14th Lambda Literary Awards explained

The 14th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2002 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2001. The event was held at the Tribeca Rooftop on DesBrosses Street in Tribeca and hosted by poet Emanuel Xavier.

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Anthologies/FictionHelen Sandler, ed., Diva Book of Short Stories
Anthologies/Non-FictionDelroy Constantine-Simms, ed., The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities
  • Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias, His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers
  • Terry Goldie, In a Queer Country
  • Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson, Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
  • Winston Leyland, Out in the Castro
Autobiography/MemoirAndrew Solomon,
  • Carol Guess, Gaslight
  • Kirk Read, How I Learned to Snap
  • Brian Bouldrey, Monster: Adventures in American Machismo
  • William Storandt, Outbound
BiographyBarry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin
  • Alison Lurie, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
  • Caroline Zilboorg, The Masks of Mary Renault
  • Margaret Reynolds, The Sappho Companion
  • Nancy Mitford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Children's/Young AdultJulia Watts, Finding H.F.
EroticaIan Philips, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent
Gay FictionAllan Gurganus, The Practical Heart
Gay MysteryMichael Nava, Rag and Bone
Gay PoetryMark Doty, Source
HumorDavid Rakoff, Fraud
  • Patrick Price, Drama Queen
  • Erika Lopez, Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat
  • Ellen Orleans, The Inflatable Butch
  • Michael Thomas Ford, My Little Book of Neuroses
Lesbian FictionAchy Obejas, Days of Awe
  • Erika Lopez, Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat
  • Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back
  • Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You
  • Alexandra Grilikhes, Yin Fire
Lesbian MysteryEllen Hart, Merchant of Venus
  • Alex Marcoux, Back to Salem
  • Mabel Maney, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy
  • Pat Welch, Moving Targets
  • Lauren Maddison, Witchfire
Lesbian PoetryAdrienne Rich, Fox
LGBT StudiesJoyce Murdoch and Deb Price, Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
  • Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
  • William J. Mann, Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
  • Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
  • Gay Wachman, Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting
Photography/Visual ArtsDavid Deitcher, Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918
  • Tee Corinne, Intimacies
  • David Leddick, Male Nude Now
  • Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp
  • Robert Mainardi, Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon
RomanceSylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You
Science fiction, fantasy or horrorMelissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, Point of Dreams
Small pressMariana Romo-Carmona, Conversaciones!
SpiritualityKen Stone, ed., Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible
Bernard Mayes, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
  • Leanne McCall Tigert and Timothy Brown, Coming Out Young and Faithful
  • Vanessa Sheridan, Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
  • L. William Countryman and M. R. Ritley, Gifted by Otherness
Transgender or BisexualVirginia Ramey Mollenkott, Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach
  • Bill Brent and Carol Queen, Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2
  • Vanessa Sheridan, Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
  • Jonathan Branton, Dragged!
To His Senses
  • Sparrow L. Patterson, Synthetic Bi Products

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