Lambda Literary Awards 2008
Winners and nominees of the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Arts and Culture
- ✦Art That Dares — Kittredge Cherry (nominee)
- ✦ Matthew Hays (nominee)
- ✦Other Men’s Sons — Michael Rowe (nominee)
- ✦Media Queered — Kevin G. Barnhurst (nominee)
Bisexual Literature
- 🏆Split Screen — Brent Hartinger(winner)
- ✦ Becoming Visible (nominee)
- ✦ Stray (nominee)
- ✦Look Both Ways — Jennifer Baumgardner (nominee)
- ✦The Tourists — Jeff Hobbs (nominee)
- ✦Becoming Visible(nominee)
- ✦Stray(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆Hero — Perry Moore (winner)
- ✦ Saints of Augustine (nominee)
- ✦Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You — Peter Cameron (nominee)
- ✦Freak Show — James St. James (nominee)
- ✦Saints of Augustine(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆Return to the Caffe Cino — George Birimisa (winner)
- ✦ Dose: Plays & Monologues (nominee)
- ✦Dose: Plays & Monologues(nominee)
Erotica
- ✦The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica — Victoria Brownworth (nominee)
- ✦Red Light — J. D. Glass (nominee)
- ✦ Ardennian Boy (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica — Lawrence Schimel(nominee)
- ✦Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica — Simon Sheppard (nominee)
- ✦Ardennian Boy(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- 🏆A Push and a Shove — Christopher Kelly (winner)
- ✦ That Was Then (nominee)
- ✦Freak Show — James St. James (nominee)
- ✦That Was Then(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦First Person Plural — Andrew W. M. Beierle (nominee)
- ✦ The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (nominee)
- ✦The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆Mississippi Sissy(winner)
- ✦ Forgiving Troy (nominee)
- ✦ The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (nominee)
- ✦Dog Years — Mark Doty (nominee)
- ✦The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory — Kenny Fries (nominee)
- ✦What Becomes You — Aaron Raz Link (nominee)
- ✦Forgiving Troy(nominee)
- ✦The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆 Murder in the Rue Chartres (winner)
- ✦ Pierce (nominee)
- ✦Drag Queen in the Court of Death — Caro Soles (nominee)
- ✦Stain of the Berry — Anthony Bidulka (nominee)
- ✦Mahu Surfer(nominee)
- ✦Pierce(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆 Changing Tides (winner)
- ✦ Right Side of the Wrong Bed (nominee)
- ✦ A Few Hints and Clews (nominee)
- ✦A Secret Edge(nominee)
- ✦Broadway Nights — Seth Rudetsky (nominee)
- ✦Right Side of the Wrong Bed(nominee)
- ✦A Few Hints and Clews(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- 🏆First Person Queer — Richard Labonté (winner)
- 🏆First Person Queer — Lawrence Schimel(winner)
- ✦ Vital Signs (nominee)
- ✦ Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense (nominee)
- ✦Juicy Mother 2 — Jennifer Camper (nominee)
- ✦Baby Remember My Name — Michelle Tea(nominee)
- ✦Vital Signs(nominee)
- ✦Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- ✦ Pink Harvest (nominee)
- ✦Between Women — Sharon Marcus (nominee)
- ✦Imagining Transgender — David Valentine (nominee)
- ✦Other Men’s Sons — Michael Rowe (nominee)
- ✦Gay Artists in Modern American Culture — Michael S. Sherry (nominee)
- ✦Pink Harvest(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦A Companion to Wolves — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦A Companion to Wolves — Sarah Monette(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆Between Women — Sharon Marcus (winner)
- ✦ Writing Desire (nominee)
- ✦ Caribbean Pleasure Industry (nominee)
- ✦Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual — Robert Reid-Pharr (nominee)
- ✦Writing Desire(nominee)
- ✦Caribbean Pleasure Industry(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- ✦ Lockjaw (nominee)
- ✦ Breathing Underwater (nominee)
- ✦Dahlia Season — Myriam Gurba (nominee)
- ✦Lockjaw(nominee)
- ✦Breathing Underwater(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- 🏆Radclyffe(winner)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆The IHOP Papers — Ali Liebegott(winner)
- ✦The Mandrake Broom — Jess Wells (nominee)
- ✦ Jess Wells (nominee)
- ✦Greetings from Jamaica — Mari SanGiovanni (nominee)
- ✦ Mari SanGiovanni (nominee)
- ✦ The Child (nominee)
- ✦Emma Donoghue(nominee)
- ✦Sarah Schulman(nominee)
- ✦The Kind of Girl I Am — Julia Watts(nominee)
- ✦Julia Watts(nominee)
- ✦Biting the Apple — Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
- ✦ Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
- ✦The Child(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 And Now We Are Going to Have a Party (winner)
- ✦An Army of Ex-Lovers — Amy Hoffman (nominee)
- ✦ Comfort Food for Breakups (nominee)
- ✦Waiting for the Call — Jacqueline Taylor (nominee)
- ✦Comfort Food for Breakups(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆 Wall of Silence (winner)
- ✦In the Name of the Father — Gerri Hill (nominee)
- ✦Laura’s War(nominee)
- ✦ Selective Memory (nominee)
- ✦ Mortal Groove (nominee)
- ✦Selective Memory(nominee)
- ✦Mortal Groove(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆 Out of Love (winner)
- ✦For Now, for Always — Marianne K. Martin (nominee)
- ✦The Road Home — Frankie J. Jones (nominee)
- ✦Sheridan’s Fate — Gun Brooke (nominee)
- ✦The Road Home — Michael Thomas Ford (nominee)
- ✦When Dreams Tremble — Radclyffe(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆 Magdalena Zurawski (winner)
Poetry
- 🏆Blackbird and Wolf — Henri Cole (winner)
- ✦A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering — Dawn Lundy Martin (nominee)
- ✦The Second Person — C. Dale Young (nominee)
- ✦Otherwise Obedient — Carol Potter (nominee)
- ✦Human Resources — Rachel Zolf (nominee)
- ✦Fata Morgana — Reginald Shepherd (nominee)
Spirituality
- 🏆 The After-Death Room (winner)
- ✦ Mobius Trip (nominee)
- ✦Spirited — G. Winston James (nominee)
- ✦Sex & the Sacred — Daniel A. Helminiak (nominee)
- ✦Spirited — Lisa Moore (nominee)
- ✦The Singing of Swans — Mary Saracino (nominee)
- ✦Mobius Trip(nominee)
Transgender Literature
- ✦ Male Bodies, Women’s Souls (nominee)
- ✦The Marrow’s Telling — Eli Clare (nominee)
- ✦Nobody Passes — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)
- ✦What Becomes You — Aaron Raz Link (nominee)
- ✦Male Bodies, Women’s Souls(nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Judy McGrath (winner)
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