| Lambda Literary Award for Anthology | |
| Awarded For: | Anthologies |
| Sponsor: | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Date: | Annual |
The Lambda Literary Award for Anthology is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards "[c]ollections of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry" with LGBT content.[1] The award has been included since the first Lambda Literary Award ceremony but has included different iterations (i.e., Anthology, Gay Anthology, Lesbian Anthology, LGBT Anthology, LGBT Anthology Fiction and Nonfiction, and LGBTQ Anthology, and LGBTQ Anthology Fiction and Nonfiction).
| Year | Category | Editor(s) | Work | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Gay Anthology | , et al. | Hidden from History | Winner | [2] |
| Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam | Finalist | ||||
| Finale: Stories of Mystery | |||||
| Personal Dispatches | |||||
| and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | ||||
| Lesbian Anthology | , et al. | Hidden From History | Winner (tie) | ||
| Intricate Passions | |||||
| and S. O’Sullivan | Out the Other Side | ||||
| Lesbian Bedtime Stories | Finalist | ||||
| Lesbian Love Stories | |||||
| 1991 | Gay Anthology | Men On Men 3 | Winner | [3] | |
| Gay Men of Alcoholics Anonymous | Finalist | ||||
| Keys To Caring | |||||
| Men and Intimacy | |||||
| Cassady, Smith and Stone | Triple Fiction | ||||
| Lesbian Anthology | and Naomi Holoch | Women On Women | Winner | [4] | |
| Lesbian Bedtime Stores 2 | Finalist | ||||
| Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures | |||||
| and Joanne Glasgow | Lesbian Texts and Contexts | ||||
| Irene Zahava | Speaking Four Ourselves | ||||
| 1992 | Gay Anthology | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | Winner | [5] | |
| Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction | Finalist | ||||
| Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong | |||||
| and Robert Drake | Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay and Lesbian Writers | ||||
| Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice | |||||
| Lesbian Anthology | Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About | Winner | |||
| An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality | Finalist | ||||
| and Lani Ka'ahumanu | Bi Any Other Name | ||||
| and Robert Drake | Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay and Lesbian Writers | ||||
| , Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith | Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition | ||||
| 1993 | Gay Anthology | A Member of the Family | Winner | [6] | |
| Discontents | Finalist | ||||
| Flesh and the Word | |||||
| Here to Dare | |||||
| Men on Men 4 | |||||
| Lesbian Anthology | The Persistent Desire | Winner | |||
| and Barbara Grier | Erotic Naiad | Finalist | |||
| Poetry of Sex | |||||
| Wolf Girls at Vassar | |||||
| Write from the Heart | |||||
| 1994 | Anthology | , Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin | Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | Winner | [7] |
| Eyes of Desire | Finalist | ||||
| Growing Up Gay | |||||
| and Susan Wolfe | Lesbian Culture | ||||
| Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers | |||||
| 1995 | Anthology Fiction | Chloe Plus Olivia | Winner | [8] | |
| and Amy Scholder | High Risk 2 | Finalist | |||
| Lavender Mansions | |||||
| Men on Men 5 | |||||
| The Very Inside | |||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | and John Preston | Sister and Brother | Winner | ||
| Long Road to Freedom | Finalist | ||||
| One Teacher in Ten | |||||
| Out of the Class Closet | |||||
| Queer Reader | |||||
| 1996 | Anthology Fiction | Tasting Life Twice | Winner | [9] | |
| and L. Joyce Delaney | Afrekete | Finalist | |||
| and Janine Fuller | Forbidden Passages | ||||
| His | |||||
| and Liz Kotz | New Fuck You | ||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | Winner | |||
| Dyke Life | Finalist | ||||
| A Loving Testimony | |||||
| , Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus | Out in All Directions | ||||
| and Karen Barber | Tomboys | ||||
| 1997 | Anthology Fiction | and Naomi Holoch | Women on Women 3 | Winner | [10] |
| Go the Way Your Blood Beats | Finalist | ||||
| Men on Men 6 | |||||
| Night Bites | |||||
| and Charles H. Rowell | Shade | ||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | Taking Liberties | Winner | |||
| Beyond Queer | Finalist | ||||
| Boys Like Us | |||||
| and Seth Clark Silberman | Generation Q | ||||
| and Akia Woods | Off the Rag | ||||
| 1998 | Anthology Fiction | and Terry Wolverton | His(2) | Winner | [11] |
| Best American Gay Fiction 2 | Finalist | ||||
| Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 | |||||
| Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life | |||||
| The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories | |||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | , AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter | Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance | Winner | ||
| Gay Men at the Millennium | Finalist | ||||
| Lesbians Raising Sons | |||||
| My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries | |||||
| and Lawrence Schimel | PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality | ||||
| 1999 | Anthology Fiction | Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature | Winner | [12] | |
| Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica | Finalist | ||||
| Men on Men 7 | |||||
| Queer PAPI Porn | |||||
| and Karen X. Tulchinsky | To Be Continued | ||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life | Winner (tie) | |||
| Q and A: Queer in Asian America | |||||
| Lesbian Travels | Finalist | ||||
| Queer 13 | |||||
| Telling Tales Out of School | |||||
| 2000 | Anthology Fiction | , Joan Nestle, and Nancy Holden | Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction | Winner | [13] |
| and Jesse Dorris | Besame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction | Finalist | |||
| and Terry Wolverton | Hers 3 | ||||
| and Terry Wolverton | His 3 | ||||
| Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories | |||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | This Is What Lesbian Looks Like | Winner (tie) | |||
| and Lee Hudson | Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia | ||||
| A Woman Like That | Finalist | ||||
| and James D. Woods | Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics | ||||
| Fighting Words | |||||
| 2001 | Anthology Fiction | and Karl Woelz | Men on Men 2000 | Winner | [14] |
| and Terry Wolverton | Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millenium | Finalist | |||
| Kosher Meat | |||||
| Queer Fear | |||||
| and Saleem Kidwai | Same Sex Love in India | ||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | and Ellen Samuels | Out of the Ordinary | Winner | ||
| Coming Out of Cancer | Finalist | ||||
| Home Fronts | |||||
| Revolutionary Voices | |||||
| Mama’s Boy | |||||
| 2002 | Anthologies - Fiction | Diva Book of Short Stories | Winner | [15] | |
| Love Shook My Heart 2 | Finalist | ||||
| and Stephen Page | Reading the Landscape: Horror | ||||
| Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors | |||||
| , Hanya Yanagihara, and Timothy Lui | Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America | ||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities | Winner | |||
| and Holly K. Iglesias | His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers | Finalist | |||
| In a Queer Country | |||||
| , Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson | Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation | ||||
| Out in the Castro | |||||
| 2003 | Anthology Fiction | , Dwight McBride and Don Weise | Black Like Us | Winner | [16] |
| Bend Sinister – The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories | Finalist | ||||
| Queer Fear II | |||||
| , William J. Mann, Andy Schell, and Ben Tyler | Summer Share | ||||
| Rebel Yell 2 | |||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | The Man I Might Become | Winner | |||
| Found Tribe | Finalist | ||||
| and Ronald Hayduk | From ACT UP to the WTO | ||||
| , Riki Wilchins, and Claire Howell | GenderQueer | ||||
| and Gloria Anzaldua | This Bridge We Call Home | ||||
| 2004 | Anthology Fiction | Pulp Friction | Winner | [17] | |
| , Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, and Ben Tyler | All I Want for Christmas | Finalist | |||
| Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 | |||||
| M2M | |||||
| Telling Moments | |||||
| Anthology Nonfiction | and John R. Killacky | Queer Crips | Winner | ||
| Boyfriends from Hell | Finalist | ||||
| and Ronald Bayer | Mortal Secrets | ||||
| and Mary Davies | Pinned Down by Pronouns | ||||
| The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name | |||||
| 2005 | Anthology Fiction | Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction | Winner | [18] | |
| and Michelle Tea | Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person | Finalist | |||
| Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004 | |||||
| Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories | |||||
| Nonfiction Anthology | and Ian Philips | I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage | Winner | ||
| , Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott | Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative | Finalist | |||
| Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer | |||||
| That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation | |||||
| Wonderlands | |||||
| 2006 | Anthology | Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing | Winner | [19] | |
| Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry | Finalist | ||||
| Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men | |||||
| Lesbian Pulp Fiction | |||||
| Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts | |||||
| 2007 | LGBT Anthology | and Paul J. Willis | Love, Bourbon Street | Winner | [20] |
| and Steve Berman | Charmed Lives | Finalist | |||
| Confessions of the Other Mother | |||||
| and Rob Williams | From Boys to Men | ||||
| and Nairne Holtz | No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian | ||||
| 2008 | LGBT Anthology | and Lawrence Schimel | First Person Queer | Winner | [21] [22] |
| Baby Remember My Name | Finalist | ||||
| Juicy Mother 2 | |||||
| and Greg Wharton | Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense | ||||
| Vital Signs | |||||
| 2009 | LGBT Anthology | Our Caribbean | Winner | [23] | |
| A Casualty of War: Gay Short Fiction | Finalist | ||||
| Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing | |||||
| Live Through This | |||||
| and James J. Berg | Love, West Hollywood | ||||
| 2010 | LGBT Anthology | Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City | Winner | [24] | |
| Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris | Finalist | ||||
| Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights | Finalist | ||||
| My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them | Finalist | ||||
| Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation | Finalist | ||||
| 2011 | LGBT Anthology | and S. Bear Bergman | Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation | Winner | [25] |
| Best Lesbian Romance 2010 | Finalist | [26] | |||
| and Valerie Traub | Gay Shame | ||||
| Kicked Out | |||||
| and Ernest Hardy | War Diaries | ||||
| 2012 | LGBT Anthology | and Ernesto Javier Martínez | Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader | Winner | [27] |
| and Zena Sharman | Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme | Finalist | [28] | ||
| and Felice Picano | Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing | ||||
| , Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | ||||
| The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries | |||||
| 2013 | LGBT Anthology | No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics | Winner | [29] [30] | |
| For Colored Boys | Finalist | ||||
| and Michele Kort | Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage | ||||
| Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform | |||||
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology - Fiction | and Makhosazana Xaba | Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction | Winner | [31] [32] |
| LGBT Anthology - Nonfiction | and David Groff | Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners | Winner | ||
| LGBT Anthology | , Jason Edward Black, and Charles E. Morris | An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings | Finalist | ||
| and Regie Cabico | Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer of Spoken Word and Poetry | ||||
| and Vincent Kovar | Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5 | ||||
| and Gibran Guido | Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out | ||||
| , Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young | The Feminist Porn Book | ||||
| This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching | |||||
| and Tim Trace Peterson | Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics | ||||
| What I LOVE about being QUEER | |||||
| 2015 | LGBT Anthology | and Susan K. Freeman | Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History | Winner | [33] [34] |
| A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships | Finalist | ||||
| and Steven G. Fullwood | Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call | ||||
| and Stephen Dolainski | Outer Voices Inner Lives | ||||
| The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South | |||||
| 2016 | LGBTQ Anthology - Fiction | and Taneka Stotts | Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comic | Winner | [35] [36] |
| LGBTQ Anthology - Nonfiction | , Heather M. Ács, and Sabina Ibarrola | Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy | Winner | ||
| Anthology | A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI fiction of the Great War | Finalist | [37] | ||
| , Carmelita Tropicana, and Jill Dolan | Memories of the Revolution | ||||
| and Jaime Cantrell | Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories | ||||
| with Geny Cabral | Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians | ||||
| Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An of Gay Fiction | |||||
| Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation | |||||
| 2017 | Anthology | The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care | Winner | [38] | |
| and Tara Madison Avery | ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics | Finalist | [39] | ||
| and Lucian Childs | Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry | ||||
| No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies | |||||
| Queer | |||||
| 2018 | Anthology | ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants | Winner | [40] [41] | |
| and Barbara Straus Lodge | Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women | Finalist | [42] | ||
| and Casey Plett | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | ||||
| Power and Magic: The Queer Witch Comics | |||||
| and Karen Martin | Queer Africa 2: new stories | ||||
| To My Trans Sisters | |||||
| and Pete Bailey | Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love | ||||
| , Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton | Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility | ||||
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology—Fiction | As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Volume II | Winner | [43] | |
| LGBTQ Anthology—Nonfiction | Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture | Winner | |||
| LGBTQ Anthology | and Sfé R. Monster | Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic and Urban Fantasy Comic | Finalist | [44] | |
| , Chad Koch, et al. | Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1 | ||||
| , C.E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, and Dalbir Singh | Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts | ||||
| , Rikki Beadle-Blair, and John R. Gordon | Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection | ||||
| and Makeda Zook | Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents | ||||
| Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence | |||||
| 2020 | Anthology | A Rainbow Thread: An of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 | Winner (tie) | [45] [46] [47] | |
| Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse | |||||
| Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2 | Finalist | [48] [49] | |||
| and Justin Ducharme | Hustling Verse: An of Sex Workers’ Poetry | ||||
| and Julia Watts | LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia | ||||
| and Scott Duane | Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity | ||||
| and Safia Elhillo | The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me | ||||
| The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Volume III | |||||
| 2021 | LGBTQ Anthology | Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction | Winner | [50] [51] [52] | |
| and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement | Finalist | [53] | ||
| Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die | |||||
| , Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, and Kat Gupta | Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities | ||||
| and Kay Gabriel | We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics | ||||
| 2022 | LGBTQ Anthology | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | Winner | [54] | |
| (Ed.) | Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis | Finalist | [55] | ||
| , Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo | Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America | ||||
| , Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (Eds.) | Queer Nightlife | ||||
| , Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller with Leanna Keyes, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Ty Defoe, MJ Kaufman, Raphaël Amahl Khouri, j. Chavez, Sharifa Yasmin, and Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (playwrights) | The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays | ||||
| 2023 | LGBTQ Anthology | and Elena Gross | OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture | Winner | [56] |
| (Ed.) | Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology | Finalist | [57] | ||
| This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers | |||||
| Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) | |||||
| and Jed Sabin | Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth | ||||
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Anthology | and Niko Stratis | 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies | Winner | [58] |
| and Jeffrey Escoffier | Finalist | [59] [60] | |||
| (editor) | Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection | ||||
| Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue | |||||
| (editor) | Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders |