18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

April 9, 2005

Anthologies

• WINNER: Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing edited by E. Lynn Harris (Carroll & Graf)
• Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
• Lesbian Pulp Fiction edited by Katherine Forrest (Cleis)
• Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men edited by Wendell Ricketts (Suspect Thoughts)
• Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier (Suspect Thoughts)

Belles Lettres

• WINNER: The Tricky Part by Martin Moran (Beacon)
• Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford (Counterpoint)
• Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller (Algonquin)
• My One Night Stand with Cancer by Tania Katan (Alyson)
• When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg, illustrated by Tom Bachtell (Regan)

Biography

• WINNER: February House by Sherrill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin)
• The Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson (Henry Holt)
• Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger (The Disinformation Company)
• Beyond Recall by Mary Meigs and Lise Weil (Talonbooks)
• Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s)

Children’s/Young Adult

• WINNER: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (Tundra)
• Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Children’s Book)
• Totally Joe by James Howe (Simon & Schuster)
• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson (Simon & Schuster)
• Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)

Erotica

• WINNER: Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)
• Best Gay Erotica 2006 edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonte (Cleis)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 edited by Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
• Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Suspect Thoughts)
• Close Contact by Sean Wolfe (Kensington)

Gay Men’s Debut Fiction

• WINNER: You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (Carroll & Graf)
• Setting the Lawn on Fire by Mack Friedman (Wisconsin)
• Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (Pantheon)
• The First Verse by Barry McCrea (Carroll & Graf)
• Bilal’s Bread by Sulyman X (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Carroll & Graf)
• German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene (Wisconsin)
• Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger (Random House)
• What We Do is Secret by Kief Hillsbery (Villard)
• Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott (Carroll & Graf)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: One of These Things is Not Like the Other by D. Travers Scott (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Actor’s Guide to Greed by Rick Copp (Kensington)
• The Paper Mirror by Dorien Grey (GLB)
• White Tiger by Michael Allen Dymmoch (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Cajun Snuff by W. Randy Haynes (Publish America)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Crush by Richard Siken (Yale)
• School of the Arts by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• For Dust Thou Art by Timothy Lui (Southern Illinois)
• Sugar by Martin Pousson (Suspect Thoughts)
• Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith (Pittsburgh)

Humor

• WINNER: Don’t Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff (Doubleday)
• Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Alyson)
• Juicy Mother by Jennifer Camper (Soft Skull)
• What the L ? by Kate Clinton (Carroll & Graf)
• Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck (5 Spot, Warner)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

• WINNER: The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts)
• Crashing America by Katia Noyes (Alyson)
• Manstealing for Fat Girls by Michelle Embree (Soft Skull)
• In Too Deep by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
• Bliss by Fiona Zedde (Kensington)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor)
• Wild Dogs by Helen Humphrys (W. W. Norton)
• With or Without You by Lauren Sanders (Akashic)
• Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky (Raincoast)
• Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (Harcourt)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba (Arte Publico)
• Women of Mystery edited by Katherine Forrest (Haworth)
• The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Darkness Descending by Penny Mickelbury (Kings Crossing)
• Justice Served by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan (Copper Canyon)
• Where the Apple Falls by Samiya Bashir (RedBone)
• Life Mask by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe)
• New and Selected Poems, Volume II by Mary Oliver (Beacon)
• Eye of Water by Amber Flora Thomas (Pittsburgh)

LGBT Studies

• WINNER: When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman (Columbia)
• Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause by Jennifer Kelly (Spinifex)
• Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch by Dwight A. McBride (NYU)
• Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (Harrington Park)
• Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan)

Nonfiction

• WINNER: Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave (Minnesota)
• Gore Vidal’s America by Dennis Altman (Polity)
• Beyond the Down Low by Keith Boykin (Carroll & Graf)
• Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler (Rodale)
• Women Together/Women Apart by Tirza True Latimer (Rutgers)

Romance

• WINNER: Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)
• Artist’s Dream by Gerri Hill (Bella)
• Just Like That by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
• The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson (Seventh Window)
• Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd (West Beach)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror

• WINNER: Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson)
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Seven Stories)
• Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe (Tor)
• Temple Landfall by Jane Fletcher (Bold Strokes)
• No Sister of Mine by Jeanne G’Fellers (Bella)

Spirituality

• WINNER: Qu(e)erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo (Pilgrim)
• The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (Spinifex)
• The Path of the Green Man by Michael Thomas Ford (Citadel)
• I Am This One Walking Beside Me by Daniel Gebhardt (Pilgrim)
• Fumbling Toward Divinity by Craig Hickman (Annabessacook Farm)

Transgender/GenderQueer

• WINNER: Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (Soft Skull)
• In a Queer Time and Place by Judith Halberstam (NYU)
• Deliver Me from Nowhere by Tennessee Jones (Soft Skull)
• Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey (Beacon)
• The Riddle of Gender by Deborah Rudacille (Pantheon)