9th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna
July 14, 1997
Anthologies/Fiction
- WINNER: Women on Women 3 edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)
- Go the Way Your Blood Beats edited by Shawn Stewart Ruff (Owl)
- Men on Men 6 edited by David Bergman (Plume)
- Night Bites edited by Victoria Brownworth (Seal)
- Shade edited by Bruce Morrow & Charles H. Rowell (Avon)
Anthologies/Nonfiction
- WINNER: Taking Liberties edited by Michael Bronski (Masquerade)
- Beyond Queer edited by Bruce Bawer (Free)
- Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)
- Generation Q edited by Robin Bernstein & Seth Clark Silberman (Alyson)
- Off the Rag edited by Lee Lynch & Akia Woods (New Victoria)
Children’s/Young Adult
- WINNER: Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (FSG)
- Daddy’s Wedding by Michael Willhoite (Alyson Publications)
- Free Your Mind by Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman (HarperPerennial)
- My Dad Has HIV by Alexander, Rudin & Sejkora (Fairview Press)
- The World Out There by Michael Thomas Ford (The New Press)
Drama
- WINNER: Split Britches edited by Sue-Ellen Case (Routledge)
- Acting=Life by Michael Kearns (Heinemann)
- Amazon All-Stars edited by Rosemary Keefe Curb (Applause)
- Clit Notes by Holly Hughes (Grove)
- Three Plays by Crowley by Mart Crowley (Alyson)
Editors’ Choice
- Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 edited by Donald Windham (University of Georgia)
Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
- WINNER: Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (Scribner)
- Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
- Lush Life by David Hadju (FSG)
- Spells of a Voodoo Doll by Assotto Saint (Masquerade)
- Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper (Houghton Mifflin)
Gay Men’s Fiction
- WINNER: Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadural (William Morrow)
- Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran (William Morrow)
- Iowa by Patrick Moore (Hard Candy)
- Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck (FSG)
- Pagan’s Father by Michael Arditti (SoHo)
Gay Men’s Mystery
- WINNER: Death of Friends by Michael Nava (Putnam)
- Murder on the Appian Way by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
- Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
- Time to Check Out by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
- Tribe by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)
Gay Men’s Poetry
- WINNER: What the Body Told by Rafael Campo (Duke)
- Anesthesia by Kenny Fries (Advocado)
- Angel, Interrupted by Reginald Sheperd (University of Pittsburgh)
- Eros in Boystown edited by Michael Lassell (Crown)
- My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca by Jaime Marique (Painted Leaf)
Gay Men’s Studies
- WINNER: Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)
- Cracks in the Iron Closet by David Tuller (Faber & Faber)
- Farm Boys edited by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
- One More River to Cross by Keith Boykin (Anchor)
- Radically Gay edited by Harry Hay and Will Roscoe (Beacon)
Humor
- WINNER: Homo Handbook by Judy Carter (Fireside)
- History of Lesbian Hair by Mary Dugger (Doubleday)
- Kurt Cobain & Mozart are Both Dead by Tim Barela (Palliard)
- Lesbianism Made Easy by Helen Eisenbach (Crown)
- So You Want to be a Lesbian? by Liz Tracey & Sydney Pokorny (St. Martin’s)
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
- WINNER: Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach (Beacon)
- Accidental Activist by Candace Gingrich (Scribner)
- Eva Le Gallienne by Helen Sheehy (Knopf)
- Coming Home to America by Torie Osborn (St. Martin’s)
- The White Blackbird by Honor Moore (Viking)
Lesbian Fiction
- WINNER: Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas (Cleis)
- If You Had a Family by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
- Seven Moves by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
- Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale (Riverhead)
- What Keeps Me Here by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)
Lesbian Mystery
- WINNER: Robber’s Wine by Ellen Hart (Seal)
- Baby, It’s Cold by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
- Final Take by Jackie Manthorne (Gynergy)
- Inner Circle by Claire McNab (Naiad)
- Liberty Square by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)
Lesbian Poetry
- WINNER (Tie): All-American Girl by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
- WINNER (Tie): Furious Cooking by Maureen Seaton (University of Iowa)
- Arc of Love edited by Clare Coss (Scribner)
- Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. by Linda Smukler (Hard)
- Shift by Jeredith Merrin (University of Chicago)
Lesbian Studies
- WINNER: Love Between Women by Bernadette J. Brooten (University of Chicago)
- Girls Next Door by Lindsay Van Gelder & Pamela Brandt (Simon & Schuster)
- Sappho and the Virgin Mary by Ruth Vanita (Columbia University)
- Surface Tension edited by Meg Daly (Touchstone)
- Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)
Photography/Visual Arts
- WINNER: Nothing But the Girl by Susie Bright & Jill Posener (Cassell)
- Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
- Derek Jarman’s Garden by Derek Jarman (Overlook)
- Gay by the Bay by Susan Stryker & Jim Van Buskirk (Chronicle)
- Sunnybrook by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang)
Pioneer Award
- Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books
Publisher’s Service Award
- Norman Laurila, A Different Light Bookstores
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- WINNER: Sacrament by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
- Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (St. Martin’s)
- Sons of Darkness edited by Michael Rowe & Thomas S. Roche (Cleis)
- Swords of the Rainbow edited by Eric Garber & Jewelle Gomez (Alyson)
- Women Who Run With Werewolves edited by Pam Keesey (Cleis)
Small Press
- WINNER: Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
- Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West (Booklegger)
- Mythomania by Bernard Welt (Art.issues)
- Shit of God by Diamanda Galas (Serpent’s Tale/High Risk)
- Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)
Spirituality
- WINNER: The Good Book by Peter Gomes (William Morrow)
- Congregations in Conflict by Keith Hartman (Rutgers University)
- Journeys & Arrivals by Lev Raphael (Faber & Faber)
- The Preacher’s Son by Marc Adams (Window Books)
- We Were Baptized Too by Marilyn Alexander & James Preston (Westminster/John Knox)
Transgender
- WINNER: Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
- Gender Shock by Phyllis Burke (Anchor)
- Honey, Honey Miss Thang by Leon E. Pettiway (Temple University)
- Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso (Beacon)
- Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)
