8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1995

8th 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

1995 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
• Other Awards
  • Editor's Choice Award, Pioneer Award, Publisher's Service Award, Small Press Award

Lesbian Biography/ Autobiography

Winner: Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer (HarperCollins)

Nominees:

• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)
• Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley (Firebrand)
• And Say Hi to Joyce by Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch (Doubleday)
• Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Sport and Society) by Susan E. Cayleff (University of Illinois)

Lesbian Fiction
Winner: Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson (Dutton)


Nominees:

• Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant (Houghton Mifflin)
• Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman (Dutton)
• Amnesty by Louise Blum (Alyson)
• Sweat by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Seal)

Lesbian Mystery
Winner: Intersection of Law and Desire by J.M. Redmann (Norton)


Nominees:

• Hangdog Hustle by Elizabeth Pincus (Spinsters)
• Faint Praise by Ellen Hart (Seal)
• Someone to Watch by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
• Night Songs by Penny Mickleberry (Naiad)

Lesbian Poetry
Winner: Dark Fields of the Republic by Adrienne Rich (Norton)


Nominees:

• Maxfield Parrish by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
• Oral Tradition by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
• Fire Power by Chrystos (Press Gang)
• The Key To Everything: Classic Lesbian Love Poems edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Studies

Winner: Dyke Life: From Growing Up To Growing Old, A Celebration Of The Lesbian Experience edited by Karla Jay (BasicBooks)


Nominees:

• Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid (Anchor)
• S/he by Minne Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
• Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do edited by Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber (Alyson)
• Parker & Hulme: A Lesbian View by Julie Glamuzina & Alison J. Laurie (Firebrand)

LGBT Fiction Anthology
Winner: Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers edited by E.J. Levy (Avon) (Lesbian)

Nominees:

• Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing edited by Catherine McKinley & L. Joyce Delaney (Anchor) (Lesbian)
• New Fuck You edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e)) (Lesbian)
• Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller (Cleis) (GLBT)
• His: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers by Robert Drake (Faber and Faber) (Gay men's)

LGBT Nonfiction Anthology
Winner: Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage edited by Claude J. Summers (Henry Holt)


Nominees:

• Dyke Life: From Growing Up To Growing Old, A Celebration Of The Lesbian Experience edited by Karla Jay (BasicBooks) (lesbian)
• Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do edited by Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber (Alyson) (lesbian)
• A Loving Testimony: Remembering Loved Ones Lost to AIDS edited by Leslea Newman (Crossing)
• Out in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America edited by Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus (Warner)

LGBT Children's/ Young Adult
Winner: From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Blue Sky Press) (YA; lesbian parents)


Nominees:

• Baby Bebop by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins) (YA, gay male)
• My Two Uncles by Judith Vinga (Albert Whitman & Co.) (picture book, gay male relatives)
• Passages of Pride by Kurt Chandler (Times Books) (YA, Gay & lesbian, coming out)
• Toby’s Lie by Daniel Vilmure (Simon & Schuster)

LGBT Drama
Winners:

• Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) by Tony Kushner (TCG)
• Go Fish by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche (Penguin) (lesbian)

Nominees:

• Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (Penguin)
• Love! Valor! Compassion! by Terrence McNally (Plume) (gay male)
• T-Cells & Sympathy: Monologues in the Age of AIDS by Michael Kerns (Heinneman)

LGBT Humour
Winner: The Butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans (Laugh Lines) [lesbian]


Nominees:

• The Revenge of Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist by Diane Dimassa (Cleis) [lesbian] [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]
• Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand) [lesbian] [Graphic novel, see all award winning comics]
• Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out by Funny Gay Males (Hyperion)
• Ghost in the Closet by Mabel Maney (Cleis)

LGBT Photography/ Visual Arts
Winner: Paris was a Woman by Andrea Weiss (HarperCollins) (lesbian)


Nominees:

• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse (Paradox) [gay male]
• Butch/Femme edited by M.G. Soares (Crown) [lesbian]
• Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography by Emmanuel Cooper (Routledge) [gay male]
• Making Love Visible: In Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Families by Geoff Manasse and Jean Swallow (Crossing) [GLBT]

LGBT Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror
Winners:

• Shadow Man by Melissa Scott (TOR) (science fiction, hermaphroditism, gender roles)
• Slow River by Nicola Griffith (DelRay) (lesbian, science fiction) [See review] [Hall of Fame winner,Gaylactic Spectrum Award 2000]

Nominees:

• Dryland’s End by Felice Picano (Richard Kasak) (science fiction, gay male/gender roles)
• Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories by Pam Keesey (Cleis) (horror, vampires, lesbian)
• Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel Delaney (Wesleyan) (science fiction/historical, gay male)

 LGBT Spirituality & Religion
Winner: Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men edited by Brian Bouldrey (Riverhead)


Nominees:

• Queer Spirits edited by Will Roscoe (Beacon) (gay male)
• Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men by Peter Cashorali (HarperCollins) (gay male)
• Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible by Nancy Wilson (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Freedom, Glorious Freedom: The Spiritual Journey to the Fullness of Life for Gays, Lesbians, and Everybody Else by John McNeill (Beacon)

Gay Men's Biography/ Autobiography

Winner: Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich (Crown)


Nominees:

• Last Night on Earth by Bill T. Jones with Peggy Gillespie (Pantheon)
• Palimpsest by Gore Vidal (Random House)
• Our Paris: Sketches from Memory by Edmund White & Hubert Sorin (Knopf)
• Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son by Leroy Aarons (HarperCollins)

Gay Men's Fiction
Winner: Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (FSG)


Nominees:

• Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley (Algonquin)
• Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
• Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (HarperCollins)
• Like People in History by Felice Picano (Viking)

Gay Men's Mystery
Winner: Closet by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)


Nominees:

• The Venus Throw: A Mystery of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
• Shock to the System by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Another Dead Teenager by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)
• Queer Kind of Umbrella by George Baxt (Simon & Schuster)

Gay Men's Poetry

Winner: Atlantis by Mark Doty (HarperPerrenial)


Nominees:

• Cortege by Carl Phillips (Graywolf)
• Badboy Book of Erotic Verse by David Laurents (Badboy)
• Scattering of Salts by James Merrill (Knopf)
• Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)

Gay Men's Studies

Winner: De Los Otros by Joseph Carrier (Columbia University)


Nominees:

• Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz (Dutton)
• I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by Pierre Seel (BasicBooks)
• Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan (Random House)
• Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by Daniel Halperin (Oxford University)

 
Editor's Choice Award:  Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller (Cleis) (GLBT)

Pioneer Award: L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, President and CEO of Lambda Rising, Inc. (Bookstore, closed 2010)

Publisher's Service Award

• Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press
• Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial by Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley (Press Gang)

Small Press Award
Winner: The New Fuck You edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e)) (lesbian anthology)


Nominees:

• S/He by Minne Bruce Pratt (Firebrand) (lesbian studies)
• Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (Permeable) (gay male, short stories, photos, miscellaneous)
• The Medicine Burns by Adam Klein (Serpent’s Tale) (gay male short stories)
• Milking Black Bull edited by Vega Press (Vega Press) (gay male poetry)

LBGTQ Book Awards
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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