27th Lambda Literary Awards

Summary

The 27th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 1, 2015, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2014.[1] The list of nominees was released on March 4.[1]

The ceremony was held at Cooper Union.[1]

Special awards edit

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Rita Mae Brown
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Anne Balay, Daisy Hernández[2]
Trustee Award John Waters

Nominees and winners edit

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Ana Castillo, Give It to Me[3]
Bisexual Non-Fiction Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones[3]
Gay Erotica Tiffany Reisz, The King[3]
  • Jerry Wheeler, Bears of Winter
  • Hushicho, Incubus Tales
  • Raven Kaldera, Leather Spirit Stallion
  • William Holden, The Thief Taker
Gay Fiction Tom Spanbauer, I Loved You More[3]
Gay Memoir/Biography Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos[3]
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh[3]
  • Sean Strub, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
  • Brent Phillips, Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance
  • Rob Smith, Closets, Combat and Coming Out: Coming of Age as a Gay Man in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Army
  • Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
  • Alain Mabanckou, Letter to Jimmy
  • Philip Gefter, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe
Gay Mystery Katie Gilmartin, Blackmail, My Love[3]
Gay Poetry Danez Smith, [insert] boy[3]
Gay Romance Jeff Mann, Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War[3]
  • Lloyd A. Meeker, The Companion
  • Barry Lowe, Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance
  • Timothy Lambert and R. D. Cochrane, Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction
  • Georgina Li, Like They Always Been Free
  • Jim Provenzano, Message of Love
  • David Reddish, The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus
  • L. C. Chase, Pulling Leather
Lesbian Erotica Diana Cage, Lesbian Sex Bible[3]
  • Andi Marquette and R. G. Emanuelle, All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance
  • Cheyenne Blue, Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire
Lesbian Fiction Alexis De Veaux, Yabo[3]
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Alethia Jones, Virginia Eubanks and Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building[3]
  • Lynette Loeppky, Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire
  • Kelly Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
  • Ariel Gore, The End of Eve
  • Terry Mutchler, Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America
Lesbian Mystery Ellen Hart, The Old Deep and Dark[3]
Lesbian Poetry Valerie Wetlaufer, Mysterious Acts by My People[3]
Lesbian Romance Robbi McCoy, The Farmer’s Daughter[3]
  • Kate McLachlan, Christmas Crush
  • Lisa Girolami, The Heat of Angels
  • Kris Bryant, Jolt
  • Andrea Bramhall, Nightingale
  • Jesse J. Thoma, Seneca Falls
  • Marianne K. Martin, Tangled Roots
  • Clare Ashton, That Certain Something
LGBT Anthology Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman, Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History[3]
  • Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call
  • Bruce Gillespie, A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships
  • Mark McNease and Stephen Dolainski, Outer Voices Inner Lives
  • Douglas Ray, The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Tim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate![3]
LGBT Debut Fiction Abdi Nazemian, The Walk-In Closet[3]
  • Vinton Rafe McCabe, Death in Venice, California
  • Megan Milks, Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
  • Elizabeth Earley, A Map of Everything
  • Bob Sennett, The Music Teacher
  • Dia Felix, Nochita
  • Dan Lopez, Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea
  • Alden Jones, Unaccompanied Minors
LGBT Drama Robert O'Hara, Bootycandy[3]
LGBT Graphic Novel Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli, Second Avenue Caper[3]
  • Elisha Lim, 100 Crushes
  • Kathleen Jacques, Band Vs. Band Comix Volume 1
  • A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
  • Nick Sumida, Snackies
LGBT Non-Fiction Martin Duberman, Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS[3]
  • Lee Lynch, An American Queer: The Amazon Trail
  • Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • Rebecca J. Anderson, Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS
  • Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha and Christian Scheidemann, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor
  • Robert Hofler, Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos
  • Aaron Devor, The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future
  • Clayton Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Chaz Brenchley, Bitter Waters[3]
LGBT Studies Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture[3]
  • Noelle M. Stout, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
  • Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
  • Marcia Ochoa, Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
  • Lisa Tatonetti, The Queerness of Native American Literature
  • Juana Maria Rodriguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
  • Susan S. Lanser, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic
  • Bobby Benedicto, Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
Transgender Fiction Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love[3]
Transgender Non-Fiction Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man[3]
  • Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More
  • Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.
  2. ^ "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app". Windy City Times, May 12, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Kellogg, Carolyn (June 2, 2015). "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times.