Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 1997

Winners and nominees of the 1997 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Anthology (Fiction)

  • 🏆Women on Women 3 — Naomi Holoch (winner)
  • ✦Night Bites — Victoria Brownworth (nominee)
  • ✦Shade — Charles H. Rowell (nominee)
  • ✦Go the Way Your Blood Beats — Shawn Stewart Ruff (nominee)
  • ✦Men on Men 6 — David Bergman (nominee)
  • ✦Shade — Bruce Morrow (nominee)

Anthology (Non-fiction)

  • 🏆Taking Liberties — Michael Bronski (winner)
  • ✦ Generation Q (nominee)
  • ✦Off the Rag — Lee Lynch(nominee)
  • ✦Boys Like Us(nominee)
  • ✦Beyond Queer — Bruce Bawer (nominee)
  • ✦Generation Q(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • 🏆Good Moon Rising — Nancy Garden (winner)
  • ✦ My Dad Has HIV (nominee)
  • ✦Daddy’s Wedding — Michael Willhoite (nominee)
  • ✦Free Your Mind — Ellen Bass (nominee)
  • ✦The World Out There — Michael Thomas Ford (nominee)
  • ✦My Dad Has HIV(nominee)

Drama

  • 🏆Split Britches — Sue-Ellen Case (winner)
  • ✦ Amazon All-Stars (nominee)
  • ✦Clit Notes — Holly Hughes (nominee)
  • ✦Three Plays by Crowley — Mart Crowley (nominee)
  • ✦Amazon All-Stars(nominee)

Gay Fiction

  • ✦ Iowa (nominee)
  • ✦Funny Boy — Shyam Selvadural (nominee)
  • ✦Pagan’s Father — Michael Arditti (nominee)
  • ✦Iowa(nominee)

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • 🏆Geography of the Heart — Fenton Johnson (winner)
  • ✦ Truth Serum (nominee)
  • ✦Heaven’s Coast — Mark Doty (nominee)
  • ✦Spells of a Voodoo Doll — Assotto Saint (nominee)
  • ✦Truth Serum(nominee)

Gay Mystery

  • ✦Tribe — R. D. Zimmerman (nominee)
  • ✦Simple Justice — John Morgan Wilson (nominee)
  • ✦Time to Check Out — Grant Michaels (nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • 🏆What the Body Told — Rafael Campo (winner)
  • ✦ My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca (nominee)
  • ✦ Angel, Interrupted (nominee)
  • ✦Anesthesia — Kenny Fries (nominee)
  • ✦Eros in Boystown — Michael Lassell (nominee)
  • ✦My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca(nominee)
  • ✦Angel, Interrupted(nominee)

Gay Studies

  • 🏆Boys Like Us(winner)
  • ✦Cracks in the Iron Closet — David Tuller (nominee)
  • ✦ Farm Boys (nominee)
  • ✦Farm Boys(nominee)

Humor

  • ✦ Lesbianism Made Easy (nominee)
  • ✦So You Want to be a Lesbian? — Sydney Pokorny (nominee)
  • ✦Kurt Cobain & Mozart are Both Dead — Tim Barela (nominee)
  • ✦Lesbianism Made Easy(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

  • ✦Sons of Darkness — Thomas S. Roche (nominee)
  • ✦Women Who Run With Werewolves — Pam Keesey (nominee)
  • ✦ Swords of the Rainbow (nominee)
  • ✦Sons of Darkness — Michael Rowe (nominee)
  • ✦Swords of the Rainbow(nominee)

LGBT Small Press

  • ✦ Mythomania (nominee)
  • ✦Shit of God — Diamanda Galás (nominee)
  • ✦Lesbian Polyfidelity — Celeste West (nominee)
  • ✦Mythomania(nominee)

Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award

  • ✦Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 — Donald Windham (nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • 🏆Memory Mambo — Achy Obejas (winner)
  • 🏆 Achy Obejas (winner)
  • ✦Toward Amnesia — Sarah Van Arsdale (nominee)
  • ✦ Sarah Van Arsdale (nominee)
  • ✦ Barbara Wilson (nominee)
  • ✦ If You Had a Family (nominee)
  • ✦What Keeps Me Here — Rebecca Brown(nominee)
  • ✦Rebecca Brown(nominee)
  • ✦Seven Moves — Carol Anshaw (nominee)
  • ✦ Carol Anshaw (nominee)
  • ✦If You Had a Family(nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • 🏆Life in a Day — Doris Grumbach (winner)
  • ✦Accidental Activist — Candace Gingrich (nominee)
  • ✦The White Blackbird — Honor Moore (nominee)
  • ✦Coming Home to America(nominee)
  • ✦Eva Le Gallienne — Helen Sheehy (nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

  • 🏆Robber’s Wine — Ellen Hart(winner)
  • ✦ Inner Circle (nominee)
  • ✦ Final Take (nominee)
  • ✦ Baby, It’s Cold (nominee)
  • ✦Liberty Square — Katherine V. Forrest(nominee)
  • ✦Inner Circle(nominee)
  • ✦Final Take(nominee)
  • ✦Baby, It’s Cold(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • 🏆Furious Cooking — Maureen Seaton (winner)
  • 🏆All-American Girl — Robin Becker (winner)
  • ✦Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. — Samuel Ace (nominee)
  • ✦ Arc of Love (nominee)
  • ✦ Shift (nominee)
  • ✦Arc of Love(nominee)
  • ✦Shift(nominee)

Lesbian Studies

  • 🏆 Love Between Women (winner)
  • ✦Girls Next Door — Pamela Brandt (nominee)
  • ✦ Surface Tension (nominee)
  • ✦Sappho and the Virgin Mary — Ruth Vanita (nominee)
  • ✦Surface Tension(nominee)

Overall

  • 🏆 Elana Dykewomon (winner)
  • 🏆 Joan Larkin (winner)

Photography or Visual Arts

  • 🏆Nothing But the Girl — Susie Bright (winner)
  • 🏆Nothing But the Girl — Jill Posener (winner)
  • ✦Sunnybrook — Persimmon Blackbridge (nominee)
  • ✦Derek Jarman’s Garden — Derek Jarman (nominee)
  • ✦Gay by the Bay — Susan Stryker(nominee)

Spirituality

  • 🏆 The Good Book (winner)
  • ✦ We Were Baptized Too (nominee)
  • ✦ The Preacher’s Son (nominee)
  • ✦Journeys & Arrivals — Lev Raphael(nominee)
  • ✦Congregations in Conflict — Keith Hartman (nominee)
  • ✦We Were Baptized Too(nominee)
  • ✦The Preacher’s Son(nominee)

Transgender Literature

  • ✦Gender Shock(nominee)
  • ✦ Lieutenant Nun (nominee)
  • ✦ Honey, Honey Miss Thang (nominee)
  • ✦Transgender Warriors — Leslie Feinberg(nominee)
  • ✦Lieutenant Nun(nominee)
  • ✦Honey, Honey Miss Thang(nominee)

Trustees Award

  • 🏆 Sumner Redstone (winner)

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