to Everything(nominee)
Lesbian Studies
- 🏆Dyke Life — Karla Jay (winner)
- ✦ Tomboys (nominee)
- ✦ Virtual Equality (nominee)
- ✦ Parker and Hulme (nominee)
- ✦ S/he (nominee)
- ✦Tomboys(nominee)
- ✦Virtual Equality(nominee)
- ✦Parker and Hulme(nominee)
- ✦S/he(nominee)
Photography or Visual Arts
- 🏆 Paris was a Woman (winner)
- ✦ Butch/Femme (nominee)
- ✦ Making Love Visible (nominee)
- ✦Fully Exposed — Emmanuel Cooper (nominee)
- ✦Butch/Femme(nominee)
- ✦Making Love Visible(nominee)
Spirituality
- 🏆Wrestling with the Angel — Brian Bouldrey (winner)
- ✦ Gay Fairy Tales (nominee)
- ✦ Queer Spirits (nominee)
- ✦ Freedom, Glorious Freedom (nominee)
- ✦Gay Fairy Tales(nominee)
- ✦Queer Spirits(nominee)
- ✦Freedom, Glorious Freedom(nominee)
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