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)