26th Lambda Literary Awards

The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013.^[1] The list of nominees was released on March 6.^[1]

The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America.^[2]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Kate Bornstein^[2]
Trustee Award	Alison Bechdel^[2]
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award	Imogen Binnie, ^[2]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize	Michael Thomas Ford, Radclyffe^[2]

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	Susan Choi, My Education^[2]	, In His Secret Life Nicola Griffith, Hild David Leavitt, The Two Hotel Francforts , Corona
Bisexual Non-Fiction	Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television^[2]	Clive Davis, The Soundtrack of My Life Shiri Eisner, Biː Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Gay Erotica	Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox^[2]	, ed., Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories Richard Labonté, ed., Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories , ed., Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories and , Capture & Surrender
Gay Fiction	Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel^[2]	Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Damn Love Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors , Fire Year Allan Gurganus, Local Souls Greg Kearney, The Desperates Manil Suri, The City of Devi Glenway Wescott (ed. ), A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories , An Honest Ghost John Stewart Wynne, The Red Shoes
Gay Memoir/Biography	Glenway Wescott (ed. ), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals^[2]	, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father Blake Bailey, Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson , Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims Perry N. Halkitis, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience , American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement David Margolick, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography , In Bed With Gore Vidal
Gay Mystery	Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera^[2]	, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari , In Real Life Greg Herren, Baton Rouge Bingo David Lennon, Fierce , Pretty Boy Dead Garry Ryan, Foxed , How to Greet Strangers , Boystown 5: Murder Book Mark Zubro, Pawn of Satan
Gay Poetry	Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden^[2]	Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog Rafael Campo, Alternative Medicine David Groff, Clay Michael Klein, The Talking Day Randall Mann, Straight Razor Angelo Nikolopoulos, Obscenely Yours Carl Phillips, Silverchest , The Apartment of Tragic Appliances , Companion Grasses
Gay Romance	TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown^[2]	, Unbroken , Pickup Men , My Dear Watson Alexis Hall, Glitterland , King Mai , Play Me, I’m Yours , Where You Are , Rocky’s Road , Covet Thy Neighbor
Lesbian Erotica	Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories^[2]	, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2014 Rebekah Weatherspoon, At Her Feet
Lesbian Fiction	Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water^[2]	e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Fat Angie , Bodies of Water , Cream Wally Lamb, We Are Water Ali Liebegott, Cha-Ching! , Survival Skills Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate Chavisa Woods, The Albino Album , She Rises
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic^[2]	Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life Annie Lanzillotto, L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir Donna Minkowitz, Growing Up Golem Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Lesbian Mystery	Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert^[2]	Laura Antoniou, The Killer Wore Leather , The Rainey Season Ian Hamilton, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan Ellen Hart, Taken by the Wind Anne Holt, Death of the Demon Val McDermid, Cross and Burn , Turning on the Tide , Point of Betrayal , She Overheard Murder , Web of Obsessions
Lesbian Poetry	, Rise in the Fall^[2]	Ai, The Collected Poems of Ai , We Come Elemental Sophie Cabot Black, The Exchange , Proxy Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings , She Has a Name , Viral Veronica Reyes, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives , Chord Box
Lesbian Romance	Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate^[2]	, All That Lies Within , Date with Destiny , At Seventeen Karin Kallmaker, Love by the Numbers , Hold Me Forever and Salem West, Hoosier Daddy , Broken Trails , Last Salute , The Princess Affair
LGBT Anthology	and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction and David Groff, Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners^[2]	and Charles E. Morris, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings and , Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out and Regie Cabico, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry Evan J. Peterson and , Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5 Vivek Shraya, What I LOVE about being QUEER Tristan Taormino, , Celine Parrenas Shimizu and Mireille Miller-Young, The Feminist Porn Book and , Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics , This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing^[2]	, Girls I’ve Run Away With Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever , Rapture Practice Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight , The Secret Ingredient , Boy in Box Cory Silverberg and , What Makes a Baby Julia Watts, Secret City
LGBT Debut Fiction	, Descendants of Hagar^[2]	Guy Mark Foster, The Rest of Us , In Between , My Brother’s Name , The Affairs of Others , How to Shake the Other Man , Prick Queasy , Inside Andrea Routley, Jane and the Whales Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
LGBT Drama	Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm^[2]	, Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains , sash & trim and other plays
LGBT Graphic Novel	Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir^[2]	Alex Woolfson and , Artifice , Duck! Second Chances Vivek Tiwary, , Kyle Baker and , The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
LGBT Non-Fiction	Hilton Als, White Girls^[2]	Dennis Altman, The End of the Homosexual? Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and , You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People , Does Jesus Really Love Me? Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople , Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims , The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution , Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II , Tom Bianchi and Edmund White, Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 , Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants Jaime Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Melissa Scott and , Death by Silver^[2]	Richard Bowes, Dust Devil on a Quiet Street Nathan Burgoine, Light , Dragon Slayer , Hell’s Belle Roberta Degnore, Invisible Soft Return Alex Jeffers, Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy Mary Anne Mohanraj, The Stars Change Lee Thomas, Like Light for Flies , Collaborators
LGBT Studies	, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence^[2]	Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit , Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely , Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production , Feeling Women’s Liberation , Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America , Shanghai Lalas Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran , Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami , Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
Transgender Fiction	Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic^[2]	Imogen Binnie, Nevada , Tiresias
Transgender Non-Fiction	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco^[2]	S. Bear Bergman, Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter Beatriz Preciado, Testo Junkie

References[]

^ ^a ^b "26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 6, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac "Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices". Times-Picayune, June 3, 2014.

[nominees-1] "26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 6, 2014.

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