Lambda Literary Awards 2006
Winners and nominees of the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Belles Lettres
- ✦My One Night Stand with Cancer(nominee)
- ✦When I Knew — Tom Bachtell (nominee)
- ✦Tab Hunter Confidential — Tab Hunter (nominee)
- ✦Quicksands: A Memoir — Sybille Bedford (nominee)
Biography
- 🏆 February House (winner)
- ✦ Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin (nominee)
- ✦ Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art (nominee)
- ✦The Fabulous Sylvester — Joshua Gamson (nominee)
- ✦Beyond Recall — Mary Meigs (nominee)
- ✦Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin(nominee)
- ✦Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦And Tango Makes Three — Peter Parnell (nominee)
- ✦Rainbow Road — Alex Sánchez(nominee)
- ✦Totally Joe — James Howe (nominee)
- ✦And Tango Makes Three — Justin Richardson (nominee)
- ✦Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio — Rigoberto González (nominee)
Erotica
- 🏆Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 — Radclyffe(winner)
- ✦ Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica (nominee)
- ✦ Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 (nominee)
- ✦ Close Contact (nominee)
- ✦Best Gay Erotica 2006 — Richard Labonté (nominee)
- ✦Best Gay Erotica 2006 — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)
- ✦Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica(nominee)
- ✦Best Lesbian Erotica 2006(nominee)
- ✦Close Contact(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- 🏆You Are Not the One(winner)
- ✦ Bilal’s Bread (nominee)
- ✦ Setting the Lawn on Fire (nominee)
- ✦The First Verse — Barry McCrea (nominee)
- ✦Mother of Sorrows — Richard McCann (nominee)
- ✦Bilal’s Bread(nominee)
- ✦Setting the Lawn on Fire(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦ Acqua Calda (nominee)
- ✦German Officer’s Boy — Harlan Greene (nominee)
- ✦Faith for Beginners — Aaron Hamburger (nominee)
- ✦Acqua Calda(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆 One of These Things is Not Like the Other (winner)
- ✦ White Tiger (nominee)
- ✦ Cajun Snuff (nominee)
- ✦The Actor’s Guide to Greed — Rick Copp (nominee)
- ✦The Paper Mirror — Roger Margason (nominee)
- ✦White Tiger(nominee)
- ✦Cajun Snuff(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Crush — Richard Siken (winner)
- ✦ Blue on Blue Ground (nominee)
- ✦ For Dust Thou Art (nominee)
- ✦School of the Arts — Mark Doty (nominee)
- ✦Sugar(nominee)
- ✦Blue on Blue Ground(nominee)
- ✦For Dust Thou Art(nominee)
Humor
- 🏆Don’t Get too Comfortable — David Rakoff (winner)
- ✦ Revenge of the Paste Eaters (nominee)
- ✦ Juicy Mother (nominee)
- ✦What the L ? — Kate Clinton (nominee)
- ✦Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For — Alison Bechdel(nominee)
- ✦Revenge of the Paste Eaters(nominee)
- ✦Juicy Mother(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- ✦Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing — E. Lynn Harris(nominee)
- ✦ Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts (nominee)
- ✦ Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men (nominee)
- ✦Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry — Emanuel Xavier (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Pulp Fiction — Katherine V. Forrest(nominee)
- ✦Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts(nominee)
- ✦Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- 🏆Words to Our Now — Thomas Glave (winner)
- ✦Gore Vidal’s America — Dennis Altman (nominee)
- ✦ Raising Boys without Men (nominee)
- ✦ Women Together/Women Apart (nominee)
- ✦Raising Boys without Men(nominee)
- ✦Women Together/Women Apart(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦ No Sister of Mine (nominee)
- ✦Temple Landfall — Jane Fletcher(nominee)
- ✦No Sister of Mine(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David — Susan Ackerman (winner)
- ✦ Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause (nominee)
- ✦Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆 The Beautifully Worthless (winner)
- ✦Manstealing for Fat Girls(nominee)
- ✦Crashing America(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆The Night Watch — Sarah Waters(winner)
- 🏆Babyji — Abha Dawesar(winner)
- 🏆Abha Dawesar(winner)
- ✦With or Without You — Lauren Sanders (nominee)
- ✦ Lauren Sanders (nominee)
- ✦ Wild Dogs (nominee)
- ✦ Helen Humphreys (nominee)
- ✦Five Books of Moses Lapinsky — Aren X. Tulchinsky (nominee)
- ✦ Aren X. Tulchinsky (nominee)
- ✦Wild Dogs(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders — Alicia Gaspar de Alba (winner)
- ✦The Iron Girl — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦Women of Mystery — Katherine V. Forrest(nominee)
- ✦Darkness Descending — Penny Mickelbury (nominee)
- ✦Justice Served — Radclyffe(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Directed by Desire: Collected Poems — June Jordan (winner)
- ✦New and Selected Poems, Volume II — Mary Oliver (nominee)
- ✦Life Mask — Emma Donoghue(nominee)
- ✦Eye of Water — Amber Flora Thomas (nominee)
- ✦Life Mask — Jackie Kay (nominee)
- ✦Where the Apple Falls — Samiya Bashir (nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆Fresh Tracks — Georgia Beers(winner)
Overall
- 🏆Choir Boy — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
Romance
- 🏆Distant Shores, Silent Thunder — Radclyffe(winner)
- ✦Artist’s Dream — Gerri Hill (nominee)
- ✦ The Price of Temptation (nominee)
- ✦Walt Loves the Bearcat — Randy Boyd (nominee)
- ✦The Price of Temptation(nominee)
Spirituality
- 🏆Qu(e)erying Evangelism — Cheri DiNovo (winner)
- ✦ I Am This One Walking Beside Me (nominee)
- ✦ The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades (nominee)
- ✦Fumbling Toward Divinity — Craig Hickman (nominee)
- ✦The Path of the Green Man — Michael Thomas Ford (nominee)
- ✦I Am This One Walking Beside Me(nominee)
- ✦The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades(nominee)
Transgender Literature
- ✦ The Riddle of Gender (nominee)
- ✦Choir Boy — Charlie Anders (nominee)
- ✦ Deliver Me from Nowhere (nominee)
- ✦Just Add Hormones — Matt Kailey (nominee)
- ✦The Riddle of Gender(nominee)
- ✦Deliver Me from Nowhere(nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Dick Ebersol (winner)
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