22nd Lambda Literary Awards

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The 22nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2010, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2009.

Special awards[]

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Larry Kramer, Kate Clinton

Nominees and winners[]

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Mykola Dementiuk, Holy Communion
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Love You Two
  • , The Janeid
  • , Arusha
  • , Torn
Bisexual Non-Fiction Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents
Gay Debut Fiction Rakesh Satyal, Blue Boy
Gay Erotica Kevin Killian, Impossible Princess
Gay Fiction Vestal McIntyre, Lake Overturn
  • , The River in Winter
  • Peter Gadol, Silver Lake
  • , Said and Done
  • Abdellah Taia, Salvation Army
Gay Memoir/Biography Reynolds Price, Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back
Gay Mystery Michael Thomas Ford, What We Remember
  • , Killer of Orchids
  • , All Lost Things
  • Rob Byrnes, Straight Lies
  • Greg Herren, Murder in the Garden District
Gay Poetry Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core Orchard
Gay Romance , Drama Queers!
  • , A Keen Edge
  • , Time After Time
  • Erastes, Transgressions
  • , The Rest of Our Lives
Lesbian Debut Fiction , The Creamsickle
  • , Verge
  • , More of This World or Maybe Another
  • Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
  • , Land Beyond Maps
Lesbian Erotica Sacchi Green and , Lesbian Cowboys
Lesbian Fiction , A Field Guide to Deception
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
  • Mary Cappello, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life
  • Alix Dobkin, My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
  • , Mean Little Deaf Queer
  • Ariel Schrag, Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
Lesbian Mystery Jean M. Redmann, Death of a Dying Man
  • , Command of Silence
  • , Toasted
  • Ellen Hart, The Mirror and the Mask
  • , From Hell to Breakfast
Lesbian Poetry Stacie Cassarino, Zero at the Bone
Lesbian Romance , The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin
  • Karin Kallmaker, Stepping Stone
  • , Worth Every Step
  • , No Rules of Engagement
  • , It Should Be a Crime
LGBT Anthology Ariel Gore, ed., Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City
  • , Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation
  • David Bergman, Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris
  • Gilbert Herdt, Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
  • , My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Dale Peck, Sprout
LGBT Drama Mart Crowley, The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley
LGBT Non-Fiction , The Greeks and Greek Love
  • Nathaniel Frank, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
  • , The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
  • Audre Lorde (, Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds.), I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
  • Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
LGBT Studies , The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America
  • , Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
  • , Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS
  • , The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
  • , The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
Transgender Literature Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show

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