Lambda Literary Awards 2020
Winners and nominees of the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- 🏆Exquisite Mariposa — Fiona Alison Duncan (winner)
- ✦Deposing Nathan — Zack Smedley (nominee)
- ✦ The Not Wives (nominee)
- ✦ Just Pervs (nominee)
- ✦ Jude (nominee)
- ✦ Big Familia (nominee)
- ✦The Not Wives(nominee)
- ✦Just Pervs(nominee)
- ✦Jude(nominee)
- ✦Big Familia(nominee)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- 🏆Socialist Realism — Trisha Low (winner)
- ✦ A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference (nominee)
- ✦A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference(nominee)
Bisexual Poetry
- 🏆 Pet Sounds (winner)
- ✦HoodWitch — Faylita Hicks (nominee)
- ✦ Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart (nominee)
- ✦ water/tongue (nominee)
- ✦Build Yourself a Boat — Camonghne Felix (nominee)
- ✦Revenge of the Asian Woman — Dorothy Chan (nominee)
- ✦Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart(nominee)
- ✦water/tongue(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆The Grief Keeper — Alexandra Villasante (winner)
- 🏆Hazel's Theory of Evolution — Lisa Jenn Bigelow (winner)
- ✦Pride Colors — Robin Stevenson (nominee)
- ✦Hurricane Season — Nicole Melleby (nominee)
- ✦ The Meaning of Birds (nominee)
- ✦The Meaning of Birds(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆 A Strange Loop (winner)
- 🏆 Michael R. Jackson (winner)
- ✦ Dr. Ride's American Beach House (nominee)
- ✦The Amateurs — Jordan Harrison (nominee)
- ✦Dr. Ride's American Beach House(nominee)
Erotica
- 🏆Whore Foods — LA Warman (winner)
- ✦ Lot's Wife: An Erotic Novella (nominee)
- ✦ Texas Crude (nominee)
- ✦ The Shape of the Earth (nominee)
- ✦Lord of the Senses — Vikram Kolmannskog (nominee)
- ✦Lot's Wife: An Erotic Novella(nominee)
- ✦Texas Crude(nominee)
- ✦The Shape of the Earth(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆Lot: Stories — Bryan Washington(winner)
- 🏆Lot — Bryan Washington(winner)
- ✦In West Mills — De'Shawn Charles Winslow (nominee)
- ✦Animalia — Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (nominee)
- ✦The Archive of Alternate Endings — Lindsey Drager (nominee)
- ✦Animalia — Frank Wynne (nominee)
- ✦Like This Afternoon Forever — Jaime Manrique (nominee)
- ✦Lord — João Gilberto Noll (nominee)
- ✦Murmur — Will Eaves (nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- ✦The Amphitheater of the Dead — Guy Hocquenghem (nominee)
- ✦Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex(nominee)
- ✦DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underworld 1977-1997 — Alvin Orloff (nominee)
- ✦ In the Shadow of the Bridge (nominee)
- ✦ The Light Years (nominee)
- ✦I.M. — Isaac Mizrahi (nominee)
- ✦Jimmy Neurosis — James Oseland (nominee)
- ✦In the Shadow of the Bridge(nominee)
- ✦The Light Years(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel — Michael Nava(winner)
- ✦ChoirMaster: A Mister Puss Mystery — Michael Craft (nominee)
- ✦Rewind — Marshall Thornton (nominee)
- ✦ The Nowhere (nominee)
- ✦ Death Takes a Bow (nominee)
- ✦ The Fourth Courier (nominee)
- ✦Royal Street Reveillon — Greg Herren (nominee)
- ✦The Quaker — Liam McIlvanney (nominee)
- ✦The Nowhere(nominee)
- ✦Death Takes a Bow(nominee)
- ✦The Fourth Courier(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆SLINGSHOT — Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (winner)
- ✦ Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (nominee)
- ✦ The Experiment of the Tropics (nominee)
- ✦ Losing Miami (nominee)
- ✦NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field — Billy-Ray Belcourt (nominee)
- ✦Doomstead Days — Brian Teare (nominee)
- ✦Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers(nominee)
- ✦The Experiment of the Tropics(nominee)
- ✦Losing Miami(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆 Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life (winner)
- ✦Code Name: Liberty — Marshall Thornton (nominee)
- ✦Blue Umbrella Sky — Rick R. Reed (nominee)
- ✦ My Baby Chased Away the Blues (nominee)
- ✦ Kiss Me Again (nominee)
- ✦ Digging Deep (nominee)
- ✦ Best Man (nominee)
- ✦ Escaping Camp Roosevelt (nominee)
- ✦My Baby Chased Away the Blues(nominee)
- ✦Kiss Me Again(nominee)
- ✦Digging Deep(nominee)
- ✦Best Man(nominee)
- ✦Escaping Camp Roosevelt(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- 🏆A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 — Noam Sienna (winner)
- 🏆Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse — Aishah Shahidah Simmons (winner)
- ✦Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2 — Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (nominee)
- ✦LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia — Jeff Mann(nominee)
- ✦The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume III — The Other Foundation (nominee)
- ✦The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me — Safia Elhillo (nominee)
- ✦HUstling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry — Amber Dawn(nominee)
- ✦The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me — Fatimah Asghar (nominee)
- ✦Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity — Micah Rajunov (nominee)
- ✦LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia — Julia Watts(nominee)
LGBT Graphic Novel
- 🏆 Cannonball (winner)
- ✦ Death Threat (nominee)
- ✦ Is This How You See Me? (nominee)
- ✦Death Threat(nominee)
- ✦Is This How You See Me?(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- ✦The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives — Selby Wynn Schwartz (nominee)
- ✦ Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics (nominee)
- ✦ Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (nominee)
- ✦ Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s (nominee)
- ✦Why Karen Carpenter Matters — Karen Tongson (nominee)
- ✦A Year Without a Name — Cyrus Dunham (nominee)
- ✦When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History — Hugh Ryan (nominee)
- ✦Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics(nominee)
- ✦Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women(nominee)
- ✦Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
LGBT Studies
- 🏆 All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (winner)
- ✦Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction — Dana Seitler (nominee)
- ✦Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé — Roberto Strongman (nominee)
- ✦ Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement (nominee)
- ✦ Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic (nominee)
- ✦ Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde (nominee)
- ✦ Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century (nominee)
- ✦Queer Times, Black Futures — Kara Keeling (nominee)
- ✦Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement(nominee)
- ✦Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic(nominee)
- ✦Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde(nominee)
- ✦Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Patsy — Nicole Dennis-Benn(winner)
- 🏆Nicole Dennis-Benn(winner)
- ✦ Carolina de Robertis (nominee)
- ✦On Swift Horses — Shannon Pufahl (nominee)
- ✦ Shannon Pufahl (nominee)
- ✦A People's History of Heaven — Mathangi Subramanian (nominee)
- ✦ Mathangi Subramanian (nominee)
- ✦ Madeline Fitch (nominee)
- ✦ Stay and Fight (nominee)
- ✦ Cantoras (nominee)
- ✦Red at the Bone — Jacqueline Woodson(nominee)
- ✦Jacqueline Woodson(nominee)
- ✦A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant — Janice Gould (nominee)
- ✦ Janice Gould (nominee)
- ✦Mostly Dead Things — Kristen Arnett (nominee)
- ✦ Kristen Arnett (nominee)
- ✦Stay and Fight(nominee)
- ✦Cantoras(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 Elissa Altman (winner)
- 🏆We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir — Samra Habib (winner)
- ✦Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing — Elissa Altman (nominee)
- ✦The Rib Joint: A Memoir In Essays(nominee)
- ✦A Wild and Previous Life — Joshua Lyon (nominee)
- ✦Ordinary Girls — Jaquira Díaz (nominee)
- ✦Sontag: Her Life and Work — Benjamin Moser (nominee)
- ✦Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls — T Kira Madden (nominee)
- ✦Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimiate Histories of Social Upheaval — Saidiya Hartman (nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆 Galileo (winner)
- ✦ The Blood Runs Cold (nominee)
- ✦The Mirror of Muraro — Amelia Ellis (nominee)
- ✦Twisted at the Root: A Jane Lawless Mystery — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦The Hound of Justice — Claire O'Dell (nominee)
- ✦The Blood Runs Cold(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆& more black — T'ai Freedom Ford (winner)
- ✦Pressure Cooker Love Bomb — Sharanpal Ruprai (nominee)
- ✦Time — Sarah Riggs (nominee)
- ✦ Odes to Lithium (nominee)
- ✦ (the other house) (nominee)
- ✦ Without Protection (nominee)
- ✦tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 — Lee Ann Roripaugh (nominee)
- ✦Odes to Lithium(nominee)
- ✦(the other house)(nominee)
- ✦Without Protection(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆 Aurora's Angel: A Dark Fantasy Romance (winner)
- ✦ Tennessee Whiskey (nominee)
- ✦ The Roommate Arrangement (nominee)
- ✦ The Secret Chord (nominee)
- ✦ Pretending in Paradise (nominee)
- ✦ Create a Life to Love (nominee)
- ✦Once Ghosted, Twice Shy — Alyssa Cole (nominee)
- ✦Tennessee Whiskey(nominee)
- ✦The Roommate Arrangement(nominee)
- ✦The Secret Chord(nominee)
- ✦Pretending in Paradise(nominee)
- ✦Create a Life to Love(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Socialist Realism — Trisha Low (winner)
- 🏆The Deep — Daveed Diggs(winner)
- 🏆The Deep — Rivers Solomon(winner)
Transgender Fiction
- 🏆Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) — Hazel Jane Plante (winner)
- ✦ Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer (nominee)
- ✦ Honey Walls (nominee)
- ✦The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories — Bogi Takács (nominee)
- ✦Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer(nominee)
- ✦Honey Walls(nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- 🏆 We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (winner)
- ✦ Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender (nominee)
- ✦ Zach Ozma (nominee)
- ✦ Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through (nominee)
- ✦Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender(nominee)
- ✦Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through(nominee)
Transgender Poetry
- 🏆 HULL (winner)
- ✦EXTRATRANSMISSION — Andrea Abi-Karam (nominee)
- ✦ The Year of Blue Water (nominee)
- ✦The Year of Blue Water(nominee)
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