Lambda Literary Awards 2014
Winners and nominees of the 2014 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- 🏆My Education — Susan Choi (winner)
- ✦The Two Hotel Francforts — David Leavitt(nominee)
- ✦ In His Secret Life (nominee)
- ✦Hild — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
- ✦Corona — Bushra Rehman (nominee)
- ✦In His Secret Life(nominee)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- ✦The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television — Maria San Filippo (nominee)
- ✦ The Soundtrack of My Life (nominee)
- ✦Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution — Shiri Eisner (nominee)
- ✦The Soundtrack of My Life(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆Two Boys Kissing — David Levithan(winner)
- ✦The Summer Prince — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦ The Secret Ingredient (nominee)
- ✦ Girls I’ve Run Away With (nominee)
- ✦ Boy In Box (nominee)
- ✦ Rapture Practice (nominee)
- ✦What Makes a Baby — Cory Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦If You Could Be Mine — Sara Farizan (nominee)
- ✦What Makes a Baby — Fiona Smyth (nominee)
- ✦Secret City — Julia Watts(nominee)
- ✦Better Nate Than Ever — Tim Federle (nominee)
- ✦The Secret Ingredient(nominee)
- ✦Girls I’ve Run Away With(nominee)
- ✦Boy In Box(nominee)
- ✦Rapture Practice(nominee)
Debut Fiction
- 🏆 Descendants of Hagar (winner)
- ✦How to Shake the Other Man — Derek Palacio (nominee)
- ✦ In Between (nominee)
- ✦ Inside (nominee)
- ✦ Prick Queasy (nominee)
- ✦ The Affairs of Others: A Novel (nominee)
- ✦ My Brother’s Name: A Novel (nominee)
- ✦Jane and the Whales — Andrea Routley (nominee)
- ✦Golden Boy — Abigail Tarttelin (nominee)
- ✦In Between(nominee)
- ✦Inside(nominee)
- ✦Prick Queasy(nominee)
- ✦The Affairs of Others: A Novel(nominee)
- ✦My Brother’s Name: A Novel(nominee)
Drama
- ✦ sash & trim and other plays (nominee)
- ✦Tom at the Farm — Michel Marc Bouchard (nominee)
- ✦sash & trim and other plays(nominee)
Gay Erotica
- 🏆The Padisah’s Son and the Fox: an erotic novella — Alex Jeffers (winner)
- ✦Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories — Winston Gieseke (nominee)
- ✦ Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Capture & Surrender (nominee)
- ✦Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories — Richard Labonté (nominee)
- ✦Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories(nominee)
- ✦Capture & Surrender(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆Mundo Cruel: Stories — Luis Negrón (winner)
- 🏆Mundo Cruel: Stories — Suzanne Jill Levine (winner)
- ✦ A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦ An Honest Ghost (nominee)
- ✦ The City of Devi (nominee)
- ✦ Damn Love (nominee)
- ✦The Desperates — Greg Kearney (nominee)
- ✦Local Souls — Allan Gurganus (nominee)
- ✦Necessary Errors — Caleb Crain (nominee)
- ✦The Red Shoes — John Stewart Wynne (nominee)
- ✦A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories(nominee)
- ✦An Honest Ghost(nominee)
- ✦The City of Devi(nominee)
- ✦Damn Love(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, by Glenway Wescott (winner)
- ✦Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist — Jim Elledge (nominee)
- ✦American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement — Hilary Holladay (nominee)
- ✦Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father — Alysia Abbott (nominee)
- ✦ Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (nominee)
- ✦ In Bed With Gore Vidal (nominee)
- ✦ The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience (nominee)
- ✦Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson — Blake Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns — David Margolick (nominee)
- ✦Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography(nominee)
- ✦In Bed With Gore Vidal(nominee)
- ✦The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆 The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery (winner)
- ✦Foxed — Garry Ryan (nominee)
- ✦Boystown 5: Murder Book — Marshall Thornton (nominee)
- ✦Fierce — David Lennon (nominee)
- ✦ The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari (nominee)
- ✦ In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery (nominee)
- ✦ Pretty Boy Dead (nominee)
- ✦Pawn of Satan — Mark Richard Zubro(nominee)
- ✦Baton Rouge Bingo — Greg Herren (nominee)
- ✦How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery(nominee)
- ✦The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari(nominee)
- ✦In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery(nominee)
- ✦Pretty Boy Dead(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Unpeopled Eden — Rigoberto González (winner)
- ✦ The Apartment of Tragic Appliances (nominee)
- ✦ The Talking Day (nominee)
- ✦ Straight Razor (nominee)
- ✦Obscenely Yours — Angelo Nikolopoulos (nominee)
- ✦Silverchest — Carl Phillips (nominee)
- ✦Clay — David Groff (nominee)
- ✦Companion Grasses — Brian Teare (nominee)
- ✦Alternative Medicine — Rafael Campo (nominee)
- ✦The Apartment of Tragic Appliances(nominee)
- ✦The Talking Day(nominee)
- ✦Straight Razor(nominee)
Gay Romance
- ✦ Play Me, I’m Yours (nominee)
- ✦ Rocky’s Road (nominee)
- ✦ Unbroken (nominee)
- ✦ Covet Thy Neighbor (nominee)
- ✦ King Mai (nominee)
- ✦ Where You Are (nominee)
- ✦ Pickup Men (nominee)
- ✦ My Dear Watson (nominee)
- ✦Glitterland — Alexis Hall(nominee)
- ✦Play Me, I’m Yours(nominee)
- ✦Rocky’s Road(nominee)
- ✦Unbroken(nominee)
- ✦Covet Thy Neighbor(nominee)
- ✦King Mai(nominee)
- ✦Where You Are(nominee)
- ✦Pickup Men(nominee)
- ✦My Dear Watson(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- ✦Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out — Adelaida R. Del Castillo (nominee)
- ✦An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings — Jason Edward Black (nominee)
- ✦The Feminist Porn Book — Constance Penley (nominee)
- ✦Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners — Jim Elledge (nominee)
- ✦ This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (nominee)
- ✦An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings — Harvey Milk (nominee)
- ✦Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5 — Evan J Peterson (nominee)
- ✦The Feminist Porn Book — Tristan Taormino(nominee)
- ✦The Feminist Porn Book — Celine Parrenas Shimizu (nominee)
- ✦Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners — David Groff (nominee)
- ✦Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics — TC Tolbert (nominee)
- ✦Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction — Karen Martin (nominee)
- ✦Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction — Makhosazana Xaba (nominee)
- ✦Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry — Regie Cabico (nominee)
- ✦What I LOVE about being QUEER — Vivek Shraya (nominee)
- ✦This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching(nominee)
LGBT Graphic Novel
- 🏆 Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir (winner)
- ✦Duck! Second Chances — Tana Ford (nominee)
- ✦The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story — Steve Dutro (nominee)
- ✦The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story — Kyle Baker (nominee)
- ✦Artifice — Alex Woolfson (nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- ✦Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims — Scott Kugle (nominee)
- ✦Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II — Daniel Winunwe Rivers (nominee)
- ✦The End of the Homosexual? — Dennis Altman (nominee)
- ✦ Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect (nominee)
- ✦ Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants (nominee)
- ✦ Does Jesus Really Love Me? (nominee)
- ✦ Among the Bloodpeople (nominee)
- ✦ The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution (nominee)
- ✦You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People — Michael Bronski (nominee)
- ✦Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 — Edmund White(nominee)
- ✦Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect(nominee)
- ✦Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants(nominee)
- ✦Does Jesus Really Love Me?(nominee)
- ✦Among the Bloodpeople(nominee)
- ✦The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- 🏆Death by Silver — Melissa Scott(winner)
- 🏆Death by Silver(winner)
- ✦Invisible Soft Return :\ — Roberta Degnore (nominee)
- ✦ Dragon Slayer (nominee)
- ✦ Hell’s Belle (nominee)
- ✦ Like Light for Flies (nominee)
- ✦ Light (nominee)
- ✦Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy — Alex Jeffers (nominee)
- ✦Dragon Slayer(nominee)
- ✦Hell’s Belle(nominee)
- ✦Like Light for Flies(nominee)
- ✦Light(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆 Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (winner)
- ✦ Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America (nominee)
- ✦ Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law (nominee)
- ✦ Feeling Women’s Liberation (nominee)
- ✦ Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely (nominee)
- ✦ Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production (nominee)
- ✦Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami — Susana Peña-Rodríguez (nominee)
- ✦Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran — Afsaneh Najmabadi (nominee)
- ✦Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America(nominee)
- ✦Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law(nominee)
- ✦Feeling Women’s Liberation(nominee)
- ✦Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely(nominee)
- ✦Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- 🏆 Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories (winner)
- ✦ Best Lesbian Erotica 2014 (nominee)
- ✦At Her Feet — Rebekah Weatherspoon (nominee)
- ✦Best Lesbian Erotica 2014(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Chinelo Okparanta(winner)
- ✦Bodies of Water — T. Greenwood (nominee)
- ✦Cream — Christiana Harrell (nominee)
- ✦She Rises: A Novel — Kate Worsley (nominee)
- ✦ Kate Worsley (nominee)
- ✦The Daylight Gate — Jeanette Winterson(nominee)
- ✦We Are Water — Wally Lamb (nominee)
- ✦Cha-Ching! — Ali Liebegott(nominee)
- ✦Ali Liebegott(nominee)
- ✦The Albino Album — Chavisa Woods (nominee)
- ✦Fat Angie — E.E. Charlton-Trujillo (nominee)
- ✦ E.E. Charlton-Trujillo (nominee)
- ✦Survival Skills — Jean Ryan (nominee)
- ✦ Jean Ryan (nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆Body Geographic — Barrie Jean Borich (winner)
- ✦ Growing up Golem (nominee)
- ✦Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology — Caroline Paul (nominee)
- ✦How Poetry Saved My Life — Amber Dawn(nominee)
- ✦Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology(nominee)
- ✦Growing up Golem(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆High Desert — Katherine V. Forrest(winner)
- ✦The Rainey Season — R. E. Bradshaw (nominee)
- ✦ Point of Betrayal (nominee)
- ✦ The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel (nominee)
- ✦ Turning on the Tide (nominee)
- ✦ Web of Obsessions (nominee)
- ✦ She Overheard Murder (nominee)
- ✦Cross and Burn — Val McDermid(nominee)
- ✦Death of the Demon — Anne Holt (nominee)
- ✦Taken by the Wind — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦The Killer Wore Leather: A Mystery — Laura Antoniou (nominee)
- ✦Point of Betrayal(nominee)
- ✦The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel(nominee)
- ✦Turning on the Tide(nominee)
- ✦Web of Obsessions(nominee)
- ✦She Overheard Murder(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Rise in the Fall(winner)
- ✦Viral — Suzanne Parker (nominee)
- ✦She Has a Name — Kamilah Aisha Moon (nominee)
- ✦Chord Box — Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers (nominee)
- ✦The Collected Poems of Ai — Ai (nominee)
- ✦Proxy — R. Erica Doyle (nominee)
- ✦Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives — Verónica Reyes (nominee)
- ✦We Come Elemental(nominee)
- ✦The Exchange — Sophie Cabot Black (nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆Clean Slate — Andrea Bramhall (winner)
- ✦All That Lies Within — Lynn Ames (nominee)
- ✦At Seventeen — Gerri Hill (nominee)
- ✦ Last Salute (nominee)
- ✦ Hold Me Forever (nominee)
- ✦ Hoosier Daddy (nominee)
- ✦ Broken Trails (nominee)
- ✦ The Princess Affair (nominee)
- ✦ Date with Destiny (nominee)
- ✦Love by the Numbers(nominee)
- ✦Last Salute(nominee)
- ✦Hold Me Forever(nominee)
- ✦Hoosier Daddy(nominee)
- ✦Broken Trails(nominee)
- ✦The Princess Affair(nominee)
- ✦Date with Destiny(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Happiness, Like Water — Chinelo Okparanta(winner)
- 🏆lesbian fiction — Chinelo Okparanta(winner)
- 🏆Under the Udala Trees — Chinelo Okparanta(winner)
- 🏆 Barrie Jean Borich (winner)
- 🏆TJ Klune(winner)
- 🏆Bi: Notes for a bisexual revolution — Shiri Eisner (winner)
- 🏆 Shiri Eisner (winner)
Transgender Fiction
- ✦ Tiresias (nominee)
- ✦Tiresias(nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- 🏆The End of San Francisco — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (winner)
- ✦Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter — S. Bear Bergman (nominee)
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