Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2000

Winners and nominees of the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Anthology (Fiction)

Anthology (Non-fiction)

  • 🏆 This Is What Lesbian Looks Like (winner)
  • ✦A Woman Like That — Joan Larkin (nominee)
  • ✦Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics — Larry Gross (nominee)
  • ✦Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics — James D. Woods (nominee)
  • ✦Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia — Steve Hogan (nominee)
  • ✦Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia — Lee Hudson (nominee)
  • ✦ Fighting Words (nominee)
  • ✦Fighting Words(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • 🏆Hard Love — Ellen Wittlinger (winner)
  • ✦ The Blue Lawn (nominee)
  • ✦Dare Truth or Promise — Paula Boock (nominee)
  • ✦Name Me Nobody — Lois-Ann Yamanaka (nominee)
  • ✦The Year They Burned the Books — Nancy Garden (nominee)
  • ✦The Blue Lawn(nominee)

Drama

  • ✦Lovesick — Laurence Senelick (nominee)
  • ✦ Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (nominee)
  • ✦ Of All the Nerve (nominee)
  • ✦Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism(nominee)
  • ✦Of All the Nerve(nominee)

Gay Fiction

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • 🏆 The Velveteen Father (winner)
  • ✦Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion — Martin Duberman (nominee)
  • ✦Firebird: A Memoir — Mark Doty (nominee)
  • ✦Gore Vidal — Fred Kaplan (nominee)
  • ✦An Underground Life — Gad Beck (nominee)

Gay Mystery

  • 🏆Justice at Risk — John Morgan Wilson (winner)
  • ✦Innuendo — R. D. Zimmerman (nominee)
  • ✦Drop Dead — Mark Richard Zubro(nominee)
  • ✦The Death of a Constant Lover — Lev Raphael(nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • 🏆Trappings — Richard Howard (winner)
  • 🏆The Anchorage(winner)
  • ✦ Last Rights (nominee)
  • ✦Lyric — G. Winston James (nominee)
  • ✦Diva — Rafael Campo (nominee)
  • ✦Last Rights(nominee)

Gay Studies

  • 🏆 Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (winner)
  • ✦ Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (nominee)
  • ✦ The Mismeasure of Desire (nominee)
  • ✦The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood — David Groff (nominee)
  • ✦Men Like That: A Southern Queer History(nominee)
  • ✦The Mismeasure of Desire(nominee)

Humor

  • 🏆 That’s Mr. Faggot To You (winner)
  • ✦Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies — Scott Brassart (nominee)
  • ✦Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies — Julie K. Trevelyan (nominee)
  • ✦ Way to Go Smith! (nominee)
  • ✦Subgurlz — Jennifer Camper (nominee)
  • ✦Ethan Exposed — Eric Orner (nominee)
  • ✦Way to Go Smith!(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

  • ✦Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women — Victoria Brownworth (nominee)
  • ✦Minions of the Moon — Richard Bowe (nominee)

LGBT Small Press

  • 🏆 Massage (winner)
  • ✦ Hey Paesan! (nominee)
  • ✦ The Queer Press Guide (nominee)
  • ✦ Mr. Dalloway (nominee)
  • ✦Christ-Like — Emanuel Xavier (nominee)
  • ✦Hey Paesan!(nominee)
  • ✦The Queer Press Guide(nominee)
  • ✦Mr. Dalloway(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • 🏆Tipping the Velvet — Sarah Waters(winner)
  • 🏆Sarah Waters(winner)
  • ✦ Barbara Wilson (nominee)
  • ✦Shy Girl — Elizabeth Stark (nominee)
  • ✦ Salt Water and Other Stories (nominee)
  • ✦ Bruised Fruit (nominee)
  • ✦Jeanette Winterson(nominee)
  • ✦Faults — (Mary) Terri De la Peña (nominee)
  • ✦ (Mary) Terri De la Peña (nominee)
  • ✦ Anna Livia Julian Brawn (nominee)
  • ✦Salt Water and Other Stories(nominee)
  • ✦Bruised Fruit(nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • 🏆The Trials of Radclyffe Hall — Diana Souhami (winner)
  • ✦ Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2: 1933-1938 (nominee)
  • ✦ Baby Precious Always Shines (nominee)
  • ✦My Lesbian Husband — Barrie Jean Borich (nominee)
  • ✦Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2: 1933-1938(nominee)
  • ✦Baby Precious Always Shines(nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

Lesbian Poetry

  • 🏆Rave — Olga Broumas (winner)
  • ✦ Midnight Salvage (nominee)
  • ✦Interior With Sudden Joy — Brenda Shaughnessy (nominee)
  • ✦Walking Back Up Depot Street — Minnie Bruce Pratt (nominee)
  • ✦Monkeypuzzle — Rita Wong (nominee)
  • ✦Midnight Salvage(nominee)

Lesbian Studies

  • ✦ Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 (nominee)
  • ✦ A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (nominee)
  • ✦To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America — Lillian Faderman(nominee)
  • ✦The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us — Felice Newman (nominee)
  • ✦Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969(nominee)
  • ✦A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America(nominee)

Photography or Visual Arts

  • 🏆 Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (winner)
  • ✦The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev — David Leddick (nominee)
  • ✦Strange Sisters — Jaye Zimet (nominee)
  • ✦ John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes (nominee)
  • ✦The Drag King Book — Jack Halberstam (nominee)
  • ✦The Drag King Book — Del LaGrace Volcano (nominee)
  • ✦John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes(nominee)

Spirituality

  • 🏆 Gay Spirit Warrior (winner)
  • ✦ Prayer Warriors (nominee)
  • ✦Respecting the Soul — Keith Boykin (nominee)
  • ✦Prayer Warriors(nominee)

Transgender Literature

  • ✦ From Toads to Queens (nominee)
  • ✦ Crossing (nominee)
  • ✦The Drag King Book — Jack Halberstam (nominee)
  • ✦The Drag King Book — Del LaGrace Volcano (nominee)
  • ✦From Toads to Queens(nominee)
  • ✦Crossing(nominee)

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