15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 9, 2003

Anthologies/Fiction

• WINNER: Black Like Us edited by Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Done Weise (Cleis)
• Bend Sinister – The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories edited by Peter Burton (GMP)
• Queer Fear II edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp)
• Rebel Yell 2 edited by Jay Quinn (Southern Tier/Harrington Park)
• Summer Share by Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, Andy Schell and Ben Tyler (Kensington)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

• WINNER: The Man I Might Become edited by Bruce Shenitz (Marlowe & Company)
• Found Tribe edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher)
• From ACT UP to the WTO edited by Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk (Verso)
• GenderQueer edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (Alyson)
• This Bridge We Call Home edited by Analouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldua (Routledge)

Autobiography

• WINNER: Surviving Madness by Betty Berzon (University of Wisconsin)
• Famous Builder by Paul Lisicky (Graywolf)
• Insurgent Muse by Terry Wolverton (City Lights)
• The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea (Seal)
• Wild Animals I Have Known by Kevin Bentley (Green Candy)

Biography

• WINNER: Ridiculous! by David Kaufman (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
• Gay Revel of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Thomas Wirth (Duke University)
• Glenway Wescott Personally by Jerry Rosco (University of Wisconsin)
• Rare and Commonplace Flowers by Carmen L. Oliveira (Rutgers University)
• Wild Heart by Suzanne Rodriguez (Ecco)

Bridge Builder Award

• Betty DeGeneres, author of Love, Ellen and Just a Mom

Children’s/Young Adult

• WINNER: Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko (Academy Chicago Press)
• Felicia’s Favorite Story by Leslea Newman (Two Lives Publishing)
• King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland (Tricycle)
• Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (Haiduk)
• The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein (Simon & Schuster)

Editor’s Choice

• The World Turned by John D’Emilio (Duke University)

Erotica

• WINNER: Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Bedroom Eyes edited by Leslea Newman (Alyson)
• Best Gay Erotica 2003 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis)
• Cocksure by Bob Vickery (Alyson)
• The Sperm Engine by Stephen Greco (Green Candy)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Scribner)
• Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal (Graywolf)
• Boulevard by Jim Grimsley (Alogonquin)
• Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit (MacAdam/Cage)
• The Martian Child by David Gerrold (Forge)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice (Miramax)
• Hot Spot by Michael Craft (St. Martin’s)
• Murder in the Rue Dauphine by Greg Herren (Alyson)
• The Hired Man by Dorien Grey (GLB)
• The Lodger by Drew Gummerson (GMP)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy (Alfred A. Knopf)
• The Christmas Poems by Krandall Kraus (AttaGirl)
• Landscape with Human Figure by Rafael Campo (Duke University)
• Ten Tongues by Reginald Harris (Three Conditions)
• Theory of Devolution by David Groff (University of Illinois)

Humor

• WINNER: Skipping Toward Gomorrah by Dan Savage (Dutton)
• Gaydar by Donald F. Reuter (Crown)
• Is It a Date or Just Coffee? by Mo Brownsey (Alyson)
• Screening Party by Dennis Hensley (Alyson)
• The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan (Kenisngton)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
• Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
• Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove (St. Martin’s)
• Stay by Nicola Griffith (Doubleday)
• This Place Called Absence by Lydia Kwa (Kensington)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft (Kensington)
• WINNER: Immaculate Midnight by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)
• Accidental Murder by Claire McNab (Bella)
• Death by Prophecy by Lauren Maddison (Alyson)
• The Weeping Buddha by Heather Dune Macadam (Akashic)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Mules of Love by Ellen Bass (BOA Editions)
• Body Language by C.C. Carter (Kings Crossing)
• Passing by Eloise Klein Healy (Red Hen)
• Red by Melanie Braverman (Perugia)
• Unraveling at the Name by Jenny Factor (Copper Canyon)

LGBT Studies

• WINNER: Sex-Crime Panic by Neil Miller (Alyson)
• From Identity to Politics by Craig Rimmerman (Temple University)
• Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin (Scribner)
• Queering India edited by Ruth Vanita (Routledge)
• Soul Beneath the Skin by David Nimmons (St. Martin’s)

Pioneer Award

• Barbara Grier, Naiad Press
• Judy Shepard, The Matthew Shepard Foundation

Romance

• WINNER: The Winter of Our Discoteque by Andrew W.M. Beierle (Kensington)
• Boyfriend Material by Jon Jeffrey (Kensington)
• Different People by Orland Outland (Alyson)
• Nora and Liz by Nancy Garden (Bella)
• She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not by Leslea Newman (Alyson)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• WINNER: Queer Fear II edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp)
• Daughters of an Amber Noon by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson)
• Seeds of Fire by Karin Kallmaker writing as Laura Adams (Bella)
• The Devil Inside by Randy Boyd (West Beach)
• Wired Hard 3 edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet)

Small Press

• Kings Crossing Publishing, Robin G. White, Sha Mendon

Spirituality

• WINNER: Courage to Love by Geoffrey Duncan (Pilgrim)
• Found Tribe edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher)
• Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (Haiduk)
• Queer Jews edited by David Scneer and Caryn Aviv (Routledge)
• Queering Christ by Robert E. Goss (Pilgrim)

Transgender

• WINNER: Dress Codes by Noelle Howey (Picador)
• Brazen Femme edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
• GenderQueer edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (Alyson)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (FS&G)
• Some of the Parts by T Cooper (Akashic)

Visual Arts

• WINNER: A Hidden Love by Dominique Fernandez (Prestel)
• On the Couch – Volume One by Tom Bianchi (Bruno Gmunder Verlag)
• Out/Lines by Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp)
• Outlaw Representation by Richard Meyer (Oxford University)
• Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude by Justin Spring (Universe)