Previous Lammy Award Winners

1996 | 1997 |1998 | 1999

1996 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Anthologies/Fiction

Women on Women 3 edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)

• Go the Way Your Blood Beats edited by Shawn Stewart Ruff (Owl)
• Men on Men 6 edited by David Bergman (Plume)
• Night Bites edited by Victoria Brownworth (Seal)
• Shade edited by Bruce Morrow & Charles H. Rowell (Avon)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

Taking Liberties edited by Michael Bronski (Masquerade)

• Beyond Queer edited by Bruce Bawer (Free)
• Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)
• Generation Q edited by Robin Bernstein & Seth Clark Silberman (Alyson)
• Off the Rag edited by Lee Lynch & Akia Woods (New Victoria)

Children's/Young Adult

Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (FSG)

• Daddy’s Wedding by Michael Willhoite (Alyson Publications)
• Free Your Mind by Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman (HarperPerennial)
• My Dad Has HIV by Alexander, Rudin & Sejkora (Fairview Press)
• The World Out There by Michael Thomas Ford (The New Press)

Drama

Split Britches edited by Sue-Ellen Case (Routledge)

• Acting=Life by Michael Kearns (Heinemann)
• Amazon All-Stars edited by Rosemary Keefe Curb (Applause)
• Clit Notes by Holly Hughes (Grove)
• Three Plays by Crowley by Mart Crowley (Alyson)

Editors' Choice

Tennessee Williams'Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 edited by Donald Windham (University of Georgia)

Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (Scribner)

• Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• Lush Life by David Hadju (FSG)
• Spells of a Voodoo Doll by Assotto Saint (Masquerade)
• Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper (Houghton Mifflin)

Gay Men's Fiction

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadural (William Morrow)

• Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran (William Morrow)
• Iowa by Patrick Moore (Hard Candy)
• Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck (FSG)
• Pagan’s Father by Michael Arditti (SoHo)

Gay Men's Mystery

Death of Friends by Michael Nava (Putnam)

• Murder on the Appian Way by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
• Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
• Time to Check Out by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• Tribe by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)

Gay Men's Poetry

What the Body Told by Rafael Campo (Duke)

• Anesthesia by Kenny Fries (Advocado)
• Angel, Interrupted by Reginald Sheperd (University of Pittsburgh)
• Eros in Boystown edited by Michael Lassell (Crown)
• My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca by Jaime Marique (Painted Leaf)

Gay Men's Studies

Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)

• Cracks in the Iron Closet by David Tuller (Faber & Faber)
• Farm Boys edited by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
• One More River to Cross by Keith Boykin (Anchor)
• Radically Gay edited by Harry Hay and Will Roscoe (Beacon)

Humor

Homo Handbook by Judy Carter (Fireside)

• History of Lesbian Hair by Mary Dugger (Doubleday)
• Kurt Cobain & Mozart are Both Dead by Tim Barela (Palliard)
• Lesbianism Made Easy by Helen Eisenbach (Crown)
• So You Want to be a Lesbian? by Liz Tracey & Sydney Pokorny (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach (Beacon)

• Accidental Activist by Candace Gingrich (Scribner)
• Eva Le Gallienne by Helen Sheehy (Knopf)
• Coming Home to America by Torie Osborn (St. Martin’s)
• The White Blackbird by Honor Moore (Viking)

Lesbian Fiction

Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas (Cleis)

• If You Had a Family by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
• Seven Moves by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
• Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale (Riverhead)
• What Keeps Me Here by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)

Lesbian Mystery

Robber’s Wine by Ellen Hart (Seal)

• Baby, It’s Cold by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
• Final Take by Jackie Manthorne (Gynergy)
• Inner Circle by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Liberty Square by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)

Lesbian Poetry

All-American Girl by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)

Furious Cooking by Maureen Seaton (University of Iowa)

• Arc of Love edited by Clare Coss (Scribner)
• Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. by Linda Smukler (Hard)
• Shift by Jeredith Merrin (University of Chicago)

Lesbian Studies

Love Between Women by Bernadette J. Brooten (University of Chicago)

• Girls Next Door by Lindsay Van Gelder & Pamela Brandt (Simon & Schuster)
• Sappho and the Virgin Mary by Ruth Vanita (Columbia University)
• Surface Tension edited by Meg Daly (Touchstone)
• Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)

Photography/Visual Arts

Nothing But the Girl by Susie Bright & Jill Posener (Cassell)

• Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
• Derek Jarman’s Garden by Derek Jarman (Overlook)
• Gay by the Bay by Susan Stryker & Jim Van Buskirk (Chronicle)
• Sunnybrook by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang)

Pioneer Award

Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books

Publisher's Service Award

Norman Laurila, A Different Light Bookstores

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Sacrament by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)

• Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (St. Martin’s)
• Sons of Darkness edited by Michael Rowe & Thomas S. Roche (Cleis)
• Swords of the Rainbow edited by Eric Garber & Jewelle Gomez (Alyson)
• Women Who Run With Werewolves edited by Pam Keesey (Cleis)

Small Press

Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)

• Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West (Booklegger)
• Mythomania by Bernard Welt (Art.issues)
• Shit of God by Diamanda Galas (Serpent’s Tale/High Risk)
• Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)

Spirituality

The Good Book by Peter Gomes (William Morrow)

• Congregations in Conflict by Keith Hartman (Rutgers University)
• Journeys & Arrivals by Lev Raphael (Faber & Faber)
• The Preacher’s Son by Marc Adams (Window Books)
• We Were Baptized Too by Marilyn Alexander & James Preston (Westminster/John Knox)

Transgender

Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)

• Gender Shock by Phyllis Burke (Anchor)
• Honey, Honey Miss Thang by Leon E. Pettiway (Temple University)
• Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso (Beacon)
• Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)

1997 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Anthologies/Fiction

His(2) edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton (Faber & Faber)

• Best American Gay Fiction 2 edited by Brian Bouldrey (Little, Brown)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life edited by Christian McEwen (Beacon)
• The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories edited by Peter Burton (Carroll & Graf)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (Bay)

• PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Cleis)
• My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries edited by Rictor Norton (Leyland)
• Lesbians Raising Sons edited by Jess Wells (Alyson)
• Gay Men at the Millennium edited by Michel Lowenthal (Tarcher/Putnam)

Children's/Young Adult

The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)

• The Shared Heart by Adam Mastoon (William Morrow)
• Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian? by Jeanne Arnold (Mother Courage)
• Blue Coyote by Liza Ketchum (Simon & Schuster)
• Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods by Paul Monette (Scribner)

Drama

Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman (Vintage)

• Monsters in the Closet edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Manchester University)
• Three Plays by Mae West by Lillian Schlissel (Routledge)
• Porcelain & A Language of Their Own edited by Chay Yew (Grove)
• Rent by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach)

Editor's Choice

Billy's Boy by Patricia Nell Warren (Wildcat)

Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

The Poetry of Healing by Rafael Campo (W.W. Norton)

• A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay by Felice Picano (Faber & Faber)
• Track Conditions by Michael Klein (Persea)
• Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
• Walt Whitman: a Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall (Dutton)

Gay Men's Fiction

The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman (Putnam)

• Gossip by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
• Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
• The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White (Knopf)
• The House on Brooke Street by Neil Bartlett (Dutton)

Gay Men's Mystery

The Magician’s Tale by David Hunt (Putnam)

• Gossip by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
• Hostage by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacorte)
• Revision of Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
• The Burning Plain by Michael Nava (Putnam)

Gay Men's Poetry

Beautiful Signor by Cyrus Cassells (Copper Canyon)

• Bite Hard by Justin Chin (Manic D)
• Desire by Frank Bidart (FS&G)
• Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton edited by Jim Cory (Black Sparrow)
• Desire: Poems 1986-1996 by Tom Carey (Painted Leaf)

Gay Men's Studies

Gay Metropolis edited by Charles Kaiser (Houghton Mifflin)

• Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures edited by Martin Duberman (NYU)
• Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
• Life Outside – The Signorile Report on Gay Men by Michelangelo Signorile (HarperCollins)
• Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Man by Gabriel Rotello (Dutton)

Humor

Openly Bob by Bob Smith (Rob Weisbach)

• Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (New Victoria)
• Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Naked by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
• Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson (Picador)

• My Life as a Boy by Kim Chernin (Algonquin)
• May Sarton: a Biography by Margaret Peters (Knopf)
• The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams (Putnam)
• Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (Knopf)

Lesbian Fiction

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (Press Gang)

• A/K/A by Ruthann Robson (St. Martin’s)
• A Crystal Diary by Frankie Hucklenbroich (Firebrand)
• Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang)
• Terminal Velocity by Blanche McCrary Boyd

Lesbian Mystery

Father Forgive Me by Randye Lordon (Avon)

• Apparition Alley by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)
• No Daughter of the South by Cynthia Webb (New Victoria)
• Evil Dead Center by Carole laFavor (Firebrand)
• Old Black Magic by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)

Lesbian Poetry

Cold River by Joan Larkin (Painted Leaf)

School of Fish by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)

• Diesel Fuel edited by Pat Califia (Masquerade)
• Poems Between Women edited by Emma Donoghue (Columbia University)
• Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)

Lesbian Studies

Does Your Mama Know? edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone)

• Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers edited by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias (Cleis)
• Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s)
• Queerly Classed edited by Susan K. Raffo (South End)
• Sex and Sensibility by Arlene Stein (University of California)

Photography/Visual Arts

Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick (Universe)

Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard (MIT)

• John Waters: Director’s Cut by John Waters (Scalo)
• I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves edited by Joani Blank (Down There)
• Men Together by Anderson Jones, photographs by David Fields (Running)

Pioneer Award

Ron Hanby, Bookazine

Publishers Service Award

Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Bending the Landscape edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (White Wolf)

• Grave Passions edited by William Mann (Masquerade)
• The Harvest by Perry Brass (Belhue)
• Monsters in the Closet edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Machester University)
• The Drag Queen of Elfland edited by Lawrence Schimel (Circlet)

Small Press

Does Your Mama Know? edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone)

• Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (Press Gang)
• Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (New Victoria)
• Bite Hard by Justin Chinn (Manic D)
• Toward the New Degeneracy by Bruce Benderson (Edgewise)

Spirituality/Religion

Like Bread on the Seder Plate by Rebecca Alpert (Columbia University)

• Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit edited by Randy P. Conner (Cassell)
• The Essential Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey (HarperCollins)
• Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists edited by Winston Leyland (Gay Sunshine)
• Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bawer (Crown)

Transgender

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Cleis)

The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams (Putnam)

• Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins (Firebrand)
• Sex Changes by Pat Califia (Cleis)
• Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos by Annick Prieur (Cleis)

1998 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Anthologies/Fiction

Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature edited by Byrne R.S. Fone (Columbia University)

• Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica edited by Lawrence Schimel (Carroll & Graf)
• Men on Men 7 edited by Joel Tan (Penguin/Plume)
• Queer PAPI Porn by Joel Tan (Cleis)
• To Be Continued edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky (Firebrand)

Anthologies/Non-Fiction

Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life edited by Nisa Donnelly (Alyson)

Q & A: Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng (Temple University)

• Lesbian Travels edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Whereabouts)
• Queer 13 edited by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)
• Telling Tales Out of School edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)

Children

Telling Tales Out of School by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)

• I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
• Lucy Goes to the Country by Joseph Kennedy, illustrated by John Canemaker (Alyson)
• Outspoken by Michael Thomas Ford (Morrow Junior)
• Queer 13 by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)

Drama

O Solo Homo edited by Holly Hughes (Grove)

• Mr. Universe and Other Plays by Jim Grimsley and David Roman (Algonquin)
• Place For Us by D.A. Miller (Harvard University)
• Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman (Duke)
• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (Villard)

Editor's Choice Award

The Boy by Naeem Murr (Houghton Mifflin)

Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Wisecracker by William J. Mann (Viking)

• Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Norman Page (St. Martin’s)
• The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (Random House)
• Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney (Little Brown)
• In The Flesh by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard (Barricade)

Gay Men's Fiction

An Arrow’s Flight by Mark Merlis (St. Martin’s)

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (FS&G)
• Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine (St. Martin’s/Picador)
• The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway (Houghton Mifflin)
• Where the Rainbow Ends by Jameson Currier (Overlook)

Gay Men's Mystery

Outburst by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacourt)

• Dead as a Doornail by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• Federal Fag by Fred Hunter (St. Martin’s)
• Strachey’s Folly by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Gay Men's Poetry

Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy (Knopf)

• A Flame for the Touch That Matters by Michael Lassell (Painted Leaf)
• A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)
• Say Goodnight by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)
• Sweet Machine by Mark Doty (Harper Flamingo)

Gay Men's Studies

The Other Side of Silence by John Loughery (Henry Holt)

• Becoming Visible by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
• Changing Ones by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s)
• Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival by Andrew Sullivan (Knopf)
• The Pleasure Principle by Michael Bronski (St. Martin’s)

Humor

Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)

• Don’t Get Me Started by Kate Clinton (Ballantine)
• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Savage Love by Dan Savage (Dutton)
• Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)

• A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
• Empty Without You by Rodger Streitmatter (The Free Press)
• The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Viking)
• Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline (Overlook)

Lesbian Fiction

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)

• bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)
• Shimmer by Sarah Schulman (Avon)
• The Dogs by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
• They Call Me Mad Dog by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)

Lesbian Mystery

The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (Avon)

Shaman’s Moon by Sarah Dreher (New Victoria)

• Mother May I by Randye Lordon (Avon)
• Past Due by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Wicked Games by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Poetry

Marianne Faithfull’s Cigarette by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)

• Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery by Pamela Sneed (Owl)
• In the Open by Beatrix Gates (Painted Leaf)
• Juba by Letta Neely (Wildheart)
• The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman (New Victoria)

Lesbian Studies

A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)

• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
• Gay Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick (Alyson)
• Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman (Duke)
• The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (Rutgers)

Photography/Visual Arts

The Male Nude by David Leddick (Taschen)

Women in Love by Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera (Bullfinch/Little Brown)

• Affectionate Men by Russell Bush (St. Martin’s)
• Becoming Visible by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
• The Passionate Camera by Deborah Bright (Routledge)

Pioneer Award

Katherine V. Forrest

Publisher Service Award

Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink

Religion/Spirituality

Ferocious Romance by Donna Minkowitz (Free Press)

• Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair by John McNeill (Westminister John Knox)
• Closet Devotions by Richard Rambuss (Duke)
• How to Survive Your Own Gay Life by Perry Brass (Belhue)
• Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes (Morrow)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Bending the Landscape II edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook)

Galilee by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)

• Desmond by Ulysses G. Dietz (Alyson)
• Falling to Earth by Elizabeth Brownrigg (Firebrand)
• Things Invisible to See edited by Lawrence Schimel (Ultra Violet)

Small Press

the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)

• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Queer Japan edited by Barbara Summerhawk (New Victoria)
• The Reluctant Pornographer by Bruce LaBruce (Gutter)
• Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Transgender

The Empress Is a Man by Michael R. Gorman (Harrington Park)

• Boy-Wives and Female Husbands edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray (St. Martin’s)
• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
• Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Houghton Mifflin)
• Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)

1999 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Anthologies/Fiction

Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction edited by Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle, and Nancy Holden (Vintage)

• Besame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction edited by Jaime Manrique and Jesse Dorris
• Hers 3 edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
• His 3 edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
• Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories edited by Emma Donoghue

Anthologies/Nonfiction

Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia edited by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson (Henry Holt)

This Is What Lesbian Looks Like edited by Kris Kleindienst (Firebrand)

• A Woman Like That edited by Joan Larkin
• Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods
• Fighting Words edited by Charles Michael Smith

Children's/Young Adult

Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)

• Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
• Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
• The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden

Drama

What I Meant Was by Craig Lucas (TCG)

• Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally
• Lovesick edited by Laurence Senelick
• Of All the Nerve by Deb Margolin
• Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson

Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

The Velveteen Father by Jesse Green (Villard)

• An Underground Life by Gad Beck
• Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty
• Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan
• Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion by Martin Duberman

Gay Men's Fiction

Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler (Grove)

• Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
• In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran
• The Book of Lies by Felice Picano
• The Coming Storm by Paul Russell

Gay Men's Mystery

Justice at Risk by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)

• Drop Dead by Mark Zubro
• Innuendo by R.D. Zimmerman
• The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael
• The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman

Gay Men's Poetry

The Anchorage by Mark Wunderlich (UMASS)

Trappings by Richard Howard (Turtle Point)

• Diva by Rafael Campo
• Last Rights by Marvin K. White
• Lyric by G. Winston James

Gay Men's Studies

Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James Saslow (Viking)

• Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
• The Crisis of Desire by Robin Hardy and David Groff
• The Mismeasure of Desire by Edward Stein
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany

Humor

That’s Mr. Faggot To You by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)

• Ethan Exposed by Eric Orner
• Way to Go Smith! by Bob Smith
• Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies edited by Scott Brassart and Julie K. Trevelyan
• Subgurlz by Jennifer Camper

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami (Doubleday)

• Baby Precious Always Shines by Kay Turner
• Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 1933-1938 by Blanche Weisen Cook
• My Lesbian Husband by Barrie Jean Borich
• Tales of the Lavender Menace by Karla Jay

Lesbian Fiction

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)

• Bruised Fruit by Anna Livia
• Faults by Terri de la Pena
• Salt Water and Other Stories by Barbara Wilson
• Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark

Lesbian Mystery

Hunting the Witch by Ellen Hart (St. Martin's)

• Lost Daughters by J.M. Redmann
• Murder Undercover by Claire McNab
• She Came in Drag by Mary Wings
• Sleeping Bones by Katherine Forrest

Lesbian Poetry

Rave by Olga Broumas (Copper Canyon Press)

• Interior With Sudden Joy by Brenda Shaughnessy
• Midnight Salvage by Adrienne Rich
• Monkeypuzzle by Rita Wong
• Walking Back Up Depot Street by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Lesbian Studies

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman (Houghton Mifflin)

• A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila J. Rupp
• Eden Built by Eves by Bonnie Morris
• Strange Sisters by Jaye Zimet
• Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman

Photography/Visual Arts

Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James Saslow (Viking)

• The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev by David Leddick
• John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes by John Esten and Donna Hassler
• Strange Sisters by Jaye Zimet
• The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam

Religion/Spirituality

Gay Spirit Warrior by John Stowe (Findhorn)

Respecting the Soul by Keith Boykin (Avon)

• Coming Out Spiritually by Christian De La Huerta and Matthew Fox
• Prayer Warriors by Stuart Howell Miller
• Queer Dharma 2 by Winston Leyeland

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Minions of the Moon by Richard Bowe (Tor)

• Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women edited by Victoria Brownworth and Judith Redding
• The Annunciate by Severna Park
• The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman
• Through a Brazen Mirror by Delia Sherman

Small Press

Massage by Henry Flesh (Akashic)

• Christ-Like by Emanuel Xavier
• Hey Paesan! by Capone, Leto & Mecca
• Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
• The Queer Press Guide edited by Paul Harris

Transgender

Trumpet by Jackie Kay (Pantheon)

• Crossing by Deirdre McCloskey
• From Toads to Queens by Jacobo Schifter
• The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam
• Transmen and FTMs by Jason Cromwell