24th Lambda Literary Awards

The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Armistead Maupin, Kate Millett
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize	Brian Leung, Stacey D'Erasmo

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist	Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, The Two Krishnas J. M. Frey, Triptych , Have You Seen Me Alex Sanchez, Boyfriends with Girlfriends
Bisexual Non-Fiction	Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet	and , Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and , Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature , Surviving Steven
Gay Debut Fiction	Rahul Mehta, Quarantine	Justin Chin, 98 Wounds , Dirty One Garth Greenwell, Mitko , Have You Seen Me
Gay Erotica	Dirk Vanden, All Together	Richard Labonté, ed., Best Gay Erotica 2012 Richard Labonté, ed., History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall , ed., George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes , Backwoods
Gay Fiction	Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family	Chris Adrian, The Great Night Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child R. Zamora Linmark, Leche Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
Gay Memoir/Biography	Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood	, Halsted Plays Himself , Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo Charles Silverstein, For the Ferryman: A Personal History , If You Knew Then What I Know Now
Gay Mystery	Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue	, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog David Lennon, Blue’s Bayou Garry Ryan, Malabarista , Boystown
Gay Poetry	Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos	Paul Legault, The Other Poems , Kintsugi Carl Phillips, Double Shadow David Trinidad, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems
Gay Romance	Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You	Jay Bell, Something Like Summer , Split , Tinseltown , Settling the Score
Lesbian Debut Fiction	Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth	, The Girls Club , My Sister Chaos , Megume and the Trees , Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
Lesbian Erotica	, Story of L	, The Collectors Sacchi Green, A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales Sacchi Green, Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations
Lesbian Fiction	Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement	Shannon Cain, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors Kristyn Dunnion, The Dirt Chronicles Hillary Jordan, When She Woke Nina Revoyr, Wingshooters
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution	Catherine Friend, Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, How to Get a Girl Pregnant Jane Rule, Taking My Life Julie Marie Wade, Small Fires: Essays
Lesbian Mystery	Kim Baldwin and , Dying to Live	R. E. Bradshaw, Rainey Nights , Hostage Moon Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark , Retirement Plan
Lesbian Poetry	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake	, ed., Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry Daphne Gottlieb, 15 Ways to Stay Alive Christina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline
Lesbian Romance	, Taken by Surprise	, Ghosts of Winter , Rescue Me , Storms , For Me and My Gal
LGBT Anthology	and , Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader	Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and , Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature and Felice Picano, Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing , The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy	Cris Beam, I Am J Malinda Lo, Huntress Patrick Ryan, Gemini Bites Lili Wilkinson, PINK
LGBT Drama	Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw	, Letters to the End of the World Madeleine George, The Zero Hour , The Temperamentals , Secrets of the Trade
LGBT Non-Fiction	Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States	Wanda M. Corn and , Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality , Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Lee Thomas, The German	J. M. Frey, Triptych Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales: and Other Stories , Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories , Static
LGBT Studies	Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes	, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba , Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State and , Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex , Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Transgender Fiction	Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica	Cris Beam, I Am J , The Butterfly and the Flame , The Book of Broken Hymns , Static
Transgender Non-Fiction	Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels	, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past Megan Rohrer and , eds., Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law and , Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

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