10th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1997

10th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners and Finalists

 The Lambda Awards by year:

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1997 Categories
Overview of yearly categories 

• Lesbian
  •  Biography/ Autobiography, Fiction, Mystery,  Poetry, Studies
• General LGBT
  • Fiction Anthology, Non-fiction Anthology, Children's/ Young Adult, Drama, Humour, Photography/ Visual Arts, Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror, Spirituality & Religion,
• Gay Men's
  •  Biography/ Autobiography, Fiction, Mystery,  Poetry, Studies
• Transgender   
• Other Awards
  • Editor's Choice Award, Pioneer Award, Publisher's Service Award, Small Press Award

 

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Winner Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson (Picador)

Nominees

• My Life as a Boy: A Woman's Story by Kim Chernin (Algonquin)
• May Sarton: a Biography by Margaret Peters (Knopf)
• The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams (Putnam)
• Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (Knopf)

 

Lesbian Fiction

Winner Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (Press Gang)

Nominees

• A/K/A by Ruthann Robson (St. Martin’s)
• A Crystal Diary by Frankie Hucklenbroich (Firebrand)
• Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang)
• Terminal Velocity by Blanche McCrary Boyd

 

Lesbian Mystery

Winner Father Forgive Me by Randye Lordon (Avon)

Nominees

• Apparition Alley by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)
• No Daughter of the South by Cynthia Webb (New Victoria)
• Evil Dead Center by Carole laFavor (Firebrand)
• Old Black Magic by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)

 

Lesbian Poetry 

Winners

• Cold River by Joan Larkin (Painted Leaf)
• School of Fish by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)

Nominees

• Diesel Fuel: Passionate Poetry edited by Pat Califia (Masquerade)
• Poems Between Women edited by Emma Donoghue (Columbia University)
• Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)

 

Lesbian Studies

Winner Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone)

Nominees

• Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers edited by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias (Cleis)
• Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s)
• Queerly Classed: Gay Man & Lesbians Write About Class edited by Susan K. Raffo (South End)
• Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation by Arlene Stein (University of California)

 

LGBT Anthology (Fiction)

Winner His 2: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers (v. 2) edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton (Faber & Faber) [gay male]

Nominees

• Best American Gay Fiction 2 edited by Brian Bouldrey (Little, Brown) [gay male]
• Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis) [lesbian]
• Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life edited by Christian McEwen (Beacon) [girls, women, lesbian]
• The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories edited by Peter Burton (Carroll & Graf) [gay male]

 

LGBT Anthology (Non-fiction)

Winner Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (Bay)

Nominees

• PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Cleis)
• My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries edited by Rictor Norton (Leyland)
• Lesbians Raising Sons edited by Jess Wells (Alyson)
• Gay Men at the Millennium edited by Michel Lowenthal (Tarcher/Putnam)

LGBT Children's & Young Adult
Winner The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte) [YA, lesbian]


Nominees

• The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon (William Morrow) [YA, LGBT]
• Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian? by Jeanne Arnold (Mother Courage) [children's, lesbian parenting]
• Blue Coyote by Liza Ketchum (Simon & Schuster) [YA, gay male]
• Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods by Paul Monette (Scribner) [children's, lesbian/interracial, fable]

LGBT Drama
Winner Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman (Vintage)
 
Nominees

• Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film) edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Manchester University)
• Three Plays by Mae West by Lillian Schlissel (Routledge)
• Porcelain & A Language of Their Own edited by Chay Yew (Grove) [gay male]
• Rent by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach)

 LGBT Humour
Winner Openly Bob by Bob Smith (Rob Weisbach) [gay male]
 
Nominees

• Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession by Sarah Strohmeyer (New Victoria) [feminism]
• Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand) [lesbian] [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]
• Naked by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) [gay male]
• Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster) [lesbian]

 LGBT Photography/ Visual Arts
Winners

• Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick (Universe) [gay male]
• Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard (MIT) [GLBT]

Nominees

• John Waters: Director’s Cut by John Waters (Scalo) [gay male]
• I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves edited by Joani Blank (Down There) [lesbian]
• Men Together: Portraits of Love, Commitment, and Life by Anderson Jones, photographs by David Fields (Running) [gay male]

LGBT Science Fiction & Fantasy
Winner Bending the Landscape: Fantasy edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (White Wolf) [Review]
[GLBT, fantasy, short stories]


Nominees

• Grave Passions edited by William Mann (Masquerade) [horror, supernatural, short stories, gay male]
• The Harvest by Perry Brass (Belhue) [scifi, futuristic, gay male]
• Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film) edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Machester University)
• The Drag Queen of Elfland edited by Lawrence Schimel (Circlet) [short stories, GLBT] [Gaylactice Spectrum Awards Nominee]

LBGT Spirituality & Religion
 Winner Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca Alpert (Columbia University)

Nominees

• Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore edited by Randy P. Conner (Cassell)
• The Essential Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey (HarperCollins)
• Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists edited by Winston Leyland (Gay Sunshine)
• Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity by Bruce Bawer (Crown)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

Winner The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire by Rafael Campo (W.W. Norton)

Nominees

• A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay by Felice Picano (Faber & Faber)
• Track Conditions by Michael Klein (Persea)
• Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
• Walt Whitman: a Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall (Dutton)

 

 

Gay Men’s Fiction

Winner The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman (Putnam)

Nominees

• Gossip by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
• Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
• The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White (Knopf)
• The House on Brooke Street by Neil Bartlett (Dutton)

 

Gay Men’s Mystery

Winner The Magician’s Tale by David Hunt (Putnam)

Nominees

• Gossip by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
• Hostage by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacorte)
• Revision of Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
• The Burning Plain by Michael Nava (Putnam)

 

 

Gay Men’s Poetry

Winner Beautiful Signor by Cyrus Cassells (Copper Canyon)

Nominees

• Bite Hard by Justin Chin (Manic D)
• Desire by Frank Bidart (FS&G)
• Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton edited by Jim Cory (Black Sparrow)
• Desire: Poems 1986-1996 by Tom Carey (Painted Leaf)

 

Gay Men’s Studies

Winner The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America edited by Charles Kaiser (Houghton Mifflin)

Nominees

• Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures edited by Martin Duberman (NYU)
• Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
• Life Outside - The Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life by Michelangelo Signorile (HarperCollins)
• Sexual Ecology: The Birth of AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men by Gabriel Rotello (Dutton)

Transgender
Winners

• PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Cleis)
• The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams (Putnam)

Nominees

• Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins (Firebrand)
• Sex Changes: Transgender Politics by Pat Califia (Cleis)
• Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos by Annick Prieur (Cleis)

Small Press Awards
Winner Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone)


Nominees 

• Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession by Sarah Strohmeyer (New Victoria)
• Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (Press Gang)
  
• Bite Hard by Justin Chin (Manic D)
• Toward the New Degeneracy by Bruce Benderson (Edgewise)

Editor's Choice

• Billy’s Boy by Patricia Nell Warren (Wildcat) 

Pioneer Award      

• Ron Hanby, Bookazine

Publishers Service Award      

• Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press 

 The Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 
2002 | 2003 | 2004 |2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

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