20th Lambda Literary Awards

The 20th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2008, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2007.

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Malcolm Boyd,

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Literature	Brent Hartinger, Split Screen	Jennifer Baumgardner, Look Both Ways , Becoming Visible , The Tourists , Stray
Gay Debut Fiction	Christopher Kelly, A Push and a Shove	James Canon, Tales from the Town of Widows , That Was Then Kemble Scott, SoMa James St. James, Freak Show
Gay Fiction	André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name	, First Person Plural Samuel R. Delany, Dark Reflections Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers Manuel Muñoz, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Gay Memoir/Biography	Kevin Sessums, Mississippi Sissy	Thom Bierdz, Forgiving Troy Mark Doty, Dog Years Martin Duberman, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein Kenny Fries, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory and , What Becomes You
Gay Mystery	Greg Herren, Murder in the Rue Chartres	, Double Abduction Anthony Bidulka, Stain of the Berry , Pierce Neil Plakcy, Mahu Surfer Caro Soles, Drag Queen in the Court of Death
Gay Romance	Michael Thomas Ford, Changing Tides	Robin Reardon, A Secret Edge , Right Side of the Wrong Bed Seth Rudetsky, Broadway Nights , A Few Hints and Clews
Lesbian Debut Fiction	Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking	, Lockjaw Myriam Gurba, Dahlia Season , Breathing Underwater Corrina Wycoff, O Street
Lesbian Fiction	Ali Liebegott, The IHOP Papers	Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Biting the Apple , Greetings from Jamaica Sarah Schulman, The Child Julia Watts, The Kind of Girl I Am , The Mandrake Broom
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Nicola Griffith, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party	, Comfort Food for Breakups , An Army of Ex-Lovers Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice Jacqueline Taylor, Waiting for the Call
Lesbian Mystery	, Wall of Silence	Ellen Hart, Mortal Groove , In the Name of the Father , Selective Memory , Laura’s War
Lesbian Romance	, Out of Love	, Sheridan’s Fate , The Road Home , For Now, for Always Radclyffe, When Dreams Tremble
LGBT Anthology	Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, First Person Queer	Jennifer Camper, Juicy Mother 2 , Vital Signs and , Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense Michelle Tea, Baby Remember My Name
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	Perry Moore, Hero	, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You P. E. Ryan, Saints of Augustine James St. James, Freak Show Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish
LGBT Drama	and George Birimisa, eds., Return to the Caffe Cino	, Dose: Plays & Monologues Victor Bumbalo, Niagara Falls
LGBT Erotica	Simon Sheppard, Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica	Victoria Brownworth and , The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica , Red Light and , Ardennian Boy Lawrence Schimel, The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica Fiona Zedde, Every Dark Desire
LGBT Non-Fiction	Michael S. Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture	Sharon Marcus, Between Women , Pink Harvest Michael Rowe, Other Men’s Sons , Imagining Transgender
LGBT Poetry	Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf	Dawn Lundy Martin, A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering Carol Potter, Otherwise Obedient Reginald Shepherd, Fata Morgana C. Dale Young, The Second Person Rachel Zolf, Human Resources
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Lee Thomas, The Dust of Wonderland	Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, A Companion to Wolves Brian Francis Slattery, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song Jo Walton, Ha'penny
LGBT Studies	Sharon Marcus, Between Women	Bertram Cohler, Writing Desire Pagan Kennedy, The First Man-Made Man , Caribbean Pleasure Industry Robert Reid-Pharr, Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual
Transgender Literature	Cris Beam, ed., Transparent	, Male Bodies, Women’s Souls Eli Clare, The Marrow’s Telling and , What Becomes You Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Nobody Passes
Arts & Culture	Matthew Hays, The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers	, Media Queered Kittredge Cherry, Art That Dares , Feeling Backward Michael Rowe, Other Men’s Sons

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