11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

July 15, 1999

Anthologies/Fiction

• WINNER: Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature edited by Byrne R.S. Fone (Columbia University)
• Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica edited by Lawrence Schimel (Carroll & Graf)
• Men on Men 7 edited by Joel Tan (Penguin/Plume)
• Queer PAPI Porn by Joel Tan (Cleis)
• To Be Continued edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky (Firebrand)

Anthologies/Non-Fiction

• WINNER (Tie): Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life edited by Nisa Donnelly (Alyson)
• WINNER (Tie): Q & A: Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng (Temple University)
• Lesbian Travels edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Whereabouts)
• Queer 13 edited by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)
• Telling Tales Out of School edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)

Children

• WINNER: Telling Tales Out of School by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)
• I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
• Lucy Goes to the Country by Joseph Kennedy, illustrated by John Canemaker (Alyson)
• Outspoken by Michael Thomas Ford (Morrow Junior)
• Queer 13 by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)

Drama

• WINNER: O Solo Homo edited by Holly Hughes (Grove)
• Mr. Universe and Other Plays by Jim Grimsley and David Roman (Algonquin)
• Place For Us by D.A. Miller (Harvard University)
• Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman (Duke)
• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (Villard)

Editor’s Choice Award

• The Boy by Naeem Murr (Houghton Mifflin)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: Wisecracker by William J. Mann (Viking)
• Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Norman Page (St. Martin’s)
• The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (Random House)
• Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney (Little Brown)
• In The Flesh by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard (Barricade)

Gay Men’s Fiction

• WINNER: An Arrow’s Flight by Mark Merlis (St. Martin’s)
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (FS&G)
• Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine (St. Martin’s/Picador)
• The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway (Houghton Mifflin)
• Where the Rainbow Ends by Jameson Currier (Overlook)

Gay Men’s Mystery

• WINNER: Outburst by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacourt)
• Dead as a Doornail by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
• Federal Fag by Fred Hunter (St. Martin’s)
• Strachey’s Folly by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
• Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Gay Men’s Poetry

• WINNER: Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy (Knopf)
• A Flame for the Touch That Matters by Michael Lassell (Painted Leaf)
• A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)
• Say Goodnight by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)
• Sweet Machine by Mark Doty (Harper Flamingo)

Gay Men’s Studies

• WINNER: The Other Side of Silence by John Loughery (Henry Holt)
• Becoming Visible by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
• Changing Ones by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s)
• Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival by Andrew Sullivan (Knopf)
• The Pleasure Principle by Michael Bronski (St. Martin’s)

Humor

• WINNER: Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)
• Don’t Get Me Started by Kate Clinton (Ballantine)
• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Savage Love by Dan Savage (Dutton)
• Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography

• WINNER: The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
• Empty Without You by Rodger Streitmatter (The Free Press)
• The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Viking)
• Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline (Overlook)

Lesbian Fiction

• WINNER: Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)
• bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)
• Shimmer by Sarah Schulman (Avon)
• The Dogs by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
• They Call Me Mad Dog by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)

Lesbian Mystery

• WINNER: The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (Avon)
• Shaman’s Moon by Sarah Dreher (New Victoria)
• Mother May I by Randye Lordon (Avon)
• Past Due by Claire McNab (Naiad)
• Wicked Games by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Poetry

• WINNER: Marianne Faithfull’s Cigarette by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)
• Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery by Pamela Sneed (Owl)
• In the Open by Beatrix Gates (Painted Leaf)
• Juba by Letta Neely (Wildheart)
• The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman (New Victoria)

Lesbian Studies

• WINNER: A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
• Gay Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick (Alyson)
• Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman (Duke)
• The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (Rutgers)

Photography/Visual Arts

• WINNER (Tie): The Male Nude by David Leddick (Taschen)
• WINNER (Tie): Women in Love by Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera (Bullfinch/Little Brown)
• Affectionate Men by Russell Bush (St. Martin’s)
• Becoming Visible by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
• The Passionate Camera by Deborah Bright (Routledge)

Pioneer Award

• Katherine V. Forrest

Publisher Service Award

• Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink

Religion/Spirituality

• WINNER: Ferocious Romance by Donna Minkowitz (Free Press)
• Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair by John McNeill (Westminister John Knox)
• Closet Devotions by Richard Rambuss (Duke)
• How to Survive Your Own Gay Life by Perry Brass (Belhue)
• Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes (Morrow)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• WINNER: Bending the Landscape II edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook)
• Galilee by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
• Desmond by Ulysses G. Dietz (Alyson)
• Falling to Earth by Elizabeth Brownrigg (Firebrand)
• Things Invisible to See edited by Lawrence Schimel (Ultra Violet)

Small Press

• WINNER: the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)
• The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
• Queer Japan edited by Barbara Summerhawk (New Victoria)
• The Reluctant Pornographer by Bruce LaBruce (Gutter)
• Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Transgender

• WINNER: The Empress Is a Man by Michael R. Gorman (Harrington Park)
• Boy-Wives and Female Husbands edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray (St. Martin’s)
• Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
• Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Houghton Mifflin)
• Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)