Lambda Literary Awards 2010
Winners and nominees of the 2010 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- 🏆Holy Communion(winner)
- 🏆Love You Two — Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (winner)
- ✦ Torn (nominee)
- ✦ The Janeid (nominee)
- ✦ Arusha (nominee)
- ✦Torn(nominee)
- ✦The Janeid(nominee)
- ✦Arusha(nominee)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- 🏆 Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents (winner)
- ✦ Map (nominee)
- ✦Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life — Edna O'Brien (nominee)
- ✦Cheever: A Life — Blake Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer — Emanuel Levy (nominee)
- ✦Map(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦Ash — Malinda Lo(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆The Collected Plays Of Mart Crowley — Mart Crowley (winner)
- ✦ Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor (nominee)
- ✦The Beebo Brinker Chronicles — Kate Moira Ryan (nominee)
- ✦Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- 🏆Blue Boy(winner)
- ✦ Pop Salvation (nominee)
- ✦Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories — G. Winston James (nominee)
- ✦Sugarless — James Magruder (nominee)
- ✦Pop Salvation(nominee)
Gay Erotica
- 🏆Impossible Princess — Kevin Killian(winner)
- ✦Eight Inches(nominee)
- ✦ Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica (nominee)
- ✦ The Low Road (nominee)
- ✦I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire — Richard Labonté (nominee)
- ✦I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire — Lawrence Schimel(nominee)
- ✦Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica(nominee)
- ✦The Low Road(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆Lake Overturn(winner)
- ✦ Said and Done (nominee)
- ✦ The River In Winter (nominee)
- ✦Silver Lake(nominee)
- ✦Said and Done(nominee)
- ✦The River In Winter(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- ✦ Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division (nominee)
- ✦The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief — David Plante (nominee)
- ✦Once You Go Back — Douglas A. Martin (nominee)
- ✦Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆What We Remember — Michael Thomas Ford (winner)
- ✦ All Lost Things (nominee)
- ✦ Killer of Orchids (nominee)
- ✦Straight Lies — Rob Byrnes (nominee)
- ✦Murder in the Garden District — Greg Herren (nominee)
- ✦All Lost Things(nominee)
- ✦Killer of Orchids(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Sweet Core Orchard — Benjamin S. Grossberg (winner)
- ✦ The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (nominee)
- ✦The First Risk — Charles Jensen (nominee)
- ✦Breakfast with Thom Gunn — Randall Mann (nominee)
- ✦What the Right Hand Knows — Tom Healy (nominee)
- ✦The Brother Swimming Beneath Me(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆 Drama Queers! (winner)
- ✦ A Keen Edge (nominee)
- ✦ The Rest of Our Lives (nominee)
- ✦Transgressions — Erastes (nominee)
- ✦A Keen Edge(nominee)
- ✦The Rest of Our Lives(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- 🏆Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City — Ariel Gore (winner)
- ✦Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation — Tommi Avicolli Mecca (nominee)
- ✦ My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (nominee)
- ✦Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris — David Bergman (nominee)
- ✦Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights — Gilbert Herdt (nominee)
- ✦My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- 🏆 The Greeks and Greek Love (winner)
- ✦I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde — Johnnetta B. Cole (nominee)
- ✦I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde(nominee)
- ✦Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences — Sarah Schulman(nominee)
- ✦The Golden Age of Gay Fiction — Drewey Wayne Gunn (nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦ Pumpkin Teeth (nominee)
- ✦Fist of the Spider Woman — Amber Dawn(nominee)
- ✦Pumpkin Teeth(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America — Margot Canaday (winner)
- ✦The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century — Kathryn Bond Stockton (nominee)
- ✦ The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade (nominee)
- ✦Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities — Julie Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆 The Creamsickle (winner)
- ✦ More of This World or Maybe Another (nominee)
- ✦ Verge (nominee)
- ✦ Land Beyond Maps (nominee)
- ✦The Bigness of the World — Lori Ostlund (nominee)
- ✦More of This World or Maybe Another(nominee)
- ✦Verge(nominee)
- ✦Land Beyond Maps(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- 🏆 Lesbian Cowboys (winner)
- ✦Punishment with Kisses(nominee)
- ✦ Flesh and Bone (nominee)
- ✦ Where the Girls Are (nominee)
- ✦Women of the Bite — Cecilia Tan(nominee)
- ✦Flesh and Bone(nominee)
- ✦Where the Girls Are(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆A Field Guide to Deception — Jill Malone (winner)
- 🏆 Jill Malone (winner)
- ✦Risk — Elana Dykewomon (nominee)
- ✦ Elana Dykewomon (nominee)
- ✦Dismantled — Jennifer McMahon(nominee)
- ✦Jennifer McMahon(nominee)
- ✦This One’s Going to Last Forever — Nairne Holtz (nominee)
- ✦ Nairne Holtz (nominee)
- ✦ Emma Pérez (nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith(winner)
- ✦Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life(nominee)
- ✦My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement — Alix Dobkin (nominee)
- ✦Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag — Ariel Schrag (nominee)
- ✦Mean Little deaf Queer — Terry Galloway (nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆Death of a Dying Man — Jean M. Redmann (winner)
- ✦ From Hell to Breakfast (nominee)
- ✦ Toasted (nominee)
- ✦ Command of Silence (nominee)
- ✦The Mirror and the Mask — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦From Hell to Breakfast(nominee)
- ✦Toasted(nominee)
- ✦Command of Silence(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Zero at the Bone — Stacie Cassarino (winner)
- ✦ Stars of the Night Commute (nominee)
- ✦Names — Marilyn Hacker (nominee)
- ✦Bird Eating Bird — Kristin Naca (nominee)
- ✦Gospel: Poems — Samiya Bashir (nominee)
- ✦Stars of the Night Commute(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆 The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin (winner)
- ✦Worth Every Step — KG MacGregor (nominee)
- ✦ It Should Be a Crime (nominee)
- ✦ No Rules of Engagement (nominee)
- ✦Stepping Stone(nominee)
- ✦It Should Be a Crime(nominee)
- ✦No Rules of Engagement(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Holding Still For As Long As Possible — Zoe Whittall (winner)
- 🏆 Virginie Despentes (winner)
Transgender Literature
- 🏆Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show — Lynn Breedlove (winner)
- ✦ Transmigration (nominee)
- ✦The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You — S. Bear Bergman (nominee)
- ✦Bharat Jiva — kari edwards (nominee)
- ✦Troglodyte Rose — Adam Lowe (nominee)
- ✦Transmigration(nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Jerry Lewis (winner)
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