Lambda Literary Awards 2009
Winners and nominees of the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Literature
- 🏆Open — Jenny Block (winner)
- ✦ Rimbaud (nominee)
- ✦Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire — Lisa M. Diamond (nominee)
- ✦Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey — Ron Suresha (nominee)
- ✦The Bishop’s Daughter — Honor Moore (nominee)
- ✦Rimbaud(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆Out of the Pocket — Bill Konigsberg (winner)
- ✦ Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel (nominee)
- ✦Mousetraps(nominee)
- ✦Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story — Ellen Wittlinger (nominee)
- ✦Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆The Second Coming of Joan of Arc — Carolyn Gage (winner)
- ✦Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays — Martin Duberman (nominee)
- ✦ Phi Alpha Gamma (nominee)
- ✦ Vile Affections (nominee)
- ✦ Two Truths and a Lie (nominee)
- ✦Phi Alpha Gamma(nominee)
- ✦Vile Affections(nominee)
- ✦Two Truths and a Lie(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- 🏆Finlater — Shawn Stewart Ruff (winner)
- ✦ The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second (nominee)
- ✦ The Steve Machine (nominee)
- ✦Shuck — Daniel Allen Cox (nominee)
- ✦The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second(nominee)
- ✦The Steve Machine(nominee)
Gay Erotica
- ✦The Secret Tunnel — James Lear (nominee)
- ✦Best Gay Erotica 2009 — Richard Labonté (nominee)
- ✦Hard Working Men — Victor J. Banis(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆We Disappear — Scott Heim (winner)
- ✦The Boomerang Kid — Jay Quinn (nominee)
- ✦The Conversion — Joseph Olshan (nominee)
- ✦Stray Dog Winter — David Francis (nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love — Sheila Rowbotham (winner)
- ✦ Assisted Loving (nominee)
- ✦ Bringing Him Home (nominee)
- ✦Swish — Joel Derfner (nominee)
- ✦King of Shadows(nominee)
- ✦Assisted Loving(nominee)
- ✦Bringing Him Home(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆First You Fall — Scott Sherman (winner)
- ✦ The Fisher Boy (nominee)
- ✦Spider Season — John Morgan Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Sundowner Ubuntu — Anthony Bidulka (nominee)
- ✦Mahu Fire(nominee)
- ✦The Fisher Boy(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆 Now You’re the Enemy (winner)
- 🏆Fire to Fire — Mark Doty (winner)
- ✦Please — Jericho Brown (nominee)
- ✦My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer — Kevin Killian(nominee)
- ✦Want — Rick Barot (nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆 Got ’til it’s Gone (winner)
- ✦ The Protector (nominee)
- ✦Mexican Heat — Josh Lanyon (nominee)
- ✦The Protector(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- 🏆Our Caribbean — Thomas Glave (winner)
- ✦Love, West Hollywood — James J. Berg (nominee)
- ✦ Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing (nominee)
- ✦ A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing(nominee)
- ✦A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- 🏆Loving The Difficult — Jane Rule(winner)
- ✦Drifting Toward Love — Kai Wright (nominee)
- ✦ Me as Her Again (nominee)
- ✦ Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 (nominee)
- ✦Beyond (Straight & Gay Marriage) — Nancy Polikoff (nominee)
- ✦If I Could Write This in Fire — Michelle Cliff (nominee)
- ✦Me as Her Again(nominee)
- ✦Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- 🏆Turnskin — Nicole Kimberling (winner)
- ✦ The Archer’s Heart (nominee)
- ✦Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories — Craig Laurance Gidney (nominee)
- ✦Wilde Stories 2008 — Steve Berman (nominee)
- ✦The Archer’s Heart(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality — Regina Kunzel (winner)
- ✦The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington — Amin Ghaziani (nominee)
- ✦ Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History (nominee)
- ✦Screening Sex — Linda Williams (nominee)
- ✦Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform — Kevin P. Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆The Bruise — Magdalena Zurawski (winner)
- ✦Red Audrey & the Roping — Jill Malone (nominee)
- ✦ Closer to Fine (nominee)
- ✦Passing for Black — Linda Villarosa (nominee)
- ✦Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind — Chavisa Woods (nominee)
- ✦Closer to Fine(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- 🏆In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip — Radclyffe(winner)
- ✦Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures — Lynne Jamneck (nominee)
- ✦Lipstick on Her Collar — Rakelle Valencia (nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆All the Pretty Girls — Chandra Mayor (winner)
- 🏆 Chandra Mayor (winner)
- 🏆The Sealed Letter — Emma Donoghue(winner)
- 🏆Emma Donoghue(winner)
- ✦ Stephanie Grant (nominee)
- ✦Breaking Spirit Bridge — Ruth Perkinson (nominee)
- ✦ Ruth Perkinson (nominee)
- ✦ Map of Ireland (nominee)
- ✦The Slow Fix — Ivan Coyote (nominee)
- ✦Map of Ireland(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir — Maureen Seaton (winner)
- ✦Sex Variant Woman — Joanne Passet (nominee)
- ✦Case of a Lifetime — Abbe Smith (nominee)
- ✦Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy — Susan Griffin (nominee)
- ✦Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) — Thea Hillman (nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆 Whacked (winner)
- ✦ Calling the Dead (nominee)
- ✦ Losers Weepers (nominee)
- ✦Sweet Poison — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦Calling the Dead(nominee)
- ✦Losers Weepers(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆love belongs to those who do the feeling — Judy Grahn (winner)
- ✦Same Life — Maureen McLane (nominee)
- ✦Kissing Dead Girls — Daphne Gottlieb (nominee)
- ✦Interpretive Work — Elizabeth Bradfield (nominee)
- ✦Two Minutes of Light — Nancy K. Pearson (nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆The Kiss That Counted(winner)
- ✦Finding Home — Georgia Beers(nominee)
- ✦A Pirate’s Heart — Catherine Friend (nominee)
- ✦ Hotel Liaison (nominee)
- ✦The Lonely Hearts Club — Radclyffe(nominee)
- ✦Hotel Liaison(nominee)
Transgender Literature
- 🏆Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) — Thea Hillman (winner)
- ✦ Two Truths and a Lie (nominee)
- ✦ Boy with Flowers (nominee)
- ✦Transgender History — Susan Stryker(nominee)
- ✦Two Truths and a Lie(nominee)
- ✦Boy with Flowers(nominee)
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