Lambda Literary Awards 2015
Winners and nominees of the 2015 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- ✦ Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin (nominee)
- ✦ Finder of Lost Objects (nominee)
- ✦Give It to Me — Ana Castillo (nominee)
- ✦Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction — Sheela Lambert (nominee)
- ✦She of the Mountains — Vivek Shraya (nominee)
- ✦Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin(nominee)
- ✦Finder of Lost Objects(nominee)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- ✦ Not My Father’s Son (nominee)
- ✦Fire Shut Up In My Bones — Charles M. Blow (nominee)
- ✦Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men — Robyn Ochs (nominee)
- ✦Not My Father’s Son(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦ Double Exposure (nominee)
- ✦ Pukawiss the Outcast (nominee)
- ✦Forgive me if I've told you this before — Karelia Stetz-Waters (nominee)
- ✦ This is Not a Love Story (nominee)
- ✦When Everything Feels Like the Movies — Raziel Reid (nominee)
- ✦Lies We Tell Ourselves — Robin Talley (nominee)
- ✦Five, Six, Seven, Nate! — Tim Federle (nominee)
- ✦Double Exposure(nominee)
- ✦Pukawiss the Outcast(nominee)
- ✦This is Not a Love Story(nominee)
Debut Fiction
- ✦Kill Marguerite and Other Stories — Megan Milks (nominee)
- ✦ Death in Venice, California (nominee)
- ✦ Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea (nominee)
- ✦ Nochita (nominee)
- ✦ A Map of Everything (nominee)
- ✦Unaccompanied Minors — Alden Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Walk-In Closet — Abdi Nazemian (nominee)
- ✦Death in Venice, California(nominee)
- ✦Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea(nominee)
- ✦Nochita(nominee)
- ✦A Map of Everything(nominee)
Drama
- ✦Wolves — Steve Yockey (nominee)
- ✦ A Kid Like Jake (nominee)
- ✦The Whale — Samuel D. Hunter (nominee)
- ✦Bootycandy — Robert O'Hara (nominee)
- ✦The Beast of Times — Adelina Anthony (nominee)
- ✦A Kid Like Jake(nominee)
Gay Erotica
- ✦ Incubus Tales (nominee)
- ✦ The Bears of Winter (nominee)
- ✦ Leather Spirit Stallion (nominee)
- ✦ The Thief Taker (nominee)
- ✦Incubus Tales(nominee)
- ✦The Bears of Winter(nominee)
- ✦Leather Spirit Stallion(nominee)
- ✦The Thief Taker(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦Barracuda — Christos Tsiolkas (nominee)
- ✦ Little Reef and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦The City of Palaces — Michael Nava(nominee)
- ✦All I Love and Know — Judith Frank (nominee)
- ✦Next to Nothing: Stories — Keith Banner (nominee)
- ✦I Loved You More — Tom Spanbauer(nominee)
- ✦Bitter Eden: A Novel — Tatamkhulu Afrika (nominee)
- ✦Souljah — John R. Gordon (nominee)
- ✦Little Reef and Other Stories(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- ✦ Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (nominee)
- ✦Letter to Jimmy — Sara Meli Ansari (nominee)
- ✦Letter to Jimmy — Alain Mabanckou (nominee)
- ✦The Prince of Los Cocuyos — Richard Blanco (nominee)
- ✦Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgramage of the Flesh — John Lahr (nominee)
- ✦Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris — Edmund White(nominee)
- ✦Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival — Sean Strub (nominee)
- ✦Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance — Brent Phillips (nominee)
- ✦Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆 Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery (winner)
- ✦Boystown 6: From the Ashes — Marshall Thornton (nominee)
- ✦DeadFall — David Lennon (nominee)
- ✦ A Gathering Storm (nominee)
- ✦ The Next (nominee)
- ✦ Calvin’s Head (nominee)
- ✦Fair Game — Josh Lanyon (nominee)
- ✦Moon Over Tangier — Janice Law (nominee)
- ✦A Gathering Storm(nominee)
- ✦The Next(nominee)
- ✦Calvin’s Head(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- ✦ Prelude to Bruise (nominee)
- ✦ This Life Now (nominee)
- ✦ Clean (nominee)
- ✦The New Testament — Jericho Brown (nominee)
- ✦ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness — CAConrad (nominee)
- ✦This Way to the Sugar — Hieu Minh Nguyen (nominee)
- ✦[insert] boy — Danez Smith (nominee)
- ✦Don’t Go Back To Sleep — Timothy Liu (nominee)
- ✦Prelude to Bruise(nominee)
- ✦This Life Now(nominee)
- ✦Clean(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆 Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War (winner)
- ✦ The Companion (nominee)
- ✦ Like They Always Been Free (nominee)
- ✦ Pulling Leather (nominee)
- ✦ The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus, A Novel of Truth (nominee)
- ✦ Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance (nominee)
- ✦Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction — Timothy Lambert (nominee)
- ✦Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction — R.D. Cochrane (nominee)
- ✦Message of Love — Jim Provenzano (nominee)
- ✦The Companion(nominee)
- ✦Like They Always Been Free(nominee)
- ✦Pulling Leather(nominee)
- ✦The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus, A Novel of Truth(nominee)
- ✦Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- 🏆 Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (winner)
- ✦A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships — Bruce Gillespie (nominee)
- ✦Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call — Steven G. Fullwood (nominee)
- ✦ Outer Voices Inner Lives (nominee)
- ✦Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call — Charles Stephens (nominee)
- ✦ The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South (nominee)
- ✦Outer Voices Inner Lives(nominee)
- ✦The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South(nominee)
LGBT Graphic Novel
- ✦ Band Vs. Band Comix Volume 1 (nominee)
- ✦ 100 Crushes (nominee)
- ✦ Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (nominee)
- ✦ Snackies (nominee)
- ✦Second Avenue Caper — Joyce Brabner (nominee)
- ✦Band Vs. Band Comix Volume 1(nominee)
- ✦100 Crushes(nominee)
- ✦Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag(nominee)
- ✦Snackies(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- ✦Hold Tight Gently — Martin Duberman (nominee)
- ✦The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973 — Clayton Delery-Edwards (nominee)
- ✦ The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality (nominee)
- ✦ Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos (nominee)
- ✦ Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS (nominee)
- ✦ The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future (nominee)
- ✦Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor — Hilton Als (nominee)
- ✦An American Queer: The Amazon Trail — Lee Lynch(nominee)
- ✦The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality(nominee)
- ✦Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos(nominee)
- ✦Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS(nominee)
- ✦The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦ Skin Deep Magic (nominee)
- ✦ FutureDyke (nominee)
- ✦Full Fathom Five — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦Afterparty — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Child of a Hidden Sea — A. M. Dellamonica (nominee)
- ✦Bitter Waters — Chaz Brenchley (nominee)
- ✦Butcher's Road — Lee Thomas (nominee)
- ✦Skin Deep Magic(nominee)
- ✦FutureDyke(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆 Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (winner)
- ✦The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic — Susan Sniader Lanser (nominee)
- ✦ Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (nominee)
- ✦Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America — Rachel Hope Cleves (nominee)
- ✦Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings — Juana María Rodríguez (nominee)
- ✦Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela — Marcia Ochoa (nominee)
- ✦After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba — Noelle M. Stout (nominee)
- ✦Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- ✦All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance — Andi Marquette (nominee)
- ✦All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance — R.G. Emanuelle (nominee)
- ✦Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire — Cheyenne Blue (nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Sex Bible — Diana Cage (nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- ✦Last Words From Montmartre — Ari Larissa Heinrich (nominee)
- ✦Miracle Girls — M. B. Caschetta (nominee)
- ✦The Palace Blues — Brandy T. Wilson (nominee)
- ✦ Brandy T. Wilson (nominee)
- ✦ Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (nominee)
- ✦ New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (nominee)
- ✦ Miracle Girls (nominee)
- ✦Yabo — Alexis De Veaux (nominee)
- ✦ Shelly Oria (nominee)
- ✦Behind the Door — Sarah Waters(nominee)
- ✦The Paying Guests — Sarah Waters(nominee)
- ✦ Francine Prose (nominee)
- ✦Adult Onset — Ann-Marie MacDonald(nominee)
- ✦Qiu Miaojin(nominee)
- ✦Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932(nominee)
- ✦New York 1, Tel Aviv 0(nominee)
- ✦Miracle Girls(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- ✦Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America — Terry Mutchler (nominee)
- ✦Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger — Kelly Cogswell (nominee)
- ✦Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire — Lynette Loeppky (nominee)
- ✦Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith — Barbara Smith (nominee)
- ✦The End of Eve — Ariel Gore (nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- ✦ Done to Death (nominee)
- ✦ Slash and Burn (nominee)
- ✦UnCatholic Conduct — Stevie Mikayne (nominee)
- ✦The Acquittal — Anne Laughlin (nominee)
- ✦Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦Done to Death(nominee)
- ✦Slash and Burn(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆 Mysterious Acts by My People (winner)
- ✦Last Psalm at Sea Level — Meg Day (nominee)
- ✦ Only Ride (nominee)
- ✦ MxT (nominee)
- ✦ Termination Dust (nominee)
- ✦Like a Beggar — Ellen Bass (nominee)
- ✦Haiti Glass — Lenelle Moïse (nominee)
- ✦Janey’s Arcadia — Rachel Zolf (nominee)
- ✦Only Ride(nominee)
- ✦MxT(nominee)
- ✦Termination Dust(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆 The Farmer’s Daughter (winner)
- ✦Nightingale — Andrea Bramhall (nominee)
- ✦Jolt — Kris Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Tangled Roots — Marianne K. Martin (nominee)
- ✦ That Certain Something (nominee)
- ✦ The Heat of Angels (nominee)
- ✦ Christmas Crush (nominee)
- ✦ Seneca Falls (nominee)
- ✦That Certain Something(nominee)
- ✦The Heat of Angels(nominee)
- ✦Christmas Crush(nominee)
- ✦Seneca Falls(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆 Ana Castillo (winner)
- 🏆 Hieu Minh Nguyen (winner)
- 🏆The Delectable Negro — Vincent Woodard (winner)
Transgender Fiction
- ✦Revolutionary: A Novel — Alex Myers (nominee)
- ✦ Everything Must Go (nominee)
- ✦A Safe Girl To Love — Casey Plett(nominee)
- ✦Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab — Shani Mootoo(nominee)
- ✦Everything Must Go(nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- ✦ Thomas Page McBee (nominee)
- ✦Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community — Laura S. Erickson-Schroth (nominee)
- ✦Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More — Janet Mock (nominee)
Trustees Award
- 🏆 Randy Falco (winner)
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