Lambda Literary Awards 2005
Winners and nominees of the 2005 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Anthology (Fiction)
- ✦ Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004 (nominee)
- ✦Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person — Clint Catalyst (nominee)
- ✦Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction — Donald Weise (nominee)
- ✦The Milk of Human Kindness — Lori L. Lake (nominee)
- ✦Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person — Michelle Tea(nominee)
- ✦Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories(nominee)
- ✦Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004(nominee)
Anthology (Non-fiction)
- ✦Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer — Angela Brown (nominee)
- ✦I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage — Ian Philips (nominee)
- ✦I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage — Greg Wharton (nominee)
- ✦ Wonderlands (nominee)
- ✦Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative — Gail Scott (nominee)
- ✦That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)
- ✦Wonderlands(nominee)
Autobiography or Memoir
- ✦Blue Days, Black Nights — Ron Nyswaner (nominee)
- ✦The Tomcat Chronicles — Jack Nichols (nominee)
- ✦Long Life — Mary Oliver (nominee)
- ✦Rent Girl — Michelle Tea(nominee)
Biography
- 🏆Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde — Alexis De Veaux (winner)
- ✦ Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology (nominee)
- ✦Jerome Robbins — Deborah Jowitt (nominee)
- ✦Both: A Portrait in Two Parts — Douglas Crase (nominee)
- ✦Alice Walker: A Life — Evelyn C. White (nominee)
- ✦Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆So Hard to Say — Alex Sánchez(winner)
- ✦Orphea Proud — Sharon Dennis Wyeth (nominee)
- ✦ Luna (nominee)
- ✦ Rosemary and Juliet (nominee)
- ✦Luna(nominee)
- ✦Rosemary and Juliet(nominee)
Drama
- ✦How to Make Dances in an Epidemic — David Gere (nominee)
- ✦ love conjure/blues (nominee)
- ✦ Fabulous! (nominee)
- ✦The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater — Claude J. Summers (nominee)
- ✦love conjure/blues(nominee)
- ✦Fabulous!(nominee)
Erotica
- 🏆Radclyffe(winner)
- ✦Best Gay Erotica 2005 — Richard Labonté (nominee)
- ✦Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex — Rachel Kramer Bussel (nominee)
- ✦Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 — Tristan Taormino(nominee)
- ✦Once Upon a Dyke — Julia Watts(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- ✦ How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater (nominee)
- ✦ A Son Called Gabriel (nominee)
- ✦World Famous Love Acts — Brian Leung (nominee)
- ✦How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater(nominee)
- ✦A Son Called Gabriel(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆The Master — Colm Tóibín(winner)
- ✦ Collage (nominee)
- ✦The Disinherited(nominee)
- ✦Collage(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆Flight of Aquavit — Anthony Bidulka (winner)
- ✦ Moth and Flame (nominee)
- ✦ Someone You Know (nominee)
- ✦Jackson Square Jazz — Greg Herren (nominee)
- ✦The Role Players — Roger Margason (nominee)
- ✦Moth and Flame(nominee)
- ✦Someone You Know(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Written in Water — Luis Cernuda (winner)
- ✦ nothin’ ugly fly (nominee)
- ✦Cocktails — D. A. Powell (nominee)
- ✦Voluntary Servitude(nominee)
- ✦nothin’ ugly fly(nominee)
Humor
- 🏆Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris (winner)
- ✦ Alexander the Fabulous (nominee)
- ✦ Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs (nominee)
- ✦Alexander the Fabulous(nominee)
- ✦Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- 🏆The Ordinary — Jim Grimsley(winner)
- ✦Wizard of Isis(nominee)
- ✦ Firelands (nominee)
- ✦Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual — Greg Herren (nominee)
- ✦With Her Body — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
- ✦Firelands(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town(winner)
- ✦ A Passion to Preserve (nominee)
- ✦Why Marriage Matters — Evan Wolfson (nominee)
- ✦Families Like Mine — Abigail Garner (nominee)
- ✦All-Night Party — Andrea Barnet (nominee)
- ✦A Passion to Preserve(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆Crybaby Butch — Judith Frank (winner)
- ✦ Dish It Up, Baby! (nominee)
- ✦ Fire & Brimstone (nominee)
- ✦ Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey (nominee)
- ✦ Death by Discount (nominee)
- ✦Dish It Up, Baby!(nominee)
- ✦Fire & Brimstone(nominee)
- ✦Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey(nominee)
- ✦Death by Discount(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆A Seahorse Year — Stacey D'Erasmo (winner)
- 🏆 Stacey D'Erasmo (winner)
- ✦ Susan Stinson (nominee)
- ✦Skels — Maggie Dubris (nominee)
- ✦ Maggie Dubris (nominee)
- ✦Jeanette Winterson(nominee)
- ✦Life Mask — Emma Donoghue(nominee)
- ✦Emma Donoghue(nominee)
- ✦Life Mask — Jackie Kay (nominee)
- ✦Abundant Light — Valerie Miner (nominee)
- ✦ Valerie Miner (nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆Hancock Park — Katherine V. Forrest(winner)
- ✦ Death by Discount (nominee)
- ✦ Commitment to Die (nominee)
- ✦ An Intimate Ghost (nominee)
- ✦ The Wombat Strategy (nominee)
- ✦Death by Discount(nominee)
- ✦Commitment to Die(nominee)
- ✦An Intimate Ghost(nominee)
- ✦The Wombat Strategy(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Sweet to Burn — Beverly Burch (winner)
- ✦ Antidotes for an Alibi (nominee)
- ✦ The School Among the Ruins (nominee)
- ✦Femme’s Dictionary — Carol Guess (nominee)
- ✦Antidotes for an Alibi(nominee)
- ✦The School Among the Ruins(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆The Sluts — Dennis Cooper(winner)
Photography or Visual Arts
- 🏆 At Ease: Navy Men of World War II (winner)
- ✦ Lust Unearthed (nominee)
- ✦The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts — Claude J. Summers (nominee)
- ✦The Queer Movie Poster Book — Jenni Olson (nominee)
- ✦Rent Girl — Michelle Tea(nominee)
- ✦Lust Unearthed(nominee)
Romance
- 🏆Radclyffe(winner)
- ✦Gulf Breeze — Gerri Hill (nominee)
- ✦ Confessions of a Casanova (nominee)
- ✦ Under the Witness Tree (nominee)
- ✦Confessions of a Casanova(nominee)
- ✦Under the Witness Tree(nominee)
Spirituality
- 🏆 Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love (winner)
- ✦Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions — David Hatfield Sparks (nominee)
- ✦Sanctity and Male Desire — Donald L. Boisvert (nominee)
- ✦Wrestling with God & Men — Steven Greenberg (nominee)
Transgender Literature
- 🏆The Gender Frontier(winner)
- ✦From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond — Morty Diamond (nominee)
- ✦ Luna (nominee)
- ✦ Becoming a Visible Man (nominee)
- ✦My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser — Helen Boyd (nominee)
- ✦Luna(nominee)
- ✦Becoming a Visible Man(nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Bob Iger (winner)
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