4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Edit Team

July 13, 1992

CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

• WINNER: The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans: and Other Stories by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt (Alyson Wonderland)
• Gloria Goes to Gay Pride by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Russell Crocker (Alyson Wonderland)
• How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? by Ann Heron and Meredith Maran, illustrated by Kris Kovick (Alyson Wonderland)
• Lark in the Morning by Nancy Garden (Farrar Straus Giroux)
• Sudden Strangers by Aaron and Walter Fricke (St. Martin’s Press)

EDITOR’S CHOICE

• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America by Lillian Faderman (Columbia University)

GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill (Alyson)
• Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction edited by Edmund White (Faber & Faber)
• Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
• Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers Edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton (Plume)
• Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice edited by Mark Thompson (Alyson)

GAY MEN’S FICTION

• WINNER: What the Dead Remember by Harlan Greene (E.P. Dutton)
• Frisk by Dennis Cooper (Grove Weidenfeld)
• Halfway Home by Paul Monette (Crown)
• Language We Use Up Here by Philip Gambone (E.P. Dutton)
• Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon (E.P. Dutton)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY

• WINNER: A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
• Best Performance by a Patsy by Stan Cutler (E.P. Dutton)
• The Face on the Cutting Room Floor by Stan Cutler (E.P. Dutton)
• Master’s Counterpoints by Larry Townsend (Alyson)
• Sorry Now? by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION

• WINNER: The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe (University of New Mexico)
• Close To the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz (Vintage)
• Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by Martin Duberman (E.P. Dutton)
• Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard by Roger Austen, edited by John W. Crowley (UMASS)
• Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England by Bruce R. Smith (University of Chicago)

GAY MEN’S POETRY

• WINNER: The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets edited by Assoto Saint (Galiens)
• Bethlehem in Broad Daylight by Mark Doty (David R. Godine)
• The Burnt Pages by John Ash (Random House)
• Hand over Heart by David Trinidad (Amethyst)
• Sex-Charge by Perry Brass (Belhue)

GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• WINNER: The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson (TOR)
• Embracing the Dark edited by Eric Garber (Alyson)
• Mirage by Perry Brass (Belhue)
• Steam by Jay B. Laws (Alyson)
• Vampires Anonymous by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson)

HUMOR

• WINNER: Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (Viking)
• Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games by Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren (New Victoria)
• Strange Angel by Ben Davis (Corona Publishing Co.)
• What I Love about Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With by Kris Kovick (Alyson)
• Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor edited by Rosalind Warren (Crossing)

LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About edited by Carla Trujillo (Third Woman)
• Bi Any Other Name edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu (Alyson)
• Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers edited by Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake (Plume)
• An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality edited by Judith Barrington (Eighth Mountain)
• Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition edited by Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith (Spinsters Book Co.)

LESBIAN FICTION

• WINNER (Tie): The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf)
• WINNER (Tie): The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
• Benediction by Diane Salvatore (Naiad)
• Just Say Yes by Judith McDaniel (Firebrand)
• Minimax by Anna Livia (Eighth Mountain)

LESBIAN MYSTERY

• WINNER: Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest (Naiad)
• Cop Out by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Everything You Have is Mine by Sandra Scoppetone (Little Brown)
• Final Session by Mary Morell (Spinsters Book Co.)
• The Providence File by Amanda Kyle Williams (Naiad)

LESBIAN NONFICTION

• WINNER: Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum (Spinsters Book Co.)
• Gertrude and Alice by Diane Souhami (Pandora)
• An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality edited by Judith Barrington (Eighth Mountain)
• Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman (Columbia University)
• Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)

LESBIAN POETRY

• WINNER: An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
• Artemis in Echo Park by Eloise Klein Healy (Firebrand)
• Fear of Subways by Maureen Seaton (Eighth Mountain)
• The Forbidden Poems by Becky Birtha (Seal)
• Not Me by Eileen Myles (Semiotext(e))

LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• WINNER: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
• Mega by B.L. Holmes (Mother Courage)
• Shadows of Aggar by Chris Anne Wolfe (New Victoria)
• Stranded by Camarin Grae (Naiad)
• Zeta Base by Judith Alguire (Naiad)

SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD

• WINNER: Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine edited by Winston Leyland (Gay Sunshine)
• The Advocate Advisor by Pat Califia (Alyson)
• How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos edited by Bad Object-Choices (Bay)
• Putting Out ’91 edited by Edisol W. Dotson (Putting Out)
• Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really by Garbo (Big Breakfast)

PUBLISHER’S SERVICE AWARD

• Barbara Grier and Donna McBride, The Naiad Press