Lambda Literary Award1993

Given by Lambda Literary Foundation

Other Names: Lammies
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Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the "Lammies") are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include show more Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award. The Lambda Literary Foundation states that its mission is "to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians - the whole literary community." The awards were instituted in 1988.

In determining whether a book should be submitted for consideration, the Lambda Literary Awards are based principally on the LGBT content of the work. The sexual orientation of the author is secondary. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (790), Finalist (2,139), Nominee (1,410)
Categories:
All, 100 Best Lesbian/Gay Books of the 20th Century (1), AIDS (15), Anthology (11), Anthology/Fiction (52), Anthology/Nonfiction (47), Arts & Culture (7), Autobiography (5), Autobiography/Memoir (15), Belles Lettres (5), Biography (25), Bisexual (16), Bisexual Fiction (70), Bisexual Literature (10), Bisexual Nonfiction (55), Bisexual Poetry (33), Children's/Young Adult (86), Drama (52), Editor's Choice (12), Erotica (23), Gay Biography/Autobiography (1), Gay Debut Fiction (24), Gay Erotica (37), Gay Fiction (73), Gay General Fiction (43), Gay Memoir/Biography (107), Gay Men's Anthology (18), Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography (38), Gay Men's Debut Fiction (30), Gay Men's Erotica (2), Gay Men's Fiction (94), Gay Men's Memoir (5), Gay Men's Mystery (85), Gay Men's Mystery/Science Fiction (5), Gay Men's Nonfiction (25), Gay Men's Poetry (79), Gay Men's Romance (5), Gay Men's SF/Fantasy (21), Gay Men's Small Press (10), Gay Men's Studies (38), Gay Men’s Debut Fiction (1), Gay Mystery (89), Gay Poetry (101), Gay Romance (103), Humor (86), LGBT Anthologies (5), LGBT Anthology (49), LGBT Children's/Young Adult (51), LGBT Debut (8), LGBT Debut Fiction (28), LGBT Drama (36), LGBT Erotica (6), LGBT Graphic Novel (3), LGBT Graphic Novels (10), LGBT Nonfiction (58), LGBT Poetry (6), LGBT SF/F/Horror (15), LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror (15), LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror (10), LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (18), LGBT Studies (89), LGBTQ Anthology (38), LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade (10), LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult (32), LGBTQ Comics (10), LGBTQ Drama (17), LGBTQ Erotica (29), LGBTQ Graphic Novels (20), LGBTQ Mystery (10), LGBTQ Nonfiction (42), LGBTQ SF/F/Horror (36), LGBTQ Speculative Fiction (5), LGBTQ Studies (42), LGBTQ Young Adult (10), LGBTQ+ Anthology (9), LGBTQ+ Children's Books (10), LGBTQ+ Comics (10), LGBTQ+ Drama (7), LGBTQ+ Middle Grade (10), LGBTQ+ Mystery (10), LGBTQ+ Nonfiction (10), LGBTQ+ Poetry (3), LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica (10), LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction (10), LGBTQ+ Studies (10), LGBTQ+ Young Adult (10), Lesbian Anthology (18), Lesbian Biography/Autobiography (38), Lesbian Debut Fiction (53), Lesbian Erotica (32), Lesbian Fiction (165), Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian SF/Fantasy (1), Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian Small Press (1), Lesbian General Fiction (40), Lesbian Memoir (2), Lesbian Memoir/Biography (98), Lesbian Mystery (169), Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction (4), Lesbian Nonfiction (21), Lesbian Poetry (181), Lesbian Romance (118), Lesbian SF/Fantasy (19), Lesbian Small Press (9), Lesbian Studies (38), Nonfiction (14), Photography/Visual Arts (50), Poetry (9), Publisher's Service Award (1), Religion/Spirituality (15), Romance (24), Science Fiction/Fantasy (67), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (1), Small Press (50), Spirituality (36), Spirituality/Religion (10), Transgender (51), Transgender Fiction (60), Transgender Non-Fiction (7), Transgender Nonfiction (55), Transgender Poetry (41), Transgender/Bisexual (3), Transgender/Genderqueer (10), Young Adult/Children's (5), No Category (2)
Years:
All, 2024 (121), 2023 (124), 2022 (116), 2021 (115), 2020 (160), 2019 (168), 2018 (154), 2017 (144), 2016 (155), 2015 (150), 2014 (183), 2013 (144), 2012 (117), 2011 (115), 2010 (115), 2009 (104), 2007 (109), 2006 (107), 2005 (102), 2004 (106), 2003 (95), 2002 (89), 2001 (96), 2000 (94), 1999 (94), 1998 (94), 1997 (92), 1996 (97), 1995 (96), 1994 (87), 1993 (82), 1992 (71), 1991 (72), 1990 (88), 1989 (81), 1988 (57)
Announced:
March 27: Finalist2024 Recent

Winner 20

WorkCategoryYear
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry AbeloveAnthology1993
The Cat Came Back by Hilary MullinsChildren's/Young Adult1993
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony KushnerDrama1993
A Star-Bright Lie by Coleman DowellEditor's Choice1993
Genet by Edmund WhiteGay Biography/Autobiography1993
Living Upstairs by Joseph HansenGay Men's Fiction1993
Catilina's Riddle by Steven SaylorGay Men's Mystery1993
Rival Heavens (Provincetown Poets Series) by Keith AlthausGay Men's Poetry1993
1990 by Michael KleinGay Men's Poetry1993
Collected Poems by James SchuylerGay Men's Poetry1993
Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy ShiltsGay Men's Studies1993
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison BechdelHumor1993
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane SavigneauLesbian Biography/Autobiography1993
Written on the Body by Jeanette WintersonLesbian Fiction1993
Divine Victim by Mary WingsLesbian Mystery1993
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 by Audre LordeLesbian Poetry1993
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedyLesbian Studies1993
The Fifth Sacred Thing by StarhawkScience Fiction/Fantasy1993
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergSmall Press1993
Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS, Other Countries Volume II (Volume 2) by B. Michael HunterSmall Press1993

Nominee 62

WorkCategoryYear
Eyes Of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader by Raymond LuczakAnthology1993
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology : The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia PenelopeAnthology1993
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L. SingerAnthology1993
Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (Plume) by Arlene SteinAnthology1993
We're Not Alone by Rik IsenseeChildren's/Young Adult1993
Saturday Is Pattyday by Lesléa NewmanChildren's/Young Adult1993
Living in Secret by Cristina SalatChildren's/Young Adult1993
Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming by Michael WillhoiteChildren's/Young Adult1993
She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays : Roomers/Raincheck/Hannah Free/Movie Queens by Claudia AllenDrama1993
Falsettos by William FinnDrama1993
The Destiny of Me by Larry KramerDrama1993
We Oughta Be in Pictures by Julia WillisDrama1993
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo ArenasGay Men's Biography/Autobiography1993
Coming Unbuttoned by James BroughtonGay Men's Biography/Autobiography1993
Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets by Lars EighnerGay Men's Biography/Autobiography1993
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad GoochGay Men's Biography/Autobiography1993
Fragments That Remain by Steven CorbinGay Men's Fiction1993
The Listener: A Novella and Four Stories by Bo HustonGay Men's Fiction1993
Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton JohnsonGay Men's Fiction1993
Martin and John by Dale PeckGay Men's Fiction1993
The Mae West Murder Case by George BaxtGay Men's Mystery1993
Torsos by John Peyton CookeGay Men's Mystery1993
Bohannon's Country by Joseph HansenGay Men's Mystery1993
Dead on Your Feet by Grant MichaelsGay Men's Mystery1993
Dead on Your Feet by Grant MichaelsGay Men's Mystery1993
Orpheus in his underwear by William BoryGay Men's Poetry1993
The Tranquil Lake of Love: Love Letters by Carl CookGay Men's Poetry1993
My Alexandria by Mark DotyGay Men's Poetry1993
Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society by Bruce BawerGay Men's Studies1993
Stonewall by Martin Bauml DubermanGay Men's Studies1993
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne KoestenbaumGay Men's Studies1993
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther NewtonGay Men's Studies1993
Whores of Lost Atlantis by Charles BuschHumor1993
Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist by Diane DiMassaHumor1993
Closet Case by Robert RodiHumor1993
Members Of The Tribe by Michael WillhoiteHumor1993
Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis BurkeLesbian Biography/Autobiography1993
Forty-Three Septembers: Essays by Jewelle GomezLesbian Biography/Autobiography1993
How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith by Lillian SmithLesbian Biography/Autobiography1993
Mary Renault: A Biography by David SweetmanLesbian Biography/Autobiography1993
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergLesbian Fiction1993
Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction by Naomi HolochLesbian Fiction1993
The Sea of Light by Jenifer LevinLesbian Fiction1993
Home Movies by Paula MartinacLesbian Fiction1993
Long Goodbyes by Nikki BakerLesbian Mystery1993
The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mabel ManeyLesbian Mystery1993
I'll Be Leaving You Always by Sandra ScoppettoneLesbian Mystery1993
Trouble in Transylvania by Barbara WilsonLesbian Mystery1993
Experimental Love: Poetry by Cheryl ClarkeLesbian Poetry1993
The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry by Cherrie MoragaLesbian Poetry1993
The Black Back-Ups: Poetry by Kate RushinLesbian Poetry1993
Collected Poems, 1930-1993 by May SartonLesbian Poetry1993
The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry CastleLesbian Studies1993
Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World by Judy GrahnLesbian Studies1993
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne RichLesbian Studies1993
Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film by Andrea WeissLesbian Studies1993
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. BriteScience Fiction/Fantasy1993
In the Garden of Dead Cars by Sybil ClaiborneScience Fiction/Fantasy1993
Unfinished by Jay B. LawsScience Fiction/Fantasy1993
Burning Bright by Melissa ScottScience Fiction/Fantasy1993
Blue: A Novel by Denise OhioSmall Press1993
Lotus Of Another Color by Rakesh RattiSmall Press1993

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