2025 Winners
Congratulations 2025 Lammy Award Winners
On October 4, 2025, we announced the winners of the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards at an incredible online ceremony hosted by executive director Jozie Clapp from Charlie’s Queer Books in Seattle, WA. These winners were selected by a panel of 80 literary professionals from more than 1,300 book submissions from over 300 publishers.
Alongside the 26 Lammys categories, 8 special prizes were awarded in the week leading up to the ceremony and included the addition of the inaugural Karla Jay Prize for Emerging Writers in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
A recording of the virtual ceremony will be provided on Lambda’s YouTube channel soon. In the meantime, you can pick up any of the winning books you haven’t read on our curated list at Bookshop.org, where your purchases benefit Lambda Literary.
Bisexual Fiction
HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER
Muriel Leung
W. W. Norton & Company
Gay Poetry
HOW TO KILL A GOAT AND OTHER MONSTERS
Saúl Hernández
University of Wisconsin Press
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
MY WITHERED LEGS AND OTHER ESSAYS
Sandra Gail Lambert
University of Georgia Press
Gay Memoir/Biography
RADIANT: THE LIFE AND LINE OF KEITH HARING
Brad Gooch
HarperCollins
Gay Romance
THE SPRING BEFORE OBERGEFELL: A NOVEL
Ben Grossberg
University of Nebraska Press
LGBTQ+ Anthology
SWAGGER: A CELEBRATION OF THE BUTCH EXPERIENCE
Rae Theodore & Nat Burns
Flashpoint Publications
LGBTQ+ Children's Books
GLENN BURKE, GAME CHANGER: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE HIGH FIVE
Phil Bildner, illustrated by Daniel J. O’Brien
Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
MALLORY IN FULL COLOR
Elisa Stone Leahy
Quill Tree Books | HarperCollins
LGBTQ+ Studies
WHEN MONSTERS SPEAK: A SUSAN STRYKER READER
Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark
Duke University Press
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