24th Lambda Literary Awards

Summary

The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.[1][2]

Special awards edit

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Armistead Maupin, Kate Millett
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Brian Leung, Stacey D'Erasmo

Nominees and winners edit

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist
Bisexual Non-Fiction Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet
  • Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
  • Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death
  • Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
  • Ven Rey, Surviving Steven
Gay Debut Fiction Rahul Mehta, Quarantine
Gay Erotica Dirk Vanden, All Together
  • Richard Labonté, ed., Best Gay Erotica 2012
  • Richard Labonté, ed., History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall
  • Steven Haas, ed., George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes
  • Natty Soltesz, Backwoods
Gay Fiction Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family
Gay Memoir/Biography Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood
  • William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself
  • Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
  • Charles Silverstein, For the Ferryman: A Personal History
  • Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now
Gay Mystery Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue
Gay Poetry Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos
Gay Romance Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You
Lesbian Debut Fiction Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth
  • Sally Bellerose, The Girls Club
  • Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos
  • Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megume and the Trees
  • Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
Lesbian Erotica Debra Hyde, Story of L
  • Lesley Gowan, The Collectors
  • Sacchi Green, A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales
  • Sacchi Green, Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations
Lesbian Fiction Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution
Lesbian Mystery Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live
  • A. J. Quinn, Hostage Moon
  • Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark
  • Martha Miller, Retirement Plan
Lesbian Poetry Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake
Lesbian Romance Kenna White, Taken by Surprise
  • Rebecca S. Buck, Ghosts of Winter
  • Julie Cannon, Rescue Me
  • Gerri Hill, Storms
  • Robbi McCoy, For Me and My Gal
LGBT Anthology Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
LGBT Drama Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
  • Anton Dudley, Letters to the End of the World
  • Madeleine George, The Zero Hour
  • Jon Marans, The Temperamentals
  • Jonathan Tolins, Secrets of the Trade
LGBT Non-Fiction Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States
  • Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
  • Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book
  • Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality
  • Scott Pasfield, Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Lee Thomas, The German
  • J. M. Frey, Triptych
  • Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales: and Other Stories
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
  • L. A. Witt, Static
LGBT Studies Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
  • Jafari S. Allen, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
  • Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
  • Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
  • Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Transgender Fiction Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica
  • Cris Beam, I Am J
  • Dana De Young, The Butterfly and the Flame
  • Rafe Posey, The Book of Broken Hymns
  • L. A. Witt, Static
Transgender Non-Fiction Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels
  • Peter Boag, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past
  • Megan Rohrer and Zander Keig, eds., Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect
  • Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
  • Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

References edit

  1. ^ "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists announced". EW.com. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  2. ^ Team, Edit (2012-06-05). "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced in New York". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-12-24.