Lambda Literary Awards

(As presented by the LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION.)

Nonfiction
2005   2006  2007  2008

Gay Men's Nonfiction
1988   1989   1990   1991   1992

Lesbian Nonfiction
1988   1989   1990   1991   1992

Nonfiction Anthologies
1989   1990   1991   1992   1993   1994   1995   1996
1997   1998   1999   2000   2001   2002   2003   2004

Nonfiction

2008 (Finalists/Nominations)

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Finalists

• Jane Rule (Winner)
  Loving The Difficult

Nominees

2007 (Finalists/Nominations)

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Finalists

• Michael S. Sherry
  Gay Artists in Mondern American Culture (Winner)
   
• David Valentine 
  Imagining Transgender
• Michael Rowe
  Other Men's Sons
• Sharon Marcus 
  Between Women
• Toni Morosevich  
  Pink Harvest

Nominees

• Alison Dubois 
  She Kissed Me
• Anne Enke 
  Finding the Movement
• Anthony C. Infanti 
  Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians
• Barbara Carrellas
  Urban Tantra
• Beren de Motier 
  The Brides of March
• Brian Bouldrey
  Honorable Bandit
• Daniel Helminiak
  The Transcended Christian
• David Halperin
  What Do Gay Men Want?
• David Valdes Greenwood 
  A Little Fruitcake
• Diana Cage 
  Girl Meets Girl
• Elizabeth K. Gordon
  Walk with Us
• Erin McHugh 
  The Portable Queer: Homo History
• Erin McHugh 
  The Portable Queer: Out of the Mouths of Queers
• Erin McHugh
  The Portable Queer: A Gay In the the Life
• Fay Jacobs
  Fried & True
• Felice Picano
  Art & Sex in Greenwich Village
• Gina Daggett with Kathy Belge
  Lipstick & Dipstick's Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships
• Greta Gaard 
  The Nature of Home
• Heather Love 
  Feeling Backward
• Heru Khuti 
  Conjuring Black Funk
• Jasbir K. Puar 
  Terrorist Assemblages
• Jesse Archer 
  You Can Run
• Jim Buzinski with Cyd Zeigler, Jr.
  The Outsports Revolution
• Joe Perez
  Soulfully Gay
• Joyce Cascio 
  Dragonfly Stories
• Judy Gold with Kate Moira Ryan 
  25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
• Judy K. Underwood, PhD
  Dying
• Karen Kahn  with Patricia Gozemba
  Courting Equality
• Kittredge Cherry
  Art That Dares
• Laura Mamo
  Queering Reproduction
• Lawrence Schimel and Richard Labonte (Writer), eds.
  First Person Queer
• LeeRay M. Costa, PhD 
  Male Bodies, Women's Souls
• Michael Luongo 
  Gay Travels in the Muslim World
• Patricia Gozemba with Karen Kahn 
  Courting Equality
• Patrick Conlon
  No Need to Trouble the Heart
• Patrick Hinds 
  The Q Guide to NYC Pride
• Reid Vanderburgh
  Transition and Beyond
• Robert A. Hoffman 
  Surrounded By Insanity
• Robert Reid-Pharr
  Once You Go Black
• Scott Promfret & Scott Whittier
  The Q Guide to Wine and Cocktails
• Staff of The Princeton Review
  The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life
• Steve Estes 
  Ask and Tell
• Steve Gdula
  Wearing History: T-Shirts from the Gay Rights Movement
• Sue Hyde 
  Come Out and Win
• Susan Sherman 
  America's Child
• Tisa Bryant 
  Unexplained Presence
• Troy Carlyle 
  The Remainder of My Life

2006 (Finalists/Nominations)

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Finalists

• Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons (Co-Winner)
  Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians
• Marcia Gallo (Co-Winner)
  Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement
   
• Brian Whitaker
  Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
• James T. Sears
  Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles And the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation
• Kate Bornstein
  Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws

Nominees

• Brian Joseph Gilley
  Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity & Social Acceptance in Indian Country
• Carol Schmidt and Norma Hair
  Falling in Love with San Miguel
• David Eisenbach
  Gay Power, An American Revolution
• Eric Hunter
  Column Inches
• Giti Thadani
  Mobius Strip
• Harlyn Aizley
  Confessions of the Other Mother
• Kathie Bergquist & Robert McDonald
  A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago
• Lars Clausen
  Straight Into Gay America
• Lucy Jane Bledsoe
  The Ice Cave
• Mel C. White
  Religion Gone Bad
• Michael McColly
  The After-Death Room
• Patricia Nell Warren
  The Lavender Locker Room
• Richard Isay
  Commitment and Healing
• Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany, eds.
  Bi Men
• S. Bear Bergman
  Butch Is a Noun
• Shane L. Windmeyer
  The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students
• Shannon Gilreath
  Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today
• Steven Bereznai
  Gay and Single . . . Forever

2005

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• Thomas Glave (Winner)
  Words to Our Now
   
• Dennis Altman
  Gore Vidal's America
• Keith Boykin
  Beyond the Down Low
• Peggy Drexler
  Raising Boys Without Men
• Tirza True Latimer
  Women Together/Women Apart

Gay Men’s Nonfiction

1992 (Gay)

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• Paul Monette (winner)
  Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

1991 (Gay)

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• Will Roscoe (winner)
  The Zuni Man-Woman

1990 (Gay)

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• Allan Berube (winner)
  Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two

1989 (Gay)

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• Neil Miller (winner)
  In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change

1988 (Gay)

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• Paul Monette (winner)
  Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

Lesbian Nonfiction

1992 (Lesbian)

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• Blanche Wiesen Cook (winner)
  Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933

1991 (Lesbian)

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• Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum (winner)
  Cancer in Two Voices

1990 (Lesbian)

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• Bonnie Zimmerman (winner)
  The Safe Sea of Women

1989 (Lesbian)

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• Judy Grahn, ed. (winner)
  Really Reading Gertrude Stein

1988 (Lesbian)

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• Sarah Hoagland (winner)
  Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values

Nonfiction Anthologies

2004

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• Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, eds. (Winner)
  I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage
   
• Angela Brown
  Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer
• Camille Roy,  Gail Scott, Mary Burger, and Robert Gluck, eds.
  Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative
• Mattilda (a.k.a Matt Bernstein Sycamore), ed.
  That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
• Raphael Kadushin, ed.
  Wonderlands

2003 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Bob Guter and John R. Killacky, eds. (winner)
  Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
   
• Greg Wharton, ed.
  The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays on Queer Sexuality and Desire
• Kevin Bentley, ed,
  Boyfriends from Hell: True Tales of Tainted Lovers, Disastrous Dates, and Love Gone Wrong
• Mary Davies and Toni Amato, eds.
  Pinned Down by Pronouns (Available on-line at Conviction Press)
• Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer, eds.
  Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS

2002 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Bruce Shenitz, ed. (winner)
  The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers
   
• Lawrence Schimel, ed.
  Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories
• Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk, eds.
  From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization
• Analouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldua, eds.
  this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation
• Joan Nestle, Riki Anne Wilchins, and Claire Howell, eds.
  Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary

2001 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Delroy Constantine-Simms, ed. (winner)
  The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities
   
• Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias, eds.
  His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers
• Terry Goldie, ed.
  In A Queer Country
• Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson, eds.
  Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
• Winston Leyland, ed.
  Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism

2000 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels, eds. (winner)
  Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents

1999 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson (co-winner)
  Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia
• Kris Kleindienst (co-winner)
  This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century

1998 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Nisa Donnelly, ed. (co-winner)
  Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life
• David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, eds. (co-winner)
  Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Asian American History and Culture)

1997 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter, eds. (winner)
  Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance

1996 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Michael Bronski, ed. (winner)
  Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex

1995 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Claude J. Summers, ed. (winner)
  Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present

1994 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Joan Nestle and John Preston, eds. (winner)
  Sister & Brother: Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together

1993 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin, eds. (winner)
  The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

1992 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• John Preston, ed.  (winner, gay men's)
  A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families
• Joan Nestle, ed.  (winner, lesbian)
  The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

1991 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Essex Hemphill, ed. (winner, gay men's)
  Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men
• Carla Trujillo, ed. (winner, lesbian)
  Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About

1990 (Nonfiction Anthology)

•  NONE

1989 (Nonfiction Anthology)

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• Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, eds. (co-winner, gay men's)
• Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (co-winner, gay men's)
• Tee A. Corinne, ed.
  Intricate Passions (co-winner, lesbian)
• Cristian McEwen and Sue O'Sullivan, eds. (co-winner, lesbian)
  Out the Other Side: Contemporary Lesbian Writing