Lambda Literary Awards
GLBT Studies (As presented by the LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION.)
Anthologies   Arts and Culture   Autobiography/Memoir   Belle Lettres  Biography   Children/Young Adult   Drama   Erotica   Fiction (Anthology, Gay Male, Lesbian)   Fiction Debut  (Gay Male, Lesbian)   Humor   Mystery (Gay Male, Lesbian)   Nonfiction   Photography/Visual Arts   Poetry (Gay Male, Lesbian)   Religion/Spirituality   Romance   SF/Fantasy/Horror   Small Press   Studies (GLBT)   Transgender/Bisexual   Editor's Choice and Other Awards
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2008 (Finalists/Nominations) Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Finalists Regina Kunzel (Winner) Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality Nominees 2007 (Finalists/Nominations) Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Finalists Sharon Marcus  (Winner) Between Women   Bertram Cohler  Writing Desire Mark Padilla Caribbean Pleasure Industry Pagan Kennedy  The First Man-Made Man Robert Reid-Pharr  Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual Nominees Bernard S. Schlager with David J. Kundtz Ministry Among God's Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care Bruce H. Joffe  A Hint of Homosexuality Charles E. Morris  Queering Public Address Cheryl Stobie  Somewhere in the Double Rainbow Isabel Killoran with Karleen Pendleton Jimenez, eds. Unleashing the Unpopular J. Louis Cambell  Jack Nichols, Gay Pioneer Jack Drescher, MD with Joseph P. Merlind, MD, MPA American Psychiatry and Homosexuality James Welker with Katsuhiko Suganama and Mark McLelland Queer Voices from Japan Jan Whitt  Reflections in a Critical Eye Judith Plaskow with Marvin M. Ellison Heterosexism in Contemporary Word Religion Kevin Barnhurst  Media Queered, Lisa C. Moore with Steven G. Fullwood, eds. Carry the Word M. Paz Galupo, PhD Bisexual Women Olive Elaine Hinnant  God Comes Out Ricardo L. Ortiz Cultural Erotics in Cuban America 2006 (Finalists/Nominations) Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Finalists Horace L. Griffin (Winner) Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians And Gays in Black Churches   Carellin Brooks Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, And the Text David Eisenbach Gay Power: An American Revolution Kathryn Bond Stockton Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer" Robert McRuer Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability Nominees Arlene Stein Shameless Cantor, et al. Same-Sex Marriage Douglas Kimmel LGBT Aging Felix Lance Falkon and Thomas Waugh Gay Art Gloria Filay Queer Youth in the Province of the Severly Normal Jack Drescher and Kenneth Zucker Ex-Gay Research Jeffrey Dennis Queering Teen Culture Kenneth Cimino Gay Conservatives Martin Meeker Contacts Desired: Gay & Lesbian Communications & Communities Michael Cart and Christine Jenkins The Heart Has Its Reasons Michael Cobb God Hates Fags Neil Miller Out of the Past (second edition) Patricia Melzer Alien Constructions Ronald Fox Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Men Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon Women's Roles & Statuses the World Over Thomas Foster Sex and the 18th Century Man Thomas Pionteck Queering: Gay and Lesbian Studies Thomas Waugh The Romance of Transgression in Canada Vicky Whipple Lesbian Widows William Benemann Male-Male Intimacy in Early America 2005 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Susan Ackerman (Winner) When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David   Dwight A. McBride Why I Hate Abercrombie And Fitch Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove, eds. Lesbian Communities: Festivals, Rvs And the Internet Jennifer Kelly Zest for Life: Lesbians' Experience of Menopause Ruth Vanita Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West 2004 Finalists Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Winner) For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town   Abigail Garner Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is Andrea Barnet All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 Evan Wolfson Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry Will Fellows A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture 2003 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds. (winner) Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin   James McCourt Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 Mack Friedman Strapped for Cash : A History of American Hustler Culture Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky Love in the Time of HIV: The Gay Man's Guide to Sex, Dating, and Relationships Wayne Besen Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth 2002 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Neil Miller (winner) Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s   David Nimmons The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men Craig Rimmerman From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States Colm Tóibín Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature Ruth Vanita, ed. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society 2001 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price (winner) Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court   Suzanna Danuta Walters All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America William J. Mann Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 Ricardo J. Brown; William Reichard, ed. The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s Gay Wachman Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties 2000 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman (winner, gay men's studies) The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood Harmony Hammond Rizzoli (winner, lesbian studies) Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History 1999 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. James Saslow (winner, gay men's studies) Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts Lillian Faderman (winner, lesbian studies) To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History 1998 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. John Loughery (winner, gay men's studies) The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History Joan Nestle (winner, lesbian studies) A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings 1997 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Charles Kaiser (winner, gay men's studies) The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 Lisa C. Moore, ed. (winner, lesbian studies) Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories 1996 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Patrick Merla, ed. (winner, gay men's studies) Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories Bernadette J. Brooten (winner, lesbian studies) Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism 1995 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Joseph Carrier (winner, gay men's studies) De Los Otros Karla Jay, ed. (winner, lesbian studies) Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience 1994 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. George Chauncey (winner, gay men's studies) Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Dorothy Allison (winner, lesbian studies) Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature 1993 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Randy Shilts (winner, gay men's studies) Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military - Vietnam to the Persian Gulf Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis (winner, lesbian studies) Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community