Lambda Literary Awards 1998
Winners and nominees of the 1998 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Anthology (Fiction)
- 🏆His(2) — Robert Drake (winner)
- 🏆His(2) — Terry Wolverton (winner)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories (nominee)
- ✦Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 — Tristan Taormino(nominee)
- ✦Best American Gay Fiction 2 — Brian Bouldrey (nominee)
- ✦Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life — Christian McEwen (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories(nominee)
Anthology (Non-fiction)
- 🏆Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance — Yolanda Retter (winner)
- ✦Lesbians Raising Sons — Jess Wells (nominee)
- ✦ Gay Men at the Millennium (nominee)
- ✦My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries — Rictor Norton (nominee)
- ✦PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality — Lawrence Schimel(nominee)
- ✦PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality — Carol Queen(nominee)
- ✦Gay Men at the Millennium(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods — Paul Monette(nominee)
- ✦Blue Coyote(nominee)
- ✦ Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian? (nominee)
- ✦ The Shared Heart (nominee)
- ✦Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian?(nominee)
- ✦The Shared Heart(nominee)
Drama
- ✦Three Plays Mae West — Lillian Schlissel (nominee)
- ✦Porcelain & A Language of Their Own — Chay Yew (nominee)
- ✦Monsters in the Closet — Harry M. Benshoff (nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆The Far Euphrates — Aryeh Lev Stollman (winner)
- ✦Gossip — Christopher Bram(nominee)
- ✦The House on Brooke Street — Neil Bartlett(nominee)
- ✦The Farewell Symphony — Edmund White(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆The Poetry of Healing — Rafael Campo (winner)
- ✦A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay — Felice Picano (nominee)
- ✦ Walt Whitman: a Gay Life (nominee)
- ✦ Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self (nominee)
- ✦ Track Conditions (nominee)
- ✦Walt Whitman: a Gay Life(nominee)
- ✦Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self(nominee)
- ✦Track Conditions(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆 The Magician’s Tale (winner)
- ✦Hostage — R. D. Zimmerman (nominee)
- ✦The Burning Plain — Michael Nava(nominee)
- ✦Revision of Justice — John Morgan Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Gossip — Christopher Bram(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Beautiful Signor(winner)
- ✦ Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton (nominee)
- ✦ Desire: Poems 1986-1996 (nominee)
- ✦Bite Hard — Justin Chin (nominee)
- ✦Desire — Frank Bidart (nominee)
- ✦Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton(nominee)
- ✦Desire: Poems 1986-1996(nominee)
Gay Studies
- ✦Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures — Martin Duberman (nominee)
- ✦ Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self (nominee)
- ✦Life Outside – The Signorile Report on Gay Men — Michelangelo Signorile (nominee)
- ✦Gay Metropolis — Charles Kaiser (nominee)
- ✦Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Man — Gabriel Rotello (nominee)
- ✦Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self(nominee)
Humor
- 🏆 Openly Bob (winner)
- ✦ Naked (nominee)
- ✦Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For — Alison Bechdel(nominee)
- ✦Flaming Iguanas — Erika Lopez (nominee)
- ✦Barbie Unbound — Sarah Strohmeyer (nominee)
- ✦Naked(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦ Grave Passions (nominee)
- ✦The Harvest — Perry Brass (nominee)
- ✦The Drag Queen of Elfland — Lawrence Schimel(nominee)
- ✦Monsters in the Closet — Harry M. Benshoff (nominee)
- ✦Grave Passions(nominee)
LGBT Small Press
- 🏆Does Your Mama Know? — Lisa C. Moore (winner)
- ✦Beyond the Pale — Elana Dykewomon (nominee)
- ✦ Toward the New Degeneracy (nominee)
- ✦Bite Hard — Justin Chin (nominee)
- ✦Barbie Unbound — Sarah Strohmeyer (nominee)
- ✦Toward the New Degeneracy(nominee)
Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award
- ✦Billy’s Boy — Patricia Nell Warren(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Beyond the Pale — Elana Dykewomon (winner)
- 🏆 Elana Dykewomon (winner)
- ✦A Crystal Diary — Frankie Hucklenbroich (nominee)
- ✦ Frankie Hucklenbroich (nominee)
- ✦ A/K/A (nominee)
- ✦Prozac Highway — Persimmon Blackbridge (nominee)
- ✦ Persimmon Blackbridge (nominee)
- ✦Terminal Velocity — Blanche McCrary Boyd (nominee)
- ✦ Ruthann Robson (nominee)
- ✦A/K/A(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood (winner)
- ✦ The Last Time I Wore a Dress (nominee)
- ✦ May Sarton: a Biography (nominee)
- ✦Virginia Woolf — Hermione Lee (nominee)
- ✦The Last Time I Wore a Dress(nominee)
- ✦May Sarton: a Biography(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆 Father Forgive Me (winner)
- ✦ No Daughter of the South (nominee)
- ✦Evil Dead Center — Carole LaFavor (nominee)
- ✦Apparition Alley — Katherine V. Forrest(nominee)
- ✦No Daughter of the South(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Cold River — Joan Larkin (winner)
- 🏆School of Fish — Eileen Myles(winner)
- ✦ Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry (nominee)
- ✦Diesel Fuel — Patrick Califia(nominee)
- ✦Poems Between Women — Emma Donoghue(nominee)
- ✦Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry(nominee)
Lesbian Studies
- 🏆Does Your Mama Know? — Lisa C. Moore (winner)
- ✦ Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers (nominee)
- ✦ Queerly Classed (nominee)
- ✦Sex and Sensibility(nominee)
- ✦Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers(nominee)
- ✦Queerly Classed(nominee)
Photography or Visual Arts
- 🏆 Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 (winner)
- ✦Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers — Robert Giard (nominee)
- ✦John Waters: Director’s Cut — John Waters (nominee)
- ✦I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves — Joani Blank (nominee)
- ✦Men Together — Anderson Jones (nominee)
Spirituality
- 🏆Like Bread on the Seder Plate — Rebecca Alpert (winner)
- ✦Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit — Randy P. Conner (nominee)
- ✦Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists — Winston Leyland (nominee)
- ✦The Essential Gay Mystics — Andrew Harvey (nominee)
- ✦Stealing Jesus — Bruce Bawer (nominee)
Transgender Literature
- 🏆 The Last Time I Wore a Dress (winner)
- 🏆PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality — Lawrence Schimel(winner)
- 🏆PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality — Carol Queen(winner)
- ✦Sex Changes — Patrick Califia(nominee)
- ✦Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender — Riki Wilchins (nominee)
- ✦Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos — Annick Prieur (nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Bob Wright (winner)
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