Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2017

Winners and nominees of the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. πŸ† marks the winner.

Bisexual Fiction

  • ✦ Marrow Island (nominee)
  • ✦Beautiful Gravity(nominee)
  • ✦When Watched β€” Leopoldine Core (nominee)
  • ✦Marrow Island(nominee)

Bisexual Non-fiction

  • πŸ†Black Dove: MamΓ‘, Mi'jo, and Me β€” Ana Castillo (winner)
  • ✦ The Body's Alphabet (nominee)
  • ✦ I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris (nominee)
  • ✦Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women β€” Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (nominee)
  • ✦The Body's Alphabet(nominee)
  • ✦I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • ✦ Gravity (nominee)
  • ✦Highly Illogical Behavior β€” John Corey Whaley (nominee)
  • ✦Gravity(nominee)

Drama

  • πŸ†Barbecue/Bootycandy β€” Robert O'Hara (winner)
  • ✦ Freda and Jem's Best of the Week (nominee)
  • ✦Perfect Arrangement β€” Topher Payne (nominee)
  • ✦Freda and Jem's Best of the Week(nominee)

Erotica

  • πŸ†Soul to Keep β€” Rebekah Weatherspoon (winner)
  • ✦Skyscraper β€” Scott Alexander Hess (nominee)
  • ✦ Roped In (nominee)
  • ✦ Steel and Promise (nominee)
  • ✦ Camp Rewind (nominee)
  • ✦Roped In(nominee)
  • ✦Steel and Promise(nominee)
  • ✦Camp Rewind(nominee)

Gay Fiction

  • πŸ† The Angel of History (winner)
  • ✦ The Rope Swing (nominee)
  • ✦Hide β€” Matthew Griffin (nominee)
  • ✦Moonstone β€” SjΓ³n (nominee)
  • ✦Jazz Moon β€” Joe Okonkwo (nominee)
  • ✦Black Deutschland β€” Darryl Pinckney (nominee)
  • ✦The Rope Swing(nominee)

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • πŸ†When We Rise β€” Cleve Jones (winner)
  • ✦ Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann (nominee)
  • ✦ Capsid: A Love Song (nominee)
  • ✦ One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin (nominee)
  • ✦Proxies β€” Brian Blanchfield (nominee)
  • ✦Books For Living β€” Will Schwalbe (nominee)
  • ✦Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann(nominee)
  • ✦Capsid: A Love Song(nominee)
  • ✦One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin(nominee)

Gay Mystery

  • πŸ† Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery (winner)
  • ✦ Homo Superiors (nominee)
  • ✦ Bitter Legacy (nominee)
  • ✦Nights in Berlin β€” Janice Law (nominee)
  • ✦Lay Your Sleeping Head β€” Michael Nava(nominee)
  • ✦Homo Superiors(nominee)
  • ✦Bitter Legacy(nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • πŸ† Thief in the Interior (winner)
  • ✦DIG β€” Bryan Borland (nominee)
  • ✦Trouble the Water β€” Derrick Austin (nominee)
  • ✦ Primer (nominee)
  • ✦The Halo β€” C. Dale Young (nominee)
  • ✦Rapture(nominee)
  • ✦The Taxidermist's Cut β€” Rajiv Mohabir (nominee)
  • ✦Primer(nominee)

Gay Romance

  • πŸ† Into the Blue (winner)
  • ✦Femme β€” Marshall Thornton (nominee)
  • ✦Adulting 101 β€” Lisa Henry(nominee)
  • ✦Country β€” Jeff Mann(nominee)
  • ✦ Caught Inside (nominee)
  • ✦ Rank (nominee)
  • ✦Pansies β€” Alexis Hall(nominee)
  • ✦Caught Inside(nominee)
  • ✦Rank(nominee)

LGBT Anthology

  • ✦Queer β€” David J. Getsy (nominee)
  • ✦ Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry (nominee)
  • ✦ Zena Sharman (nominee)
  • ✦ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics(nominee)
  • ✦Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry(nominee)

LGBT Graphic Novel

  • πŸ†Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal β€” Ed Luce (winner)
  • ✦The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker β€” David Homel (nominee)
  • ✦The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker β€” Γ‰ric Liberge (nominee)
  • ✦Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures Of An Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist And Her Friends β€” Dan Parent (nominee)
  • ✦The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker β€” Arnaud Delalande (nominee)

LGBT Non-fiction

  • ✦Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York β€” Donald Albrecht (nominee)
  • ✦The Estrangement Principle β€” Ariel Goldberg (nominee)
  • ✦ Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity (nominee)
  • ✦Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City β€” Jurek Wajdowicz (nominee)
  • ✦Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair β€” Sarah Schulman(nominee)
  • ✦Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York β€” Stephen Vider (nominee)
  • ✦Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

  • ✦A Little Queermas Carol β€” Sassafras Patterdale (nominee)
  • ✦Irish Black β€” David Lennon (nominee)
  • ✦ All Good Children (nominee)
  • ✦ Kissing Booth Girl (nominee)
  • ✦The Devourers β€” Indra Das (nominee)
  • ✦Amberlough β€” Lara Elena Donnelly (nominee)
  • ✦Style of Attack Report β€” Rasheedah Phillips (nominee)
  • ✦Lily β€” Michael Thomas Ford (nominee)
  • ✦All Good Children(nominee)
  • ✦Kissing Booth Girl(nominee)

LGBT Studies

  • πŸ† Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display (winner)
  • ✦Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics β€” Timothy Stewart-Winter (nominee)
  • ✦Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory β€” Qwo-Li Driskill (nominee)
  • ✦Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution β€” Omar G. EncarnaciΓ³n (nominee)
  • ✦ Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (nominee)
  • ✦ Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility (nominee)
  • ✦ Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community (nominee)
  • ✦ Homintern (nominee)
  • ✦Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis(nominee)
  • ✦Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility(nominee)
  • ✦Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community(nominee)
  • ✦Homintern(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • πŸ†Nicole Dennis-Benn(winner)
  • ✦ M. B. Caschetta (nominee)
  • ✦ Kathy Anderson (nominee)
  • ✦Tears in the Grass β€” Lynda A. Archer (nominee)
  • ✦ Lynda A. Archer (nominee)
  • ✦ The Day After Death (nominee)
  • ✦ Bull & Other Stories (nominee)
  • ✦Pretend I'm Your Friend β€” MB Caschetta (nominee)
  • ✦They May Not Mean To, But They Do β€” Cathleen Schine (nominee)
  • ✦ Cathleen Schine (nominee)
  • ✦Another Brooklyn β€” Jacqueline Woodson(nominee)
  • ✦A Thin Bright Line β€” Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
  • ✦ Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
  • ✦ Lynn C Miller (nominee)
  • ✦The Day After Death(nominee)
  • ✦Bull & Other Stories(nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • πŸ†The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde β€” Gloria Joseph (winner)
  • ✦Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier β€” Joanne Passet (nominee)
  • ✦A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain β€” Christina Crosby (nominee)
  • ✦I'm Just a Person β€” Tig Notaro (nominee)
  • ✦A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder β€” Ma-Nee Chacaby (nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

  • ✦Requiem for Immortals β€” Lee Winter (nominee)
  • ✦Bury Me When I'm Dead β€” Cheryl A. Head (nominee)
  • ✦Final Cut β€” Lynn Ames (nominee)
  • ✦ Walk-in (nominee)
  • ✦ Collide-O-Scope (nominee)
  • ✦ Under Contract (nominee)
  • ✦Pathogen β€” Jessica L. Webb (nominee)
  • ✦Blood Money Murder β€” Jessie Chandler (nominee)
  • ✦Walk-in(nominee)
  • ✦Collide-O-Scope(nominee)
  • ✦Under Contract(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • πŸ†Complete Works of Pat Parker β€” Julie R. Enszer (winner)
  • πŸ†play dead β€” francine j. harris (winner)
  • ✦Bestiary β€” K-Ming Chang (nominee)
  • ✦ The Old Philosopher (nominee)
  • ✦ Swarm Queen's Crown (nominee)
  • ✦Night β€” Etel Adnan (nominee)
  • ✦You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened β€” Arisa White (nominee)
  • ✦Bestiary β€” Donika Kelly (nominee)
  • ✦Journal of Ugly Sites β€” Stacy Szymaszek (nominee)
  • ✦The Old Philosopher(nominee)
  • ✦Swarm Queen's Crown(nominee)

Lesbian Romance

  • πŸ† The Scorpion's Empress (winner)
  • ✦Perfect Pairing β€” Rachel Spangler(nominee)
  • ✦The Liberators of Willow Run β€” Marianne K. Martin (nominee)
  • ✦ Lost in the Starlight (nominee)
  • ✦ Finding Lizzie (nominee)
  • ✦ Coils (nominee)
  • ✦ Little Lies (nominee)
  • ✦Loving Eleanor β€” Susan Wittig Albert (nominee)
  • ✦Lost in the Starlight(nominee)
  • ✦Finding Lizzie(nominee)
  • ✦Coils(nominee)
  • ✦Little Lies(nominee)

Overall

  • πŸ† Ed Luce (winner)
  • πŸ†How to Survive a Plague β€” David France (winner)
  • ✦Autonomous β€” Annalee Newitz(nominee)

Transgender Fiction

Transgender Non-fiction

  • πŸ† Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China (winner)
  • ✦ Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir (nominee)
  • ✦ Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity (nominee)
  • ✦You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition β€” Chase Joynt (nominee)
  • ✦Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir(nominee)
  • ✦Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity(nominee)

Transgender Poetry

  • πŸ†Reacquainted with Life β€” Kokumọ (winner)
  • ✦Sympathetic Little Monster β€” Cameron Awkward-Rich (nominee)
  • ✦Safe Space β€” R. Eric Thomas (nominee)
  • ✦Safe Space β€” Jos Charles (nominee)
  • ✦The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide β€” Jai Arun Ravine (nominee)
  • ✦even this page is white β€” Vivek Shraya (nominee)

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