5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Edit Team

July 13, 1993

Children’s/Young Adult Literature

• WINNER: When Heroes Die by Penny Raife Durant (Atheneum)
• The Daddy Machine by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt (Alyson Wonderland)
• A Boy’s Best Friend by Joan Alden, illustrated by Catherine Hopkins (Alyson Wonderland)
• Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene (Bantam)
• Day They Put a Tax on Rainbows by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt (Alyson Wonderland)

Editor’s Choice

• Gay Ideas by Richard Mohr (Beacon)

Gay Men’s Anthologies

• WINNER: A Member of the Family edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
• Men on Men 4 edited by George Stambolian (Plume)
• Discontents edited by Dennis Cooper (Amethyst)
• Flesh and the Word edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
• Here to Dare edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Randall Kenan (Harcourt Brace)
• Winter Eyes by Lev Raphael (St. Martin’s)
• Almost History by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
• Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique (St. Martin’s)
• Dream Life by Bo Huston (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: The Hidden Law by Michael Nava (HarperCollins)
• Final Atonement by Steve Johnson (Onyx)
• Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Love You to Death by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• One for the Master, Two for the Fool by Larry Townsend (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Nonfiction

• WINNER: Becoming a Man by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
• Homoerotic Photograph by Allen Ellenzweig (Columbia University)
• Making History by Eric Marcus (HarperCollins)
• Making Trouble by John D’Emilio (Routledge)
• Heartlands by Darrell Yates Rist (E.P. Dutton)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Counting Myself Lucky by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)
• The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn (Farrar Straus)
• Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill (Plume)
• Strong Place by Tim Dlugos (Amethyst)
• Long Division by Rudy Kikel (Writers Block)

Gay Men’s Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (TOR)
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (Abyss/Delacorte)
• The Living One by Lewis Gannett (Random House)
• Cry Gender by Thomas T. Thomas (Baen)
• Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice (Knopf)

Humor

• WINNER: Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green by Eric Orner (St. Martin’s)
• The Night Audrey’s Vibrator Spoke by Andrea Natalie (Cleis)
• BB and the Diva by Rupert Kinnard (Alyson)
• That’s Ms. Bulldyke to You, Charlie by Jane Caminos (Madwoman)

Lesbian Anthologies

• WINNER: The Persistent Desire edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson)
• Write from the Heart edited by Anita L. Pace (Baby Steps)
• Erotic Naiad edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier (Naiad)
• Wolf Girls at Vassar edited by Anne MacKay (Ten Percent)
• Poetry of Sex by Tee Corinne (Banned)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (Firebrand)
• Empathy by Sarah Schulman (E.P. Dutton)
• Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
• Terrible Girls by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
• On Ships at Sea by Madelyn Arnold (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER (Tie): Two-Bit Tango by Elizabeth Pincus (Spinsters)
• WINNER (Tie): Crazy for Loving by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
• Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redman (New Victoria)
• Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker (Naiad)
• Stage Fright by Ellen Hart (Seal)

Lesbian Nonfiction

• WINNER: Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Cook (Viking)
• Persistent Desire edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson)
• The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrau (New Chapter)
• Practicing Eternity by Carol Givens and L. Diane Fortier (Paradigm)
• Shattered Applause by Robert A. Schanke (Southern Illinois University)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Undersong by Audre Lorde (Norton)
• Black Slip by Terry Wolverton (Clothespin Fever)
• Cultivating Excess by Lori Anderson (Eighth Mountain)
• According to Her Contours by Nancy Boutilier (Black Sparrow)
• Lady Sun, Lady Moon by Diane Stein (Crossing)

Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (Del Rey)
• Return to Isis by Jean Stewart (Rising Tide)
• Speaking Dreams by Severna Park (Firebrand)
• Dreamships by Melissa Scott (TOR)
• Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (Firebrand)

Publisher’s Service Award

• Craig Rodwell Founder, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop

Small Press Book Award

• WINNER: Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz (Artspace)
• A Perilous Advantage by Natalie Barney (New Victoria)
• Here to Dare edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens)
• To Kill a Cardinal by Michael Rumaker (Arthur Mann Kaye)
• Hot Chicken Wings by Jyl Lynn Felman (Aunt Lute)