27th Lambda Literary Awards

The 27th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 1, 2015, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2014.^[1] The list of nominees was released on March 4.^[1]

The ceremony was held at Cooper Union.^[1]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Rita Mae Brown
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award	, Daisy Hernández^[2]
Trustee Award	John Waters

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	Ana Castillo, Give It to Me^[3]	Sheela Lambert, Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction Ron Suresha, Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin , Finder of Lost Objects Vivek Shraya, She of the Mountains
Bisexual Non-Fiction	Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones^[3]	Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams, Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
Gay Erotica	Tiffany Reisz, The King^[3]	, Bears of Winter , Incubus Tales , Leather Spirit Stallion , The Thief Taker
Gay Fiction	Tom Spanbauer, I Loved You More^[3]	Judith Frank, All I Love and Know Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda Tatamkhulu Afrika, Bitter Eden Michael Nava, The City of Palaces Michael Carroll, Little Reef and Other Stories Keith Banner, Next to Nothing John R. Gordon, Souljah
Gay Memoir/Biography	Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos^[3] John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh^[3]	Sean Strub, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival , Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance , Closets, Combat and Coming Out: Coming of Age as a Gay Man in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Army Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris Alain Mabanckou, Letter to Jimmy Philip Gefter, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe
Gay Mystery	, Blackmail, My Love^[3]	, Boystown 6: From the Ashes , Calvin’s Head David Lennon, DeadFall Josh Lanyon, Fair Game Jameson Currier, A Gathering Storm Janice Law, Moon Over Tangier , The Next
Gay Poetry	Danez Smith, [insert] boy^[3]	, Clean Timothy Liu, Don’t Go Back to Sleep C. A. Conrad, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Jericho Brown, The New Testament Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise , This Life Now Hieu Minh Nguyen, This Way to the Sugar
Gay Romance	, Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War^[3]	, The Companion , Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance and , Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction , Like They Always Been Free Jim Provenzano, Message of Love , The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus , Pulling Leather
Lesbian Erotica	Diana Cage, Lesbian Sex Bible^[3]	and , All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance , Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire
Lesbian Fiction	Alexis De Veaux, Yabo^[3]	Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset Qiu Miaojin, Last Words of Montmartre Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 , Miracle Girls Shelly Oria, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 , The Palace Blues Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	, Virginia Eubanks and Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building^[3]	Lynette Loeppky, Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire , Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger Ariel Gore, The End of Eve Terry Mutchler, Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America
Lesbian Mystery	Ellen Hart, The Old Deep and Dark^[3]	Anne Laughlin, The Acquittal , Done to Death , Slash and Burn Stevie Mikayne, UnCatholic Conduct
Lesbian Poetry	, Mysterious Acts by My People^[3]	Lenelle Moïse, Haiti Glass Rachel Zolf, Janey’s Arcadia , Last Psalm at Sea Level Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar Sina Queyras, MxT , Only Ride , Termination Dust
Lesbian Romance	, The Farmer’s Daughter^[3]	, Christmas Crush , The Heat of Angels , Jolt Andrea Bramhall, Nightingale , Seneca Falls , Tangled Roots , That Certain Something
LGBT Anthology	Leila J. Rupp and , Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History^[3]	and , Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call , A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships and , Outer Voices Inner Lives , The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	Tim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate!^[3]	Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out , Double Exposure , Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves , Pukawiss the Outcast , This is Not a Love Story Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies
LGBT Debut Fiction	Abdi Nazemian, The Walk-In Closet^[3]	, Death in Venice, California , Kill Marguerite and Other Stories , A Map of Everything , The Music Teacher , Nochita , Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea Alden Jones, Unaccompanied Minors
LGBT Drama	Robert O'Hara, Bootycandy^[3]	, The Beast of Times , A Kid Like Jake Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale Steve Yockey, Wolves
LGBT Graphic Novel	Joyce Brabner and , Second Avenue Caper^[3]	Elisha Lim, 100 Crushes , Band Vs. Band Comix Volume 1 , Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag , Snackies
LGBT Non-Fiction	Martin Duberman, Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS^[3]	Lee Lynch, An American Queer: The Amazon Trail Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality , Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, , Robert Gober, and , Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor , Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos Aaron Devor, The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future , The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Chaz Brenchley, Bitter Waters^[3]	Daryl Gregory, Afterparty Lee Thomas, Butcher’s Road A. M. Dellamonica, Child of a Hidden Sea Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five , FutureDyke Craig Laurance Gidney, Skin Deep Magic
LGBT Studies	, and Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture^[3]	, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Marcia Ochoa, Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela , The Queerness of Native American Literature , Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings , The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic , Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
Transgender Fiction	Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love^[3]	, Everything Must Go Kim Fu, For Today I Am a Boy Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab , Revolutionary
Transgender Non-Fiction	Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man^[3]	Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More , Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.
^ "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app". Windy City Times, May 12, 2015.
^ ^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 "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.

[nominees-1] "The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.

[2] "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app". Windy City Times, May 12, 2015.

[latimes-3] ^ ^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 "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.

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