23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners

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The complete list of winners for the 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards.

BISEXUAL Fiction

The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
by Myrlin A. Hermes
Harper Perennial

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The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet

BISEXUAL Nonfiction

Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools
by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Rowman & Littlefield

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TRANSGENDER — Fiction

Holding Still for As Long As Possible
by Zoe Whittall
House of Anansi Press

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TRANSGENDER — Nonfiction

Balancing on the Mechitza
Transgender in Jewish Community
edited by Noach Dzmura
North Atlantic Books

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LGBT ANTHOLOGY

Gender Outlaws
The Next Generation
edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman
Seal Press

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'Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation' ed by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman

LGBT CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT

Wildthorn
by Jane Eagland
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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LGBT DRAMA

Oedipus at Palm Springs
A Five Lesbian Brothers Play
by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, & Lisa Kron
Samuel French

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LGBT NONFICTION

King Kong Theory
by Virginie Despentes
The Feminist Press

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LGBT SF/FANTASY/HORROR

Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
by Sandra McDonald
Lethe Press

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LGBT STUDIES — Tie

Another Country
Queer Anti-Urbanism
by Scott Herring
New York University Press

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Assuming a Body
Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
by Gayle Salamon
Columbia University Press

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LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

Sub Rosa
by Amber Dawn
Arsenal Pulp Press

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LESBIAN EROTICA

Sometimes She Lets Me
Best Butch/Femme Erotica
edited by Tristan Taormino
Cleis Press

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'Sometimes She Lets Me' ed. by Tristan Taormino

LESBIAN FICTION

Inferno (a poet’s novel)
by Eileen Myles
OR Books

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INFERNO: A POET’S NOVEL By Eileen Myles

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY — Tie

Hammer!
Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
by Barbara Hammer
The Feminist Press

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'Hammer!' by Barbara Hammer

Wishbone
A Memoir in Fractures
by Julie Marie Wade
Colgate University Press

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LESBIAN MYSTERY

Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
HarperCollins

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LESBIAN POETRY

The Nights Also
by Anna Swanson
Tightrope Books

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LESBIAN ROMANCE

River Walker
by Cate Culpepper
Bold Strokes Books

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River Walker

GAY DEBUT FICTION

Bob the Book
by David Pratt
Chelsea Station Editions

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GAY EROTICA

Teleny and Camille
by Jon Macy
Northwest Press

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Teleny and Camille

GAY FICTION

Union Atlantic
by Adam Haslett
Doubleday

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GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Secret Historian
The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade
by Justin Spring
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Secret Historian

GAY MYSTERY

Echoes
by David Lennon
Blue Spike Publishing

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GAY POETRY

Pleasure
by Brian Teare
Ahsahta Press

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GAY ROMANCE

Normal Miguel
by Erik Orrantia
Cheyenne Publishing

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