Lambda Literary Awards 2022
Winners and nominees of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- 🏆We Want What We Want — Alix Ohlin (winner)
- ✦Monster in the Middle — Tiphanie Yanique (nominee)
- ✦We Play Ourselves — Jen Silverman (nominee)
- ✦Blue-Skinned Gods — SJ Sindu (nominee)
- ✦Milk Fed: A Novel — Melissa Broder (nominee)
Bisexual Literature
- 🏆 Aisha Sabatini Sloan (winner)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- 🏆Borealis — Aisha Sabatini Sloan (winner)
- ✦ The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces (nominee)
- ✦ The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease (nominee)
- ✦ Dark Tourist: Essays (nominee)
- ✦ Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (nominee)
- ✦The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces(nominee)
- ✦The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease(nominee)
- ✦Dark Tourist: Essays(nominee)
- ✦Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much(nominee)
Bisexual Poetry
- 🏆 Gumbo Ya Ya (winner)
- ✦ The Best Prey (nominee)
- ✦ Master Suffering (nominee)
- ✦The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void — Jackie Wang (nominee)
- ✦Imagine Us, The Swarm — Muriel Leung (nominee)
- ✦The Best Prey(nominee)
- ✦Master Suffering(nominee)
Children's Literature
- 🏆Calvin — Vanessa Ford (winner)
- ✦ Stitch by Stich: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt (nominee)
- ✦ The Fabulous Zed Watson! (nominee)
- ✦Stitch by Stich: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt(nominee)
- ✦The Fabulous Zed Watson!(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- 🏆Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating — Adiba Jaigirdar(winner)
Drama
- 🏆Mrs. Harrison — R. Eric Thomas (winner)
- ✦ Thrive, or What You Will {an epic} (nominee)
- ✦ mama [rose.] (nominee)
- ✦ Pillow Talk (nominee)
- ✦Thrive, or What You Will {an epic}(nominee)
- ✦mama [rose.](nominee)
- ✦Pillow Talk(nominee)
Erotica
- ✦Ambrosia: Trans Masc & Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology — Jade Sarson (nominee)
- ✦Ambrosia: Trans Masc & Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology — Tab Kimpton (nominee)
- ✦ Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories (nominee)
- ✦ The Lodger, That Summer (nominee)
- ✦Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology(nominee)
- ✦Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories(nominee)
- ✦The Lodger, That Summer(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦Rainbow Milk — Paul Mendez (nominee)
- ✦ My Good Son (nominee)
- ✦Brickmakers: A Novel — Selva Almada (nominee)
- ✦My Good Son(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir — Brian Broome (winner)
- ✦Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism — Peter Staley (nominee)
- ✦Writing with Caca / Escribir con Caca — Luis Felipe Fabre (nominee)
- ✦Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir — Rajiv Mohabir (nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Punks: New & Selected Poems — John Keene (winner)
- ✦Tenderness — Derrick Austin (nominee)
- ✦ Shoreditch (nominee)
- ✦ Creep Love (nominee)
- ✦Besiege Me — Nicholas Wong (nominee)
- ✦Shoreditch(nominee)
- ✦Creep Love(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts — Larry Benjamin (winner)
- ✦The Other Man — Farhad J. Dadyburjor (nominee)
- ✦ Dublin Bay (nominee)
- ✦ Best of the Wrong Reasons (nominee)
- ✦ Floridian Nights (nominee)
- ✦Dublin Bay(nominee)
- ✦Best of the Wrong Reasons(nominee)
- ✦Floridian Nights(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Leanna Keyes (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Raphael Khouri (nominee)
- ✦Mouths of Rain — Briona Simone Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Lindsey Mantoan (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — MJ Kaufman (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Sharifa Yazmeen (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — j. Chavez (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Bloomsbury Publishing (nominee)
- ✦Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America — Alice Y. Hom (nominee)
- ✦The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays — Ty Defoe (nominee)
- ✦Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America — Martin F. Manalansan IV (nominee)
- ✦Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- ✦Girlhood — Melissa Febos (nominee)
- ✦ Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures (nominee)
- ✦Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water — Kazim Ali (nominee)
- ✦Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦Phototaxis — Olivia Tapiero (nominee)
- ✦The Tensorate Series — Neon Yang(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- ✦Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall — Anna Lvovsky (nominee)
- ✦ Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire (nominee)
- ✦ Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (nominee)
- ✦The Shape of Sex — Leah DeVun (nominee)
- ✦Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire(nominee)
- ✦Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific(nominee)
LGBTQ Comics
- ✦Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance — Syan Rose (nominee)
- ✦ Shadow Life (nominee)
- ✦Shadow Life(nominee)
LGBTQ Mystery
- ✦Bath Haus(nominee)
- ✦ Finding the Vein (nominee)
- ✦ Murder Under Her Skin (nominee)
- ✦Lies With Man — Michael Nava(nominee)
- ✦Finding the Vein(nominee)
- ✦Murder Under Her Skin(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Skye Falling — Mia McKenzie (winner)
- ✦ Venita Blackburn (nominee)
- ✦ How to Wrestle a Girl (nominee)
- ✦ Kirstin Valdez Quade (nominee)
- ✦Matrix — Lauren Groff(nominee)
- ✦With Teeth — Kristen Arnett (nominee)
- ✦ Kristen Arnett (nominee)
- ✦How to Wrestle a Girl(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had): A Memoir (winner)
- ✦ The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture (nominee)
- ✦ The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation (nominee)
- ✦Why Labelle Matters — Adele Bertei (nominee)
- ✦The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams — Jonathan Ned Katz (nominee)
- ✦The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture(nominee)
- ✦The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- ✦The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak — Grace Lau (nominee)
- ✦All the Rage — Rosamond S. King (nominee)
- ✦Who's Your Daddy — Arisa White (nominee)
- ✦The Renunciations: Poems — Donika Kelly (nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆The Headmistress — Milena McKay (winner)
- 🏆 The Headmistress (winner)
- ✦Red Tide at Heron Bay — Gerri Hill (nominee)
- ✦ Chemistry Lessons (nominee)
- ✦ In the Long Run (nominee)
- ✦Chemistry Lessons(nominee)
- ✦In the Long Run(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆 Brontez Purnell (winner)
Transgender Fiction
- ✦Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters(nominee)
- ✦Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body — Megan Milks (nominee)
- ✦ A Natural History of Transition (nominee)
- ✦A Natural History of Transition(nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- 🏆 Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (winner)
- ✦Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Seuxality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies — Francisco J. Galarte (nominee)
- ✦Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography — Blake Gutt (nominee)
- ✦ Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (nominee)
- ✦Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures — Ivan Coyote (nominee)
- ✦Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments(nominee)
Transgender Poetry
- 🏆 Crossbones on My Life (winner)
- ✦Villainy — Andrea Abi-Karam (nominee)
- ✦ Salamat sa Intersectionality (nominee)
- ✦x/ex/exis — Roque Salas Rivera (nominee)
- ✦Transverse — Lindsay Choi (nominee)
- ✦Salamat sa Intersectionality(nominee)
Young Adult Literature
- ✦The Passing Playbook — Isaac Fitzsimons (nominee)
- ✦What We Devour — Linsey Miller (nominee)
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