Welcome to the Lambda Literary Foundation, the country’s leading organization for LGBT literature. Our mission is to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians – the whole literary community.

Anne Rice Donates One of a Kind Gown
To Benefit Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Writers

When Anne Rice first ordered this authentic Chinese wedding dress to be fashioned entirely out of black fabric, the Chinese dress-makers refused, fearing that to do so would bring bad luck. But bad lack was nowhere on the horizon when the mega-best selling author wore the finished product as she promoted some of the most successful novels of her entire career. Complete with a feathered head-dress that combines elements of traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras with the more classic costume styles of Venetian Carnivale, this elegant, floor-length gown features elaborate beading across the chest and shoulders. This one-of-a-kind gown is a sumptuous artifact from a more extravagant and spectacular time in the life of one our nation's most famous and controversial novelists.

Auction runs until May 20, 2008. Opening bid is $500.

All proceeds from the auction benefit Lambda Literary Foundation's Retreat for Emerging LGBT Writers

Make a bid today on Ebay!

Lammy Tickets Now On Sale

Master of Ceremonies: Michael Corbett

Guest Presenters:
Bernard Cooper, Calpernia Addams, Lillian Faderman, Michael Nava, Torie Osborn, Denise Penn, Felice Picano, Anne Stockwell, Michele Tea, Patricia Nell Warren, and others.

Guest Performers:
Gay Men's Chorus, Tim Miller, & the Gay Mafia

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Silver Screen Theatre
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069

6:00 pm Gala Buffet Reception
7:30 pm Awards Ceremony
9:30 pm Dessert Reception

Tickets are $150. Purchase today!

RAFFLE
Win an Autographed Lammy Library

$20 for 1 ticket, $50 for 3 tickets, $100 for 6 tickets

Enter a raffle to win an autographed collection of this year's Lammy winners -- the winning books in all 21 categories will be autographed and delivered to your home library. Winner need not be present to win (for the past two years, winners of the raffle have not been at the ceremony!). Purchase your raffle tickets today!

Finalists Announced
for the 20th Annual
Lambda Literary Awards

March 14, 2008--Finalists were announced today for the upcoming 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards to be held Thursday, May 29, in West Hollywood, CA.

Over 80 judges -- writers, journalists, booksellers, librarians, professors -- chose 107 finalists in 21 categories, and the winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in the Silver Screen Theatre at the Pacific Design Center (tickets are now on sale), on May 29, at 7:30 pm.

The complete list of finalists. The complete list of nominated books.

Other awards to be given that night include the Pioneer Awards as well as awards from the Monette-Horwitz Trust.

Ann Bannon, Malcolm Boyd, & Mark Thompson To Receive Pioneer Awards

March 10, 2008--Three legendary figures of the LGBT literary community will receive Pioneer Awards at the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, to be held Thursday, May 29, in West Hollywood, California.

Ann Bannon is known as "The Queen of Pulp Fiction" for the best of all reasons: the author and her books reside in a class by themselves. "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles," a series of five original paperbacks published by Gold Medal Books from 1957 to 1962, are the most celebrated of our early lesbian novels, and to this day their central character, Beebo Brinker, remains the most iconic figure in all of lesbian fiction.

Malcolm Boyd is the author of 29 books, including the international bestseller Are You Running with Me, Jesus? and his gay coming out classic Take Off the Masks, and editor of five other works. He will celebrate his 85th birthday on June 8, 2008, and has been an Episcopal priest for 53 years. Long active in the U.S. literary world, he served three terms as President of PEN Center USA West and is poet/writer-in-residence at Los Angeles' Episcopal Cathedral Center of St. Paul.

Author-activist Mark Thompson was born and raised on the Monterey Peninsula, California, and began his writing career at The Advocate in 1975. In 1994, he completed his tenure at the magazine by editing Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement (St. Martin's Press). Thompson is best known, however, for his influential trilogy of books dealing with gay spirituality: Gay Spirit (1987), Gay Soul (1994) and Gay Body (1997).

For more infomation about these pioneers, visit Pioneer Awards.

Tickets to the gala ceremony are now on sale.

Lambda Literary Awards Receives Record Number of Nominees

January 10, 2008--The Lambda Literary Awards have received a record number of nominations for books with LGBT content published during 2007. This spring, the Lambda Literary Foundation will produce the 20th presentation of the awards (known as the "Lammys") at a gala ceremony in West Hollywood, on May 29, on the eve of Book Expo America, the annual booksellers convention.

In all, 190 publishers nominated 463 books for awards in 21 categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir/biography, childrens/young adult, romance, and mystery, among others. To be eligible, a book must contain LGBT content, and to be nominated, a book must be submitted by its publisher or its author.

"This has been a spectacular year for LGBT publishing in terms of the number of books published and the number of participating publishers," observes executive director Charles Flowers. "Last year, we had 147 publishers nominate their books, so that's an increase of 29%, while the number of eligible books rose 22%, from 381 to 463."

See the complete list of nominated books and the complete list of participating publishers.

The finalists in each category will be announced by March 15, and the foundation will organize readings around the country to celebrate the finalists prior to the announcement of the winners on May 29.

For more information, contact awards@lambdaliterary.org.