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Lambda Literary Awards Finalists & Winners

For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards have recognized the best LGBTQ books published in a given year across dozens of categories.

Below is a directory of all previous Lammy finalists and winners dating back to 1988. You can search by a title or author, and filter by the drop-down fields.

Note that each year’s Lambda Literary Awards celebrates books published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. For example, books from the 2020 Lammys will show a publication year of 2019 in this table.

Publication Year
Category
Book Title
Author Name
Publisher
Award Status
Artemis in Echo Park
Eloise Klein Healy
Martin Duberman
Roger Austen, John W. Crowley (editor)
Bruce R. Smith
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets
Assoto Saint (editor)
Bethlehem in Broad Daylight
Mark Doty
The Burnt Pages
John Ash
Hand over Heart
David Trinidad
Perry Brass
Frank M. Robinson
Embracing the Dark
Eric Garber (editor)
Mirage
Perry Brass
Steam
Jay B. Laws
Vampires Anonymous
Jeffrey N. McMahan
Joe Keenan
Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games
Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren
Strange Angel
Ben Davis
What I Love about Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With
Kris Kovick
Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor
Rosalind Warren (editor)
Carla Trujillo (editor)
Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu (editors)
Lark in the Morning
Nancy Garden
Aaron and Walter Fricke
Lillian Faderman
Essex Hemphill (editor)
Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction
Edmund White (editor)
Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong
John Preston (editor)
Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers
Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton (editors)
Mark Thompson (editor)
What the Dead Remember
Harlan Greene
Dennis Cooper
Paul Monette
Language We Use Up Here
Philip Gambone
Vanishing Rooms
Melvin Dixon
Joseph Hansen
Best Performance by a Patsy
Stan Cutler
The Face on the Cutting Room Floor
Stan Cutler
Master’s Counterpoints
Larry Townsend
Sorry Now?
Mark Richard Zubro
Will Roscoe
David Wojnarowicz
Priorities
Lynda Lyons
Virago
Karen Marie Christa Minns
Louise Rafkin (editor)
Making Face/Making Soul
Gloria Anzaldua
Black Women’s Health Book
Evelyn C. White
Dykes-Loving-Dykes
BevJo, Linda Strega & Ruston
Staying Power
Susan Johnson
The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans: and Other Stories
Johnny Valentine, Lynette Schmidt (illustrator)
Gloria Goes to Gay Pride
Leslea Newman, Russell Crocker (illustrator)

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