18th Lambda Literary Awards

The 18th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2006, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2005.

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies	E. Lynn Harris, ed., Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present ^[1]	, Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts Katherine V. Forrest, Lesbian Pulp Fiction , Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men Emanuel Xavier, Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry
Belles Lettres	Martin Moran, The Tricky Part ^[1]	Sybille Bedford, Quicksands Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller, Tab Hunter Confidential Tania Katan, My One Night Stand with Cancer and Tom Bachtell, When I Knew
Biography	, February House^[1]	Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester John Geiger, Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin Mary Meigs and , Beyond Recall Diana Souhami, Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art
Children's/Young Adult	Shyam Selvadurai, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea^[1]	Rigoberto González, Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio James Howe, Totally Joe Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, And Tango Makes Three Alex Sánchez, Rainbow Road
Erotica	and Radclyffe, eds., Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2^[1]	Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2006 Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 Sacchi Green and , Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica , Close Contact
Gay Debut Fiction	Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not the One: Stories^[1]	, Setting the Lawn on Fire Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows Barry McCrea, The First Verse , Bilal’s Bread
Gay Fiction	Dennis Cooper, The Sluts^[1]	Harlan Greene, The German Officer’s Boy Aaron Hamburger, Faith for Beginners Kief Hillsbery, What We Do Is Secret Keith McDermott, Acqua Calda
Gay Mystery	, One of These Things is Not Like the Other^[1]	Rick Copp, The Actor’s Guide to Greed Dorien Grey, The Paper Mirror , White Tiger , Cajun Snuff
Gay Poetry	Richard Siken, Crush^[1]	Mark Doty, School of the Arts , For Dust Thou Art Martin Pousson, Sugar , Blue on Blue Ground
Humor	David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable^[1]	Alison Bechdel, Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For Jennifer Camper, Juicy Mother Kate Clinton, What the L? , Revenge of the Paste Eaters
Lesbian Debut Fiction	Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless^[1]	Katia Noyes, Crashing America Michelle Embree, Manstealing for Fat Girls , In Too Deep Fiona Zedde, Bliss
Lesbian Fiction	Abha Dawesar, Babyji^[1]	Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs , With or Without You Aren X. Tulchinsky, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Lesbian Mystery	Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders^[1]	Katherine V. Forrest, Women of Mystery Ellen Hart, The Iron Girl Penny Mickelbury, Darkness Descending Radclyffe, Justice Served
Lesbian Poetry	June Jordan, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems^[1]	Samiya Bashir, Where the Apple Falls Jackie Kay, Life Mask Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume II , Eye of Water
LGBT Studies	Susan Ackerman, When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David^[1]	, Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause Dwight A. McBride, Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch and , Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs and the Internet Ruth Vanita, Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
Non-Fiction	Thomas Glave, Words to Our Now^[1]	Dennis Altman, Gore Vidal’s America Keith Boykin, Beyond the Down Low , Raising Boys without Men , Women Together/Women Apart
Romance	Radclyffe, Distant Shores, Silent Thunder^[1]	Randy Boyd, Walt Loves the Bearcat , Artist’s Dream Karin Kallmaker, Just Like That , The Price of Temptation
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Katherine V. Forrest, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk^[1]	Octavia Butler, Fledgling , Shapers of Darkness Jane Fletcher, Temple Landfall , No Sister of Mine
Spirituality	Cheri DiNovo, Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In^[1]	, The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades Michael Thomas Ford, The Path of the Green Man , I Am This One Walking Beside Me Craig Hickman, Fumbling Toward Divinity
Transgender	Charlie Anders, Choir Boy^[1]	Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place , Deliver Me from Nowhere Matt Kailey, Just Add Hormones Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (2005-04-09). "Lambda Literary". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 2018-07-28.

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