The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995.[1]
| Category | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Patrick Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada | |
| Pioneer Award | L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising | |
| Publisher's Service | Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley, |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | (ed.) | Tasting Life Twice | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| and Janine Fuller | Finalist | ||
| His | Finalist | ||
| and ` (eds.) | Afrekete | Finalist | |
| and Liz Kotz (eds.) | Finalist | ||
| Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | (ed.) | Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | Winner |
| (ed.) | Dyke Life | Finalist | |
| (ed.) | Finalist | ||
| , Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus (eds.) | Out in All Directions | Finalist | |
| and Karin Barber (eds.) | Tomboys | Finalist | |
| Children's and Young Adult | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | Winner | |
| Baby Bebop | Finalist | ||
| Passages of Pride | Finalist | ||
| Toby’s Lie | Finalist | ||
| My Two Uncles | Finalist | ||
| Drama | Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) | Winner | |
| and Rose Troche | Go Fish | Winner | |
| T-Cells and Sympathy | Finalist | ||
| and Nina Shengold (eds.) | Finalist | ||
| Love! Valour! Compassion! | Finalist | ||
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams | Winner | |
| Finalist | |||
| and Peggy Gillespie | Last Night on Earth | Finalist | |
| Palimpsesta | Finalist | ||
| Our Paris | Finalist | ||
| Gay Fiction | Flesh and Blood | Winner | |
| Father of Frankenstein | Finalist | ||
| Dream Boy | Finalist | ||
| Mysterious Skin | Finalist | ||
| Like People in History | Finalist | ||
| Gay Mystery | Closet | Winner | |
| Queer Kind of Umbrella | Finalist | ||
| Finalist | |||
| Shock to the System | Finalist | ||
| Another Dead Teenager | Finalist | ||
| Gay Poetry | Atlantis | Winner | |
| Badboy Book of Erotic Verse | Finalist | ||
| Burnt Offerings | Finalist | ||
| Scattering of Salts | Finalist | ||
| Cortege | Finalist | ||
| Gay Studies | De Los Otros | Winner | |
| Saint=Foucault | Finalist | ||
| Finalist | |||
| I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual | Finalist | ||
| Virtually Normal | Finalist | ||
| Humor | Winner | ||
| Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist | ||
| Revenge of HotHead Paisan | Finalist | ||
| Funny Gay Males | Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out | Finalist | |
| Ghost in the Closet | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Aimee & Jaguar | Winner | |
| Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | Finalist | ||
| and Hannah Ashley | Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence | Finalist | |
| Babe | Finalist | ||
| and Joyce Murdoch | And Say Hi to Joyce | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Autobiography of a Family Photo | Winner | |
| Sweat | Finalist | ||
| Amnesty | Finalist | ||
| Passion of Alice | Finalist | ||
| Rat Bohemia | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Mystery | Intersection of Law and Desire | Winner | |
| Faint Praise | Finalist | ||
| Someone to Watch | Finalist | ||
| Night Songs | Finalist | ||
| Hangdog Hustle | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Poetry | Dark Fields of the Republic | Winner | |
| Chrystos | Fire Power | Finalist | |
| Oral Tradition | Finalist | ||
| Maxfield Parrish | Finalist | ||
| Key to Everything | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Studies | Dyke Life | Winner | |
| and Alison J. Laurie | Parker and Hulme | Finalist | |
| S/he | Finalist | ||
| Virtual Equality | Finalist | ||
| and Karin Barber | Tomboys | Finalist | |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Paris Was a Woman | Winner | |
| Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography | Finalist | ||
| Stuck Rubber Baby | Finalist | ||
| and Jean Swallow | Making Love Visible | Finalist | |
| Butch/Femme | Finalist | ||
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Slow River | Winner | |
| Shadow Man | Winner | ||
| Finalist | |||
| Dark Angels | Finalist | ||
| Dryland’s End | Finalist | ||
| Small Press | and Liz Kotz | Winner | |
| Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells | Finalist | ||
| Finalist | |||
| S/He | Finalist | ||
| Milking Black Bull | Finalist | ||
| Spirituality | Wrestling with the Angel | Winner | |
| Gay Fairy Tales | Finalist | ||
| Freedom, Glorious Freedom | Finalist | ||
| Queer Spirits | Finalist | ||
| Our Tribe | Finalist |