23rd Lambda Literary Awards

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The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010.

Beginning with the 2011 awards, the Lambda Literary Foundation took over the administration and presentation of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, formerly a program of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.

Special awards[]

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Edward Albee, Val McDermid
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Alex Sánchez, Susan Stinson

Nominees and winners[]

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Myrlin Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
Bisexual Non-Fiction Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools
  • Paula Byrne, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
  • , Sal Mineo
  • Patti Smith, Just Kids
  • and , Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women
Gay Debut Fiction , Bob the Book
  • , XOXO Hayden
  • , Probation
  • , The Palisades
  • , Passes Through
Gay Erotica Jon Macy, Teleny and Camille
  • , Vancouver Nights
  • , A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men
  • Richard Labonté, Best of the Best Gay Erotica 3
  • , Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top
Gay Fiction Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic
Gay Memoir/Biography , Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade
  • Bryan Batt, She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother
  • , Grant Wood: A Life
  • Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
  • , Beyond Normal: The Birth of Gay Pride
Gay Mystery David Lennon, Echoes
Gay Poetry , Pleasure
Gay Romance , Normal Miguel
Lesbian Debut Fiction Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa
Lesbian Erotica Tristan Taormino, ed., Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica
  • and Lea DeLaria, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011
  • , This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica
Lesbian Fiction Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet's novel)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Julie Marie Wade, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures
Lesbian Mystery Val McDermid, Fever of the Bone
Lesbian Poetry Anna Swanson, The Nights Also
Lesbian Romance , River Walker
LGBT Anthology Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult , Wildthorn
LGBT Drama , , and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play
LGBT Non-Fiction Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory
  • , The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools
  • Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
  • , Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
  • , Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
LGBT Studies , Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
  • , Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
  • , Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
  • , Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
Transgender Fiction Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for As Long As Possible
Transgender Non-Fiction , Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
  • and , The Color of Sunlight
  • Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
  • , Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
  • Rebecca Swan, Assume Nothing

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