Lambda Literary Awards 2023
Winners and nominees of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Fiction
- ✦Stories No One Hopes Are about Them — A. J. Bermudez (nominee)
- ✦Mother Ocean Father Nation — Nishant Batsha (nominee)
- ✦Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel — Bushra Rehman (nominee)
Bisexual Non-fiction
- 🏆Appropriate Behavior — Maria San Filippo (winner)
- ✦The Crane Wife(nominee)
- ✦ Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk (nominee)
- ✦ Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy (nominee)
- ✦ Never Simple: A Memoir (nominee)
- ✦Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk(nominee)
- ✦Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy(nominee)
- ✦Never Simple: A Memoir(nominee)
Bisexual Poetry
- 🏆Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes — Nicky Beer (winner)
- 🏆 Nicky Beer (winner)
- ✦Dereliction — Gabrielle Octavia Rucker (nominee)
- ✦ indecent hours (nominee)
- ✦50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse — Karyna McGlynn (nominee)
- ✦indecent hours(nominee)
Erotica
- ✦ Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey (nominee)
- ✦Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- 🏆The Foghorn Echoes — Ahmad Danny Ramadan (winner)
- ✦God's Children Are Little Broken Things — Arinze Ifeakandu (nominee)
- ✦ My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel (nominee)
- ✦Hugs and Cuddles — João Gilberto Noll (nominee)
- ✦My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 High-Risk Homosexual (winner)
- ✦ Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York (nominee)
- ✦ I'm Not Broken (nominee)
- ✦All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir — Seán Hewitt (nominee)
- ✦Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York(nominee)
- ✦I'm Not Broken(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- ✦ Brother Sleep (nominee)
- ✦ Super Model Minority (nominee)
- ✦Pleasure — Angelo Nikolopoulos (nominee)
- ✦Alive at the End of the World — Saeed Jones (nominee)
- ✦Pleasure — Brian Teare (nominee)
- ✦Brother Sleep(nominee)
- ✦Super Model Minority(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆I'm So Not Over You(winner)
- ✦ Just One Night (nominee)
- ✦ Two Tribes (nominee)
- ✦ Forever, Con Amor (nominee)
- ✦ Forever After (nominee)
- ✦Just One Night(nominee)
- ✦Two Tribes(nominee)
- ✦Forever, Con Amor(nominee)
- ✦Forever After(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- ✦Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities Second Edition — Laura S. Erickson-Schroth (nominee)
LGBT Studies
- ✦Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer — Mairead Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life — Jafari S. Allen (nominee)
LGBTQ Comics
- ✦Gay Giant — Kelley D. Salas (nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Gods of Want — K-Ming Chang (winner)
- 🏆 K-Ming Chang (winner)
- ✦Julia Armfield(nominee)
- ✦Nightcrawling — Leila Mottley (nominee)
- ✦Big Girl: A Novel — Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦ Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦Jawbone — Mónica Ojeda (nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 Lost & Found: A Memoir (winner)
- ✦Ma and Me — Putsata Reang (nominee)
- ✦Pretty Baby: A Memoir — Chris Belcher (nominee)
- ✦ Brown Neon (nominee)
- ✦ Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place (nominee)
- ✦Brown Neon(nominee)
- ✦Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆 As She Appears (winner)
- ✦Concentrate — Courtney Faye Taylor (nominee)
- ✦ Beast at Every Threshold (nominee)
- ✦ Yearn (nominee)
- ✦Prelude — Brynne Rebele-Henry (nominee)
- ✦Beast at Every Threshold(nominee)
- ✦Yearn(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- 🏆 The Rules of Forever (winner)
- ✦ If I Don't Ask (nominee)
- ✦ Southbound and Down (nominee)
- ✦Hard Pressed — Aurora Rey (nominee)
- ✦If I Don't Ask(nominee)
- ✦Southbound and Down(nominee)
Overall
- ✦Our Wives Under the Sea — Julia Armfield(nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- ✦The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment — Cameron Awkward-Rich (nominee)
- ✦Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender — Kit Heyam (nominee)
Young Adult Literature
- ✦The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School — Sonido Reyes (nominee)
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