27th Lambda Literary Awards explained

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.

The ceremony was held at Cooper Union.

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Pioneer AwardRita Mae Brown
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer AwardAnne Balay, Daisy Hernández[2]
Trustee Award

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual FictionAna Castillo, Give It to Me[3]
Bisexual Non-FictionCharles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Gay EroticaTiffany Reisz, The King
  • Jerry Wheeler, Bears of Winter
  • Hushicho, Incubus Tales
  • Raven Kaldera, Leather Spirit Stallion
  • William Holden, The Thief Taker
Gay FictionTom Spanbauer, I Loved You More
Gay Memoir/BiographyRichard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
  • 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 MysteryKatie Gilmartin, Blackmail, My Love
Gay PoetryDanez Smith, [insert] boy
Gay RomanceJeff Mann, Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War
  • 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 EroticaDiana Cage, Lesbian Sex Bible
  • 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 FictionAlexis De Veaux, Yabo
Lesbian Memoir/BiographyAlethia Jones, Virginia Eubanks and Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building
  • 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 MysteryEllen Hart, The Old Deep and Dark
Lesbian PoetryValerie Wetlaufer, Mysterious Acts by My People
Lesbian RomanceRobbi McCoy, The Farmer’s Daughter
  • 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 AnthologyLeila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman, Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
  • 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 AdultTim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate!
LGBT Debut FictionAbdi Nazemian, The Walk-In Closet
  • 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 DramaRobert O'Hara, Bootycandy
LGBT Graphic NovelJoyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli, Second Avenue Caper
  • 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-FictionMartin Duberman, Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
  • 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/HorrorChaz Brenchley, Bitter Waters
LGBT StudiesVincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
  • 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 FictionCasey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love
Transgender Non-FictionThomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
  • 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

Notes and References

  1. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/04/the-27th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/ "The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists"
  2. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Upcoming-Pride-5K-Comics-Brave-Face-Lambda-Literary-awards-HER-app/51417.html "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app"
  3. News: Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books. Los Angeles Times. June 2, 2015. Carolyn. Kellogg.