Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2013

Winners and nominees of the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. πŸ† marks the winner.

Bisexual Literature

  • πŸ†My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B β€” Cheryl B (winner)
  • πŸ†In One Person β€” John Irving (winner)
  • ✦ Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List (nominee)
  • ✦History of a Pleasure Seeker β€” Richard Mason (nominee)
  • ✦Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals β€” Janet Hardy (nominee)
  • ✦Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • ✦Silhouette of a Sparrow β€” Molly Beth Griffin (nominee)
  • ✦ Kiss the Morning Star (nominee)
  • ✦The Adventure of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy β€” S. Bear Bergman (nominee)
  • ✦Kiss the Morning Star(nominee)

Debut Fiction

  • πŸ†The Summer We Got Free β€” Mia McKenzie (winner)
  • ✦Incidental Music β€” Lydia PeroviΔ‡ (nominee)
  • ✦The Evening Hour β€” Carter Sickels (nominee)
  • ✦ Makara: a novel (nominee)
  • ✦ The Dream of Doctor Bantam (nominee)
  • ✦ Desire: Tales of New Orleans (nominee)
  • ✦ Three Cubic Feet (nominee)
  • ✦People Who Disappear β€” Alex Leslie (nominee)
  • ✦Love, In Theory: Ten Stories β€” E. J. Levy (nominee)
  • ✦Makara: a novel(nominee)
  • ✦The Dream of Doctor Bantam(nominee)
  • ✦Desire: Tales of New Orleans(nominee)
  • ✦Three Cubic Feet(nominee)

Drama

  • πŸ† The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan (winner)
  • ✦A Strange and Separate People(nominee)
  • ✦ Thunder Above, Deeps Below (nominee)
  • ✦ Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them (nominee)
  • ✦Falling In Time β€” C. E. Gatchalian (nominee)
  • ✦Thunder Above, Deeps Below(nominee)
  • ✦Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them(nominee)

Gay Erotica

  • ✦Secret Societies β€” William Holden (nominee)
  • ✦ Raising Hell: Demonic Gay Erotica (nominee)
  • ✦ Coming To: A Collection of Erotic and Other Epiphanies (nominee)
  • ✦ Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits (nominee)
  • ✦Raising Hell: Demonic Gay Erotica(nominee)
  • ✦Coming To: A Collection of Erotic and Other Epiphanies(nominee)
  • ✦Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits(nominee)

Gay Fiction

  • ✦ Sighs Too Deep For Words (nominee)
  • ✦The Lava in My Bones β€” Barry Webster (nominee)
  • ✦These Things Happen β€” Richard Kramer (nominee)
  • ✦Lovers β€” Daniel Arsand (nominee)
  • ✦A Horse Named Sorrow β€” Trebor Healey (nominee)
  • ✦Spreadeagle β€” Kevin Killian(nominee)
  • ✦The Paternity Test β€” Michael Lowenthal (nominee)
  • ✦Unbuilt Projects β€” Paul Lisicky (nominee)
  • ✦Sighs Too Deep For Words(nominee)

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • πŸ†Fire in the Belly β€” Cynthia Carr (winner)
  • ✦My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey β€” Charles Rowan Beye (nominee)
  • ✦The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard β€” Ron Padgett (nominee)
  • ✦Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir β€” Reynolds Price (nominee)
  • ✦Twelve Views from the Distance β€” Mutsuo Takahashi (nominee)
  • ✦Intolerable β€” Kamal Al-Solaylee (nominee)

Gay Mystery

  • πŸ†Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery β€” Jeffrey Round (winner)
  • ✦ The Yellow Canary (nominee)
  • ✦ Bokassa’s Last Apostle (nominee)
  • ✦Fires of London β€” Janice Law (nominee)
  • ✦Dos Equis β€” Anthony Bidulka (nominee)
  • ✦The Yellow Canary(nominee)
  • ✦Bokassa’s Last Apostle(nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • πŸ† He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (winner)
  • ✦ Appetite (nominee)
  • ✦Looking for the Gulf Motel β€” Richard Blanco (nominee)
  • ✦Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin β€” Patrick Donnelly (nominee)
  • ✦Appetite(nominee)

Gay Romance

  • ✦The Nothingness of Ben β€” Brad Boney (nominee)
  • ✦ The Celestial (nominee)
  • ✦ Toughskins (nominee)
  • ✦ Don’t Let Me Go (nominee)
  • ✦The Celestial(nominee)
  • ✦Toughskins(nominee)
  • ✦Don’t Let Me Go(nominee)

LGBT Anthology

  • πŸ† No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (winner)
  • ✦Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage β€” Audrey Bilger (nominee)
  • ✦For Colored Boys β€” Keith Boykin (nominee)
  • ✦Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform β€” Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)
  • ✦Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage β€” Michele Kort (nominee)

LGBT Non-fiction

  • πŸ†Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas β€” Dale Carpenter (winner)
  • ✦Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two β€” Mark Thompson (nominee)
  • ✦ Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 (nominee)
  • ✦ Real Man Stories (nominee)
  • ✦ I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters (nominee)
  • ✦Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America β€” Christopher Bram(nominee)
  • ✦Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity β€” Andrew Solomon (nominee)
  • ✦Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965(nominee)
  • ✦Real Man Stories(nominee)
  • ✦I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

  • πŸ†Green Thumb(winner)
  • ✦ Chocolatiers of the High Winds: A Gay Steampunk Romance (nominee)
  • ✦ The Survivors (nominee)
  • ✦ In the Now (nominee)
  • ✦Night Shadows: Queer Horror β€” Greg Herren (nominee)
  • ✦Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction β€” Connie Wilkins(nominee)
  • ✦Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction β€” Steve Berman (nominee)
  • ✦Night Shadows: Queer Horror β€” Jean M. Redmann (nominee)
  • ✦Chocolatiers of the High Winds: A Gay Steampunk Romance(nominee)
  • ✦The Survivors(nominee)
  • ✦In the Now(nominee)

LGBT Studies

  • πŸ†Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics β€” RamΓ³n H. Rivera-Servera (winner)
  • ✦Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure β€” Sara Warner (nominee)
  • ✦ Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America (nominee)
  • ✦ Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays (nominee)
  • ✦ Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa (nominee)
  • ✦ South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom (nominee)
  • ✦Depression: A Public Feeling β€” Ann Cvetkovich (nominee)
  • ✦The Invention of Heterosexual Culture β€” Louis-Georges Tin (nominee)
  • ✦How To Be Gay β€” David M. Halperin (nominee)
  • ✦On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility β€” Ernesto Javier MartΓ­nez (nominee)
  • ✦Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America(nominee)
  • ✦Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays(nominee)
  • ✦Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa(nominee)
  • ✦South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom(nominee)

Lesbian Erotica

  • πŸ† The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica (winner)
  • ✦ Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica (nominee)
  • ✦ One Saved to the Sea (nominee)
  • ✦Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica(nominee)
  • ✦One Saved to the Sea(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • πŸ†The World We Found: A Novel β€” Thrity Umrigar (winner)
  • πŸ† Thrity Umrigar (winner)
  • ✦The Last Nude β€” Ellis Avery (nominee)
  • ✦ The Raven’s Heart (nominee)
  • ✦Theft: A Novel β€” BK Loren (nominee)
  • ✦ BK Loren (nominee)
  • ✦Carry the One β€” Carol Anshaw (nominee)
  • ✦ Carol Anshaw (nominee)
  • ✦Wonder Girls β€” Catherine Jones (nominee)
  • ✦ Catherine Jones (nominee)
  • ✦ Jesse Blackadder (nominee)
  • ✦The Raven’s Heart(nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • ✦Before the Rain β€” Luisita Lopez Torregrosa (nominee)
  • ✦ The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (nominee)
  • ✦ All We Know: Three Lives (nominee)
  • ✦A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet β€” Judy Grahn (nominee)
  • ✦Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama β€” Alison Bechdel(nominee)
  • ✦The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination(nominee)
  • ✦All We Know: Three Lives(nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

  • πŸ†Ill Will β€” Jean M. Redmann (winner)
  • ✦Molly: House on Fire β€” R. E. Bradshaw (nominee)
  • ✦ Lemon Reef (nominee)
  • ✦ Jacob’s War (nominee)
  • ✦Rest for the Wicked β€” Ellen Hart(nominee)
  • ✦Lemon Reef(nominee)
  • ✦Jacob’s War(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • πŸ†Sea and Fog β€” Etel Adnan (winner)
  • ✦ wine for a shotgun (nominee)
  • ✦ Letters to Kelly Clarkson (nominee)
  • ✦ fault tree (nominee)
  • ✦Snowflake/different streets β€” Eileen Myles(nominee)
  • ✦wine for a shotgun(nominee)
  • ✦Letters to Kelly Clarkson(nominee)
  • ✦fault tree(nominee)

Lesbian Romance

  • πŸ† Month of Sundays (winner)
  • ✦ Sometime Yesterday (nominee)
  • ✦ She Left Me Breathless (nominee)
  • ✦ Dark Wings Descending (nominee)
  • ✦ Survived by Her Longtime Companion (nominee)
  • ✦ Tactical Pursuit (nominee)
  • ✦ Love Match (nominee)
  • ✦ Runaway (nominee)
  • ✦ Third (nominee)
  • ✦Sometime Yesterday(nominee)
  • ✦She Left Me Breathless(nominee)
  • ✦Dark Wings Descending(nominee)
  • ✦Survived by Her Longtime Companion(nominee)
  • ✦Tactical Pursuit(nominee)
  • ✦Love Match(nominee)
  • ✦Runaway(nominee)
  • ✦Third(nominee)

Overall

  • πŸ† John Irving (winner)
  • πŸ† Etel Adnan (winner)
  • ✦Ryka Aoki(nominee)

Transgender Fiction

  • πŸ† The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender Vanguard (winner)
  • ✦ Dialectic of the Flesh (nominee)
  • ✦ Offspring (nominee)
  • ✦First Spring Grass Fire β€” Rae Spoon (nominee)
  • ✦Dialectic of the Flesh(nominee)
  • ✦Offspring(nominee)

Transgender Non-fiction

  • ✦Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies β€” Anne Enke (nominee)
  • ✦ Transposes (nominee)
  • ✦Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects β€” Matt Kailey (nominee)
  • ✦Seasonal Velocities β€” Ryka Aoki(nominee)
  • ✦Transposes(nominee)

Trustees Award

  • πŸ† Dan Rather (winner)

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