7th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 14, 1995

Anthologies/Fiction

• WINNER: Chloe Plus Olivia edited by Lillian Faderman (Viking)
• Men on Men 5 edited by David Bergman (Plume)
• High Risk 2 edited by Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (Plume)
• The Very Inside edited by Sharon Lim-Hing (Sister Vision)
• Lavender Mansions edited by Irene Zahava (Westview)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

• WINNER: Sister and Brother edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston (HarperSanFrancisco)
• One Teacher in Ten edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)
• Out of the Class Closet edited by Julia Penelope (Crossing)
• Long Road to Freedom edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
• Queer Reader edited by Patrick Higgins (New)

Children’s/Young Adult

• WINNER: Am I Blue? edited by Marion Dane Bauer (HarperChildren’s)
• 2 Teenagers In 20 edited by Ann Heron (Alyson)
• Dive by Stacey Donovan (Dutton Children’s)
• Oscar Wilde by Scott Nunokawa (Chelsea House)
• Tiger Flowers by Patricia Quinlan (Dial Books)

Drama

• WINNER: Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner (TCG)
• Jeffrey by Paul Rudnick (Plume)
• The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me by David Drake (Anchor)
• Heroes and Saints & Other Plays by Cherrie Moraga (West End)
• Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage (HerBooks)

Editor’s Choice

• Traitor to the Race by Mab Segrest (South End)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: My Own Country by Abraham Verghese (Simon & Schuster)
• Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
• My Life as a Pornographer by John Preston (Richard Kasak)
• Knowing When to Stop by Ned Rorem (Simon & Schuster)
• Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite by Lawrence Mass (Cassell)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (Pantheon)
• Cultural Revolution by Norman Wong (Persea)
• American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton Mifflin)
• Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Doug Sadownick (St. Martin’s)
• Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan (Simon & Schuster)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Random House)
• Mad Man by Samuel Delaney (Richard Kasak)
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Random House)
• Mask for a Diva by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• Queer Kind of Love by George Baxt (Otto Penzler)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Collected Poems by Thom Gunn (FSG)
• The Other Man Was Me by Raphael Campo (Arte Publico)
• Ghost Letters by Richard McCann (Alice James)
• Wishing for Wings by Assotto Saint (Galiens Press)
• West of Yesterday, East of Summer by Paul Monette (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Studies

• WINNER: Gay New York by George Chauncy (BasicBooks)
• Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell (Villard)
• Gay Soul edited by Mark Thompson (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
• Queer and Loathing by David Feinberg (Viking)

Humor

• WINNER: The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (Seal)
• Barrel Fever by David Sedaris (Little Brown)
• Unofficial Gay MANual by Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz (Doubleday/Main Street)
• Glamourpuss by Christian McLaughlin (Dutton)
• Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney (Cleis)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures edited by Renate Stendhal (Algonquin)
• Serving in Silence by Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher (Viking)
• One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop (FSG)
• The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (Knopf)
• Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest (South End)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)
• House Rules by Heather Lewis (Doubleday/Nan Talese)
• Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
• The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (Seal)
• Sir Fry by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Small Sacrifice by Ellen Hart (Seal)
• Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney (Cleis)
• Sister’s Keeper by Randye Lordon (St. Martin’s)
• Body Guard by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• My Sweet Untraceable You by Sandra Scoppetone (Little Brown)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Winter Numbers by Marilyn Hacker (Norton)
• American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail)
• Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan (Serpent’s Tail)
• Normal Sex by Linda Smukler (Firebrand)
• White Pine by Mary Oliver (Random House)

Lesbian Studies

• WINNER: Skin by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand)
• My American History by Sarah Schulman (Routledge)
• Chloe Plus Olivia edited by Lillian Faderman (Viking)
• Sportsdykes edited by Susan Fox Rogers (St. Martin’s)
• Her Tongue on My Theory by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang)

Photography/Visual Arts

• WINNER: Family by Nancy Andrews (HarperSanFrancisco)
• Out in America by Out Magazine (Viking Studio)
• Masked Culture by Jack Kugelmass (Columbia University)
• Long Road to Freedom edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
• Art of the Male Nude by Jim French (State of Man)

Publisher’s Service Award

• Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott (TOR)
• The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas (TOR)
• Metal Angel by Nancy Springer (ROC Fantasy)
• Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey (Daw)
• Warrriors of Isis by Jean Stewart (Rising Tide)

Small Press

• WINNER: Her Tongue on My Theory by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang)
• B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy (Alyson)
• Skin by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand)
• We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas (Cleis)
• American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail)