14th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 9, 2002

Anthologies/Fiction

• WINNER: Diva Book of Short Stories edited by Helen Sandler (Millivres)
• Reading the Landscape: Horror edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook)
• Love Shook My Heart 2 edited by Jess Wells (Alyson)
• Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors edited by Jay Quinn (Harrington Park)
• Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America edited by Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara, and Timothy Lui (Asian American Writers’ Workshop)

Anthologies/Nonfiction

• WINNER: The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities edited by Constantine-Simms (Alyson)
• His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers edited by Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias (Alice Street Editions/Haworth)
• In a Queer Country edited by Terry Goldie (Arsenal Pulp)
• Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation edited by Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson (Rutgers University)
• Out in the Castro edited by Winston Leyland (Leyland)

Autobiography/Memoir

• WINNER: Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon (Scribner)
• Gaslight by Carol Guess (Odd Girls)
• How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read (Hill Street)
• Monster: Adventures in American Machismo by Brian Bouldrey (Council Oaks)
• Outbound by William Storandt (University of Wisconsin)

Biography

• WINNER: The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin by Barry Werth (Doubleday)
• Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie (Viking)
• The Masks of Mary Renault by Caroline Zilboorg (University of Missouri)
• The Sappho Companion edited by Margaret Reynolds (St. Martin’s)
• Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Mitford (Random House)

Children’s/Young Adult

• WINNER: Finding H.F. by Julia Watts (Alyson)
• Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (Viking)
• Love Rules by Marilyn Reynolds (Morning Glory)
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)
• Spot by Todd Tuttle (Window)

Erotica

• WINNER: See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent by Ian Philips (AttaGirl)
• Dirty Words by M. Christian (Alyson)
• His Tongue by Lawrence Schimel (North Atlantic)
• Hot & Bothered 3 by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Arsenal Pulp)
• Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica by Lori Selke (Black)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
• The Heart is Deceitful in all Things by JT LeRoy (Bloomsbury)
• In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer (Grove)
• The Marble Quilt by David Leavitt (Houghton Mifflin)
• The Rose City by David Ebershoff (Viking)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: Rag and Bone by Michael Nava (G.P. Putnam)
• Boy Toy by Michael Craft (St. Martin’s)
• The Butcher’s Son by Dorien Grey (GLB)
• Making a Killing by Warren Dunford (Alyson)
• Sex and Murder.Com by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Source by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
• Before Time Could Change Them by Constantine Cavafy (Harcourt Brace)
• Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin (Manic D)
• Hard Evidence by Timothy Liu (Talisman House)
• Love Speaks Its Name by J.D. McClatchy (Knopf)

GLBT Studies

• WINNER: Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price (Basic)
• All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America by Suzanna Danuta Walters (University of Chicago)
• Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 by William J. Mann (Viking)
• The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s edited by Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (University of Minnesota)
• Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman (Rutgers University)

Humor

• WINNER: Fraud by David Rakoff (Doubleday)
• Drama Queen by Patrick Price (St. Martin’s)
• Hoochie Mama by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)
• The Inflatable Butch by Ellen Orleans (Alyson)
• My Little Book of Neuroses by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Days of Awe by Achy Obejas (Ballantine)
• Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)
• Light, Coming Back by Ann Wadsworth (Alyson)
• Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg (FS&G)
• Yin Fire by Alexandra Grilikhes (Alice Street Editions/Haworth)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: Merchant of Venus by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)
• Back to Salem by Alex Marcoux (Alice Street Editions/Haworth)
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy by Mabel Maney (Harper Entertainment)
• Moving Targets by Pat Welch (Bella)
• Witchfire by Lauren Maddison (Alyson)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Fox by Adrienne Rich (Norton)
• Here by Letta Neely (Wildheart)
• Mr. Bluebird by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Painted Leaf)
• Skies by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
• Why Things Burn by Daphne Gottleib (Soft Skull)

Photography/Visual Arts

• WINNER: Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher (Harry N. Abrams)
• Intimacies by Tee A. Corinne (Last Gasp)
• Male Nude Now by David Leddick (Universe)
• Queer Pulp by Susan Stryker (Chronicle)
• Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon by Robert Mainardi (Council Oak)

Romance

• WINNER: Pages for You by Silvia Brownrigg (FS&G)
• Any Kind of Luck by William Jack Sibley (Kensington)
• Mirrors by Marianne K. Martin (Bella)
• Substitute for Love by Karin Kallmaker (Naiad)
• Vadriel Vail by Vincent Virga (Alyson)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• WINNER: Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett (Tor)
• Bending the Landscape: Horror edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook)
• Bound in Blood by David Thomas Lord (Kensington)
• Gumshoe Gorilla by Keith Hartman (Meisha Merlin)
• Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbein (Alyson)

Small Press

• WINNER: Conversaciones! by Mariana Romo-Carmona (Cleis)
• Calendar Boy by Andy Quan (New Star)
• Creating Man by Michael G. Cornelius (Vineyard)
• Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human by Robert N. Minor (HumanityWorks!)
• The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren (Wildcat)

Spirituality

• WINNER (Tie): Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible edited by Ken Stone (Pilgrim)
• WINNER (Tie): Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest by Bernard Duncan Mayes (Univ. Press of Virginia)
• Coming Out Young and Faithful edited by Leanne McCall Tigert and Timothy Brown (Pilgrim)
• Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian by Vanessa Sheridan (Pilgrim)
• Gifted by Otherness by L. William Countryman and M.R. Ritley (Morehouse)

Transgender/Bisexual

• WINNER: Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (Pilgrim)
• Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 edited by Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (Black/Circlet)
• Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian by Vanessa Sheridan (Pilgrim)
• Dragged!! To His Senses by Jonathan Branton (Yellow House)
• Synthetic Bi Products by Sparrow L. Patterson (Akashic)