List of Lambda Literary Award winners
Encyclopedia
1993
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| Anthologies | Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin David Halperin David M. Halperin is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. He is the cofounder of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.... |
Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader |
| Children's/Young Adult | Hilary Mullins | The Cat Came Back |
| Drama | Tony Kushner Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born... |
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches |
| Editor's Choice | Coleman Dowell Coleman Dowell Robert Coleman Dowell was an American writer.-Biography:He was born to Mordon and Beulah Dowell in Adairville, Kentucky on May 29, 1925. Dowell attended several country schools, among them, a one room school where Latin and Greek were taught... |
A Star Bright Lie |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | Edmund White Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :... |
Genet |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Joseph Hansen Joseph Hansen (writer) Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels starring his most iconic creation, private eye Dave Brandstetter.-Life and works:... |
Living Upstairs |
| Gay Men's Mystery | Steven Saylor Steven Saylor Steven Saylor is an American author of historical novels. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and Classics.... |
Catilina's Riddle |
| Gay Men's Poetry (tie) | James Schuyler James Schuyler James Marcus Schuyler was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem... |
Collected Poems |
| Gay Men's Poetry (tie) | Michael Klein | 1990 |
| Gay Men's Studies | Randy Shilts Randy Shilts Randy Shilts was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations.... |
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War was a non-fiction book by Randy Shilts , published in 1993 shortly before Shilts' 1994 death.... |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:... |
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For Dykes to Watch out For Dykes to Watch Out For was a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit... |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Josyane Savigneau Josyane Savigneau Josyane Savigneau is a journalist and writer for Le Monde, born on 14 July 1951 in Châtellerault, France.Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation of 371,803... |
Marguerite Yourcenar |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson... |
Written on the Body |
| Lesbian Mystery | Mary Wings Mary Wings Mary Wings is an American writer, artist, and musician.In 1973 Mary Wings made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book. She may be best known for her series of detective novels featuring lesbian heroine Emma Victor... |
Divine Victim |
| Lesbian Poetry | Audre Lorde Audre Lorde Audre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:... |
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance |
| Lesbian Studies | Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold |
| Publishers Service Award | Michael Denneny, St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... |
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| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Starhawk Starhawk Starhawk is an American writer and activist. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion... |
The Fifth Sacred Thing |
| Small Press (tie) | Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg is a transgender queer and communist activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg's first novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.- Career :... |
Stone Butch Blues Stone Butch Blues Stone Butch Blues is a novel written by transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. The novel won the 1994 Stonewall Book Award. It tells the story of the life of a butch named Jess Goldberg and the trials and tribulations she faces growing up in the pre-Stonewall era. Published in 1993, the novel... |
| Small Press (tie) | Other Countries | Sojourner |
1994
| Category | Author | Title |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:... , ed. |
Chloe Plus Olivia |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Joan Nestle Joan Nestle Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her... and John Preston |
Sister and Brother |
| Children's/Young Adult | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue? |
| Drama | Tony Kushner Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born... |
Angels in America: Perestroika |
| Editor's Choice | Mab Segrest Mab Segrest Mab Segrest is an American feminist writer and activist. Mab Segrest is best known for her 1994 autobiographical work Memoir of a Race Traitor.... |
Traitor to the Race |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala, India who worked as teachers. He is a Syro-Malabar Christian... |
My Own Country My Own Country My Own Country, Abraham Verghese's first book and a New York Times Notable Book the year it appeared in 1994, has been in print since it was published... |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth... |
The Folding Star The Folding Star -Plot summary:The novel is the story of an English gay man, Edward Manners, who, disaffected with life, moves to a town in Flanders where he teaches two students English. One, Marcel, is good but ugly while the other, Luc, is bad but, to the protagonist, deeply beautiful... |
| Gay Men's Mystery | John Berendt John Berendt John Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.... |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. Published in 1994, the book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut.... |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Thom Gunn Thom Gunn Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style... |
Collected Poems |
| Gay Men's Studies | George Chauncey George Chauncey George Chauncey is a professor of history at Yale University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 .-Life and works:... |
Gay New York |
| Humor | Ellen Galford Ellen Galford Ellen Galford is an American-born Scottish writer. She was born in the US and migrated to the UK in 1971, after a brief marriage in New York. She came out in the mid-1970s. She has lived in Glasgow and London and now lives in Edinburgh with her partner... |
The Dyke and the Dybbuk |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Renate Stendhal Renate Stendhal Renate Stendhal is a Lambda Literary Award-winning writer, counselor and writing coach. Born in Germany, she spent half of her adult life in Paris and the other half in California where she works in private practice.- Biography :During her school years in Berlin and Hamburg, Renate Stendhal... |
Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures |
| Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown Rebecca Brown (author) Rebecca Brown is an American lesbian author whose work has contributed significantly to contemporary gay and lesbian literature.-Biography:Brown is from Seattle, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and now serves as the creative... |
Gifts of the Body |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart Ellen Hart Ellen Hart is the award-winning mystery author of the Jane Lawless and Sophie Greenaway series. She was born in Minneapolis, MN in August 1949. A professional chef for 14 years, Hart's mysteries include culinary elements similar to those of Diane Mott Davidson.The author says of her work, "I don't... |
Small Sacrifice |
| Lesbian Poetry | Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York.... |
Winter Numbers |
| Lesbian Studies | Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a... |
Skin |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Nancy Andrews | Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America |
| Publishers Service Award | Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press | |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends |
| Small Press | Kiss & Tell | Her Tongue on My Theory |
1995
| Category | Author | Title |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | E. J. Levy, ed. | Tasting Life Twice |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Claude J. Summers Claude J. Summers Claude J. Summers is an American literary scholar, and the William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has taught at the university since 1970, was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and professor in 1977.... , ed. |
Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage |
| Children's/Young Adult | Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who writes books targeted at children and adolescents. She is best known for 'Miracle's Boys' which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles 'After Tupac & D Foster', 'Feathers' and 'Show Way'... |
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
| Drama (tie) | Tony Kushner Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born... |
Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) |
| Drama (tie) | Guinevere Turner Guinevere Turner Guinevere Turner is an American actress, writer and director. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known as the screenwriter of such films as American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and for playing the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.-... and Rose Troche Rose Troche Rose Troche is a film and television director, television producer, and screenwriter. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended film school, earning a degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago... |
Go Fish |
| Editor's Choice | Patrick Califia Patrick Califia Patrick Califia , born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas is a writer of nonfiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man.-Biography:... and Janine Fuller |
Forbidden Passages, Intro |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | Lyle Leverich | Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.-Early life and education:... |
Flesh and Blood |
| Gay Men's Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman Robert D. Zimmerman Robert Dingwall Zimmerman is an American author of mysteries, psychological thrillers, and children's books. He has won several literary awards.- Early life :... |
Closet |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... |
Atlantis |
| Gay Men's Studies | Joseph Carrier | De Los Otros |
| Humor | Ellen Orleans | The Butches of Madison County |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Erica Fischer | Aimee & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar is a 1999 German drama film set in Berlin during World War II. It was written and directed by Max Färberböck, based upon Erica Fischer's book, chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during that time period. The book was based on the work of the American... |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who writes books targeted at children and adolescents. She is best known for 'Miracle's Boys' which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles 'After Tupac & D Foster', 'Feathers' and 'Show Way'... |
Autobiography of a Family Photo |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jean M. Redmann Jean M. Redmann Jean M. Redmann is an American novelist best known for her mystery series featuring New Orleans private investigator Micky Knight.... |
Intersection of Law and Desire |
| Lesbian Poetry | Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:... |
Dark Fields of the Republic |
| Lesbian Studies | Karla Jay Karla Jay Karla Jay is a professor of English and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Pace University. A pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay studies, she is widely published.... |
Dyke Life |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Andrea Weiss | Paris was a Woman |
| Pioneer Award | L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising Lambda Rising Lambda Rising, an LGBT bookstore that operated from 1974 to 2010 in Washington, D.C..Founded by Deacon Maccubbin in 1974 with 250 titles, it was known for its wide selection of books, ranging from queer theory and religion to erotica, as well as DVDs, music CDs and gifts.The bookstore was... |
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| Publishers Service Award | Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press | |
| Publishers Service Award | Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley | Restricted Entry |
| Religion/Spirituality | Brian Bouldrey Brian Bouldrey Brian Bouldrey is a United States writer. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Northwestern University's English Department. He is also a Visiting Writer at Lesley University.-Controversy:http://www.chron.org/tools/viewart.php?artid=1467... |
Wrestling with the Angel |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (tie) | Melissa Scott | Shadow Man |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (tie) | Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr Award, the World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. She also... |
Slow River |
| Small Press | Eileen Myles Eileen Myles Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:... and Liz Kotz |
The New Fuck You |
1996
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Joan Nestle Joan Nestle Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her... and Naomi Holoch, eds. |
Women on Women 3 |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Michael Bronski, ed. | Taking Liberties |
| Children's/Young Adult | Nancy Garden Nancy Garden Nancy Garden is an American author of children's and young adult literature.- Biography :She is best known for her novel, Annie on My Mind , which was critically acclaimed but attracted controversy because of its lesbian characters, Annie and Liza who fall in love... |
Good Moon Rising |
| Drama | Sue-Ellen Case Sue-Ellen Case Sue-Ellen Case is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles.... |
Split Britches |
| Editor's Choice | Donald Windham Donald Windham Donald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist. He is perhaps best known for his close friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Windham moved with his then-boyfriend Fred Melton, an artist, to New York City in 1939. Windham collaborated with Williams... |
Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | Fenton Johnson Fenton Johnson John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.-Life:His most recent book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in... |
Geography of the Heart |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Shyam Selvadurai Shyam Selvadurai Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy , which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens... |
Funny Boy |
| Gay Men's Mystery | Michael Nava Michael Nava Michael Angel Nava is an attorney and writer.He is a third-generation Californian of Mexican descent. He was born and raised in Sacramento. He was the first member of his family to attend college, graduating with honors from the Colorado College in 1976. He received his J.D... |
The Death of Friends |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Rafael Campo Rafael Campo (poet) Rafael Campo is an American poet, doctor, and author.-Life:He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. He practices medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts... |
What the Body Told |
| Gay Men's Studies | Patrick Merla Patrick Merla Patrick Merla is a gay American "literary agent, editor and prominent figure in gay publishing."Born in New York City. Patrick Merla edited three of the most well-known gay publications in the United States: Christopher Street, The New York Native and the James White Review... , ed. |
Boys Like Us |
| Humor | Judy Carter | Homo Handbook |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Doris Grumbach Doris Grumbach Doris Grumbach is an American novelist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. She taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and was literary editor of the The New Republic for several years. Since 1985, she has had a bookstore, Wayward Books.-Life:Grumbach was born in New York... |
Life in a Day |
| Lesbian Fiction | Achy Obejas Achy Obejas Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba... |
Memory Mambo |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart Ellen Hart Ellen Hart is the award-winning mystery author of the Jane Lawless and Sophie Greenaway series. She was born in Minneapolis, MN in August 1949. A professional chef for 14 years, Hart's mysteries include culinary elements similar to those of Diane Mott Davidson.The author says of her work, "I don't... |
Robber's Wine |
| Lesbian Poetry (tie) | Robin Becker Robin Becker Robin Becker is an American poet, critic, feminist, and professor. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Domain of Perfect Affection . Her All-American Girl , won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. Becker earned a B.A... |
All-American Girl |
| Lesbian Poetry (tie) | Maureen Seaton | Furious Cooking |
| Lesbian Studies | Bernadette J. Brooten | Love Between Women |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Susie Bright Susie Bright Susannah "Susie" Bright is an American writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, and performer, all on the subject of sexuality.... and Jill Posener |
Nothing But the Girl |
| Pioneer Award | Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books Daedalus Books Daedalus Books is an independent seller of books, music, and video founded in 1980. While it sells new titles, Daedalus Books' specialty is the remaindered book. Their philosophy is to keep bestsellers, classics, and overlooked gems available to the reading public.Daedalus Books' primary location... |
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| Publishers Service Award | Norman Laurila, A Different Light A Different Light A Different Light is the second full-length album by Sherwood, and it continues the band's musical style. The album contains several re-recorded versions of tracks off their Summer EP , as well as new tracks that help the band drift into new musical territory... |
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| Religion/Spirituality | Peter Gomes | The Good Book |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Clive Barker Clive Barker Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer... |
Sacrament |
| Small Press | Loren Cameron Loren Cameron Loren Rex Cameron is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. His work includes portraiture and self-portraiture which consist of lesbian and transsexual bodies in both clothed and nude form... |
Body Alchemy |
| Transgender | Loren Cameron Loren Cameron Loren Rex Cameron is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. His work includes portraiture and self-portraiture which consist of lesbian and transsexual bodies in both clothed and nude form... |
Body Alchemy |
1997
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton Terry Wolverton Terry Wolverton is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her book Insurgent Muse: Life and art at the Woman’s Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the “Best Books of 2002” by the Los Angeles Times, and was the winner of the 2003 Publishing... , eds. |
His(2) (Faber & Faber) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter, ed.s | Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance (Bay) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who writes books targeted at children and adolescents. She is best known for 'Miracle's Boys' which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles 'After Tupac & D Foster', 'Feathers' and 'Show Way'... |
The House You Pass On the Way (Delacorte Dell Publishing Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte, Jr.During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included 1000 Jokes, launched in... ) |
| Drama | Moises Kaufman Moisés Kaufman Moisés Kaufman is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 33 Variations and is perhaps best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project... |
Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Vintage) |
| Editor's Choice | Patricia Nell Warren Patricia Nell Warren Patricia Nell Warren is an openly lesbian American author and journalist.-Biography:Primarily known as an author, Warren is also commonly known as "the mother of Frontrunners" - the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender running/walking clubs that have been started in Los Angeles and other large... |
Billy's Boy (Wildcat) |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | Rafael Campo Rafael Campo (poet) Rafael Campo is an American poet, doctor, and author.-Life:He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. He practices medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts... |
The Poetry of Healing (W.W. Norton) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Aryeh Lev Stollman | The Far Euphrates (Putnam G. P. Putnam's Sons G. P. Putnam's Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group.-History:... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | David Hunt (AKA William Bayer) William Bayer William Bayer is an American novelist, the author of Switch, among other works. Bayer has written a series of novels featuring fictional New York Police Department lieutenant Frank Janek. He has also written adaptions of his novels for television, and written for other TV shows... |
The Magician's Tale (Putnam G. P. Putnam's Sons G. P. Putnam's Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group.-History:... ) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Cyrus Cassells Cyrus Cassells -Life and work:Cassells was born in Dover, Delaware, grew up in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, and began writing poetry in high school. He graduated in 1979 from Stanford University with a degree in film and broadcasting, and landed a job creating poetry filmstrips in the film division of... |
Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Copper Canyon Copper Canyon is a group of canyons consisting of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Tarahumara in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico... ) |
| Gay Men's Studies | Charles Kaiser Charles Kaiser Charles Kaiser is an American author, journalist and blogger.His blog about the media, Full Court Press, originated on the website of Radar Magazine in the fall of 2007... , ed. |
Gay Metropolis (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Humor | Bob Smith Bob Smith (comedian) Bob Smith is an American comedian and author. Smith, born in Buffalo, New York, was the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and the first openly gay comedian to have his own HBO half-hour comedy special... |
Openly Bob (Rob Weisbach) |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Barbara Wilson | Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood (Picador Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.... ) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Elana Dykewomon Elana Dykewomon Elana Dykewomon is a Jewish lesbian activist, award-winning author, editor and teacher.- Childhood :... |
Beyond the Pale (Press Gang Press Gang Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Randye Lordon | Father Forgive Me (Avon Avon (publishers) Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher. As of 2010, it is an imprint of HarperCollins, publishing primarily romance novels.-History:... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry (tie) | Joan Larkin Joan Larkin Joan Larkin is an American poet and playwright. She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books. She is now in her fourth decade of teaching writing... |
Cold River (Painted Leaf) |
| Lesbian Poetry (tie) | Eileen Myles Eileen Myles Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:... |
School of Fish (Black Sparrow) |
| Lesbian Studies | Lisa C. Moore | Does Your Mama Know? (Redbone) |
| Photography/Visual Arts (tie) | David Leddick | Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 (Universe Universe The Universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. Definitions and usage vary and similar terms include the cosmos, the world and nature... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts (tie) | Robert Giard | Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers (MIT) |
| Pioneer Award | Ron Hanby, Bookazine | |
| Publishers Service Award | Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including Critical Inquiry, and a wide array of... |
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| Religion/Spirituality | Rebecca Alpert Rebecca Alpert Rabbi Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert is associate professor in the Departments of Religion and Women's Studies and the chair of the Department of Religion at Temple University.-Early life and education:... |
Like Bread on the Seder Plate (Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr Award, the World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. She also... and Stephen Pagel |
Bending the Landscape (White Wolf) |
| Small Press | Lisa C. Moore | Does Your Mama Know? (Redbone) |
| Transgender (tie) | Carol Queen Carol Queen Carol Queen is an American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture... and Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National... , eds. |
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Transgender (tie) | Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams | The Last Time I Wore a Dress (Putnam G. P. Putnam's Sons G. P. Putnam's Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group.-History:... ) |
1998
| Category | Author | Title |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Byrne R.S. Fone, ed. | Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... ) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Nisa Donnelly, ed. | Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life (Alyson) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | David L. Eng | Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple University Temple University Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Kevin Jennings Kevin Jennings Kevin Brett Jennings is an American educator, author, and administrator. He was the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education from 2009-11... |
Telling Tales Out of School (Alyson) |
| Drama | Holly Hughes Holly Hughes (performance artist) Holly Hughes is an American lesbian performance artist. She began as a feminist painter in New York but is best known for her connection with the NEA Four, with whom she was denied funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and for her work with the Women's One World Cafe. Her plays... |
O Solo Homo (Grove Grove Press Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United States. The Atlantic Monthly Press, under the aegis of its... ) |
| Editor's Choice Award | Naeem Murr Naeem Murr Naeem Murr is a British-born novelist and short story writer of Lebanese descent. He is the author of three novels acclaimed for their dark portraiture and stark, original prose... |
The Boy (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | William J. Mann William J. Mann William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his 2006 biography of Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn... |
Wisecracker (Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim... ) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Mark Merlis | An Arrow's Flight An Arrow's Flight An Arrow's Flight is a novel by Mark Merlis, published in 1998.-Plot summary:Pyrrhus lives in the city with his housemate Leucon. He works as a waiter, then as a hustler. One day he hears his father Achilles has left him some inheritance in Troy, and he decides to claim it. On the ship, he sleeps... (St. Martin's St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | R.D. Zimmerman | Outburst (Delacourt) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | J.D. McClatchy J.D. McClatchy J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy is an American poet and literary critic. He is editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.-Life:... |
Ten Commandments (Knopf Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... ) |
| Gay Men's Studies | John Loughery | The Other Side of Silence (Henry Holt Henry Holt and Company Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt... ) |
| Humor | Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his "My Queer Life" series of humorous essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides and What We Remember.-Career highlights:Michael... |
Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life (Alyson) |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:... |
The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For (Firebrand) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a... |
Cavedweller Cavedweller Cavedweller is the second novel from critically acclaimed author Dorothy Allison. Much like her award-winning novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller deals with domestic violence, friendship among women, mother-daughter bonds, and poverty in the small-town South... (Dutton E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. In 1986, the company was acquired by Penguin Group and split into two imprints: Dutton Penguin and Dutton Children's Books.-History:Edward Payson Dutton founded... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery (tie) | Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr Award, the World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. She also... |
The Blue Place (Avon Avon (publishers) Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher. As of 2010, it is an imprint of HarperCollins, publishing primarily romance novels.-History:... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery (tie) | Sarah Dreher Sarah Dreher Sarah Dreher is an American lesbian novelist and playwright, and best known for her award-winning lesbian mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Stoner McTavish. Dreher was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania in 1937, and resides in Amherst, Massachusetts.... |
Shaman's Moon (New Victoria) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Lesbian Studies | Joan Nestle Joan Nestle Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her... |
A Fragile Union (Cleis Cleis Cleis is a genus of moths of the Callidulidae family.-Species:*Cleis affinis Rothschild, 1916*Cleis erycinoides Felder, 1868*Cleis evander *Cleis lata *Cleis oceanitis Joicey & Talbot, 1916... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts (tie) | David Leddick | The Male Nude (Taschen Taschen Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. It began as Taschen Comics publishing Benedikt's extensive comic collection... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts (tie) | Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera | Women in Love (Bullfinch Bullfinch * A Bullfinch is one of two groups of passerine birdsBullfinch can also refer to:* Bullfinch , an obstacle seen on the cross-country course in the sport of eventing* USS Bullfinch, the name of two US Navy ships... /Little Brown Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:... ) |
| Pioneer Award | Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest is an American writer.Forrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as "Miss Marple with k.d... |
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| Publisher Service Award | Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Donna Minkowitz Donna Minkowitz Donna Minkowitz is a writer and journalist from Brooklyn, New York, United States. She is an advocate for gay and lesbian rights and has written extensively on the subject for publications such as The Village Voice , New York Magazine, The Advocate, Ms. magazine, The Nation and Salon.com.She is... |
Ferocious Romance (Free Press Free Press (publisher) Free Press is a book publishing imprint of Simon and Schuster. It was founded by Jeremiah Kaplan and Charles Liebman in 1947 and was devoted to sociology and religion titles. It was headquartered in Glencoe, Illinois, where it was known as The Free Press of Glencoe... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy (tie) | Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr Award, the World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. She also... and Stephen Pagel, eds. |
Bending the Landscape II (Overlook Overlook A scenic overlook, or just an overlook, observation point, lookout or viewing point, is a high place where people can gather to view scenery , and to photograph it. Scenic overlooks are typically created alongside mountain roads, often as a simple turnouts where motorists can pull over onto... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy (tie) | Clive Barker Clive Barker Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer... |
Galilee (HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... ) |
| Small Press | Sharon Bridgforth Sharon Bridgforth Sharon Bridgforth is an American writer working in a theatrical jazz aesthetic.-Career:From 1993–1998 Bridgforth worked as the Founder, Writer, and Artistic Director of the root wy’mn theatre company.root wy’mn’s touring roster included: Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, The Theater Offensive in... |
the bull-jean stories (RedBone Redbone Redbone may refer to:*Redbone Coonhound, a swift, dark-red or tan coonhound *Redbone , a Mestee ethnic group whose members are found along the Louisiana-Texas border... ) |
| Transgender/Bisexual | Michael R. Gorman | The Empress Is a Man (Harrington Park) |
1999
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies/Fiction | Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle Joan Nestle Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her... , and Nancy Holden, eds. |
Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction (Vintage Vintage Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product . A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and... ) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, eds. | Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia (Henry Holt Henry Holt and Company Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt... ) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Kris Kleindienst, ed. | This Is What Lesbian Looks Like (Firebrand) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Ellen Wittlinger Ellen Wittlinger Ellen Wittlinger is an author for young adults, including Gracie's Girl and the Printz Honor book Hard Love.- Biography :... |
Hard Love (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins... ) |
| Drama | Craig Lucas Craig Lucas Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.-Biography:... |
What I Meant Was (TCG TCG TCG may stand for:* Geocentric Coordinate Time* Test Call Generator, piece of equipment used for testing in the telecommunications industry* TCG , the official debut studio album released in 2007 by The Cheetah Girls... ) |
| Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography | Jesse Green | The Velveteen Father (Villard Villard (imprint) Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a major publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world. It was founded in 1983. Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House, and are currently an imprint of Ballantine Books, itself a subsidiary of Random... ) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Matthew Stadler Matthew Stadler Matthew Stadler is a writer and editor who lives in Portland, Oregon. He has written four novels and received several awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. More recently, he has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life... |
Allan Stein (Grove Grove Press Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United States. The Atlantic Monthly Press, under the aegis of its... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | John Morgan Wilson | Justice at Risk (Doubleday) |
| Gay Men's Poetry (tie) | Mark Wunderlich Mark Wunderlich Mark Wunderlich ) is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin... |
The Anchorage (UMASS) |
| Gay Men's Poetry (tie) | Richard Howard Richard Howard Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches... |
Trappings (Turtle Point) |
| Gay Men's Studies | James Saslow | Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim... ) |
| Humor | Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his "My Queer Life" series of humorous essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides and What We Remember.-Career highlights:Michael... |
That's Mr. Faggot To You (Alyson) |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Diana Souhami | The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (Doubleday) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Waters Sarah Waters Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966.... |
Tipping the Velvet (Riverhead Riverhead Books Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group .Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart Ellen Hart Ellen Hart is the award-winning mystery author of the Jane Lawless and Sophie Greenaway series. She was born in Minneapolis, MN in August 1949. A professional chef for 14 years, Hart's mysteries include culinary elements similar to those of Diane Mott Davidson.The author says of her work, "I don't... |
Hunting the Witch (St. Martin's St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Olga Broumas Olga Broumas Olga Broumas , is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.-Biography:Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she earned her Bachelor's degree in architecture... |
Rave (Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to... ) |
| Lesbian Studies | Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:... |
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts | James Saslow | Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (Viking Press Viking Press Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim... ) |
| Religion/Spirituality (tie) | John R. Stowe | Gay Spirit Warrior (Findhorn Findhorn Findhorn is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and immediately south of the Moray Firth. Findhorn is 3 miles northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 miles by road from Forres.... ) |
| Religion/Spirituality (tie) | Keith Boykin Keith Boykin Keith Boykin is an American broadcaster, author and commentator. He is editor of The Daily Voice, a CNBC contributor, and a co-host of the BET TV talk show My Two Cents.-Biography:... |
Respecting the Soul (Avon Avon (publishers) Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher. As of 2010, it is an imprint of HarperCollins, publishing primarily romance novels.-History:... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy | Richard Bowe | Minions of the Moon (Tor) |
| Small Press | Henry Flesh | Massage (Akashic) |
| Transgender/Bisexual | Jackie Kay Jackie Kay Jackie Kay MBE is a Scottish poet and novelist.-Biography:Jackie Kay was born in Glasgow in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Jonathan C. Okafor who later became a prominent tropical plant taxonomist... |
Trumpet Trumpet (novel) Trumpet is the debut novel of Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay.-Author:Kay has two published collections of poetry: Other Lovers and The Adoption of Papers. Other Lovers won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994. She currently resides in England... (Pantheon Pantheon Books Pantheon Books is an American imprint with editorial independence that is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.The current editor-in-chief at Pantheon Books is Dan Frank.-Overview:... ) |
2000
| Category | Author | Title |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | David Bergman David Bergman David Bergman is an American writer and English professor at Towson University. He was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts , grew up in Laurelton, New York, and graduated from Kenyon College and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University .... and Karl Woelz, eds. |
Men on Men 2000 (Plume Plume (publishing) Plume is a publishing company in the United States, founded in 1970 as the trade paperback imprint of New American Library. Today it is a division of Penguin Group, with a backlist of approximately 700 titles.... ) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels, eds. | Out of the Ordinary (St. Martin's St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels, eds. | Out of the Ordinary (St. Martin's St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Drama | John Cameron Mitchell John Cameron Mitchell John Cameron Mitchell is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus and Rabbit Hole.- Early life:... , music and lyrics by Stephen Trask Stephen Trask Stephen Trask is an American musician and composer, who graduated from Wesleyan University.He was the music director and house band member at the New York club Squeezebox, where he performed with stars such as Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone.Trask composed the music and lyrics for the... |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig and the Angry Inch may refer to:* Hedwig and the Angry Inch * Hedwig and the Angry Inch... (Overlook) |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Douglas Murray Douglas Murray (author) Douglas Murray is a British writer and commentator who was the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion from 2007 until 2011 and is currently an associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. Murray appears regularly in the British broadcast media, commentating on issues from a conservative... |
Bosie (Talk Miramax) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | K.M. Soehnlein K.M. Soehnlein Karl Soehnlein better known by his literary name K.M. Soehnlein is an American writer most famous for his novels The World of Normal Boys and You Can Say You Knew Me When. His most recent novel is Robin and Ruby... |
The World of Normal Boys The World of Normal Boys The World of Normal Boys, published in 2001, is the debut novel of K.M. Soehnlein . The coming-of-age story centers on 13-year-old Robin MacKenzie, who discovers that he is unlike most other adolescent males. The book became a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and won the Lambda Literary... (Kensington Kensington Kensington is a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street, and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | John Morgan Wilson | The Limits of Justice (Doubleday) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Carl Phillips Carl Phillips Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.... |
Pastoral (Graywolf) |
| Gay Men's Studies | James J. Berg and Chris Freeman Chris Freeman (musician) Chris Freeman is an American bassist. He is best known as a member of the band Pansy Division, which was founded by Freeman and Jon Ginoli in 1991. Pansy Division is known as one of the founding examples of the queercore genre of punk rock... |
The Isherwood Century (University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866... ) |
| Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy | Jim Grimsley Jim Grimsley -Biography:Born to a troubled rural family in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Grimsley said of his childhood that "for us in the South, the family is a field where craziness grows like weeds".... |
Kirith Kirin (Meisha Merlin) |
| Humor | David Sedaris David Sedaris David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor.... |
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Little Brown Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:... ) |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Judith Barrington | Lifesaving (Eight Mountain) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Michelle Tea Michelle Tea Michelle Tea is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, and other topics. She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco... |
Valencia (Seal) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jean Marcy | Mommy Deadest (New Victoria) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Elena Georgiou | Mercy Mercy Me (Painted Leaf) |
| Lesbian Studies | Harmony Hammond Harmony Hammond Harmony Hammond is an American artist and writer.-Biography:Harmony Hammond earned a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1967. She co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery in 1972; it was the first women's cooperative art gallery in New York... |
Lesbian Art in America (Rizzoli RCS MediaGroup RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Keri Pickett | Faeries (Aperture Aperture In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimated the admitted rays are,... ) |
| Small Press (tie) | Lauren Sanders | Kamikaze Lust (Akashic) |
| Small Press (tie) | Erasmo Guerra | Between Dances (Painted Leaf) |
| Spirituality/Religion (tie) | Toby Johnson Toby Johnson Toby Johnson is an American novelist and writer in the field of gay spirituality.- Life :Born as Edwin Clark Johnson in 1945 in San Antonio Texas, Johnson attended Catholic parochial school and then the college prep school associated with St. Mary's University, both run by the Brothers of Mary. A... |
Gay Spirituality (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Spirituality/Religion (tie) | Krandall Kraus and Paul Borja | It's Never About What It's About (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Transgender | David Ebershoff David Ebershoff David Ebershoff is an American-born writer, editor, and teacher.-Biography:Born in Pasadena, California, he is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Chicago, and studied at Keio University in Tokyo.... |
The Danish Girl (Viking Viking The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to... ) |
2001
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies/Fiction | Helen Sandler, ed. | Diva Book of Short Stories Diva Book of Short Stories The Diva Book of Short Stories and its successor Groundswell: The Second Diva Book of Short Stories are anthologies of fictional short stories about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.... (Millivres) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Constantine-Simms, ed. | The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Autobiography/Memoir | Andrew Solomon Andrew Solomon Andrew Solomon is a New York-born bisexual writer on politics, culture, and psychiatry who lives in New York and London. He has written for publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Artforum, on topics including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan,... |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression is a 2001 memoir written by Andrew Solomon. It examines the personal, cultural, and scientific aspects of depression through Solomon's published interviews with depression sufferers, doctors, research scientists, politicians, and pharmaceutical... (Scribner Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon... ) |
| Biography | Barry Werth | The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin (Doubleday) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Julia Watts Julia Watts Julia Watts is an American author of novels, short stories, etc., especially in the genres of young adult fiction and lesbian fiction/erotica.... |
Finding H.F. (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Erotica | Ian Philips | See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica Literotica Literotica is a free erotic fiction website. It allows any user to register as an author and submit stories and has over a million registered users as of April 2010. Amateur authors contribute stories, poems, essays, illustrated stories and audio stories in a variety of categories... for the Satirically Bent (Attagirl Press) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Allan Gurganus Allan Gurganus Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. His writing has been compared to the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, who also were identified with the American South.-Biography: Gurganus was... |
The Practical Heart (Knopf Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | Michael Nava Michael Nava Michael Angel Nava is an attorney and writer.He is a third-generation Californian of Mexican descent. He was born and raised in Sacramento. He was the first member of his family to attend college, graduating with honors from the Colorado College in 1976. He received his J.D... |
Rag and Bone (G.P. Putnam) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... |
Source (HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... ) |
| GLBT Studies | Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court (Basic Books Basic Books Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1952 and located in New York. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.-History:... ) |
| Humor | David Rakoff David Rakoff David Rakoff is a Canadian-born writer based in New York City who is noted for his humorous, sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and actor and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life... |
Fraud (Doubleday) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Achy Obejas Achy Obejas Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Chicago, Illinois.-Life and career:Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba... |
Days of Awe (Ballantine Ballantine Books Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart Ellen Hart Ellen Hart is the award-winning mystery author of the Jane Lawless and Sophie Greenaway series. She was born in Minneapolis, MN in August 1949. A professional chef for 14 years, Hart's mysteries include culinary elements similar to those of Diane Mott Davidson.The author says of her work, "I don't... |
Merchant of Venus (St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:... |
Fox (Norton Publishing) |
| Photography/Visual Arts | David Deitcher | Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 (Harry N. Abrams) |
| Romance | Sylvia Brownrigg Sylvia Brownrigg Sylvia Alderyn Brownrigg is an American author. She is the author of five novels. Brownrigg's fiction has been on The New York Times notable fiction lists and Los Angeles Times books of the year. She won a Lambda Literary Award in 2001 for Pages for You... |
Pages for You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett Lisa A. Barnett Lisa A. Barnett was an American Lambda Literary Award winning science fiction writer.Born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, she attended the Girls' Latin School. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a bachelor's degree in English, Ms... |
Point of Dreams (Tor) |
| Small Press | Mariana Romo-Carmona | Conversaciones! (Cleis Cleis Cleis is a genus of moths of the Callidulidae family.-Species:*Cleis affinis Rothschild, 1916*Cleis erycinoides Felder, 1868*Cleis evander *Cleis lata *Cleis oceanitis Joicey & Talbot, 1916... ) |
| Spirituality (tie) | Ken Stone Ken Stone (biblical scholar) Ken Stone is an author, Professor of Bible, Culture and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary and a member of the United Church of Christ. He chairs the Reading, Theory and the Bible Section of the Society of Biblical Literature... , ed. |
Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible (Pilgrim Press) |
| Spirituality (tie) | Bernard Duncan Mayes | Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest (University Press of Virginia) |
| Transgender/Bisexual | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Virginia Ramey Mollenkott spent her 44 year professional career teaching college level English literature and language, but developed specializations in feminist theology and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender theology during the second half of that career.... |
Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach (Pilgrim Press) |
2002
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies/Fiction | Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Don Weise, eds. | Black Like Us (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Anthologies/Nonfiction | Bruce Shenitz | The Man I Might Become (Marlowe & Company) |
| Autobiography | Betty Berzon Betty Berzon Betty Berzon was an American author and psychotherapist known for her work with the gay and lesbian communities.Berzon was among the first psychotherapists to assist gay and lesbian clients... |
Surviving Madness (University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866... ) |
| Biography | David Kaufman | Ridiculous! (Applause Theatre & Cinema) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Bonnie Shimko Bonnie Shimko -Biography:After thirty-three years of teaching second grade, Bonnie Shimko retired and began writing . Her first novel, Letters in the Attic, won a Lambda Literary Award for children's/ young adult fiction in 2002. Shimko lives in Plattsburgh, New York .... |
Letters in the Attic (Academy Chicago Press) |
| Editor's Choice | John D'Emilio John D'Emilio John D'Emilio is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg... |
The World Turned (Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... ) |
| Erotica | Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino is a feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, and pornographic film director . She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993... , ed. |
Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Jamie O'Neill Jamie O'Neill Jamie O'Neill is an Irish author. His critically acclaimed novel, At Swim, Two Boys , earned him the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel and frequent praise as the natural successor to James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett... |
At Swim, Two Boys At Swim, Two Boys At Swim, Two Boys is a novel by Irish writer Jamie O'Neill. The title is a punning allusion to Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style, which has led to favourable comparisons to James Joyce... (Scribner Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | Christopher Rice Christopher Rice Christopher Travis Rice is an American author. Rice has written five best-selling novels: A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden, Light Before Day, Blind Fall, and his latest book, The Moonlit Earth, which was published in April 2010 by Scribner.-Biography:Christopher Rice comes from a family of... |
The Snow Garden (Miramax Press) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | J.D. McClatchy J.D. McClatchy J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy is an American poet and literary critic. He is editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.-Life:... |
Hazmat (Alfred A. Knopf Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... ) |
| Humor | Dan Savage Dan Savage Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage writes the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Its tone is frank in its discussion of sexuality, often humorous, and hostile to social conservatives, as in... |
Skipping Towards Gomorrah Skipping Towards Gomorrah Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America is a non-fiction book by Dan Savage, first published in 2002 by Dutton... (Dutton E. P. Dutton E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. In 1986, the company was acquired by Penguin Group and split into two imprints: Dutton Penguin and Dutton Children's Books.-History:Edward Payson Dutton founded... ) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Waters Sarah Waters Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966.... |
Fingersmith Fingersmith (novel) Fingersmith is a 2002 Victorian-inspired crime fiction novel by Sarah Waters.-Part one:Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in 'a Fagin-like den of thieves' by her adoptive mother, Mrs. Sucksby, is sent to help Richard 'Gentleman' Rivers seduce a wealthy heiress. Posing as a maid, Sue is to gain the trust... (Riverhead Riverhead Books Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group .Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Woodcraft | Good Bad Woman (Kensington Kensington Kensington is a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street, and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Ellen Bass Ellen Bass Ellen Bass is an American poet-Life:She attended Goucher College, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1968 with her bachelor’s degree. She pursued a master’s degree at Boston University and graduated in 1970. From 1970–1974, Bass worked as an administrator at Project Place, a social service... |
Mules of Love (BOA Editions) |
| LGBT Studies | Neil Miller Neil Miller (writer) Neil Miller is an American journalist and nonfiction writer, best known for his books on LGBT history and culture.- Life :Miller was born in Kingston, New York, in 1945 and graduated from Kingston High School and Brown University... |
Sex-Crime Panic (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Dominique Fernandez Dominique Fernandez Dominique Fernandez is an openly homosexual French novelist and member of the Académie française... |
A Hidden Love (Prestel Prestel Prestel , the brand name for the UK Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979... ) |
| Pioneer Award | Barbara Grier Barbara Grier Barbara Grier was an American writer and publisher most widely known for co-founding Naiad Press and writing and editing The Ladder under the pseudonym Gene Damon.-Early life:... and Donna McBride, Naiad Press Naiad press Naiad Press was one of the first publishing companies dedicated to lesbian literature. At its closing it was the oldest and largest lesbian/feminist publisher in the world.-History:... |
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| Romance | Andrew W.M. Beierle | The Winter of Our Discoteque (Kensington Kensington Kensington is a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street, and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Michael Rowe Michael Rowe (journalist) Michael Rowe is an award-winning Canadian writer and anthologist. He has written for, among other publications, the National Post, Globe & Mail, The United Church Observer, The Huffington Post and The Advocate.... , ed. |
Queer Fear II (Arsenal Pulp) |
| Small Press | Kings Crossing Publishing | |
| Spirituality | Geoffrey Duncan | Courage to Love (Pilgrim Press) |
| Transgender | Noelle Howey | Dress Codes (Picador Picador (imprint) Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.... ) |
2003
| Category | Author | Title |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Michael Bronski, ed. | Pulp Friction (St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Anthologies/Non-fiction | Bob Guter and John Killacky, eds. | Queer Crips (Harrington Park Press) |
| Autobiography/Memoir | Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:... |
Naked in the Promised Land (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Biography | Andrew Wilson | Beautiful Shadow (Bloomsbury Publishing) |
| Children's/Young Adult | David Levithan David Levithan David Levithan is an American young-adult fiction editor and award-winning author. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published in 2003... |
Boy Meets Boy Boy Meets Boy (novel) Boy Meets Boy is a young adult novel by David Levithan, published in 2003. It is set in a gay-friendly small town in America, and describes a few weeks in the lives of a group of high school students... (Knopf Books for Young Readers Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... ) |
| Drama | Brian Drader | Prok (Scirocco Drama) |
| Erotica | Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino is a feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, and pornographic film director . She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993... , ed. |
Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Christopher Bram Christopher Bram Christopher Bram is an American author.Bram grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia , where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974... |
Lives of the Circus Animals (William Morrow HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | John Morgan Wilson | Blind Eye (St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Mark Bibbins | Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded on a dedication to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture, Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.Now... ) |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:... |
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Nina Revoyr | Southland (Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher. Akashic Books' collection began with Arthur Nersesian's THE FUCK UP in 1996, and has since expanded to include Dennis Cooper's "Little House on the Bowery" series , Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series, and the internationally successful... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Sims Elizabeth Sims Elizabeth Sims is an American writer.Author of two series of crime novels, she is also a contributing editor at Writer's Digest magazine.Sims is best known for her Rita Farmer Mysteries, a suspense series published by St. Martin's Press Minotaur.... |
Damn Straight (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Minnie Bruce Pratt Minnie Bruce Pratt Minnie Bruce Pratt is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville,... |
The Dirt She Ate (University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press, part of the University of Pittsburgh. The university and the press are located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States.... ) |
| LGBT Studies | Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds. | Time on Two Crosses (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Lonthar Schirmer, ed. | Women Seeing Women (W.W. Norton) |
| Romance (tie) | Karin Kallmaker Karin Kallmaker Karin Kallmaker is the prolific American author of lesbian fiction whose works also include those originally written under the name Laura Adams. Her writings span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica, and lesbian science-fiction/fantasy... |
Maybe Next Time (Bella Books Bella Books Bella Books is a small press publisher of lesbian literature that is based in Tallahassee, Florida. The chief executive officer is Linda Hill, who is also the chief executive officer of Spinsters Ink and BeanPole Books.... ) |
| Romance (tie) | Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his "My Queer Life" series of humorous essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides and What We Remember.-Career highlights:Michael... |
Last Summer (Kensington Publishing) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Helen Sandler, ed. | Necrologue (Diva Books) |
| Spirituality | Fenton Johnson Fenton Johnson John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.-Life:His most recent book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in... |
Keeping Faith (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Transgender/GenderQueer | Jennifer Finney Boylan Jennifer Finney Boylan Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author and professor at Colby College. She has openly discussed being a trans woman. Boylan's memoir, She's Not There, was published by Broadway Books in 2003. Until 2001, she published under the name James Boylan... |
She's Not There (Broadway Books Broadway Books Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a Division of Random House, Inc., released its first list in Fall, 1996. Broadway Books has since published many New York Times bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, including Elizabeth Edwards’ memoir Resilience, Bill O’Reilly’s memoir A... ) |
2004
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies/Fiction | Edmund White Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :... and Donald Weise, eds. |
Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction (Carroll & Graf) |
| Anthologies/Non-fiction | Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, eds. | I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage (Suspect Thoughts) |
| Autobiography/Memoir | Alison Smith | Name All the Animals (Scribner Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon... ) |
| Biography | Alexis De Veaux | Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde (W. W. Norton W. W. Norton W. W. Norton & Company is an independent American book publishing company based in New York City. It is well known for its "Norton Anthologies", particularly the Norton Anthology of English Literature and the "Norton Critical Editions" series of texts which are frequently assigned in university... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Alex Sanchez | So Hard to Say (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins... ) |
| Drama | Doug Wright Doug Wright Doug Wright is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play, I Am My Own Wife.-Early years:Wright was born in Dallas, Texas... |
I Am My Own Wife I Am My Own Wife I Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The one-man play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons. It opened on Broadway later that year. The play was developed with Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic... (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy... ) |
| Erotica | Richard Labonte | Best Gay Erotica 2005 (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Gay Men's Debut Fiction | Blair Mastbaum Blair Mastbaum Blair Mastbaum is an American writer and a former model who lives in Portland, Oregon.- Career :Mastbaum acted in and produced the 2005 Sundance Film Festival official competition film, Ellie Parker, directed by Scott Coffey.- Clay's Way :... |
Clay's Way Clay's Way Clay's Way is the debut novel of American writer Blair Mastbaum. Released in 2004 by Alyson Books, the novel, which won the Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction, follows 15-year-old gay skateboarder Sam and the object of his affection, conflicted surfer Clay around Honolulu... (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the... |
The Master The Master (novel) The Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It is his fifth novel and it was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize and received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award and, in France, Le prix du meilleur livre... (Scribner Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon... ) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Luis Cernuda Luis Cernuda Luis Cernuda , was a Spanish poet and literary critic.-Life and career:... |
Written in Water (City Lights Publishers) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | Anthony Bidulka Anthony Bidulka Anthony Bidulka is a Canadian writer of mystery novels. His books feature gay detective Russell Quant. His 2004 novel Flight of Aquavit won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery Novel. Bidulka received a Lambda Literary Award nomination again in 2009 for Sundowner Ubuntu... |
Flight of Aquavit (Insomniac Press Insomniac Press Insomniac Press is a Canadian independent book publisher.Founded in 1992 and based in London, Ontario, Insomniac began as a publisher of poetry chapbooks. The company has since evolved into a publisher of a wide variety of fiction, poetry and non-fiction work by emerging Canadian writers... ) |
| Humor | David Sedaris David Sedaris David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor.... |
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is a 2004 collection of 22 autobiographical essays by American humorist David Sedaris. The essays address the author's upbringing in Raleigh, North Carolina, his relationships with family members, and his work and life in New York City and France.The... (Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:... ) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Judith Frank | Crybaby Butch (Firebrand) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Stacey D'Erasmo Stacey D'Erasmo -Biography:D'Erasmo was born in 1961 in New York City. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature. From 1988 to 1995, she was a senior Editor at the Voice Literary Supplement. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford... |
A Seahorse Year (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Beverly Burch | Sweet to Burn (Gival Press) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest is an American writer.Forrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as "Miss Marple with k.d... |
Hancock Park (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Group Penguin Group The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations... ) |
| LGBT Studies | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou | For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town (Routledge Routledge Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge... ) |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Evan Bachner and Harry Abrams | At Ease: Navy Men of World War II (Harry Abrams) |
| Romance | Steven Kluger | Almost Like Being in Love (HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... ) |
| Religion/Spirituality | Will Roscoe Will Roscoe Will Roscoe is an American scholar, activist, and author based in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Missoula, Montana and helped found the Lambda Alliance at the University of Montana, that state's first LGBT organization in 1975, although he is heterosexual - Roscoe was inspired to... |
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love (Suspect Thoughts) |
| Science fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Jim Grimsley Jim Grimsley -Biography:Born to a troubled rural family in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Grimsley said of his childhood that "for us in the South, the family is a field where craziness grows like weeds".... |
The Ordinary (Tor Books Tor Books Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded... ) |
| Transgender/GenderQueer | Mariette Pathy Allen | The Gender Frontier (Kehrer Verlag) |
2005
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | E. Lynn Harris E. Lynn Harris Everette "E." Lynn Harris was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African American men who were on the down-low and closeted... , ed. |
Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present (Carroll & Graf) |
| Belles Lettres | Martin Moran | The Tricky Part (Beacon Press Beacon Press Beacon Press is an American non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association.Beacon Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.... ) |
| Biography | Sherrill Tippins | February House (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Shyam Selvadurai Shyam Selvadurai Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy , which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens... |
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (Tundra Press) |
| Erotica | Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe Radclyffe Radclyffe is an American author of numerous lesbian romances. A 2003/04 recipient of the Alice B. award for her body of work as well as a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Pink Ink, and the Romance Writers of America, she lives with her partner Lee in Upstate New York... , eds. |
Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 (Bold Strokes) |
| Gay Men's Debut Fiction | Vestal McIntyre Vestal McIntyre Vestal McIntyre is an American author currently based in the UK. He was born in Nampa, Idaho, and educated at Tufts University, Massachusetts. His first collection of short stories, You Are Not the One, was published by the independent Scottish publisher Canongate in 2006... |
You Are Not the One (Carroll & Graf) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire... |
The Sluts (Carroll & Graf) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | D. Travers Scott | One of These Things is Not Like the Other (Suspect Thoughts) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Richard Siken Richard Siken Richard Siken is an American poet. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Crush, which won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004, and is the editor of spork literary magazine... |
Crush (Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... ) |
| Humor | David Rakoff David Rakoff David Rakoff is a Canadian-born writer based in New York City who is noted for his humorous, sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and actor and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life... |
Don't Get Too Comfortable (Doubleday) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ali Leibegott | The Beautifully Worthless (Suspect Thoughts) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Abha Dawesar | Babyji Babyji Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family... (Anchor Books) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Alicia Gaspar de Alba Alicia Gaspar de Alba Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet whose works include historical novels and scholarly studies on Chicana/o art, culture and sexuality.-Biography:... |
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (Arte Publico) |
| Lesbian Poetry | June Jordan June Jordan June Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher and committed activist... Bisexual categories/authors Bisexual community Bisexual community is a term used to describe members of the LGBT community who identify as bisexual, pansexual, "fluid", and queer-identified, as well as their allies... were not officially recognized until 2006 |
Directed by Desire: Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to... ) |
| LGBT Studies | Susan Ackerman | When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, social work, sociology,... ) |
| Nonfiction | Thomas Glave Thomas Glave Thomas Glave is an American author of Jamaican descent who has published widely and won numerous awards. He is also a university professor.- Biography :... |
Words to Our Now (University of Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... ) |
| Romance | Radclyffe Radclyffe Radclyffe is an American author of numerous lesbian romances. A 2003/04 recipient of the Alice B. award for her body of work as well as a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Pink Ink, and the Romance Writers of America, she lives with her partner Lee in Upstate New York... |
Distant Shores, Silent Thunder (Bold Strokes) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest is an American writer.Forrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as "Miss Marple with k.d... |
Daughters of an Emerald Dusk (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Spirituality | Cheri DiNovo Cheri DiNovo Cheri DiNovo, MPP, is a Canadian social democratic politician. She is an United Church of Canada minister and previously headed the Emmanuel-Howard Park congregation in Toronto, Ontario. As the New Democratic Party of Ontario candidate in Parkdale–High Park, she was elected to the Legislative... |
Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In (Pilgrim Press) |
| Transgender/GenderQueer | Charlie Anders Charlie Anders Charlie Jane Anders is an American transgender fiction author and commentator.She has written several books and is the publisher of other magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts", she was winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award and a 2009 Emperor Norton Award... |
Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press is an independent publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, where it continues to function as a division of the press... ) |
2006
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | Greg Herren and Paul J. Willis, eds. | Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Arts & Culture | Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:... and Stuart Timmons |
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians (Basic Books Basic Books Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1952 and located in New York. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.-History:... ) |
| Bisexual | Michael Szymanski and Nicole Kristal | The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe (Alyson Publications Alyson Publications Alyson Books, formerly known as Alyson Publications, is a book publishing house which specialises in LGBT fiction and non-fiction. Former publisher Don Weise described it as "the world's oldest and largest publisher of LGBT literature" and "the home of award-winning books in the areas of memoir,... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult (tie) | David Levithan David Levithan David Levithan is an American young-adult fiction editor and award-winning author. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published in 2003... and Billy Merrell Billy Merrell Billy Merrell is an American author and poet. He published his first book Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir, with Scholastic in 2003. He also co-edited The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities for Knopf Books for... , eds. |
Full Spectrum (Random House Children's Books Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult (tie) | Julie Anne Peters Julie Anne Peters -Personal life:Julie Anne Peters was born in Jamestown, New York, on 16 January 1952. When she was five, her family moved to the Denver suburbs in Colorado. Her parents divorced when she was in high school... |
Between Mom & Jo (Little Brown Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:... ) |
| Drama/Theater | Tim Miller Tim Miller (performance artist) -External links:* *... |
1001 Beds (University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866... ) |
| Gay Men's Debut Fiction | Robert Westfield | Suspension: A Novel (Harper Perennial Harper Perennial Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers. Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney. The imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded by Harper & Row in 1964... ) |
| Gay Men's Erotica | Jeff Mann | A History of Barbed Wire (Suspect Thoughts) |
| Gay Men's Fiction | Robert Westfield | Suspension: A Novel (Harper Perennial Harper Perennial Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers. Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney. The imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded by Harper & Row in 1964... ) |
| Gay Men's Memoir/Biography | Bernard Cooper Bernard Cooper Bernard Cooper is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born on October 3, 1951 in Hollywood, California.His writing is in part autobiographical and influenced by his own experiences as a gay man.... |
The Bill From My Father (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins... ) |
| Gay Men's Mystery | Garry Ryan | The Lucky Elephant Restaurant (NeWest Press) |
| Gay Men's Poetry | Jim Elledge | A History of My Tattoo (Stonewall/BrickHouse Books) |
| Gay Men's Romance | Rob Byrnes Rob Byrnes Rob Byrnes is a 21st century American, gay novelist and blogger, whose fiction focuses primarily on gay men and other sexual minorities. Byrnes's work is often set in New York City, where he lived until recently with his partner , Brady Allen... |
When the Stars Come Out (Kensington Books Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American book publisher.- Overview :Kensington was founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius, formerly of Lancer Books. Steven Zacharius became president and CEO in 2005. Vice president Michael Rosamilia has been the CFO since 1989. Laurie Parkin is the vice president... ) |
| Humor | Joe Keenan Joe Keenan (writer) Joe Keenan is an award-winning screenwriter, television producer and novelist and openly gay American.-Early life:Keenan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His family is Irish American and Roman Catholic. He has a twin brother, John, and two other siblings Ronald and Geraldine. He grew up in... |
My Lucky Star My Lucky Star (novel) My Lucky Star is the third book by novelist Joe Keenan. It is a gay-themed comedy about three friends who get caught up with the movie business, blackmail, and handsome male closeted movie stars.... (Little Brown Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Book Group USA.-19th century:... ) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ellis Avery | The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead Books Riverhead Books Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group .Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever... ) |
| Lesbian Erotica | Laurinda D. Brown | Walk Like a Man (Q-Boro Books) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Waters Sarah Waters Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966.... |
The Night Watch (Riverhead Books Riverhead Books Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group .Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever... ) |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:... |
Fun Home (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Laurie R. King Laurie R. King Laurie R. King is an American author best known for her detective fiction. Among her books are the Mary Russell series of historical mysteries, featuring Sherlock Holmes as her mentor and later partner, and a series featuring Kate Martinelli, a fictional lesbian San Francisco, California, police... |
The Art of Detection (Bantam Books Bantam Books Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Sina Queyras Sina Queyras Sina Queyras is a Canadian poet. Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award.In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press... |
Lemon Hound (Coach House Books Coach House Books Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario. Coach House publishes innovative and experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundaries of convention.-History:The company was... ) |
| Lesbian Romance | Georgia Beers | Fresh Tracks (Bold Strokes) |
| Nonfiction (tie) | Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:... and Stuart Timmons |
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians (Basic Books Basic Books Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1952 and located in New York. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history.-History:... ) |
| Nonfiction (tie) | Marcia M. Gallo | Different Daughters (Carroll & Graf) |
| LGBT Studies | Horace L. Griffin | Their Own Receive Them Not (Pilgrim Press) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Neal Drinnan | Izzy and Eve (Green Candy Press) |
| Spirituality | Michael McColly | The After-Death Room (Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press is an independent publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, where it continues to function as a division of the press... ) |
| Transgender/GenderQueer | Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle Stephen Whittle Professor Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD is an active member of the United Kingdom TransActivist organisation Press for Change. Now , Whittle is Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan University.... , eds. |
The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge Routledge Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge... ) |
2007
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National... |
First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest .Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp ... ) |
| Arts & Culture | Matthew Hays Matthew Hays Matthew Hays is a Canadian film critic, writer, film festival programmer and academic. He won a Lambda Literary Award for his 2007 book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers.... |
The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers is a book by Canadian film journalist Matthew Hays, published in 2007 by Arsenal Pulp Press.... (Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest .Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp ... ) |
| Bisexual | Brent Hartinger Brent Hartinger Brent Hartinger is an American author and playwright, best known for his novels about gay teenagers.-Early life:Hartinger was born in Washington State. His family moved to Fircrest, Washington when he was an infant. He attended a Catholic grade school and middle school, and a Catholic high... |
Split Screen (Harper Collins Children's Books HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... ) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Perry Moore Perry Moore William Perry Moore IV , also known as Perry Moore, was an American author, screenwriter, and film director... |
Hero Hero (novel) Hero is a Lambda-winning first novel by openly gay film producer and novelist Perry Moore. The fantasy novel is about a teenage superhero, Thom Creed, who must deal with his ex-superhero father's disgrace, his own sexuality, and a murderer stalking the world's heroes.-Plot summary:Thom Creed is a... (Hyperion) |
| Drama/Theater | Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa George Birimisa George Birimisa is an American playwright, actor, and director who contributed to the explosion of gay theater in the mid-1960s during the early years of Off-Off-Broadway... , eds. |
Return to the Caffe Cino (Moving Finger Press) |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Christopher Kelly | A Push and a Shove A Push and a Shove A Push and a Shove: A Novel is a 2007 novel in the thriller genre by Christopher Kelly. Kelly, an openly gay man, is a film critic and journalist for Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Texas Monthly... (Alyson Books) |
| LGBT Erotica | Simon Sheppard Simon Sheppard (writer) Simon Sheppard is a writer of gay erotica and a sex-advice columnist from San Francisco. He is the author of many highly acclaimed works of gay erotica/pornography, including the books Sodomy!, Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion, In Deep, and Sex Parties 101... |
Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica (Running Press Running Press The Running Press is a member of the Perseus Books Group, the imprint is the publisher of fiction, non-fiction, cooking, humor, and kit books. The publisher's offices are located in Philadelphia, but many of the corporate functions take place in New York City.... ) |
| Men's Fiction | André Aciman André Aciman -External links:***... |
Call Me By Your Name (Farrar Straus Giroux) |
| Men's Memoir/Biography | Kevin Sessums Kevin Sessums Kevin Sessums is an American author, editor and actor from Forest, Mississippi. Sessums served as executive editor of Interview and as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, Allure, and Parade. His work has also appeared in Travel+Leisure, Elle, Out, Marie Claire, and Playboy... |
Mississippi Sissy (St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Men's Mystery | Greg Herren | Murder in the Rue Chartres (Alyson Books) |
| LGBT Poetry | Henri Cole Henri Cole Henri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in... |
Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
| Men's Romance | Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his "My Queer Life" series of humorous essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides and What We Remember.-Career highlights:Michael... |
Changing Tides (Kensington Books Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American book publisher.- Overview :Kensington was founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius, formerly of Lancer Books. Steven Zacharius became president and CEO in 2005. Vice president Michael Rosamilia has been the CFO since 1989. Laurie Parkin is the vice president... ) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Aoibheann Sweeney Aoibheann Sweeney -Biography:She was raised in Massachusetts and attended Harvard University and the University of Virginia’s MFA Program, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow.... |
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking (Penguin Press) |
| Women's Fiction | Ali Liebegott Ali Liebegott Ali Liebegott is a lesbian American author whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first book, The Beautifully Worthless, won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. Liebegott is a recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for Arts. She taught... |
The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf) |
| Women's Memoir/Biography | Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr Award, the World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. She also... |
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party (Payseur & Schmidt) |
| Women's Mystery | Gabrielle Goldsby | Wall of Silence (Bold Strokes Books Bold Strokes Books Bold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction... ) |
| Women's Romance | K.G. MacGregor | Out of Love (Bella Books Bella Books Bella Books is a small press publisher of lesbian literature that is based in Tallahassee, Florida. The chief executive officer is Linda Hill, who is also the chief executive officer of Spinsters Ink and BeanPole Books.... ) |
| LGBT Nonfiction | Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry is an American historian, and professor of history at Northwestern University.-Life:He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis summa cum laude, and from Yale University with an MA and Ph.D. in 1975.-External links:*... |
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture (University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press , founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina.... ) |
| LGBT Studies | Sharon Marcus | Between Women (Princeton University Press Princeton University Press -Further reading:* "". Artforum International, 2005.-External links:* * * * *... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Lee Thomas Lee Thomas (horror writer) Lee Thomas is an American author of horror fiction. He is best known for his novel The Dust of Wonderland, which won the Lambda Literary Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror... |
The Dust of Wonderland (Alyson Books) |
| Transgender | Cris Beam, eds. | Transparent (Harcourt Harcourt (publisher) Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. The company was based in San Diego, California, with an Editorial / Sales / Marketing / Rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida.In 2007, the U.S... ) |
2008
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | Thomas Glave Thomas Glave Thomas Glave is an American author of Jamaican descent who has published widely and won numerous awards. He is also a university professor.- Biography :... |
Our Caribbean (Duke University Press) |
| Bisexual | Jenny Block | Open (Seal Press) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Bill Konigsberg | Out of the Pocket (Dutton) |
| Drama/Theater | Carolyn Gage Carolyn Gage Carolyn Gage is an American playwright, actor and theatrical director. She is also an activist on lesbian and feminist issues. Gage was a Guest Lecturer at Bates College in 1998-99... |
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (Outskirts Press) |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Shawn Stewart Ruff | Finlater (Quote Editions) |
| Gay Erotica | Richard Labonte and James Lear, eds. | Best Gay Erotica 2009 (Cleis Press) |
| Gay Fiction | Scott Heim Scott Heim Scott Heim is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, Mysterious Skin, was published in 1995.- Biography :... |
We Disappear (Harper Perennial) |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Sheila Rowbotham Sheila Rowbotham Sheila Rowbotham is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.-Early life:Rowbotham was born in Leeds, the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk From an early age, she was deeply interested in history... |
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (Verso Books) |
| Gay Mystery | Scott Sherman Scott Sherman Scott Sherman is a U.S. writer and podcaster. His first novel, First You Fall, won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery. His writing has also appeared in many periodicals.... |
First You Fall (Alyson Books) |
| Gay Poetry (tie) | Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... |
Fire to Fire (Harper) |
| Gay Poetry (tie) | James Allen Hall | Now You're the Enemy (University of Arkansas Press) |
| Gay Romance | Larry Duplechan | Got 'til it's Gone (Arsenal Pulp Press) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Magdalena Zurawski | The Bruise (Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press) |
| Lesbian Erotica | Radclyffe Radclyffe Radclyffe is an American author of numerous lesbian romances. A 2003/04 recipient of the Alice B. award for her body of work as well as a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Pink Ink, and the Romance Writers of America, she lives with her partner Lee in Upstate New York... and Karin Kallmaker Karin Kallmaker Karin Kallmaker is the prolific American author of lesbian fiction whose works also include those originally written under the name Laura Adams. Her writings span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica, and lesbian science-fiction/fantasy... |
In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip (Bold Strokes Books) |
| Lesbian Fiction (tie) | Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for... |
The Sealed Letter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
| Lesbian Fiction (tie) | Chandra Mayor Chandra Mayor Chandra Mayor , is a Canadian poet and novelist whose writings, among other topics, dive into worlds of urban and alternative cultures. She resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.- Publishing career :... |
All the Pretty Girls (Conundrum Press) |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Maureen Seaton | Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Josie Gordon | Whacked (Bella Books) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Judy Grahn Judy Grahn Judy Rae Grahn is an American poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works.-Activities:Judy Grahn is a poet who writes about women's lives, including lesbian experience. She was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist collective on the west coast, founded... |
love belongs to those who do the feeling (Red Hen Press) |
| Lesbian Romance | Karin Kallmaker Karin Kallmaker Karin Kallmaker is the prolific American author of lesbian fiction whose works also include those originally written under the name Laura Adams. Her writings span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica, and lesbian science-fiction/fantasy... |
The Kiss That Counted (Bella Books) |
| LGBT Nonfiction | Jane Rule Jane Rule Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.-Biography:Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Jane Vance Rule was the oldest daughter of Carlotta Jane and Arthur Richards Rule. She claimed she was a tomboy growing up and felt like an outsider for reaching six... |
Loving the Difficult (Hedgerow Press) |
| LGBT Studies | Regina Kunzel | Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (The University of Chicago Press) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Nicole Kimberling | Turnskin (Blind Eye Books) |
| Transgender | Thea Hillman | Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) (Manic D Press) |
2009
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | Ariel Gore Ariel Gore Ariel Gore is a journalist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood... , ed. |
Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City (Lit Star Press) |
| Bisexual Fiction (tie) | Mykola Dementiuk | Holy Communion (Synergy Press) |
| Bisexual Fiction (tie) | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Love You Two (Random House Australia Random House Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,... ) |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Minal Hajratwala Minal Hajratwala Minal Hajratwala is a writer, performer, poet, and queer activist of South Asian descent. She was born in and is currently based in San Francisco, California, US, and was raised in New Zealand and suburban Michigan... |
Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Dale Peck Dale Peck Dale Peck is an American novelist, critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.-Biography:Peck was raised in Kansas,... |
Sprout Sprout (novel) Sprout is a young adult gay novel by American author Dale Peck first published in May 2009. The novel depicts an openly gay teenage boy who moves to Kansas after his mother dies from cancer. While he struggles with harassment at school and two potential boyfriends, he has to decide if he will hide... (Bloomsbury USA) |
| Drama/Theater | Mart Crowley Mart Crowley Mart Crowley is an American playwright.Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1957, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on... |
The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley (Alyson Books) |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Rakesh Satyal Rakesh Satyal Rakesh Satyal is an American novelist, best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel Blue Boy. Blue Boy won the 2009 Prose/Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies and Satyal was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the... |
Blue Boy (Kensington Books Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American book publisher.- Overview :Kensington was founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius, formerly of Lancer Books. Steven Zacharius became president and CEO in 2005. Vice president Michael Rosamilia has been the CFO since 1989. Laurie Parkin is the vice president... ) |
| Gay Erotica | Kevin Killian Kevin Killian Kevin Killian is an American poet, author, and playwright of primarily LGBT literature. He is also a highly regarded editor. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, won the American Book Award for poetry in 2009... |
Impossible Princess (City Lights City Lights Bookstore City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence... ) |
| Gay Fiction | Vestal McIntyre Vestal McIntyre Vestal McIntyre is an American author currently based in the UK. He was born in Nampa, Idaho, and educated at Tufts University, Massachusetts. His first collection of short stories, You Are Not the One, was published by the independent Scottish publisher Canongate in 2006... |
Lake Overturn (HarperCollins HarperCollins HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide... ) |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Reynolds Price Reynolds Price Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship... |
Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back (Scribner Books Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon... ) |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford Michael Thomas Ford is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his "My Queer Life" series of humorous essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides and What We Remember.-Career highlights:Michael... |
What We Remember (Kensington Books) |
| Gay Poetry | Benjamin S. Grossberg | Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press) |
| Gay Romance | Frank Anthony Polito | Drama Queers! (Kensington Books) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Rhiannon Argo | The Creamsickle (Spinsters Ink) |
| Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia | Lesbian Cowboys (Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, later moved to San Francisco, and is now based out of Berkeley, CA... ) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jill Malone | A Field Guide to Deception (Bywater Books) |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Joan Schenkar | The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St... ) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jean M. Redmann Jean M. Redmann Jean M. Redmann is an American novelist best known for her mystery series featuring New Orleans private investigator Micky Knight.... |
Death of a Dying Man (Bold Strokes Books Bold Strokes Books Bold Strokes Books is a United States publisher headquartered in Johnsonville, New York that specializes in lesbian-themed fiction, covering a variety of genres including action/adventure, erotica, mystery, romance and science fiction/horror, as well as general fiction... ) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Stacie Cassarino Stacie Cassarino Stacie Cassarino is an award-winning American poet and author of the collection Zero at the Bone. Born in Connecticut of Italian heritage, she is a graduate of Middlebury College where she subsequently taught in the English department, and University of Washington... |
Zero at the Bone (New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Press New Issues Press is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University. It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott... ) |
| Lesbian Romance | Colette Moody | The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin (Bold Strokes Books) |
| LGBT Nonfiction | James Davidson | The Greeks and Greek Love (Random House) |
| LGBT Studies | Margot Canaday | The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press Princeton University Press -Further reading:* "". Artforum International, 2005.-External links:* * * * *... ) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes... |
Palimpsest Palimpsest (novel) Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March of 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious city accessed only at night.... (Bantam Spectra Bantam Spectra Bantam Spectra is the science-fiction division of Bantam Books, which is owned by Random House.According to their website, Spectra publishes "science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recognizable authors" Spectra authors have collectively won 31 such awards in the fields of... ) |
| Transgender | Lynn Breedlove Lynn Breedlove Lynn Breedlove is an American trans man musician, writer, and performer.Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco dyke screamcore band Tribe 8. The band's first single, Pigbitch, was released on Harp records, run by Gina Harp in 1991... |
Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show (Manic D Press Manic D Press Manic D Press is an American literary press based in San Francisco, California publishing fiction , poetry, cultural studies, art, narrative-oriented comix, and alternative travel trade paperbacks... ) |
2010
| Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | Kate Bornstein Kate Bornstein Kate Bornstein is a Jewish-American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist.-Biography:Born in Neptune City, New Jersey, Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown University . Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology but later became... and S. Bear Bergman S. Bear Bergman S. Bear Bergman is a transgender author, poet, playwright, and theater artist. Bergman identifies as neither male nor female and prefers pronouns "ze" and "hir".-Biography:... |
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Seal Press) |
| Bisexual Fiction | Myrlin A. Hermes | The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet (Harper Perennial) |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools (Rowman & Littlefield) |
| Children's/Young Adult | Jane Eagland | Wildthorn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
| Drama/Theater | Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron Lisa Kron Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron is an American actress and playwright.-Biography:Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She jokes in one of her plays that her life began on her parents’ trip to Europe: “I was conceived in Venice, you know... |
Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play (Samuel French) |
| Gay Debut Fiction | David Pratt | Bob the Book (Chelsea Station Editions) |
| Gay Erotica | Jon Macy | Teleny and Camille (Northwest Press) |
| Gay Fiction | Adam Haslett Adam Haslett Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer. He was born in Kingston, Massachusetts and grew up in Oxfordshire, England, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College , the University of Iowa , and Yale Law School . He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers'... |
Union Atlantic (Doubleday) |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Justin Spring | Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) |
| Gay Mystery | David Lennon | Echoes (Blue Spike Publishing) |
| Gay Poetry | Brian Teare | Pleasure (Ahsahta Press) |
| Gay Romance | Erik Orrantia | Normal Miguel (Cheyenne Publishing) |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Amber Dawn | Sub Rosa (Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest .Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp ... ) |
| Lesbian Erotica | Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino Tristan Taormino is a feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, and pornographic film director . She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993... , ed. |
Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica (Cleis Press) |
| Lesbian Fiction | Eileen Myles Eileen Myles Eileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:... |
Inferno (a poet’s novel) (OR Books OR Books OR Books is a New York-based independent publishing house founded by two veterans of the publishing industry, John Oakes and Colin Robinson, in 2009. The company, a "digital upstart", claims to offer a revolutionary approach to publishing by printing on demand, selling directly to the customer,... ) |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography (tie) | Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer is an American filmmaker in the genre of experimental films and a professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.-Biography:... |
Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life (The Feminist Press) |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography (tie) | Julie Marie Wade | Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press) |
| Lesbian Mystery | Val McDermid Val McDermid Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:... |
Fever of the Bone (HarperCollins) |
| Lesbian Poetry | Anna Swanson Anna Swanson Anna Swanson is a Canadian poet.In May 2011, Swanson received a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for her debut poetry collection, The Nights Also. In June, she received the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry.-External Links:*... |
The Nights Also (Tightrope Books Tightrope Books Tightrope Books is a Canadian independent book publisher based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Founded in 2005 by Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books publishes mainly poetry and fiction, as well as non-fiction and anthologies. As a "writer-centric press," Tightrope Books involves its authors and poets in... ) |
| Lesbian Romance | Cate Culpepper | River Walker (Bold Strokes Books) |
| LGBT Nonfiction | Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker.-Life:She settled in Lyon, where she worked multiple odd jobs; including maid, prostitute in "massage parlors" and peep shows, recorded store sales, and a freelance rock journalist and pornographic film critic.She moved to Paris.Her... |
King Kong Theory (The Feminist Press) |
| LGBT Studies (tie) | Scott Herring | Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (New York University Press) |
| LGBT Studies (tie) | Gayle Salamon | Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (Columbia University Press) |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Sandra McDonald Sandra McDonald Sandra McDonald is an American science fiction and fantasy author.She is a graduate of Ithaca College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine. She also spent eight years as an officer in the United States Navy, during which time she lived... |
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories (Lethe Press) |
| Transgender Fiction | Zoe Whittall Zoe Whittall Zoe Whittall is a Canadian poet and novelist. She has published three novels and three poetry collections. Her latest novel, The Middle Ground, is a short novel for adults with low literacy skills... |
Holding Still for As Long As Possible (House of Anansi) |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | Noach Dzmura | Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community (North Atlantic Books) |