Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2002

Winners and nominees of the 2002 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Anthology (Fiction)

  • ✦Love Shook My Heart 2 — Jess Wells (nominee)
  • ✦ Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors (nominee)
  • ✦Diva Book of Short Stories — Helen Sandler (nominee)
  • ✦Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America — Hanya Yanagihara(nominee)
  • ✦Reading the Landscape: Horror — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
  • ✦Reading the Landscape: Horror(nominee)
  • ✦Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors(nominee)

Anthology (Non-fiction)

  • 🏆 The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities (winner)
  • ✦In a Queer Country — Terry Goldie (nominee)
  • ✦ His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers (nominee)
  • ✦Out in the Castro — Winston Leyland (nominee)
  • ✦Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation — Rebecca Alpert (nominee)
  • ✦His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers(nominee)

Autobiography or Memoir

  • ✦ Outbound (nominee)
  • ✦ How I Learned to Snap (nominee)
  • ✦Monster: Adventures in American Machismo — Brian Bouldrey (nominee)
  • ✦Gaslight — Carol Guess (nominee)
  • ✦Outbound(nominee)
  • ✦How I Learned to Snap(nominee)

Biography

  • 🏆The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin — Barry Werth (winner)
  • ✦ The Masks of Mary Renault (nominee)
  • ✦Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson — Alison Lurie(nominee)
  • ✦The Sappho Companion — Margaret Reynolds (nominee)
  • ✦The Masks of Mary Renault(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

Erotica

  • 🏆 See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (winner)
  • ✦Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica — Lori Selke (nominee)
  • ✦ Dirty Words (nominee)
  • ✦His Tongue — Lawrence Schimel(nominee)
  • ✦Hot & Bothered 3 — Aren X. Tulchinsky (nominee)
  • ✦Dirty Words(nominee)

Gay Fiction

Gay Mystery

  • 🏆Rag and Bone — Michael Nava(winner)
  • ✦Boy Toy — Michael Craft (nominee)
  • ✦Making a Killing — Warren Dunford (nominee)
  • ✦The Butcher’s Son — Roger Margason (nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • 🏆 Source (winner)
  • ✦ Before Time Could Change Them (nominee)
  • ✦Harmless Medicine — Justin Chin (nominee)
  • ✦Hard Evidence — Timothy Liu (nominee)
  • ✦Love Speaks Its Name — J. D. McClatchy (nominee)
  • ✦Before Time Could Change Them(nominee)

Humor

  • 🏆Fraud — David Rakoff (winner)
  • ✦ The Inflatable Butch (nominee)
  • ✦ Drama Queen (nominee)
  • ✦ My Little Book of Neuroses (nominee)
  • ✦Hoochie Mama — Erika Lopez (nominee)
  • ✦The Inflatable Butch(nominee)
  • ✦Drama Queen(nominee)
  • ✦My Little Book of Neuroses(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

LGBT Small Press

  • 🏆Conversaciones! — Mariana Romo Carmona (winner)
  • ✦The Wild Man — Patricia Nell Warren(nominee)
  • ✦ Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human (nominee)
  • ✦Calendar Boy — Andy Quan (nominee)
  • ✦Creating Man — Michael G. Cornelius (nominee)
  • ✦Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human(nominee)

LGBT Studies

  • ✦Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court — Joyce Murdoch (nominee)
  • ✦Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties — Gay Wachman (nominee)
  • ✦ The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s (nominee)
  • ✦All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America — Suzanna Danuta Walters (nominee)
  • ✦Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 — William J. Mann(nominee)
  • ✦The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • 🏆 Days of Awe (winner)
  • 🏆Fingersmith — Sarah Waters(winner)
  • 🏆Days of Awe — Achy Obejas (winner)
  • ✦Yin Fire — Alexandra Grilikhes (nominee)
  • ✦ Alexandra Grilikhes (nominee)
  • ✦Light, Coming Back — Ann Wadsworth (nominee)
  • ✦ Ann Wadsworth (nominee)
  • ✦ Pages for You (nominee)
  • ✦Sylvia Brownrigg(nominee)
  • ✦Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat — Erika Lopez (nominee)
  • ✦ Erika Lopez (nominee)
  • ✦Pages for You(nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

  • 🏆Merchant of Venus — Ellen Hart(winner)
  • ✦Witchfire — Lauren Maddison (nominee)
  • ✦ Back to Salem (nominee)
  • ✦Moving Targets — Pat Welch (nominee)
  • ✦Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy(nominee)
  • ✦Back to Salem(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • 🏆Fox — Adrienne Rich (winner)
  • ✦ Why Things Burn (nominee)
  • ✦ Here (nominee)
  • ✦ Mr. Bluebird (nominee)
  • ✦Skies — Eileen Myles(nominee)
  • ✦Why Things Burn(nominee)
  • ✦Here(nominee)
  • ✦Mr. Bluebird(nominee)

Overall

  • 🏆 Ellen Bass (winner)

Photography or Visual Arts

  • 🏆Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 — David L. Deitcher (winner)
  • ✦Male Nude Now — David Leddick (nominee)
  • ✦ Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon (nominee)
  • ✦Intimacies — Tee Corinne (nominee)
  • ✦Queer Pulp — Susan Stryker(nominee)
  • ✦Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon(nominee)

Romance

  • 🏆 Pages for You (winner)
  • ✦Vadriel Vail — Vincent Virga (nominee)
  • ✦Mirrors — Marianne K. Martin (nominee)
  • ✦ Any Kind of Luck (nominee)
  • ✦Any Kind of Luck(nominee)

Spirituality

  • 🏆Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible — Ken Stone (winner)
  • ✦Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian — Vanessa Sheridan (nominee)
  • ✦ Bernard Duncan Mayes (nominee)
  • ✦ Coming Out Young and Faithful (nominee)
  • ✦ Gifted by Otherness (nominee)
  • ✦Coming Out Young and Faithful(nominee)
  • ✦Gifted by Otherness(nominee)

Transgender or Bisexual Literature

  • ✦Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian — Vanessa Sheridan (nominee)
  • ✦ Synthetic Bi Products (nominee)
  • ✦Dragged!! To His Senses — Jonathan Branton (nominee)
  • ✦Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach — Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (nominee)
  • ✦Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 — Carol Queen(nominee)
  • ✦Synthetic Bi Products(nominee)

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