7th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1994

7th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners and Finalists



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

1994 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
• Gay Men's
  •  Biography/ Autobiography, Fiction, Mystery,  Poetry, Studies
• Other Awards
  • Editor's Choice Award, Publisher's Service Award, Small Press Award

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
Winner: Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures edited by Renate Stendhal (Algonquin)


Nominees:

• Serving in Silence by Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher (Viking) (About Margarethe Cammermeyer)
• One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop (FSG)
• The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (Knopf)
• Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest (South End)

Lesbian Fiction
Winner: Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)


Nominees:

• House Rules by Heather Lewis (Doubleday/Nan Talese)
• Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
• The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (Seal)
• Stir-fry by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins)

Lesbian Mystery
Winner: Small Sacrifice by Ellen Hart (Seal)


Nominees:

• The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney (Cleis)
• Sister’s Keeper by Randye Lordon (St. Martin’s)
• Body Guard by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• My Sweet Untraceable You by Sandra Scoppetone (Little Brown)

Lesbian Poetry
Winner: Winter Numbers by Marilyn Hacker (Norton)
 

Nominees:

• American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail)
• Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan (Serpent’s Tail)
• Normal Sex by Linda Smukler (Firebrand)
• White Pine by Mary Oliver (Random House)

Lesbian Studies
Winner: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand) (Nonfiction winner, Stonewall Book Awards, 1995)


Nominees:

• My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years by Sarah Schulman (Routledge)
• Chloe Plus Olivia : An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present edited by Lillian Faderman (Viking)
• Sportsdykes edited by Susan Fox Rogers (St. Martin’s)
• Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang) (photography)
  

LGBT Fiction Anthology
Winner:Chloe Plus Olivia : An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present edited by Lillian Faderman (Viking) (lesbian)



Nominees:

• Men on Men 5: Best New Gay Fiction edited by David Bergman (Plume) (Gay male)
• High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion edited by Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (Plume) (gay and lesbian)
• The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbians edited by Sharon Lim-Hing (Sister Vision)) (lesbian)
• Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Short Stories edited by Irene Zahava (Westview) (gay and lesbian)

LGBT Non-fiction Anthology
Winner: Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston (HarperSanFrancisco) (gay and lesbian)


Nominees:

• One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson) (gay and lesbian)
• Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak edited by Julia Penelope (Crossing) (lesbian)
• Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s) (gay and lesbian, activism)
• Queer Reader edited by Patrick Higgins (New) (gay male)

LGBT Children's/Young Adult

Winner: Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer (HarperChildren’s) (GLBT, YA, nonfiction) (Literature winner, Stonewall Book Awards, 1995)


Nominees:

• Two Teenagers in 20: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth (Transworld) edited by Ann Heron (Alyson) (GLBT, YA, nonfiction)
• Dive by Stacey Donovan (Dutton Children’s) (lesbian, YA, fiction)
• Oscar Wilde by Scott Nunokawa (Chelsea House) (gay male, nonfiction)
• Tiger Flowers by Patricia Quinlan (Dial Books) (picture book, AIDs, gay male)

LGBT Drama

Winner: Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner (TCG) (AIDS)

 
Nominees:

• Jeffrey by Paul Rudnick (Plume) (gay male)
• The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me by David Drake (Anchor) (gay male)
• Heroes and Saints and Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints by Cherrie Moraga (West End)
• Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage (HerBooks) (lesbian/feminist)

LGBT Humour

Winner: The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (Seal) (lesbian) 



Nominees:

• Barrel Fever by David Sedaris (Little Brown) (gay male)
• Unofficial Gay MANual by Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz (Doubleday/Main Street) (gay male)
• Glamourpuss by Christian McLaughlin (Dutton) (gay male, romance)
• Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney (Cleis) (lesbian, mystery)

LGBT Photography & Visual Arts

Winner: Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America by Nancy Andrews (HarperSanFrancisco) (GLBT)


Nominees:

• Out in America: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Life by Out Magazine (Viking Studio) (GLBT)
• Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade by Jack Kugelmass (Columbia University) (GLBT)
• Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s) (GLBT, activism)
• Art of the Male Nude by Jim French (State of Man) (gay male)

LGBT Science Fiction & Fantasy

Winner: Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott (TOR) (lesbian, science fiction)
 

Nominees:

• The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas (TOR) (lesbian, fantasy)
• Metal Angel by Nancy Springer (ROC Fantasy) (gay male?, fantasy)
• Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey (Daw) (gay male)
• Warrriors of Isis by Jean Stewart (Rising Tide) (lesbian, science fiction)

Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Winner: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese (Simon & Schuster)


Nominees:

• Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
• My Life As a Pornographer & Other Indecent Acts by John Preston (Richard Kasak)
• Knowing When to Stop by Ned Rorem (Simon & Schuster)
• Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite; Being Gay and Jewish in America, Foreword By Dr. Gottfried Wagner by Lawrence Mass (Cassell)

Gay Men's Fiction


Winner: The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (Pantheon)

Nominee:

• Cultural Revolution by Norman Wong (Persea)
• American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton Mifflin)
• Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Doug Sadownick (St. Martin’s)
• Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan (Simon & Schuster)

Gay Men's Mystery

Winner: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Random House)


Nominees:

• Mad Man by Samuel Delaney (Richard Kasak)
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Random House)
• Mask for a Diva by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• A Queer Kind of Love by George Baxt (Otto Penzler)

Gay Men's Poetry

Winner: Collected Poems by Thom Gunn (FSG)


Nominees:

• The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Raphael Campo (Arte Publico)
• Ghost Letters by Richard McCann (Alice James)
• Wishing for Wings by Assotto Saint (Galiens Press)
• West of Yesterday, East of Summer by Paul Monette (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men's Studies

Winner: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncy (BasicBooks)


Nominees:

• Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell (Villard)
• Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature with Sixteen Writers, Healers, Teache edited by Mark Thompson (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
• Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone by David Feinberg (Viking)

Editor's Choice: Traitor to the Race by Mab Segrest (South End) (a.k.a Memoir of a Race Traitor) (lesbian, political)

Publisher's Service Award: Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press


Small Press Award
Winner: Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang) (lesbian, photography)


Nominees:

• B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy (Alyson) (gay male)
• Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand) (lesbian) (Nonfiction winner, Stonewall Book Awards, 1995)
• We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas (Cleis) (gay & lesbian)
• American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail) (lesbian)

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

• Overview of all yearly Lambda Award categories 
• The Lesbian Book Awards Page 
• The Stonewall Book Awards
• The Alice B Readers award  
• The GLAAD Media Awards