Previous Lammy Award Winners

2004 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

Anthologies/Fiction

Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction edited by Donald Weise (Carroll & Graf)

• Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004 edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
• Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person edited by Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea (Alyson)
• Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories edited by Peter Burton (GMP/Millivres)
• The Milk of Human Kindness edited by Lori L. Lake (Regal Crest)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips (Suspect Thoughts)

• Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative edited by Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott (Coach House)
• Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
• That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Soft Skull)
• Wonderlands edited by Raphael Kadushin (University of Wisconsin)

Autobiography/Memoir

Name All the Animals by Alison Smith (Scribner)

• Blue Days, Black Nights by Ron Nyswaner (Advocate)
• Long Life by Mary Oliver (Da Capo)
• Rent Girl by Michelle Tea (Last Gasp)
• The Tomcat Chronicles by Jack Nichols (Harrington Park)

Biography

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux (W.W. Norton)

• Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White (W.W. Norton)
• Both: A Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas Crase (Pantheon)
• Jerome Robbins by Deborah Jowitt (Simon & Schuster)
• Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology by John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, and David P. Keys (University of Wisconsin)

Children’s/Young Adult

So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

• Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (Delacorte)
• Rosemary and Juliet by Judy MacLean (Alice Street Editions)
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Drama

I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (Faber and Faber)

• Fabulous! by Donald Reuter (Broadway)
• How to Make Dances in an Epidemic by David Gere (University of Wisconsin)
• love conjure/blues by Sharon Bridgeforth (RedBone)
• The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater edited by Claude J. Summers (Cleis)

Erotica

Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis)

• All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Once Upon a Dyke by Karin Kallmaker, Therese Syzmanski, Julia Watts, and Barbara Johnson (Bella)
• Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex by Rachel Kramer Bussel and Stacy M. Bias (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Debut Fiction

Clay’s Way by Blair Mastbaum (Alyson)

• A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl (CDS)
• Half-Life by Aaron Krach (Alyson)
• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater by Mar Acito (Broadway)
• World Famous Love Acts by Brian Leung (Sarabande)

Gay Men’s Fiction

The Master by Colm Toibin (Scribner)

• Collage by Ted Wojtasik (Livingston)
• The Disinherited by Han Ong (FS&G)
• The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack (Soft Skull)
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury)

Gay Men’s Poetry

Written in Water by Luis Cernuda (City Lights)

• Cocktails by D.A. Powell (Graywolf)
• nothin’ ugly fly by Marvin K. White (RedBone)
• The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips (FS&G)
• Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich (Graywolf)

Gay Men’s Mystery

Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac)

• Jackson Square Jazz by Greg Herren (Kensington)
• Moth and Flame by John Morgan Wilson (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Someone You Know by Gary Zebrun (Alyson)
• The Role Players by Dorien Grey (GLB)

Humor

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

• Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Cheryl Peck (Warner)
• Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast by Greg Fox (Kenisington)
• Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s)
• Alexander the Fabulous by Michael Alvear and Vicky A. Shecter (Advocate)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank (Firebrand)

• Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion (Alyson)
• Dish It Up, Baby! by Kristie Helms (Firebrand)
• Fire & Brimstone by Laurinda D. Brown (Strebor)
• Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey by Bridget Bufford (Alice Street)

Lesbian Fiction

A Seahorse Year by Stacey D’Erasmo (Houghton Mifflin)

• Abundant Light by Valerie Miner (Michigan State University)
• Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt)
• Skels by Maggie Dubris (Soft Skull)
• Venus of Chalk by Susan Stinson (Firebrand)

Lesbian Poetry

Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch (Gival)

• Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King (BlazeVox)
• Femme’s Dictionary by Carol Guess (Calyx)
• The School Among the Ruins by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
• Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon)

Lesbian Mystery

Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley Prime Crime)

• An Intimate Ghost by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Commitment to Die by Jennifer Jordan (Bean Pole)
• Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion (Alyson)
• The Wombat Strategy by Claire McNab (Alyson)

LGBT Studies

For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Routledge)

• All-Night Party by Andrea Barnet (Algonquin)
• A Passion to Preserve by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
• Families Like Mine by Abigail Garner (HarperCollins)
• Why Marriage Matters by Evan Wolfson (Simon & Schuster)

Photography/Visual Arts

At Ease: Navy Men of World War II by Evan Bachner (Harry Abrams)

• Lust Unearthed by Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp)
• The Queer Movie Poster Book by Jenni Olson (Chronicle)
• Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin (Last Gasp)
• The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts edited by Claude J. Summers (Cleis)

Romance

Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger (HarperCollins)

• All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• Confessions of a Casanova by Chris Kenry (Kensington)
• Gulf Breeze by Gerri Hill (Bella)
• Under the Witness Tree by Marianne Martin (Bywater)

Religion/Spirituality

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love by Will Roscoe (Suspect Thoughts)

• Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions by Randy Conner and David Hatfield Sparks (Harrington Park)
• Same-Sex Marriage: A Christian Ethical Analysis by Marvin M. Ellison (Pilgrim)
• Sanctity and Male Desire by Donald L. Boisvert (Pilgrim)
• Wrestling with God & Men by Rabbi Steven Greenberg (University of Wisconsin)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley (Tor)

• Firelands by Michael Jensen (Alyson)
• Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual edited by Greg Herren (Southern Tier)
• The Wizard of Isis by Jean Stewart (Bella)
• With Her Body by Nicola Griffith (Aqueduct)

Independent Press Award

Suspect Thoughts Press

Bella Books

Transgender/GenderQueer

The Gender Frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen (Kehrer Verlag)

• Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green (Vanderbilt University)
• From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond (Manic D)
• Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser by Helen Boyd (Thunder’s Mouth)

2005 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

Anthologies

Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing edited by E. Lynn Harris (Carroll & Graf)

• Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
• Lesbian Pulp Fiction edited by Katherine Forrest (Cleis)
• Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men edited by Wendell Ricketts (Suspect Thoughts)
• Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier (Suspect Thoughts)

Belles Lettres

The Tricky Part by Martin Moran (Beacon)

• Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford (Counterpoint)
• Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller (Algonquin)
• My One Night Stand with Cancer by Tania Katan (Alyson)
• When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg, illustrated by Tom Bachtell (Regan)

Biography

February House by Sherrill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin)

• The Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson (Henry Holt)
• Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger (The Disinformation Company)
• Beyond Recall by Mary Meigs and Lise Weil (Talonbooks)
• Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art by Diana Souhami (St. Martin's)

Children's/Young Adult

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (Tundra)

• Antonio's Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Children’s Book)
• Totally Joe by James Howe (Simon & Schuster)
• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson (Simon & Schuster)
• Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)

Erotica

Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

• Best Gay Erotica 2006 edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonte (Cleis)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 edited by Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Suspect Thoughts)
• Close Contact by Sean Wolfe (Kensington)

Gay Men’s Debut Fiction

You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (Carroll & Graf)

• Setting the Lawn on Fire by Mack Friedman (Wisconsin)
• Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (Pantheon)
• The First Verse by Barry McCrea (Carroll & Graf)
• Bilal's Bread by Sulyman X (Alyson)

Gay Men's Fiction

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Carroll & Graf)

• German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene (Wisconsin)
• Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger (Random House)
• What We Do is Secret by Kief Hillsbery (Villard)
• Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott (Carroll & Graf)

Gay Men's Mystery

One of These Things is Not Like the Other by D. Travers Scott (Suspect Thoughts)

• The Actor’s Guide to Greed by Rick Copp (Kensington)
• The Paper Mirror by Dorien Grey (GLB)
• White Tiger by Michael Allen Dymmoch (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Cajun Snuff by W. Randy Haynes (Publish America)

Gay Men's Poetry

Crush by Richard Siken (Yale)

• School of the Arts by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• For Dust Thou Art by Timothy Lui (Southern Illinois)
• Sugar by Martin Pousson (Suspect Thoughts)
• Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith (Pittsburgh)

Humor

Don't Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff (Doubleday)

• Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Alyson)
• Juicy Mother by Jennifer Camper (Soft Skull)
• What the L ? by Kate Clinton (Carroll & Graf)
• Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck (5 Spot, Warner)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts)

• Crashing America by Katia Noyes (Alyson)
• Manstealing for Fat Girls by Michelle Embree (Soft Skull)
• In Too Deep by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
• Bliss by Fiona Zedde (Kensington)

Lesbian Fiction

Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor)

• Wild Dogs by Helen Humphrys (W. W. Norton)
• With or Without You by Lauren Sanders (Akashic)
• Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky (Raincoast)
• Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (Harcourt)

Lesbian Mystery

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba (Arte Publico)

• Women of Mystery edited by Katherine Forrest (Haworth)
• The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Darkness Descending by Penny Mickelbury (Kings Crossing)
• Justice Served by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Lesbian Poetry

Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan (Copper Canyon)

• Where the Apple Falls by Samiya Bashir (RedBone)
• Life Mask by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe)
• New and Selected Poems, Volume II by Mary Oliver (Beacon)
• Eye of Water by Amber Flora Thomas (Pittsburgh)

LGBT Studies

When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman (Columbia)

• Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause by Jennifer Kelly (Spinifex)
• Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch by Dwight A. McBride (NYU)
• Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (Harrington Park)
• Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan)

Nonfiction

Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave (Minnesota)

• Gore Vidal’s America by Dennis Altman (Polity)
• Beyond the Down Low by Keith Boykin (Carroll & Graf)
• Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler (Rodale)
• Women Together/Women Apart by Tirza True Latimer (Rutgers)

Romance

Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

• Artist’s Dream by Gerri Hill (Bella)
• Just Like That by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson (Seventh Window)
• Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd (West Beach)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror

Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson)

• Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Seven Stories)
• Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe (Tor)
• Temple Landfall by Jane Fletcher (Bold Strokes)
• No Sister of Mine by Jeanne G’Fellers (Bella)

Spirituality

Qu(e)erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo (Pilgrim)

• The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (Spinifex)
• The Path of the Green Man by Michael Thomas Ford (Citadel)
• I Am This One Walking Beside Me by Daniel Gebhardt (Pilgrim)
• Fumbling Toward Divinity by Craig Hickman (Annabessacook Farm)

Transgender/GenderQueer

Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (Soft Skull)

• In a Queer Time and Place by Judith Halberstam (NYU)
• Deliver Me from Nowhere by Tennessee Jones (Soft Skull)
• Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey (Beacon)
• The Riddle of Gender by Deborah Rudacille (Pantheon)

2006 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS

ANTHOLOGY

Love, Bourbon Street, edited by Greg Herren & Paul J. Willis (Alyson)

• Confessions of the Other Mother, edited by Harlyn Aizley (Beacon)
• From Boys to Men, edited by Ted Gideonse & Rob Williams (Carroll & Graf)
• Charmed Lives, edited by Toby Johnson & Steve Berman (White Crane Books)
• No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian, edited by Catherine Lake & Nairne Holtz (Insomniac)

ARTS & CULTURE

GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
• Cinemachismo by Sergio de la Mora (University of Texas Press)
• Sex Objects by Jennifer Doyle (University of Minnesota Press)
• Blood Beats: Vol 1 by Ernest Hardy (Redbone Press)
  
  

BISEXUAL

The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe, Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal (Alyson)

• Eros by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (Harrington Park Press)
• Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men by Ronald C. Fox (Harrington Park Press)
• Three Sides to Every Story by Clarence Nero (Harlem Moon/Broadway)
• Bi Guys, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha (Harrington Park Press)
• Bi Men, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha & Pete Chvany (Harrington Park Press)

CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

The Full Spectrum, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell (Random House Childrens Books)

Between Mom & Jo by Julie Anne Peters (Little Brown)

• The Manny Files by Christian Burch (Simon & Schuster)
• Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan (Simon & Schuster)
• Erik & Isabelle's Junior Year at Foresthill High by Kim Wallace (Foglight Press)

DRAMA/THEATER

1001 Beds by Tim Miller (University of Wisconsin)

• Questa by Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Publishing Inc.)
• Confessions of a Mormon Boy by Steven Fales (Alyson)

HUMOR

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan (Little Brown)

• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
• Roy & Al by Ralf Konig (Arsenal Pulp Press)

LGBT NONFICTION

GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)

Different Daughters by Marcia Gallo (Carroll & Graf)

• Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein (Seven Stories)
• Behind the Mask of the Mattachine by James T. Sears (Harrington Park Press)
• Unspeakable Love by Brian Whitaker (University of California)

LGBT STUDIES

Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace Griffin (Pilgrim Press)

• Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. by Carellin Brooks (UBC Press)
• Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach (Carroll & Graf)
• Crip Theory by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)
• Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame by Kathryn Stockton (Duke University Press)

SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)

• Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg (Alyson)
• A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day (Iris Print)
• Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (Bantam Spectra)

SPIRITUALITY

The After-Death Room by Michael McColly (Soft Skull Press)

• Sex & the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak (Harrington Park Press)
• Spirited edited by Lisa Moore & G. Winston James (Redbone Press)
• The Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino (Pearlsong Press )
• Mobius Trip by Giti Thadani (Spinifex Press)

TRANSGENDER

The Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (Routledge)

• Transgender Rights edited Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter (University of Minnesota Press)
• Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg (Carroll & Graf)
• Supervillainz by Alicia E. Goranson (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press)
  

LESBIAN FICTION

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)

• Punk Like Me by JD Glass (Bold Strokes)
• Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
• Outrageous by Sheila Ortiz Taylor (Spinsters Ink)
• Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea (Macadam Cage)

LESBIAN ROMANCE

Fresh Tracks by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes)

• Wild Abandon by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
• Finders Keepers by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Chance by Grace Lennox (Bold Strokes)
• Turn Back Time by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

LESBIAN MYSTERY

The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (Bantam)

• Sleep of Reason by Rose Beecham, Rose (Bold Strokes)
• Night Vision by Ellen Hart (St. Martins)
• Idaho Code by Joan Opyr (Bywater Books)
• The Weekend Visitor by Jessica Thomas (Bella Books)
  

LESBIAN POETRY

Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)

• Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
• Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clarke (Carroll & Graf)
• The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson (Nightboat Books)
• Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens (Coach House Books)

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)

• Intimate Politics by Bettina Aptheker (Seal Press)
• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
• Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend (Marlowe & Co.)
• Incognito Street by Barbara Sjoholm (Seal Press)

LESBIAN EROTICA

Walk Like a Man by Laurinda D. Brown (Q-Boro Books)

• Glamour Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Harrington Park Press)
• 18th & Castro by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Master Han's Daughter by Midori (Circlet Press)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 edited by Tristan Taormino & Emma Donoghue (Cleis Press)
  

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (Riverhead)

• Black Marks by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte (Akashic)
• Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara (Redbone Press)
• Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
• Origami Striptease by Peggy Munson (Suspect Thoughts)

GAY FICTION

Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

• Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey (William Morrow)
• Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)
• Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley (Simon & Schuster)
• Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer (Houghton Mifflin)

GAY ROMANCE

When the Stars Come Out by Rob Byrnes (Kensington)

• Someone Like You by Timothy James Beck (Kensington)
• Two Boys in Love by Lawrence Schimel (Seventh Window)
• Surf 'N Turf by Scott & Scott (Romentics)
• Going Down in La-La Land by Andy Zeffer (Harrington Park Press)

GAY MYSTERY

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press)

• Mardi Gras Mambo by Greg Herren (Kensington)
• The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon (I-Universe)
• The Back Passage by James Lear (Cleis Press)
• Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues by Randall Peffer (Bleak House Books)

GAY POETRY

A History of My Tattoo by Jim Elledge (Stonewall)

• Gutted by Justin Chin (Manic D Press)The Album That Changed
• My Life by Jeffrey Conway (Cold Calm Press)
• Other Fugitives & Other Strangers by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Tupelo Press)
• When the Eye Forms by Dwaine Rieves (Tupelo Press)

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper (Simon & Schuster)

• Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (FSG)
• Tweaked by Patrick Moore (Kensington)
• History of Swimming by Kim Powers (Carroll & Graf)
• My Father's Keeper by Jonathan Silin (Beacon)

GAY EROTICA

A History of Barbed Wire by Jeff Mann (Suspect Thoughts)

• Best Gay Erotica 2007 edited by Richard Labonte & Timothy J. Lambert (Cleis Press)
• Hot On His Trail by Zavo (Alyson)

GAY DEBUT FICTION

Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

• A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Zookeeper by Alex MacLennan (Alyson)
• Send Me by Patrick Ryan (Dial Press)
• 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds by Timothy Williams (Amistad)