With John Waters, Liz Smith, Gloria Steinem and Rita Mae Brown on hand, among others, sounds like I picked the wrong year to miss the Lambda Literary Awards. Read a full report HERE.
And the Lammy winners are:
DR. BETTY BERZON EMERGING WRITER AWARD
Anne Balay and Daisy Hernández
PIONEER AWARD
Rita Mae Brown
TRUSTEE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN LITERATURE
John Waters
LESBIAN FICTION
Yabo by Alexis De Veaux, RedBone Press
GAY FICTION
I Loved You More by Tom Spanbauer, Hawthorne Books
BISEXUAL FICTION
Give It to Me by Ana Castillo, The Feminist Press
TRANSGENDER FICTION
A Safe Girl To Love by Casey Plett, Topside Press
LGBT DEBUT FICTION
The Walk-In Closet by Abdi Nazemian, Curtis Brown Unlimited
LGBT NONFICTION
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman, The New Press
BISEXUAL NONFICTION
Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee, City Lights/Sister Spit
LESBIAN POETRY
Mysterious Acts by My People by Valerie Wetlaufer, Sibling Rivalry Press
GAY POETRY
[insert] boy by Danez Smith, YesYes Books
LESBIAN MYSTERY
The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart, Minotaur Books
GAY MYSTERY
Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery by Katie Gilmartin, Cleis Press
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smithby Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith, SUNY Press
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY - 2 Winners
Gay memoir: The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco, HarperCollins/Ecco
Gay biography: Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr, W. W. Norton & Company
LESBIAN ROMANCE
The Farmer's Daughter by Robbi McCoy, Bella Books
GAY ROMANCE
Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann, Bear Bones Books
LESBIAN EROTICA
Lesbian Sex Bible by Diana Cage, Quiver Books
GAY EROTICA
The King by Tiffany Reisz, MIRA Books
LGBT ANTHOLOGY
Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History by Leila J. Rupp & Susan K. Freeman, University of Wisconsin Press
LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
LGBT DRAMA
Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara, Samuel French
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS
Second Avenue Caper by Joyce Brabner; Art by Mark Zingarelli, Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
LGBT SF/F/HORROR
Bitter Waters by Chaz Brenchley, Lethe Press
LGBT STUDIES
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within U.S. Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride, New York University Press
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