Lambda Literary Awards 2012
Winners and nominees of the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- 🏆The Correspondence Artist — Barbara Browning (winner)
- ✦ Have You Seen Me (nominee)
- ✦The Two Krishnas — Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla (nominee)
- ✦Have You Seen Me(nominee)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- 🏆 The Horizontal Poet (winner)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Qwo-Li Driskill (nominee)
- ✦ Surviving Steven: A True Story (nominee)
- ✦Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir — Susie Bright (nominee)
- ✦Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges — Jonathan Alexander (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Daniel Heath Justice (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Deborah A. Miranda (nominee)
- ✦Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges — Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Lisa Tatonetti (nominee)
- ✦Surviving Steven: A True Story(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆 Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy (winner)
- ✦ Gemini Bites (nominee)
- ✦PINK — Lili Wilkinson (nominee)
- ✦Gemini Bites(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆 A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw (winner)
- ✦Secrets of the Trade(nominee)
- ✦ Letters to the End of the World (nominee)
- ✦The Zero Hour — Madeleine George (nominee)
- ✦Letters to the End of the World(nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- 🏆Quarantine: Stories — Rahul Mehta (winner)
- ✦ Have You Seen Me (nominee)
- ✦ Dirty One (nominee)
- ✦98 Wounds — Justin Chin (nominee)
- ✦Mitko — Garth Greenwell(nominee)
- ✦Have You Seen Me(nominee)
- ✦Dirty One(nominee)
Gay Erotica
- 🏆All Together — Dirk Vanden (winner)
- ✦ Best Gay Erotica 2012 (nominee)
- ✦ Backwoods (nominee)
- ✦ George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes (nominee)
- ✦ History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall (nominee)
- ✦Best Gay Erotica 2012(nominee)
- ✦Backwoods(nominee)
- ✦George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes(nominee)
- ✦History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦ The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov (nominee)
- ✦Leche — R. Zamora Linmark (nominee)
- ✦The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood — Glen Retief (winner)
- ✦For the Ferryman: A Personal History — Charles Silverstein (nominee)
- ✦ Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (nominee)
- ✦ Halsted Plays Himself (nominee)
- ✦ If You Knew Then What I Know Now (nominee)
- ✦Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo(nominee)
- ✦Halsted Plays Himself(nominee)
- ✦If You Knew Then What I Know Now(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆Red White Black and Blue — Richard Stevenson (winner)
- ✦Malabarista — Garry Ryan (nominee)
- ✦Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries — Marshall Thornton (nominee)
- ✦Blue’s Bayou — David Lennon (nominee)
- ✦ The Affair of the Porcelain Dog (nominee)
- ✦The Affair of the Porcelain Dog(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos — David Trinidad (winner)
- ✦ Kintsugi (nominee)
- ✦Double Shadow: Poems — Carl Phillips (nominee)
- ✦Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems — David Trinidad (nominee)
- ✦The Other Poems — Paul Legault (nominee)
- ✦Kintsugi(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆Every Time I Think of You — Jim Provenzano (winner)
- ✦ Settling the Score (nominee)
- ✦ Split (nominee)
- ✦ Tinseltown (nominee)
- ✦Settling the Score(nominee)
- ✦Split(nominee)
- ✦Tinseltown(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Qwo-Li Driskill (nominee)
- ✦Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing — Felice Picano (nominee)
- ✦The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries — Mark Thompson (nominee)
- ✦Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme — Zena Sharman (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Daniel Heath Justice (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Deborah A. Miranda (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature — Lisa Tatonetti (nominee)
- ✦Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme — Ivan Coyote (nominee)
- ✦Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader — Ernesto Javier Martínez (nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- ✦ Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield (nominee)
- ✦ The H.D. Book (nominee)
- ✦Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories — Wanda M. Corn (nominee)
- ✦God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality — Jay Michaelson (nominee)
- ✦Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield(nominee)
- ✦The H.D. Book(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories — JoSelle Vanderhooft (nominee)
- ✦ Static (nominee)
- ✦Paradise Tales: and Other Stories — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦Static(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- ✦Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State — Chandan Reddy (nominee)
- ✦ Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (nominee)
- ✦ ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba (nominee)
- ✦Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes — Lisa L. Moore (nominee)
- ✦Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality(nominee)
- ✦¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba(nominee)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆Zipper Mouth — Laurie Weeks (winner)
- ✦ The Girls Club (nominee)
- ✦ My Sister Chaos (nominee)
- ✦ Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation (nominee)
- ✦ Megume and the Trees (nominee)
- ✦The Girls Club(nominee)
- ✦My Sister Chaos(nominee)
- ✦Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation(nominee)
- ✦Megume and the Trees(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- 🏆 Story of L (winner)
- ✦ Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations (nominee)
- ✦ The Collectors (nominee)
- ✦ A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations(nominee)
- ✦The Collectors(nominee)
- ✦A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Six Metres of Pavement — Farzana Doctor (winner)
- 🏆 Farzana Doctor (winner)
- ✦The Necessity of Certain Behaviors — Shannon Cain (nominee)
- ✦ Shannon Cain (nominee)
- ✦Wingshooters — Nina Revoyr (nominee)
- ✦ Nina Revoyr (nominee)
- ✦When She Woke — Hillary Jordan(nominee)
- ✦The Dirt Chronicles — Kristyn Dunnion (nominee)
- ✦ Kristyn Dunnion (nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution — Jeanne Córdova (winner)
- ✦Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet — Catherine Friend (nominee)
- ✦Small Fires: Essays — Julie Marie Wade (nominee)
- ✦How to Get a Girl Pregnant — Karleen Pendleton Jiménez (nominee)
- ✦Taking My Life — Jane Rule(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆Dying to Live — Kim Baldwin (winner)
- ✦Rainey Nights: A Rainey Bell Thriller — R. E. Bradshaw (nominee)
- ✦ Retirement Plan (nominee)
- ✦ Hostage Moon (nominee)
- ✦Trick of the Dark — Val McDermid(nominee)
- ✦Retirement Plan(nominee)
- ✦Hostage Moon(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Love Cake — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (winner)
- ✦ 15 Ways to Stay Alive (nominee)
- ✦Discipline — Dawn Lundy Martin (nominee)
- ✦Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry — Julie R. Enszer (nominee)
- ✦The Stranger Dissolves — Christina Hutchins (nominee)
- ✦15 Ways to Stay Alive(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆 Taken by Surprise (winner)
- ✦Storms — Gerri Hill (nominee)
- ✦For Me and My Gal — Robbi McCoy (nominee)
- ✦ Ghosts of Winter (nominee)
- ✦ Rescue Me (nominee)
- ✦Ghosts of Winter(nominee)
- ✦Rescue Me(nominee)
Transgender Fiction
- 🏆 Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica (winner)
- ✦ Static (nominee)
- ✦ The Butterfly and the Flame (nominee)
- ✦ The Book of Broken Hymns (nominee)
- ✦Static(nominee)
- ✦The Butterfly and the Flame(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Broken Hymns(nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- 🏆Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels — Justin Vivian Bond (winner)
- ✦Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past(nominee)
- ✦ Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect (nominee)
- ✦ Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (nominee)
- ✦Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect(nominee)
- ✦Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law(nominee)
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